Skip to content

Calipari: Coaches know what happens on campus

REUTERS/ John Sommers II

Kentucky coach John Calipari thinks coaches are aware of what takes place on their campus, perhaps suggesting Louisville's Rick Pitino should be held accountable for his team's alleged sex scandal.

"All I can tell you is this," Calipari said on the "Mike Lupica Show," according to James Streble of SB Nation. "If it happens on your campus and it happens with your assistants and those people, you probably have a good idea what's going on.

"If it happens back in their hometown, it happens back with their family or other ways, there's no way you can know. You just don't know. So, all I would say is most coaches have an idea if it happened on their campus. You might not be the first to know about it, but you eventually hear about it."

Pitino has maintained he knew nothing about the supposed scandal in which one of his former staffers, Andre McGee, paid escorts to entertain recruits during their Louisville visits.

The NCAA continues to investigate the allegations, but Louisville has already self-imposed multiple penalties as it conducts its own investigation.

Calipari is no stranger to sanctions - he ran into problems at UMass and Memphis - but his programs' issues were related to off-campus matters.

He wasn't responding to a question about Louisville or Pitino, specifically, when he made the remarks.

Daily Newsletter

Get the latest trending sports news daily in your inbox