Colin Cowherd calls for Kentucky to part ways with John Calipari

Colin Cowherd, who has been a popular figure in the sports media world for decades now, wasn’t shy with his thoughts on Kentucky head coach John Calipari after another early exit from the NCAA Tournament for the Wildcats.

Kentucky lost to 14-seed Oakland on Thursday in the opening round of the Big Dance. And while every national media member you could think of had some sort of take on the situation, Cowherd’s certainly stuck out.

During his daily radio show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, on Friday, the longtime sports personality took five minutes out of his day to go after Calipari, calling the head coach a “grifter” and comparing him to a bad Hollywood director. The Herd’s YouTube channel titled Cowherd’s rant as follows: It’s time to move off him – Colin calls for Kentucky to move on from John Calipari now.

Here is some of what Cowherd had to say:

There’s a line between salesman and grifter, and Calipari has crossed it. After he loses last night, and this act, it’s what he does every time, it’s now grifting. This is briefly what he said after losing to a small school in Michigan.

*Cuts to video of Calipari* ‘I hate it for these guys that people try to define this season by that game.’

No they’re not, no they’re not. No. No they’re not. They’re not defining this season by this game or the players, it’s defining you, John. Stop projecting. Psych 101, take the course at Kentucky. Calipari has become the Hollywood director with a great young talented cast that keeps producing bad movies. And his excuse, ‘Well, I hate that it defines the actor’s career.’ It doesn’t. It defines the director. It doesn’t define the movie industry or the actors or the writers, it defines the director.

Colin Cowherd, The Herd

Cowherd, who was using lots of seemingly arbitrary metaphors in his monologue, also called out Calipari for having arguably the two best NBA Draft prospects in the entire tournament — freshmen guards Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham — but not being able to win anything in the postseason with them.

“The two most talented players in this tournament according to the draft experts? Kentucky,” Cowherd said. “It’s not a point of pride that they’ll be pros and get rich. It’s a point of embarrassment that you (Calipari) can’t do more with them.”

Cowherd had plenty more to say about Calipari in the video below.