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John Calipari

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I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.
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I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.
We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?
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We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?
We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.
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We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.
I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.
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I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.
We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way, and it always has.
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We don't get every kid. We get the ones we are supposed to get. It just kind of plays out that way, and it always has.
I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.
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I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.
No one will steal my joy.
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No one will steal my joy.
Don't encourage 8th-, 9th- and 10th-graders to forgo education just to go to the G League.
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Don't encourage 8th-, 9th- and 10th-graders to forgo education just to go to the G League.
If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'
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If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'
The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.
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The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.
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