It Got Weird Between John Calipari And Sideline Reporter Maria Taylor During A Halftime Interview11/15/2017 I can't say I am surprised. As a person that's been blessed with a hell of a lot of power, it's not all that shocking that he's one of "those guys". And no, by that I do not mean he's the type that make women with which they share a workplace stand at attention as they fertilize the leaves of a ficus. I do, however, mean that he's type that thinks his words are so important that he can't even fathom the possibility that his audience isn't fully entrenched in his dialogue at all times. Honestly, how many times did Maria Taylor have to make it blatantly clear that she wasn't particularly interested in Coach Cal's rebounding diatribe. The look away. The lip bite. The exaggerated, "holy shit, are you done yet?" nods. The forced smiles of someone being held hostage. She used every social cue at her disposal and it still took him an amount of time that would make you think he kept hitting the snooze button on the internal alarm that's supposed to go of in one's head when the person with which they are conversing is no longer matching their enthusiasm. Makes me think that Kentucky's head coach would argue he's never had a bad first date in all his life, despite being turned down for a second one on multiple occasions. I don't know why John Calipari had a sideline reporter's arm in a vice grip, but it concerns that it took him an agonizing amount of time to realize that it made her feel uncomfortable. Not because I think he was trying to assert his dominance in some perverse way like every higher-up in the history of Hollywood, but because I think we can all relate to the painstaking experience of having someone incessantly talk at you while completely deaf to the tone of every form of non-verbal communication. I want to say that Maria Taylor made it weirder than it had to be by stating the obvious fact that she is indeed not a college-aged male athlete for the Kentucky basketball program. Unfortunately for everyone that cringed through the entirety of that interview, when you're dying to say something and someone finally throws you the lifeline it's damn near impossible not to take it.
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