Bill O'Reilly Questions John Calipari On "Hip-Hop, Rap Stuff, Hustlers"

[Capt. Obvious]

Kentucky head coach John Calipari appeared on The O'Reilly Factor tonight on Fox News, and managed to keep his cool despite a series of leading questions about the ability to maintain discipline in a "coarser" age of "rap stuff," "hip-hop stuff," and "hustlers."

O'Reilly at one point seems incredulous that Kentucky basketball players are able to refrain from using "four-letter words" to their coach, and later discussed "hustlers" who "give the kids drugs for free." We apologize beforehand for exposing you to Bill O'Reilly's bigoted drivel, but we're especially fond of how Calipari calmly defuses it. (Seriously, what does he even mean by "it's coarsened"?) Here's a full transcript of the conversation from closed captioning:

I mean, you are a good guy coach but — now, the coaching has coarsened, you teach at the University of Kentucky it's coarsened. I don't know if you listen to this rap stuff and hip hop stuff. Has that changed their attitude? I mean, how do you impose discipline on kids who are pretty much gonna do what they want to do.

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Okay. How do you keep them away from temptation with the hustlers everywhere?
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So they go out with a girl and the girl said hey you raped me. There is drugs everywhere. They are giving the kids drugs for free. How do you keep them away from that?

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I didn't watch the video but I'll just assume Bill posited on Cal's kids ordering M'fing iced tea.

[el_bryanto]

1. Just out of curiosity - for a friend of mine - where do you get those drugs for free?

Is it only for college athletes?

Bryant

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. Yea, I'd like to know that too - for a friend of mine. No, really. nt

[Capt. Obvious]

4. Just go to any school

drug dealers line up the kids as young as 5* and inject them with drugs to turn them into addicts and loyal customers.

*May have the age wrong. I'm pulling this from a really long ago memory of D.A.R.E. class.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Guess being a dumbass comes naturally to O'Whorely

[alp227]

5. Forget the rap stuff. Ask Calipari why trouble follows him wherever he goes.

Calipari has had over 40 vacated wins in his college coaching career.

In 1996, Massachusetts vacated its NCAA tournament games because Marcus Camby accepted money from an agent.

In 2009, Memphis vacated all 38 wins from its 2007-08 season after Derrick Rose was ruled "retroactively ineligible" by the NCAA, after the ETS voided Rose's SAT. Rose's qualifying SAT score was suspicious because it's alleged somebody impersonated Rose to take the test in Detroit.

And during Calipari's time at Kentucky here are the shady parts of his career:
- A staffer was fired for improper phone calls to recruits.
- Eric Bledsoe could have become another Derrick Rose pox on Calipari's house if not for the Birmingham, Alabama school board voting not to invalidate Bledsoe's transcript despite suspicious grade changes made to make Bledsoe eligible to play at Kentucky. After the vote, the NCAA closed its investigation of Bledsoe.
- If not for the NCAA stepping in, Calipari would've gotten in trouble for recruiting Turkish player Enes Kanter to the team, since Kanter was NOT an amateur, for accepting money to play on a Turkish team.

And there are plenty of stories about the guy being sleazy. I wish someone would ask him about that.

[KamaAina]

6. So Calipari went on O'Really?

Here's my response to that: