Arkansas men's basketball head coach John Calipari said he had previously been pursued by the Razorbacks when he was coaching Memphis to the Final Four in 2007.
"At that time, Dan, if I left, I left players," Calipari told Dan Patrick Wednesday on the Dan Patrick Show (3:25 mark.) "Like, they were there. And if my assistant wasn't going to get the job, I wasn't comfortable just leaving."
A conversation with Houston men's basketball head coach Kelvin Sampson made Calipari realize the outlook for leaving Kentucky after 15 seasons would be different.