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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-27-2014, 08:53 AM:

Interesting article about Cal and Stoops and how they gets around to see all the recruits that they do.

It seemed impossible that University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari could be in so many places in so little time.

During a frenzied stretch last week, Calipari was in Los Angeles watching incoming freshman Karl-Anthony Towns be honored at the ESPY Awards one day, then in Augusta, Ga., to see a new crop of recruits the next. When NBA superstar LeBron James showed up in Lexington to watch his son play in a basketball tournament, Calipari suddenly appeared there, too — but only for a couple of hours. He was back evaluating recruits at Peach Jam in Georgia the same night.

How does he do it? Apparently the "gold standard" at Kentucky that Calipari often talks about includes all but unfettered access to private jets. According to flight records obtained by The Courier-Journal, Calipari and football coach Mark Stoops combined to take $450,000 worth of chartered flights just for recruiting purposes during the 2013-14 fiscal year.

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[ 07-27-2014, 09:22 AM: Message edited by: catmandoo ]