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Welcome to Kentucky, Coach Cal

By Brian Bennett
ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

LEXINGTON, Ky. --- Here's what it looks like when Kentucky introduces a new head basketball coach: About 200 reporters, trustees, friends of the program and other hangers-on murmur in the team's practice gym, then fall into a funereal hush when the new coach enters. Nearly two dozen cameras point at the coach during his news conference, which is carried live across the state. Immediately afterward, throngs of reporters form packs around the athletic director, the school president, the coach ...

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