New Arkansas coach John Calipari isn’t trying to put together a roster like anybody really expects.
He’s not doing what fans and most of the media expect, but nobody really wants to believe what he keeps telling them.
“I just talk about what I want,” Calipari said. “Have you guys not understood that yet? You can ask me whatever you want, I’m going to say what.
That last part sort of trailed off, probably due to exhaustion from having to answer multiple times a question that he’s made clear since April. Calipari’s looking for nine guys who can play to his level.
For those who haven’t noticed, that’s a higher expectation than what’s been seen around the Razorbacks for a couple of decades. He’s also talked about embracing the players who won in the past and did again.
Ronnie Brewer, who is part of the historic past as a player and because his father was a huge part of when Eddie Sutton started turning things around in the mid-70’s, was in the spotlight Monday. Calipari announced he will handle what he described as the mid-south, a region that includes Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Texas, West Tennessee, Missouri up to St. Louis and Mississippi.