I’ve heard of some weird superstitions in sports, but John Calipari’s may take the cake. Calipari recently did an interview with Graham Bensinger in which he reveals some of his odd game day quirks, like collecting bobby pins, not letting his players get game day hair cuts, and eating oatmeal, but not if it has raisins.
“Any coach out there that wants to lose, you make sure they put raisins in the breakfast oatmeal,” Cal warned. “You’ll go down, don’t worry about that.”
The Sporting News has more from the interview, in which Calipari says he once threw a bowl of oatmeal at a wall because it had raisins in it.