John Calipari was starting to come around to this big-man lineup idea that friend and former coach Joe B. Hall has talked about so much when he decided to plop down next to him Thursday at the Wildcat Coal Lodge and ask for a few more details. Coach Cal started talking, but the man he was sitting next to didn't say much. In fact, the bronze-casted statue didn't say anything at all. “He wasn't real talkative,” Calipari said. “He usually is.” Jokes aside, whenever Calipari asks the real Coach Hall about how to play big men together, Hall can't stop talking. The frequency and allure of the persuasion has become so compelling that Calipari appears to be warming up to the idea of playing freshmen big men Nerlens Noel and Willie Cauley-Stein together.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.