Excerpt of article from The Dagger:
You may have known these two supposedly hate each other, but did you know ...
• That Rick Pitino initially recommended John Calipari for the UMass job and paid $5,000 out of his own pocket to make sure the Minutemen athletic director at the time sealed the deal?
• That John Calipari first met Rick Pitino as a teenage camper at Five-Star camp in Pittsburgh?
You may have known these two supposedly hate each other, but did you know ...
• That Rick Pitino initially recommended John Calipari for the UMass job and paid $5,000 out of his own pocket to make sure the Minutemen athletic director at the time sealed the deal?
• That John Calipari first met Rick Pitino as a teenage camper at Five-Star camp in Pittsburgh?
• That before he took the Kentucky job, Calipari called Pitino and asked the coach what he thought? And that Pitino told him to take it?
• That Kentucky fans are sort of crazy?
OK, so you knew that last one all too well. But the other three speak to a more complex relationship between the two coaches than what you've heard. For his part, Calipari insists he's on friendly terms with Pitino, and clearly the two do share some sort of bond. But whatever similarities bring them together -- the Armani suits, the slicked-back hair, the stints in the NBA -- they also clearly brush up against one another the wrong way.
• That Kentucky fans are sort of crazy?
OK, so you knew that last one all too well. But the other three speak to a more complex relationship between the two coaches than what you've heard. For his part, Calipari insists he's on friendly terms with Pitino, and clearly the two do share some sort of bond. But whatever similarities bring them together -- the Armani suits, the slicked-back hair, the stints in the NBA -- they also clearly brush up against one another the wrong way.
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