Was Calipari sending out a vibe????

[JadedHog]

Did you see Calipari on Rome's show talking about how great the Arkansas job is and kissing up to Chancellor White?  Was he sending out the vibe to come after me with more money?  I can't think of any other reason anyone would kiss up to John White.

[Table Rocker]

is there a video of this, i'd actually like to see the interview

[bd93]

Hummmmm, If he was sucking up to White then maybe..... but no it can't be, can it?

[TNPIG]

Did you see Callapari on Rome's show talking about how great the Arkansas job is and kissing up to Chancellor White?  Was he sending out the vibe to come after me with more money?  I can't think of any other reason anyone would kiss up to John White.

We need to stay away from Calipari. Like Forrest City Joe says, he coaches the "thug program". Wait a minute, hey Joe, he might fit in pretty good at Arkansas now, huh.

[HeathWimp]

I think that Calipari was just being nice because he feels sorry for us.   Also, he is said to be a friend of Frank, so he is probably just trying to protect him.

[North hog]

Well, he knows that we will pay more now!

[ballhog™]

i'm not getting my hopes up.

[Table Rocker]

did he actually mention white by name?

[Lanlord]

Calapari?  That boat has already sailed.

[Bad_Intentions]

Thugs, gangsters, whatever. If he wins and we stay clean, I want him. Pay him whatever he needs.

[JadedHog]

yes he mentioned white by name.  he said how could anyone not want to coach at arkansas with a chancellor like john white.

[Table Rocker]

yes he mentioned white by name.  he said how could anyone not want to coach at arkansas with a chancellor like john white.

perhaps sucking up to the man who is keeping him from getting the job?


ok sorry

[booogaga]

i wouldnt put too much into it. i dont see him leaving. he is one of these ego guys. most likely if he leaves it will be to a kentucky, kansas, north carolina or something. although i loved his comment on dick vitale. he said that he was the kind of guy that during WWII rooted for the germans. lol.

[southern hawg]

Memphis will be a pre-season top 5 team, I doubt he leaves.

[booogaga]

Memphis will be a pre-season top 5 team, I doubt he leaves.

agreed

[LowDownDirty]

Either way, it's nice to hear somebody hiping up the job to the national media!

[moses_007]

Wouldn't it be wonderful that when all this comes out in the wash that our next coach might be one of the big guns we were after in the first place...BG or JC.  I would do a dance for sure. :razorback:

[WMHawgfan]

He is just doing it out as a courtesy to Frank. He stated before in another interview that he and Frank have been friends for a long time. He is just trying help us do some damage control and encourage someone to take the job.

[sluhog]

Lord knows we need the help.

[HawgAlude]

yeah he mentioned crean, barnes, floyd and a couple of others as possibles for the kentucky job ... Kentucky is the key -- their position fills then we could get their number 2 or 3 guy that would be better than Dana all day....

[The real Hogules]

John Calipari on Rome is Burning stated that Arkansas was one of top 10-15 basketball programs in the entire nation and he couldn't believe that coaches weren't jumping all over this job.
He went on to say that John White was a great man to work for (called White by name) and just gushed about the UofA basketball position.

If I hadn't seen and heard it with my own eyes and ears I wouldn't have believed it.

From the way he was talking he would accept the job in a heartbeat "IF" the money was straight.

[SLC]

I am not holding my breath for anyone.  Here is how I am going to view coaches who are mentioned with the position.  If I think the coach would do a great job, I am confident we will not get that coach.  If it is a coach I know very little about, who is unexciting, I am putting my money on that candidate.  I agree that we will have more options after the KY position is filled.  

[HogSophist]

Yeah, we should go after him hard.....so he can get a fat raise from memphis. He has watched it work for a couple of others so far, why not run the same game at our esteemed university....

[LuckyGiraffe]

Yeah... where is ForrestCityJoe.  I would like for him to explain the difference between that "thugish" program "across the river" and the one on the hill???

[GorillaJMonsoon]

dont think he was sucking up, he was just trying to say something positive about us.  dont bite his head off for it.  he could have been justified in saying much worse but didnt.  what exactly did you want him to say when asked about it?

[boilerhog]

His earlier quote about the Arkansas job was "Whoever is offered that job would have to be out of their mind to not take it....But it's just not the right time for me."  

He's not coming, so don't get your hopes up..Maybe he just wants to keep his future options open in Fayetteville...

[Dwight_K_Shrute]

Cal isn't coming until we get a place that serves a decent Italian beef sandwich or at least sausage and peppers.

[CheeZ_PuFF]

I am not holding my breath for anyone.  Here is how I am going to view coaches who are mentioned with the position.  If I think the coach would do a great job, I am confident we will not get that coach.  If it is a coach I know very little about, who is unexciting, I am putting my money on that candidate.  I agree that we will have more options after the KY position is filled. 

You took the words out of my mouth. Good post!

[Karma]

"so you're telling me there's a chance." - Lloyd Christmas.

[JadedHog]

dont think he was sucking up, he was just trying to say something positive about us.  dont bite his head off for it.  he could have been justified in saying much worse but didnt.  what exactly did you want him to say when asked about it?

i would expect him to say something nice about our program but he went WAY overboard on his comments about white.  he was kissing up...........smooch smooch

[razorbackmkh]

Memphis will be a pre-season top 5 team, I doubt he leaves.

