BYU Hates Talking About the Cash

Shower Thought - May 29, 2025

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John Calipari had 28 one and done players during his tenure at Memphis and Kentucky. And everybody hated him for it.

He was slick, slimy, cheating Calipari who was ruining college basketball and defiling it by taking advantage of one and done players who had no intention of attending class or getting a degree. Derrick Rose, John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Julius Randle, Karl Anthony Towns, you know the list.

Meanwhile, 469 miles southeast in Durham North Carolina there was a coach who didn't have slicked back hair, who was brought up by bobby knight, who wrote books like Leading with the Heart: Successful strategies for Basketball and Life.

And everybody said Coach K does things the right way. He wrote all these books!

Coach K had 26 one and done players while at Duke! Two less than Calipari! Luol Deng, Kyrie, Austin Rivers, Zion, Brandon Ingraham...you know the list! But he didn't have a chapter about the importance of one and dones in his books.

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BYU is doing a similar trick now. They're Duking us! With the influx of talent and transfer portal players they're getting. In basketball, Travis Hansen said they got Egor and AJ Dybansta by out-loving the other schools who were going after him.

Dave McCann yesterday wrote and article saying that Kalani's recruiting genius is in how he treats people so nicely. That's why he got Keanu Tanuvasa and Justin Kirkland, by being kind and honest.

Coach Sitake could write a book called Leading with the Heart! That's great. And Kalani is great and everybody does love him, but there was also a lot of money involved too right? Just like every other school uses to get players? Let's make sure to have a chapter in the book about the cash.