John Calipari took up for a friend and may have contradicted himself in the process.
Head coach Bruiser Flint was fired from Drexel after winning only six games this season. Flint has been at Drexel for 15 years, has never made it to the NCAA tournament, and has missed the postseason 10 out of those 15 years. Flint went 6-25 this season, 11-19 last season and went 16-14 the year before that. Clearly things weren't working out, so he had to go.
Flint is a former assistant of John Calipari's when Cal was at UMass in the nineties.