All that was wrong in the World of College Basketball has righted itself with the release of both the AP and ESPN/USA Today rankings. Your University of Kentucky Wildcats have unanimously taken over as the #1 team in all the land with their destruction of Arkansas.And to celebrate the occasion, ESPN invited Coach Cal to be on SportsCenter today about 12:30 pm. Without a hitch, anchor John Buccigross asked Coach Cal how he thought the new #1 ranking correlated to Kansas making a three in the Championship game Memphis lost a few years ago.
Cal responded with (paraphrasing):
Now why would you go and bring up something like that. Are you from western Pennsylvania? Cause it seems like your a jagoff.
Everything seemed to be in good fun during the interview, at least on Cal's side. Not sure we can convince Mr. Buccigross it was good fun to be called an asshole/jagoff live on national television. Oh well, if they don't like it, I guess ESPN should have had someone beat us.
It's good to be back.
Go Cats.
***UPDATED (via Fanhouse)***
Here's the Transcript:
Buccigross: "You talk about luck and bouncing the ball, and certainly had you had that against Kansas, certainly your Memphis team would have been national champion."
Calipari: "Now why would we bring that up? That was two years ago, John. What are you trying to bring up memories of a three that goes through a rafter? And 'Why didn't you call a timeout?' And 'You should have fouled earlier.' I thought we were going to talk about Kentucky.
Buccigross: "Let's take a 20-second timeout."
Calipari: "You must be from Western PA, John. Where are you from?"
Buccigross: "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."
Calipari: "OK, so you're a jagoff. Basically, you're a jagoff."
With that, Calipari laughed, Buccigross changed the subject, and the interview went on.
***UPDATE #2***
Coach Cal makes sure everyone knows he and Buccigross go back 10+ years and were ribbing each other before they went on air. (Twitter)
