catmandoo
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posted 10-17-2014 09:21 AM
Our players our in the spot-light 24 hours a day, no doubt about that. It isn't easy playing basketball at Kentucky but our players wouldn't want it any other way. They have to be special and they are.
John Calipari knows athletes being paid to sign autographs has caused eligibility issues at other schools, but he said Thursday he warns players that things like that cannot go unnoticed at UK.
“There are things that go on other campuses that absolutely cannot go on here. Just can’t. They’ll make a (ESPN) 30/30 movie of it. I’ll be called in front of a congressional hearing, forget about NCAA. I’ll be talking to (Sen.) John McCain about what happened,” Calipari said. “We’re held to a different standard here, and that’s fine.
“The other side of it is 19 of these kids have gotten drafted, and that number in the next three years may be 32, 33, 34. Okay, now you’re going to be under a spotlight. If you think this happens and you just do what you want to do, you cannot come here. If you want to drink, smoke, chase (girls), do all that, you can’t do it here. You just can’t. If you choose to do that, don’t come here. I tell every recruit the same thing. This is a different animal. What goes on over there cannot go on here. It can’t. We’re at Kentucky.
“So all that stuff, our kid — and I’m not saying that they don’t do stupid things. Great kids do stupid things. My children have done some of the stupidest like, where did you come from? You had to be from the milkman or something. There is no way you came — why would you do that?
“They’re stupid. They do stupid things. They’re 18, 19. But at the end of the day, I think these kids understand here that there are things that if that’s there and no one will know, they know. There are no secrets in this program. There are no secrets in this athletic department. There just are not.”
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