Originally Posted by TrillipinoTrapstar
maybe Bob Knight can be summoned to Memphis, have him name his price, and save the Tigers.....
Spoiler [+]I kid, I kid...
The graduation rate is percentage of players that graduate within 6 years of enrolling. So basically, a school's graduation rate this year isbased off of how many freshmen that enrolled from 4-6 years ago had graduated. Players leaving early do affect the numbers.
Agree with you here 100%.
How do you feel about sharing office space? Because you might walk in one day and find Worldwide Wes sitting in your chair with his feet on your desk.
You know about Wes, right? Of course you do. Everyone in basketball knows William Wesley, aka Wes, even if nobody knows exactly what the loosely defined but tightly connected power broker does. But the important thing isn't his job description -- it's his results. Wes helped hook up Memphis with some of its best players under Calipari: Dajuan Wagner, Derrick Rose, Chris Douglas-Roberts and Tyreke Evans.
With those guys under his wing, Wes went wherever Wes pleased in Memphis -- locker room, practice facility, good seats at the FedEx Forum, too. Heck, I even ate with him once at the Tigers' training table. He's a charming guy, has a lot of charisma -- just don't ask him too much about his business.
With Wes, your job is to accommodate. Not interrogate.
What's your outlook on package deals, Mitch? You cool with them? If not, I suggest a change of attitude. When Calipari goes after big fish, the net tends to bring in some sucker fish, too.
When he signed Juanny Wagner, he also got his dad as a staff member (Milt Wagner, even without a college degree) and his best friend (Arthur Barclay, despite limited ability). A positive side effect: Milt stayed several years after Juanny left and got his degree.
When he signed Evans, he got his personal strength coach, Lamont Peterson, too. But really, what high school kid doesn't come with his own strength coach these days?
And there even have been some prepackaging efforts. C.J. Henry, who hadn't played basketball in years after trying his hand at professional baseball, enrolled at Memphis this past August to play hoops. Surprisingly enough, his brother, Xavier -- considered by many the No. 1 high-school senior in America -- signed with the Tigers in November.
What about an occasional scrape with the law, Mitch? Guys such as Sean Banks, Andre Allen and Kareem Cooper got multiple chances to stay on the Memphis team and still couldn't do it.
Any opinion on prep schools, Mitch? Some of them have gotten a lot of negative publicity as academically sketchy diploma mills in recent years from the likes of The New York Times and Washington Post, but be prepared to deal with them. Calipari has relocated many an academic reclamation project to prep school. Among them: Joey Dorsey, Shawne Williams, Antonio Anderson, Robert Dozier and the aforementioned Cooper.
Hey, you and I both know Memphis is hardly the only place that works package deals. Or has players who get into trouble. Or goes the prep school route. These days, that's accepted as the price of doing business in the big leagues, isn't it?
Well, Calipari manages to stuff that stat sheet on all those fronts.
Mike Gilchrist At UKOriginally Posted by Al3xis
lookin over 2011 kids who have Memphis interest..
Yall think it's funny what Cal can pull with this class?
Cause 2011 talent level takes a dump on 2009, and I can already see him gettin 3 top 10 kids.
Wojo
"What I would hope is all the players that signed at Memphis will go to Memphis," Calipari said. "That's my hope."
"My hope"
Originally Posted by dreClark
Wojo
Originally Posted by CadillacFLOW
"My hope"
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Wojo is the heir apparent to coach K remember?Originally Posted by dreClark
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Son I will roundhouse kick you in the shin.Originally Posted by aepps20
Wojo is the heir apparent to coach K remember?Originally Posted by dreClark
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