Kentucky coach John Calipari was recently forced to take Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to task over the conservative news host assertions that all players who listen to hip use "four-letter words" toward their coach and are given "given drugs for free" by street hustlers.
Appearing on The O'Reilly Factor to promote his new book Players First: Coaching From Inside Out, Calipari also assured O'Reilly most of his players "come from good homes... some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm they understood."
Long a staunch critic of rap music and the hip hop genre, Deadspin.com reports O'Reilly remains unrelentless and quickly retorts "so they go out with a girl and the girl said hey you raped me... how do you keep them away from that?"
Calipari, the man who just lead Kentucky to a runner-up finish in the NCAA tournament and is rumored to be a candidate to take over as coach of either the Knicks or Lakers this offseason, was able to keep his cool.
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"You can't do that here," Calipari told O'Reilly of the Kentucky program. "You are coming here to be developed as a person and a player. We have had 17 players drafted. We have had 10 players get their college degrees. They understand they are there to be educated. People will say well, they don't want to go to school. That's a bunch of crap. They do want to go to school. But their genius is basketball."
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