We're a pre-season top 15 team on many sites without a coach. A decent coach + the current players = at least a top 10 team.

[TorsinAHog]

Calamari WILL NOT COME HERE. He has a great team next year and Memphis can be a top program with him.  Look where we got our players when we were a factor.  I think he was being nice. Im not really sure what to do since I cant stand the man but he was saying nice things about UA.  I am writing it off as pity factor.

[Hogaloogie]

Cal isn't coming until we get a place that serves a decent Italian beef sandwich or at least sausage and peppers.

I got news for you, they don't have that in Memfo either. Not unless Mr. Beef has opened a location down there.

[Ugly Uncle]

Any of you guys eat out at Tontitown? (sp?)

They have some VERY good places out there.

[hulk hog]

The advantage we do have is that Conference USA is crap, even worse than what UNLV had in the early 90's. They were the only team in the tourney. Everything is done through non-conference for them. And honestly Memphis is not a good sports city.  We would give him a better stage, top conference...Kentucky, Florida every year.....remote chance at best though he is a big city guy. He is short term guy anywhere.
But Rodriguez was a done deal to Alabama, changed his mind then Sabin did a 180.   Maybe that could happen here...
Once Kentucky is filled we'll see where the chips fall. 

[HawgAlude]

He would win a National Championship here. Cal here recruits memphis with texas/ okla doors to all the best juco players. Remind anybody of something -- it was the same formula Nolan used in 1992-1996.....

[TorsinAHog]

Since he wont come you all will likely be dissatisfied with our new coach. 

[HawgAlude]

Naw-- I really am not a Cal fan. Nolan use to smoke him back in the day... We need a great coach fast....

[stats33]

Naw-- I really am not a Cal fan. Nolan use to smoke him back in the day... We need a great coach fast....

False.Cal beat Nolan everytime they went head to head..........see Lou Roe, Marcus Camby, Edgar Padilla et al.

[golfjam]

i think it's great he said something nice about us.....i live over in Coach Cal Land....great recruiter.....not a great coach.....BUT.....depending on what players go pro this year.....Memphis should be a final 4 next year with a good chance to win it all....and it hurts me to say that....
golf

[The real Hogules]

Think what you want, but sources close to the UofA have said that THIS TIME money will not be an issue in getting their man.

If we get into a bidding war with Memphis, we'll blow their butt out of the ballpark very quickly.
Memphis is paying about as much as they are willing/can afford to pay their basketball coach.

There comes a point where memphis will have to blink and "IF" Arkansas is willing to go beyond that point, Calipari is ours for the taking, IMHO.

I don't think that the university/PTB's want to end up with egg on their collective faces when this is all finished, so I look for them to throw money at the problem in much the same manner that Bama did in football.

The PTB's will attempt to buy respectability and we'll just have to wait and see if it works.

[jtownfan]

Cal would fit in great at the bbhc position. We already have his thugs lined up. Not to mention he is a money hound and there is no way he is being considered for KY position. Im not sayin it will happen but dont be surprised if it does. Frank might have one more trick up his sleeve before hes gone. And whoever mentioned North Carolina is off their rocker!!!! I like the commit about the egg in the face, was that from Wallys article this morning

[woghild]

I listened to his interview on Rome's radio show that ends before he does
his TV show...a long conversation with Calipari on all kinds of subjects,
including all of the current openings, but absolutely not one single word
was said by either one in all of it about us.   Then channel 7 tonight
aired the part about us from his TV show.  I was very surprised we
didn't come up on the radio show.  In his radio interview he did not
sound interested in any of the other well-publicized openings.

I definitely got the impression he was not interested in going anywhere.

But I'd give anything if he would come with the hogs.  Anybody who's
that good is going to be cocky.  That is NOT a drawback.

[razorbacker80]

To heck with the search committee.  Pull up in front of JCs place with the Brinks truck and put this unpleasantness behind us. 

[dmac_iz_kin]

Poster, you might be right.  We need to go ahead and do what bama did in football and just Pay an astronimical fee that he'd be a fool to walk away from.

[jjones]

another take on Calipari could be the fact that he is 48 years old and perhaps is looking into other career moves.  We do have an AD position available next spring.  High praise sometimes comes with a motive.

[dmac_iz_kin]

another take on Calipari could be the fact that he is 48 years old and perhaps is looking into other career moves.  We do have an AD position available next spring.  High praise sometimes comes with a motive.

thats a damn good idea bro, tell cal to come on up, and offer a chance to get AD in a few years.  We can always have him coaching Vicariously through the BBall coaches like Broyles always did NUTT and probabally others

[Blue35]

Calipari is patronizing White and Broyles to keep his options open.

[dmac_iz_kin]

I do wonder if Calipari put that whole interview thing together for his own agenda, He was on Romes radio show too. I'm sure that AR question Rome asked originally came out of Cals mouth. Rome cares nothing about talking about AR.

[jjones]

Memphis sources say that Cal makes around 1.3m a year with incentives up to 2m.  This was prior to his 1-year extension through 2011-2012 season.  Get close to a 2.5m offer, possible consideration.  Make sure he signs the papers prior to calling the Hogs!