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Message: [QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 5384885, member: 127"] Yes and Pitino never let it go that he helped Calipari get his first head coaching job at UMass. Pitino had the big $ by 1988 having coached at Boston U, been an asst’t for the Knick’s, HC at Providence and was then currently the Knicks head coach when Calipari was a candidate vying for the UMass job. Pitino was a UMass grad and a booster, who was called by the AD etc to get his thoughts on Calipari. Pitino claims he even gave some $ to help get Calipari for UMass. They don’t get along obviously and Pitino jokes that the story irks Calipari - so here he was repeating to a tv reporter in 2025 when I heard it. I think of them as ying and yang. Bet there are some great stories behind the scenes when Calipari was at Kentucky and Pitino was at Louisville. [/QUOTE]