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There are bad ideas and then there are really bad ideas. Inviting John Calipari to the UMass Club in downtown Boston to "Celebrate UMass Basketball" is a really bad idea.

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(09-11-2009 12:52 PM)mullinsworld Wrote: [ -> ]There are bad ideas and then there are really bad ideas. Inviting John Calipari to the UMass Club in downtown Boston to "Celebrate UMass Basketball" is a really bad idea.

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Why is that bad for UMass? They were completely irrelevant until John Calipari took over. Did he cheat? Maybe, but if it wasnt for him, no one outside of Massachusetts would even know they had a basketball team.

Was it a bad idea for Indiana to invite Bob Knight to be inducted into their HOF even though he was terminated for "bad character"? Of course not.

I hope they have a bear trap or a 20 foot hole covered with sticks and leaves set up for his arrival.

If anybody from Memphis ever does that, we should shoot to kill!!!

Yep

(09-11-2009 02:02 PM)Harry J Wrote: [ -> ]I hope they have a bear trap or a 20 foot hole covered with sticks and leaves set up for his arrival.

Now that is funny

(09-11-2009 12:56 PM)homefry20 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2009 12:52 PM)mullinsworld Wrote: [ -> ]There are bad ideas and then there are really bad ideas. Inviting John Calipari to the UMass Club in downtown Boston to "Celebrate UMass Basketball" is a really bad idea.

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Why is that bad for UMass? They were completely irrelevant until John Calipari took over. Did he cheat? Maybe, but if it wasnt for him, no one outside of Massachusetts would even know they had a basketball team.

Was it a bad idea for Indiana to invite Bob Knight to be inducted into their HOF even though he was terminated for "bad character"? Of course not.

There are a lot of reasons not to have him back:

1. Allowing him to use the event as a chance to get recruits from the Boston area
2. Making UMass look stupid
3. Reminding everyone what a scoundrel he was and how he left them in the dust, much like he did us

If you see nothing wrong exchange UMass for Memphis, how do you feel about that?

(09-11-2009 02:51 PM)mullinsworld Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2009 12:56 PM)homefry20 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2009 12:52 PM)mullinsworld Wrote: [ -> ]There are bad ideas and then there are really bad ideas. Inviting John Calipari to the UMass Club in downtown Boston to "Celebrate UMass Basketball" is a really bad idea.

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Why is that bad for UMass? They were completely irrelevant until John Calipari took over. Did he cheat? Maybe, but if it wasnt for him, no one outside of Massachusetts would even know they had a basketball team.

Was it a bad idea for Indiana to invite Bob Knight to be inducted into their HOF even though he was terminated for "bad character"? Of course not.

There are a lot of reasons not to have him back:

1. Allowing him to use the event as a chance to get recruits from the Boston area
2. Making UMass look stupid
3. Reminding everyone what a scoundrel he was and how he left them in the dust, much like he did us

If you see nothing wrong exchange UMass for Memphis, how do you feel about that?

We were relevant long before Calipari got here. They were not even close.

Nice one Harry

Cal didn't rape, plunder, and pillage them when he left, nor did he try to destroy the program from afar like he did this summer with Memphis.

His timing a move with NCAA sanctions is the only similarity.

(09-11-2009 03:12 PM)transitt Wrote: [ -> ]Cal didn't rape, plunder, and pillage them when he left, nor did he try to destroy the program from afar like he did this summer with Memphis.

His timing a move with NCAA sanctions is the only similarity.

I agree we got it much worse than they did but still their only time in the F4 and it doesn't exist.

(09-11-2009 02:53 PM)homefry20 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2009 02:51 PM)mullinsworld Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2009 12:56 PM)homefry20 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-11-2009 12:52 PM)mullinsworld Wrote: [ -> ]There are bad ideas and then there are really bad ideas. Inviting John Calipari to the UMass Club in downtown Boston to "Celebrate UMass Basketball" is a really bad idea.

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Why is that bad for UMass? They were completely irrelevant until John Calipari took over. Did he cheat? Maybe, but if it wasnt for him, no one outside of Massachusetts would even know they had a basketball team.

Was it a bad idea for Indiana to invite Bob Knight to be inducted into their HOF even though he was terminated for "bad character"? Of course not.

There are a lot of reasons not to have him back:

1. Allowing him to use the event as a chance to get recruits from the Boston area
2. Making UMass look stupid
3. Reminding everyone what a scoundrel he was and how he left them in the dust, much like he did us

If you see nothing wrong exchange UMass for Memphis, how do you feel about that?

We were relevant long before Calipari got here. They were not even close.

By the way, has University of Massachusetts been revelant since John Calipari left that school? Temple and Xavier are the schools that took over the power of the Atlantic Ten once Coach X left to be with New Jersey Nets.

I don't think it's a good idea either from the UMass perspective. But it isn't surprising-his boy Kellogg is the coach and surely, after several years under Cal, Kellogg knows how to run thangs and get his way in the athletic dept.

(09-12-2009 10:21 PM)CCC Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think it's a good idea either from the UMass perspective. But it isn't surprising-his boy Kellogg is the coach and surely, after several years under Cal, Kellogg knows how to run thangs and get his way in the athletic dept.

That is why RC did his one of his few good moves and did not hire Kellogg to be the University of Memphis Head Basketball Coach. Even if Pastner was not my first coach as head coach. Josh Pastner is doing well considering the U of M getting undercut for its 2009 class.