HOUSTON person-will dispute that they are great coaches and the most recent evidence is located in the teams that they have led to the Final Four this year.
No one will argue that John Calipari and Jim Calhoun Saints, either.
Men on the sidelines for the Final Four of Kentucky-Connecticut confrontation have had their share of problems - with others, the programs they run and the NCAA.
They are a microcosm of what is right and wrong in NCAA - a game based on the coach where good leaders programs and players to a new level may raise, but road to product success often its just part of the cringeworthy deal.
Calipari leads the fourth seeded Wildcats (29-8) against Calhoun and third-seeded Huskies (30-9) in the second semifinal Saturday. The two coaches convinced a reversal of their teams of young people, who have difficulties in unexpected trip to the biggest stage of the game, the third and fourth for Calipari for Calhoun.
On the eve of the game have their history as dynamic a topic as the success of their teams.
One of the first questions that Calipari fielded was the Friday or it is the former coach Jerry Tarkanian UNLV 2000 version, a coach which many win at his time, but he made with his phone number is firmly anchored on the dial of the speed of the NCAA.
The question dragged the Wildcats bus also gently as good Kentucky bourbon.
"I respect all Jerry done - his children, how they played, all these things," Calipari said. "But, no, I think that I 2011 John Calipari.". I don't know what that means, and I hate to speak in the third. "But I am who I am."
Unlike Calhoun Calipari has no qualms about how many of its players were surprisingly short career and, indeed, to see that somehow a feather in his Cap. Recruits there best players, just as quickly - replaces goodbye John Wall, Hello Brandon Knight - and gets to accept different roles, sometimes uncomfortable work in a team.
He is back in Houston, where three years ago, he won two races on the Memphis regional lead to the Final Four, only to leave school a year later, just as the program was conducted in the problems of NCAA relating to the recruitment of Derrick Rose.
First visit Final Four of the Calipari, with Massachusetts in 1996, was also washed by the NCAA. That led to another ironic question: How does it feel to be coaches in your first Final Four?
"I deal with that," said coach of 52 years, who four years in the NBA between UMass and Memphis stays. "We are here three times." These players play played and did what they should. I am so proud of what they have done.
He says that without excuse. Its schools suffering, Calipari was not found on the debt to one of the probes of the NCAA.
The so-called problems between Cal and Cal began in this UMass days, while at the top of the other coaches were in neighbouring States - one trying to protect its turf and the other trying to cut its own. Things are are strained during the recruitment of Marcus Camby, UMass wound up choosing and issues of school which eventually landed at his trial.
Both coaches agreed that the relationship had a difficult start.
"I want to say, Northeast, you are so tight, you are right at the top of the other, that there is a competitive environment," said Calipari. "Our emissions of radio and tv-shows are in the other country, in our cities." That is how it is there. »
The 68-year Calhoun airy resumed the complaints he raised more than a decade ago on Calipari - a Pittsburgh native, trying to muscle its way through the New England - but made clear hostility calmed as the year passed.
"The generational perspective on the fact that John was really trying to claim new England,"said Calhoun with its counterpart in the absence of a genuine friendship. "
Then, he influenced his Boston accent better: "he could never say it pahked in Casa Hahvahd Yahd, he did not know what was really the clam chowder." I took (shading) to it, but I take (shading) many things. »
As magic this season has been - Kemba Walker the emergence as a star of the NBA-bound, five victories as five nights in the Big East tournament, then four wins more and unexpected Final Four travel - it is also a drain on Calhoun.
UConn Huskies this season has been played in the shadow of an NCAA investigation into the recruitment of Nate miles, a player of liquidation have expelled from the school before never play a game with the name.
The probe - ugly, but the first 25 years at Calhoun of UConn Huskies - led sanctions which Calhoun of suspension for the first three games of next season. If, that is to say, the coach decided to return. He has a lot of health problems in the past eight years and now enjoys spending time with his grandchildren as much as the players that he coaches.
"I am comfortable with my University, how they dealt with is, how the NCAA treated," said Calhoun. "I did not say that I agree with everything." But I was responsible for the program, program errors made, and I think that everyone had their chance to speak of a period of two years. When it was evaluated, it was assessed, and it is on for me. »
Always at the same time, the saga of Cal vs Cal hang, although in a light much less angry now 15 years ago.
Earlier in the week, Calhoun referred to its three final four homologous coaches and it was called, "my three sons - my two sons over my problem child," in reference to the years 1960 Classic TV show that Fred MacMurray played.
Calipari picked which one Friday: "I told him that I knew Fred MacMurray," he said, "and Mr. Calhoun, you are not a" Fred MacMurray.
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