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posted 04-18-2014 10:03 AM
Here’s everything Calipari said Thursday about his interview with O’Reilly:
“Well, first of all I want to tell you: Most of the interviews, I walked in, I knew people, I was very comfortable. You could tell. With Mr. O’Reilly, I was scared to death, yes. When I sat down with him – because I’d watched him, and I love when he gets after people; I just don’t want him to get after me. So, you know, he came at me with some questions, you have to understand at the time I didn’t care. I was just trying to protect myself. And I didn’t know where the dialogue would go because I don’t know him that way; I’ve never interviewed with him. He asked a couple questions that, you know, I could see someone who reads outlying stories would believe that’s what college athletics are about.
“But let me give him his due this way: Before we sat down to talk, I said, ‘So were you rooting for Connecticut?’ He said, ‘I’m not a big college basketball fan, so no.’ Kind of leads you to understand that he’s not into all the nuances of college basketball. That’s my defense of the questioning. But I hope when I left he said, ‘Maybe I gotta step back and look at this a little different.’ And the second thing he said: ‘I want to come to a game.’ Yeah. So he wants to come down to Lexington to a game. So at some point, we’ll have Bill O’Reilly in the first row, having to have police around him, because he is a rock star.”
Calipari said he was not surprised that the image O’Reilly had of UK’s program being corrupt and out of control was still out there.
“No. No. And again, people have an image of this program or me that I know is off base. It’s not accurate. But they have it. How was that generated? By stories, by agendas,” Calipari said. “People write a story: ‘I’m going to make this program or this guy look this way and everything I write, I’m not changing, even if I look ridiculous and my own credibility is at stake, I’m still going to do it.’ Well, you’re going to lose your job, your credibility. ‘I don’t care.’ It’s what we all deal with.”
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