Calipari insisted he has not been contacted about coaching the Dominican Republic's national team, though he did not rule out the possibility if he eventually is approached about the job.
"I've been not been contacted by anybody," Calipari told reporters in Lexington on Tuesday. "It would be an honor to be considered for something like that, but I don't know the time frame and I don't even know if I could do it. Where that got started, or whether they're considering asking, I don't know. You'd have to talk to them."
The notion that Calipari could coach the Dominican team originated with a blog post on Inside Puerto Rico Basketball indicating that Dominican officials have reached out to Calipari about coaching their outfit. It was a report that had to be taken seriously considering that Pitino had formally accepted Puerto Rico's coaching gig on Monday morning.
The advantage of coaching the Puerto Rican and Dominican national teams for Pitino or Calipari would be the potential recruiting pipelines both could create for their programs. Pitino will have greater name recognition in Puerto Rico than any other college coach and greater access to the island's basketball prospects as well.
Calipari said he hasn't considered the pros and cons of coaching the Dominican team because officials from that country haven't contacted him.
"No one's approached me about coaching anybody's (team) or being a consultant for a national team, whether it be China or anyone else," Calipari said. "There's stuff out there, but no one's come to me and said, ‘This is what it would mean.'"
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