Coach Cal wants July to be a Dark Period

[Muskie]

From the NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2009/07/26/2009-07-26_john_calipari.html).

""We should be like football coaches," Calipari said here yesterday while six high class travel-team games swirled around him at the annual AAU Summer Showcase in the Milk House. "They take five or six weeks off in the summer. We should have our camps in June. July should be a dark month, no phone calls, nothing, completely dark"

[AdamtheFlyer]

Of course he wants that. He can kick back and let WorldWide Wes do his recruiting for a month.

[XU05and07]

After Skip's death and stories about coaches' health issues due to recruiting...I agree with Cal

[AdamtheFlyer]

After Skip's death and stories about coaches' health issues due to recruiting...I agree with Cal

But why not June, or August? He chooses July because that's when the major AAU tourneys take place. That's not by accident. It just so happens that's the time when major shoe people like WWWes can be closest to the kids.

May and July should be the recruiting months. June is when most of the kids go to camps and summer league ball slows down. There's your dark period.

[GoMuskies]

After Skip's death and stories about coaches' health issues due to recruiting...I agree with Cal

Please. I want July to be a dark period for attorneys as well then. For health reasons.

[Juice]

I actually agree with Adam on this one.

Also, anything that Calipari wants I am probably against.

[Xman95]

After Skip's death and stories about coaches' health issues due to recruiting...I agree with Cal

Yet we still can't get lucky enough for Digger Phelps to come down with a simple case of laringitis!

[XU05and07]

Yet we still can't get lucky enough for Digger Phelps to come down with a simple case of laringitis!

Dick Vitale had throat surgery and he came back...damn our advances in medicine