But he isn’t calling it a rebellion! Why is he a bad person for profiting off of a terrible system that he has no power to change??

“First, and most importantly, it ignores the risk forcibly taken on even by those of Calipari’s players who emerge from his program with their NBA prospects unharmed, or even enhanced. Anthony Davis may have survived his lone season at Kentucky without, say, tearing his Achilles tendon, but he still carried the…

I read it man. But its hard to get past the headline and the last paragraph. Cal is the only one being singled out. You’re basically saying, “The NCAA is bad so therefore John Calipari is bad.” I agree with what you’re saying, I’m just not sure why this is about Cal- I think he would agree with you as well. You do say…

So if he up and said, “I’m retiring from coaching today due to the immorality of the NCAA and the entire fiction of college sports,” you would be happy?

This is the kind of “hot take” that this site usually skewers, “He should give up pay, take another job, do something I wouldn’t in the same situation”

You know who could very quickly and easily change it all? The NBA. How come we keep letting them off the hook in this equation?

Calipari could self-immolate in protest of the NCAA and no matter how admirable it is it wont change a fucking thing.

Also, the school would can him. Freshman enrollments have exploded since Cal came here. I think rocking the boat would undo some of that and cause bad publicity for the school as his direct report (i.e., his employer). He wouldn’t have a job for very long if it became a “distraction.”

How about if he tested the NCAA’s undergirding bullshit by attempting to coach and earn a degree at the same time?

With all due respect, that’s a very juvenile argument. The system certainly needs change, but if you think one or even a hundred big name coaches giving it up would actually change it, you are dreaming. At the end of the day, they are just cogs, and the machinery of the NCAA just needs to be torn down and overhauled.…

Damn, Albert. If that’s the expectation for you, then go ahead and stop watching altogether. That will have pretty much the same impact.

WHY THOUGH? Why should he do any of these things? You NEVER address that.

“How about if he refused pay?” - How about if he coached the games on the back of a unicorn?

How’s the weather up there?

I”m guessing John’s supposed to earn his livelihood with a Deadspin writer’s praise? What an honor that’d be for him!

The best part about this is that it is coming from a white dude working for a company currently being sued for exploiting unpaid interns. How do you justify still getting paid by Gawker?

“Hey, coach, now that you quit where are you going to spend all of that applause that you got from that failed writer?”

Haha wow. Just wow. You actually get paid for this.

So you would leave a college coaching job that pays 7 figures annually, based on your morals? I highly doubt it.

Jesus, won’t you two just get a room and fuck already.