Two more Calipari side stories that might be more difficult to research. When he was at UMass, a local newspaper (Northampton Gazette, I think) ran a story based on an interview with whomever had become head coach at Pittsburgh where Calipari had been assistant coach, and that coach said the first thing he did when he was hired was to gather together the assistant coaches and tell them that there would be no more payments made to players. You wouldn't believe how fast that former coach backtracked from those remarks once they got published, but his backtracking was incoherent, and he never actually denied making any statements attribute to him. Calipari said he had "no recollection" of that comment having been made at a staff meeting.
Another sidebar to the career of Calipari is that one of his assistants at UMass, Bill Bayno, left to become a head coach somewhere (UNLV, I think) and had his own "see no evil, hear no evl" fiasco in which it was found that a program "booster" had given lots of money to players, including $5,400 to Lamar Odom.
Not that this has anything to do with recruiting, but Calipari also caught hell when he wrote a letter of recommendation for an Amherst, Massachusetts liquor license applicant that was written on school stationary.
