Maybe Calipari knows better than to get too attached to any post-season success

**BestdamnUKfanperiod** Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:32 am

Maybe Calipari knows better than to get too attached to any post-season success

March 01, 2010, 10:47AM

One more reminder of why basketball is not football:

Kentucky coach John Calipari said last week that winning the school's 44th conference title would mean "nothing.''

"I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament," Calipari said. "If you want me to be honest about how I think and what we're doing to prepare, that's what it is. The SEC tournament is about our seed in the NCAA tournament."

SEC football coaches know winning the SEC title comes before getting the chance to play for - and, lately win - a national title.

SEC basketball coaches know their success is determined by, first, getting to the NCAA Tournament (are you listening, Auburn coach Jeff Lebo?) and, second, by how far you advance once in that tournament. And you can do both without winning a conference title.

Or maybe Calipari has grown so accustomed to eventually having to see his post-season success vacated he knows not to get too attached.

http://blog.al.com/ray-melick/2010/03/maybe_calipari_knows_better_th.html