Within moments of Adrian Wojnarowski's report intimating that John Calipari would listen to a pitch from Chicago Bulls management, the Kentucky coach took to Twitter to address Big Blue Nation.

"Throughout my career I've been mentioned for other jobs," Calipari wrote. "Now that I'm here u won't hear about other colleges because I've got the best job. Every year you will hear my named mentioned for NBA jobs because I coached in the league before. I'm very happy at Kentucky."

It's fine that Calipari is trying to assuage the concerns of Kentucky fans (and recruits) by speaking to them directly, but I wouldn't bet your kid's college fund that he's in Lexington next season just yet. Here are three reasons I think it's possible that Calipari could be one-and-done at Kentucky if the right NBA team ponied up enough money:

1. Calipari has a track record of dishonesty in these situations

If there's one thing we've learned from Calipari's track record, it's that you can't take everything he says

As if Olek Czyz didn't already feel silly enough transferring from Duke in December and missing his chance to win a championship ring, the Blue Devils decided to rub it in a little bit this weekend.

At Jon Scheyer's on-campus charity event on Saturday, a life-size version of the team's Goodfellas-themed poster had a hole where fans like assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski's son Jack could stick their heads and pretend to be members of the Blue Devils. Where was that spot, you ask? Well it was not-so-subtly located right where Czyz's face once was.

Czyz, who had offers from the likes of Louisville and Florida in high school, left Duke in December because of a lack of playing time his first year and a half in Durham. He will become eligible at Nevada at the start of second semester.

(Thanks, Duke Chronicle)

The list of 80 underclassmen who officially declared for the NBA draft includes likely No. 1 overall pick John Wall, national player of the year Evan Turner and dozens of other well-known college stars.

It also includes a 5-foot-11, 175-pound guard from a 1,000-student Division III school in Alabama who averaged two points per game last season.

Meet John Sloan, probably the only NBA hopeful Huntingdon College has ever produced. The Albertville, Alabama native averaged a mere 10.1 minutes per game as a junior for a team that finished 11-14 last season, yet his name is right there on the official early-entry list alongside some of college basketball's brightest stars.

Since Sloan has decided not to play basketball as a senior so he can find a part-time job that will help pay for pharmacy school, he joked one night with his friends a few weeks ago that he should enter the NBA draft. None of them thought he was serious, but he followed through on the idea, researching the draft process,

It's no coincidence John Calipari's first news conference of the offseason came the day after the Lexington Herald-Leader revealed his team's cumulative fall semester GPA was the worst among the school's 20 teams.

The Kentucky coach conducted a little damage control on Monday, pointing out that he graduated 80 percent of his players at UMass and 19 of 23 at Memphis as proof of his commitment to academics. He also noted that Kentucky's three seniors and junior Patrick Patterson are each on track to graduate.

"I don't know if this story was meant to embarrass me, but with my background, I don't think that happens," Calipari said. "My job is to make sure there's growth academically, and they're on line to graduate. It's pretty obvious I've done that over my career as a coach."

Although Calipari's academic track record certainly earns him the right to call Kentucky's 2.025 team GPA an outlier rather than the start of a trend, his indignation at the story itself isn't warranted.

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Information has been scant concerning the health of Seton Hall forward Herb Pope since his collapse last week, but the little that we have heard suggests he's gradually improving after a couple of very frightening days.

Soon-to-be-hired Rutgers coach Mike Rice told the Beaver County Times that a Seton Hall official had informed him Pope was in stable condition after being rushed to the hospital following a routine on-campus workout last week. Not only did Rice say Pope suffered from seizures, convulsions and vomiting, he also indicated the 6-foot-8 forward's heart had stopped.

"If he wouldn't have been so close to personnel that knew how to handle the situation, he wouldn't have made it," Rice told The Times.

That report jives with a subsequent story from Gannett New Jersey indicating that Pope's condition has not worsened as originally feared. A source told the paper that Pope remains at the hospital but is doing better.

Pope, who declared for the NBA draft after leading the Big East

Since Rutgers didn't fire Fred Hill until two weeks ago as a result of a prolonged battle over his buyout, the Scarlet Knights were too late to land potential candidates Fran McCaffery of Siena, Steve Donahue of Cornell and Kevin Willard of Iona.

The man they chose to replace Hill is at least as qualified as any of those three.

A young, energetic coach with deep recruiting ties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Robert Morris coach Mike Rice on paper seems to be exactly the sort of coach capable of spearheading Rutgers' rebuilding process. He hasn't produced NCAA tournament victories like McCaffery and Donahue, but he did lead Robert Morris to three straight postseason appearances, narrowly missing a first-round upset of second-seeded Villanova this year.

Rice inherits a threadbare Rutgers program that lost most of its key players from a team that went 5-13 in the Big East and finished an uninspiring 15-17 season a year ago. Big East defensive player of the year Hamady Ndiaye graduated

President Obama wasn't the only celebrity speaker to deliver a keynote address at a college graduation this past weekend.

One day after Obama spoke at Michigan, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo took his turn at 1,500-student Adrian College about 90 miles southwest of Detroit.

Standing on a makeshift stage in the school's football stadium clad in a black cap and gown, Izzo addressed 200 graduates and a crowd of roughly 3,000 on Sunday for about 17 minutes. He encouraged graduates "don't be afraid to dream big," sharing the story of how his own rise from a small town as inspiration.

"I'm a guy, right here in front of you, that had no chance to be the head coach at Michigan State," he said, "coming from Iron Mountain, a town of 8,000 people, way up there where we just got television and radio a few years ago. I'm a guy that had no chance to do what I hope you get a chance to do.

"I got to live my dream. I hope you do, too."

This wasn't Izzo's first time behind a podium in a cap and gown.

Hofstra basketball coach Tim Welsh has stepped down from his post without coaching a single game.

The school issued a terse two-sentence release Monday afternoon announcing that Welsh had resigned three days after Nassau County police found him asleep at the wheel at a green light early Friday morning and charged him with drunken driving.

"The University accepted the resignation in the best interests of the University and of the men’s basketball program," read the release.

Although the wording of the release makes it seem as though this was a mutual decision, there's little doubt this wasn't Welsh's decision. He began the process of attempting to salvage his tarnished image in an interview with Newsday over the weekend, expressing "the deepest regrets and apologies" and describing his arrest as a teachable moment.

Hopefully, Welsh is correct that he does learn something from this incident, but Hofstra made the right move forcing him out.

It would have been a reckless gamble for Hofstra