Calipari talks about the UK team's youth, comparing Western Pennsylvania to Eastern Kentucky and why he doesn't read fans' Twitter or Facebook comments. Matt Stone/CJ
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Often during college basketball season, the phone rings at a house in small-town Vermont around 1 a.m., hours after the Kentucky Wildcats finished playing.
Ninety-eight-year-old Guy Rotella knows who's calling — it's always John Calipari.
These chats happen because in the late 1980s through the early '90s, as a rising star in the basketball coaching ranks, Calipari began working with acclaimed experts that could help him win.