Calipari blames himself/schedule for Kentucky’s start

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This was the stupidest schedule I’ve ever put together, and I’d like to smack myself in the mouth,” Cal told reporters. “Listen – we should’ve played games up front that we had a chance to win. Four, five of them, then play four or five of the others. Not eight hard games, and we still have Texas left, who’s like tenth in the country. Think about it. Now, am I doing that to me or to these kids? It was to these kids. It was just dumb.”

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Games, games, games and games. There are two things [we need]. We need more time for all the team building stuff that we do here all the time. Everybody always says, how do you always get teams that are brand new to come together, start slow? We team build. We team build in the summer. We team build in the fall. We’re trying to make up time right now, and I think we have. Not where we need to be, but we’re making up time. The second thing is you have to play games you can win to build confidence. You have to play games you can win to build confidence.”

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