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John Calipari Says Today’s Transfer Era Would’ve Stopped His UMass, Memphis Runs

"We're letting 27 and 28-year-olds play in college basketball," Calipari said, adding college basketball’s current climate makes sustained program-building far tougher than when he rose at UMass and Memphis. “I couldn’t have done what I did at UMass and probably not at Memphis in this environment,” he said. He blamed constant transfers and lax rules: “We got to create 'guardrails.”