Wedding C-A-T-S Fans' Wednesday Night News and Views

There are UK wedding photos and then there is the one above I received on the Twitter machine earlier this week. I don't know how or why the Louisville Cardinal was at the wedding, but shout-out to the four Cats fans in the photo for shaming it. You are tonight's Fans of the Night. You can pick up your prize of free KSR for life any time you're on the internet. Congratulations! Getting a late start tonight after a 10 pm homecooked meal and a five-mile run around the neighborhood. Completely joking about the five-mile run. I don't run. Let's do this...   John Calipari said someone will have to "uproot him" to get him to leave Lexington. Calipari is at the SEC Spring Meetings in Sandestin this week and he was asked on Wednesday if he plans to stick around Lexington. (Because of course he was; it's all he hears this time of year.) Cal's response was one of his best we've heard on the subject:

“It took me 20 years to get the job. For me to leave something like this, you’re going to have to uproot me. That’s how I feel.” [The Cats Pause]

There have been rumors of him bolting to the NBA this summer, like every other offseason, and former UK assistant Slice Rohrssen said it's something that will continue to happen each year. Slice told sNY.tv, "My feelings are that [Calipari] will always be in demand for an NBA job because he’s a players’ coach and he’s coached as many NBA players as there are out there now except he got them before they hit the NBA." Between his outrageous new contract and his ability to change the lives of young kids here at Kentucky, it would take the perfect job to "uproot" Calipari out of Lexington at this point. And that job isn't popping up in the NBA any time soon, if ever. Calipari questioned NCAA referees' guts under new rule change. The NCAA rules committee has asked officials to call more fouls in 2015-16 to reduce the physicality of the game. It's not the first time we've heard things will be called tighter, and Coach Cal wonders what will be different this time around. Again from the SEC Meetings, Calipari said:

“Here's what the question will be: How long will they keep calling the fouls? Two years ago, we started this and then no one had the stomach for it. The teams that advanced in the NCAA Tournament that year fouled on every possession. So then we all – me included – went back to football practice. ‘That's it. Put helmets on. Let's go. That stuff was a bunch of BS.' And by the end of the year, that's how we played and basically made it to the Final Four playing football.” [CBSSports.com]

If you recall, right around the time of the tweak heading into the 2014 postseason, Calipari said he turned his practices into football workouts. “The football practice today is going to get us ready to be fouled and play offensively through it,” he said at the time. “And also, we’re going to foul. Now you’re going to call them on everybody now, but we’ll foul now and be physical. Our arms are going to be up. You’re going to see their hands. And that’s how we’ve got to play.” You can understand his reluctance to believe the "change" next season. So how 'bout those drunk tweets from Garrick Sherman? Safe to say Tom Izzo is probably a little pissed at his former player, who will wake up with a WTF DID I DO hangover in the morning. Honestly, I didn't mind the tweet about "Kentucky players' salaries," but this one CROSSED THE LINE: https://twitter.com/gsherm11/status/603695963924865025 1989 is a classic. The Knicks are considering Willie Cauley-Stein with the fourth pick. ESPN's Chad Ford has heard from two separate sources that Phil Jackson has eyes on Cauley-Stein with the fourth pick in the draft. The Knicks want a defender and the Kentucky big man is the best in the class. Of course, trading the pick and loading up on free agents is still the most likely route for New York, but it's nice to hear Cauley-Stein's name mentioned as a top-four prospect. Greg Monroe, Marc Gasol and DeAndre Jordan will also get looks from Jackson to fill the center position. I really can't say enough good things about Bloodline on Netflix. The first three or four episodes are a little slow, but hang in there. It took me a couple weeks to get through the early part of the season but I couldn't shut it off once things picked up. I binge watched seven episodes last night until around 4:00 am because there was no putting the finale on hold. Had to get there and it did not disappoint. Andrew Harrison will work out for the Indiana Pacers tomorrow. Hopefully he's off the board when the Pacers pick at No. 43. The best scenario is he goes 32nd to his hometown Houston Rockets if he's not a first-rounder. And I don't know how the hell he can return to Indianapolis this soon. It's been almost two months since you-know-what and there's not enough money in Mark Emmert's personal NCAA safe to get me to go back to that city. It's Warriors vs. Cavs in The Finals. Too bad we have to wait over a week for Game 1. Who ya got? Ryan Lemond and I will co-host Friday's show and we'd love your suggestions. Matt's leaving us with the ship on Friday before two weeks of guest hosts and we're open to ideas for the show. We may run it back with #AskAnythingFriday or we may bring on a third co-host if someone tosses out the right suggestion. Write us on Twitter or in the comments section if you have someone or something in mind. If not, we'll just try not to break anything.