John Calipari to Colin Cowherd: Stop Messing with John Wall

If you ever listen to the Colin Cowherd Show you’ll know a few things about the host.

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First, he worships the ground Tom Brady walks on, in fact he has a bromance with the guy.

He also loves Tony Romo and Lebron James and thinks James is the greatest thing since slice bread.

And one more thing you’ll also learn about Cowherd, he can’t stand John Wall. Every chance he gets, he bashes John Wall. He claims it’s nothing personal, that he’s biggest beef with Wall is his immaturity.

Cowherd pointed out that recently Wall and his buddies got put off a plane for acting up. Wall didn’t start the fight, but still Cowherd wouldn’t let it go.

Cowherd’s main issue with Wall is that he came out in his first game and did the Dougie and from that point on, seems to has had it in for him.

“In like his first home game, he went out, and the Dougie was a popular song — and I’m telling the back story because a lot of people don’t know the back story — and he came out and he did this 30-second dance. And I just thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever seen in my life. And I said at the time this kid has amazing talent, but man that is idiotic. He just lacks judgment. I’ve seen enough. He’s not gonna win a title. Leaders don’t do that. Jeter doesn’t do that. You can do it after you win titles, you do whatever you want after you retire. Ray Lewis, as great as he was, didn’t do that first game in the NFL. I just hated it.”

Until today, Cowherd has been allowed to slam Wall without consequences, that is until Wall’s college coach John Calipari came to his former point guard’s defense on Cowherd’s show today.

Calipari told Cowherd to get over it and leave the kid alone.

“You gotta stop on John Wall,” Calipari said. “You’re out of your mind.”

“You’re like that guy who’s hooked on this thing about the Dougie and it’s driving you crazy,” he stated. “You’ve gotta go to church, ask for forgiveness. Let it go by. Let it go. Forgive.”

Cowherd seems to take issue with urban culture seeping into sports. He hates it when players wear their baseball caps backwards, he doesn’t like seeing player’s kids at the interview table after an NBA playoff game and he hates to see players dance before games.

What it sounds to me like is that Cowherd associates things like that with thuggery, although Tom Brady wore his hat backwards recently to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game and Cowherd didn’t say a word about it.

Cowherd says his criticism of Wall, Cam Newton and others is not racist, but he is walking a fine line when it comes to his criticism and it’s only a matter of time before he crosses it.

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