Nobody Wants to Listen to Calipari’s Answers on What He Wants
Arkansas coach not trying to put together roster like fans have seen, but apparently not what people want to hear.
New Arkansas coach John Calipari isn’t trying to put together a roster like anybody really expects. He’s not doing what fans and most of the media expect, but nobody really wants to believe what he keeps telling them.
“I just talk about what I want,” Calipari said. “Have you guys not understood that yet? You can ask me whatever you want, I’m going to say what …”
That last part sort of trailed off, probably due to exhaustion from having to answer multiple times a question that he’s made clear since April. Calipari’s looking for nine guys who can play to his level.
For those who haven’t noticed, that’s a higher expectation than what’s been seen around the Razorbacks for a couple of decades. He’s also talked about embracing the players who won in the past and did again.
Ronnie Brewer, who is part of the historic past as a player and because his father was a huge part of when Eddie Sutton started turning things around in the mid-70’s, was in the spotlight Monday.
Calipari announced he will handle what he described as the mid-south, a region that includes Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Texas, West Tennessee, Missouri up to St. Louis and Mississippi.
“There’s an area that Ronnie can be [effective], but I also want him to be our liaison to all the former players,” Calipari said. “Anybody that knows how I’ve done this … I’ve talked to many of them already. We’re going to do a fantasy camp. I want them all to come back.
Be a part of this. I’ve sent some pictures out of some of the guys. Corliss. The picture of him, and I’m saying we’ve got to get this back to where you guys had it. So he’s going to do that.”
The more his current players can be around guys who have won big in the past, he’s all for that. At Kentucky, he embraced the past.
