If you cant even concede that Calipari didnt pay that money due to his own his own generosity, then I think you are the one without a brain. You are not even taking a reasonable position. He settled out of goodwill to a fanbase he was already leaving??? You cant really believe what you are saying...although maybe now I can understand how you can believe that Calipari has never cheated. Let me know when you are ready and I can let you know the truth about the tooth fairy and the easter bunny.

Do you know any details of the case other than that a lawsuit was settled? Do you know anything about how lawsuits are settled generally? Have you ever been sued yourself and know what that experience is like? Lawsuits are time-consuming, intrusive, potentially embarrassing, inconvenient, and stressful. They often fail to heal wounds or bring parties together, but rather cause people to entrench their positions and become embittered. If you are a guy who just signed a contract paying you $4 million annually, why not pay $100,000 (less than 10 days' salary) to get the lawsuit to go away? If by leaving for greener pastures (the most storied program in college basketball history, and a coaching position you said was your "dream job") you just angered a fan base that has adored you for the last decade, why twist the knife further by fighting against the season ticket holders and boosters? Surely Cal did not want to be on bad terms with the Memphis athletic department, and the Memphis AD surely wanted its boosters and fans appeased, so if you are Calipari, why not go along?

On April 1, 2009, the University of Kentucky Director of Athletics, Mitch Barnhart, formally introduced John Calipari as the new coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats. During the press conference, Calipari spoke at length about his relationships with former UK basketball players and coaches, and also in his difficulties in accepting the UK job, largely due to his deep emotional ties with both the city of Memphis and University of Memphis. Calipari stated, "Coming to UK was the easy part, it was leaving the city of Memphis that was the hard part." He went on to refer to the University of Kentucky coaching position as his "dream job".

Does that help you understand? In addition to 10 days' salary, he also forfeited his final four bonus (about $232,000). That seems very reasonable that a coach would agree to forfeit his performance bonus regardless of whether he was personally at fault for the final four being vacated, since after the ruling it was technically as if the final four never happened (for his team). In reality, the player who cheated is to blame for letting his team down, letting the coach down, and letting the school, fans, and boosters down. If Calipari had been involved, it would be his problem too, and he would not be coaching at Kentucky. He would be out of basketball like Bruce Pearl, a proven cheater and liar.

By the way, do you accuse Roy Williams of being a lying scumbag cheater for being the UNC head coach while an academic scandal occurred involving basketball players at the school? I think it's a fair question, though I've never met a Roy Williams hater on CB.

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Also, it took the ncaa a number of years to finally get something they thought could stick on Tarkanian, longer than calipari has been coaching.

Tarkanian began coaching D-1 basketball in 1968 at LBSU. He began coaching UNLV in 1973. Tarkanian was cited for 10 NCAA violations by 1976 following a three year inquiry (and eight total years as an NCAA-level head coach).

Calipari has been coaching D-1 basketball since 1988. Twenty five years have passed and he has never been cited for any NCAA violations.

Facts are stubborn things when you make them up and then I correct you, huh?

In fact, the court system agreed with tarkanian in his lawsuit and eventually he ended up taking 2.5 million from the ncaa to settle the "pain and suffering" they caused him. Many UNLV fans believe even today that he never cheated and defend him just like you do calipari.

Wait, so are you now arguing that Tarkanian didn't cheat? Or did Tarkanian cheat and the NCAA gave him $2.5 million for nothing? What is your point?

The NCAA has investigated calipari in the past at his past coaching stops

And never found evidence that he knew about or committed any infractions.

and will continue to do so. It is only a matter of time until the next scandal...

It is only a matter of time until the first ever adjudication that he did anything wrong whatsoever.

BTW, hate to break it to you, but Calipari wouldnt be at UK if it were not for the money, otherwise he would be coaching for much less money.

Hate to break it to you, but this sounds exactly like a Jack Handey quote.

On April 1, 2009, at the press conference in which he was introduced as the head coach at the University of Kentucky, Calipari referred to the UK coaching position as his "dream job."

That was probably because of the money though. That's all John Calipari is about is money.