With Derek Willis, Dominique Hawkins, and Mychal Mulder set to graduate this weekend, John Calipari sat down at his desk and penned a piece for his website about the importance of education in the one-and-done era, with an emphasis on lifetime scholarships. Those lifetime scholarships, he says, are a great insurance policy for the one-and-done players; and it doesn’t have to be done immediately.
Take Marcus Camby for instance. Camby will graduate from UMass on May 12 and Calipari will be there to watch him receive his diploma, some 21 years after he coached him in Amherst.