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John Calipari rants on coaching profession: 'We're firing coaches midseason... Are you s----ing me?'

John Calipari is a really intelligent and really well-spoken person. He’s also very passionate. Combine those three things, and you get some good (and well-reasoned) postgame rants.

Calipari gave one of those rants after a narrow win over Georgia Saturday. So amped up that he didn’t even sit down, Calipari addressed criticism of Georgia head coach Mark Fox, and made the criticism a referendum on what’s wrong with the coaching profession — or rather athletic directors’ shortsightedness — in a two-minute-long rant.

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He eventually moved on from the gripes with Fox to NC State’s decision to fire Mark Gottfried with four games left in the season.

“We’re firing coaches in midseason. Are you s—ing me?” Calipari said. “We’re firing coaches in midseason. You know what I’m putting my contract? You can fire me at midseason but you’re going to have to pay me $3 million. Oh, you’ll let me stay now, won’t you? … Every coach in the country, put it in your contract.”

Here’s full video, from the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Kyle Tucker:

At the end, Calipari even threw in what seemed to be a playful shot at President Donald Trump. He cut off a question and yelled, “Fake media!” before immediately clarifying that he was kidding.

Cal is the best.