Kentucky Sports Radio · Feb 26, 2019
John Calipari: “Don’t Wrestle with Pigs”
Ahead of Kentucky’s matchup with Arkansas, John Calipari refuses to get into a mudslinging match with the Razorbacks.“What do they say about pigs? You wrestle with a pig, both get dirty and he’s happy. So you just don’t wrestle with pigs. It’s the same thing with mud wrestling and basketball. If that’s how the game, that other player wants to play, why would you play that way? He’s happy as heck. Don’t make him happy.
Coach Cal’s advice is directed directly toward Nick Richards. Kentucky’s seven-foot center is not built to bang with the big, physical bodies in the SEC.