document: NCAA tournament : Nobody will dispute that they are great coaches , and the latest evidence lies in the teams they guided to this year 's Final Four . Nobody will argue that John Calipari and Jim Calhoun are saints , either . The men on the sidelines for the Kentucky-Connecticut Final Four matchup have had their share of trouble - with each other , the programs they run and the NCAA . They are a microcosm of everything that 's right and wrong in college basketball - a coach-driven game where good leaders can elevate programs and players to new levels but the road to success often produces its fair share of cringeworthy dealing . Calipari leads the fourth-seeded Wildcats -LRB- 29-8 -RRB- against Calhoun and the third-seeded Huskies -LRB- 30-9 -RRB- in the second semifinal Saturday . Both coaches coaxed a turnaround out of their young , struggling teams to make unexpected trips to the game 's biggest stage - the third for Calipari and fourth for Calhoun . On the eve of the game , their histories were as lively a topic as the success of their teams . One of the first questions Calipari fielded Friday was whether he is the 2000 '' `` s version of former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian , a coach who did a lot of winning in his day but did it with his phone number firmly entrenched on the NCAA 's speed dial . The question slid off the Wildcats coach as smoothly as good Kentucky bourbon . '' `` I respect everything that Jerry did - his kids , how they played , all those things , '' '' Calipari said . '' `` But , no , I think I 'm the 2011 John Calipari . I do n't know what that means , and I hate to talk in the third party . But I am who I am . '' '' Calipari is back in Houston , where three years ago he won two games at the regional to lead Memphis to the Final Four , only to leave that school a year later , just as the program was running into NCAA problems involving the recruitment of Derrick Rose . Calipari 's first Final Four visit , with Massachusetts back in 1996 , also has been scrubbed by the NCAA . Which led to another tongue-in-cheek question : How does it feel to be coaching in your first Final Four ? '' `` I do n't deal with that , '' '' said the 52-year-old coach , who spent four years in the NBA between his stints at UMass and Memphis . '' `` We 've been here three times . Those players played those games and did what they were supposed to . I 'm so proud of what they 've all accomplished . '' '' He says this without apology . Though his schools suffered , Calipari was not found at fault in either of the NCAA probes . The so-called problems between Cal and Cal began during those UMass days , when the coaches were on top of each other in neighboring states - one trying to protect his turf and the other trying to carve out his own . The 68-year-old Calhoun lightheartedly reprised the complaints he raised more than a decade ago about Calipari - a Pittsburgh native trying to muscle his way through New England - but made it clear the enmity has died down as the years have passed . '' `` From a generational standpoint , to the fact that John really was trying to claim New England , '' '' Calhoun said of the lack of a true friendship with his counterpart . Then , he affected his best Boston accent : '' `` He could never say he pahked the caah in Hahvahd Yahd , he did n't know what clam chowder really was . I took -LRB- umbrage -RRB- to it , but I take -LRB- umbrage -RRB- to a lot of things . '' ''
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