Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari talks to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018, about recruiting. UK lost out on James Wiseman, the top recruit for the class of 2019, who announced Tuesday he will attend Memphis. By
John Calipari reportedly made a series of specific requests during negotiations with UCLA, all of which the Bruins were willing to meet, before the University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach ultimately decided to agree to a “lifetime contract” with the Wildcats.
In telling “The back story on UCLA’s long, strange search for a basketball coach,” Los Angeles Times sports writer Ben Bolch reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources, that Calipari and UCLA met multiple times during the Bruins’ search for a replacement for Steve Alford.