A Season Inside (2011)
“Twenty minutes before his Pittsburgh team was to begin Big East Conference play against defending league champion Georgetown, he sat on his bench watching warmups, chewing intently on a piece of gum.
For a coach with a 9–0 record and a team that was ranked second in the nation, Evans had been through a very tough first semester.
First came the loss of point guard Michael Goodson to academic ineligibility. Then, on a recruiting trip to Los Angeles, Evans and Assistant Coach John Calipari had bee...n caught in the middle of an earthquake. They were asleep in their hotel room when everything began to shake. Panicked, Calipari had raced to the door, thrown it open, and stood there in his underwear, because he had heard you were safer standing in a doorway during a quake. Evans was just as frightened, but the sight of Calipari standing in the doorway sent him into hysterics.
“I was never so glad to leave a place,” he said later. “We got out on a red-eye and both went to sleep. Then, about an hour out of Los Angeles I heard this noise, like a thud.MoreLess
For a coach with a 9–0 record and a team that was ranked second in the nation, Evans had been through a very tough first semester.
First came the loss of point guard Michael Goodson to academic ineligibility. Then, on a recruiting trip to Los Angeles, Evans and Assistant Coach John Calipari had bee...n caught in the middle of an earthquake. They were asleep in their hotel room when everything began to shake. Panicked, Calipari had raced to the door, thrown it open, and stood there in his underwear, because he had heard you were safer standing in a doorway during a quake. Evans was just as frightened, but the sight of Calipari standing in the doorway sent him into hysterics.
“I was never so glad to leave a place,” he said later. “We got out on a red-eye and both went to sleep. Then, about an hour out of Los Angeles I heard this noise, like a thud.MoreLess
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