John Calipari doesn't want his players at Kentucky to just be "one and done."
No, this doesn't mean that Kentucky will stop recruiting talented high school players with NBA aspirations. It means that the Wildcats' polarizing coach wants everyone to stop using the pejorative "one and done" phrase to talk about young men with the talent and training to secure a job in the NBA after only a year in college. Holding court with the media at site of the 2014 Final Four, Calipari suggested "succeed and proceed" as a more apt replacement phrase.
"The connotation that's been built around one‑and‑done is so ridiculous to make it a bad thing," Calipari told reporters on Friday, a day before his eighth-seeded team faced off against No. 2 Wisconsin. "It's a negative thing. It's not used in other sports, it's not used in other areas of life where people stay in school a year and leave. So the thing that we have been talking about is succeed and proceed. Succeed and proceed. You cannot proceed until you succeed. Succeed and then proceed. It will be on T shirts."
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