This morning, all 12 coaches from around the league participated in the weekly SEC coaches’ teleconference. This week, rather than providing a complete transcript of John Calipari’s comments as well as those of UK’s upcoming opponents, we’ll be running down some of the more notable comments from the coaches.This week, UK hosts Auburn and LSU at home so we have quotes from Tony Barbee of Auburn and Trent Johnson of LSU, as well as Mark Fox, whose Georgia Bulldogs knocked off Kentucky on Saturday.John Calipari– Calipari opened by talking about UK’s two opponents for the week, saying that Auburn and LSU are “two teams that are playing better.” Calipari will have to watch a little less tape this week because Auburn and LSU played against one another on Saturday at Auburn, a game which was won by LSU 62-55. Auburn was down 32-6 at halftime of that game but mounted a furious second-half rally that fell short.”Auburn in the second half really did some great stuff,” Calipari said. “They had a bad start which put them in a hole they couldn’t overcome.”Calipari went to talk about Auburn’s win over Florida State on Jan. 3.”I just watched them play Florida State and I think Tony (Barbee) is shorthanded right now but has done a great job,” Calipari said. “Florida State is going to win a lot of games in their league and they were up as many as 10 and held off a good Florida State team a week ago. I think he has them playing well.”- Calipari was later asked about whether the NCAA’s final ruling against Enes Kanter the day before Kentucky’s game against Georgia affected his team’s performance negatively.”Well,  maybe it inspired them because I thought it was as much about Georgia because they wanted it worse than we did,” Calipari said. “I don’t think it had anything to do with anything other than they played better, they were better coached and they deserved to win the game.”In answering that question, Calipari mentioned a new phrase he is emphasizing to his team in the wake of the loss.”I’ve got some guys that have to learn what it means to be committed and we talked about it as a team last night,” Calipari said. “There’s a difference between being content.  I’ve got a couple guys that are content because they’re getting minutes, they’re scoring, so they’re content, but they’re not committed.”- Calipari talked more about the loss, citing shot selection and defensive breakdowns as major factors.”The tape we watched last night was our shot selection,” Calipari said. “When they got physical, we couldn’t play through bumps and so we started just throwing balls that had no chance of going in. The second thing we showed them was our defensive breakdowns. When we got the game close, we broke down four our five times and gave them dunks and layups.”- After the loss at Georgia, Calipari talked about the possibility of bringing Terrence Jones off the bench. During his comments this morning, he didn’t mention Jones specifically, but he did talk about shaking up his starting lineup.”We may have some guys that need to come off the bench that don’t need start,” Calipari said. “Maybe they need to come off the bench and get it right.”- Calipari was then asked about the role that Kanter would play as a student assistant and exactly how that role would be defined.”He’s allowed to practice with us and be on the court and travel with us,” Calipari said. “As far as everything has gone, that’s what he’s allowed to do right now.” Finally, Calipari was asked about how that role would help the team. Although I’m sure Kanter’s presence will indeed continue to benefit the team, Calipari was resolute in saying that his ultimate priority is Kanter’s future.”I’m more worried about it helping him,” Calipari said. “I’m not worried about it helping our team. He’s the youngest player on our team by four months and this has been a shock to him and his family. I told him, ‘You’re part of our family, you’re part of my family and I’m going to be there for you.'”Auburn coach Tony Barbee-Barbee is in his first year at Auburn and will be coaching against John Calipari, his mentor, for the first time in the SEC. He spoke about the relationship of the two and what it will be to coach against him and to take his team into Rupp Arena on Tuesday.”We’re looking forward to the game tomorrow night against Kentucky,” Barbee said.  “Going against my former coach and my mentor John Calipari and having gone against him three times in Conference USA is always fun. It’s an intense matchup because I know how competitive he is and he knows how competitive I am.”Barbee made it clear that the fact that he and Calipari are competitive does not affect their relationship.”We talk all the time,” Barbee said. “Even though we’re competitors and back in the same conference competing against each other, it doesn’t affect our friendship and our relationship.  I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it: There hasn’t been another male figure in my life outside of my dad that’s had the kind of impact that he’s had on me personally and professionally.””It’s always fun trying to match wits against one of the best coaches in the game in Coach Cal.” – Barbee also talked about what it will be like to bring his team into Rupp Arena.”It’s going to be a difficult game obviously taking a young team, an inexperienced team like I have on the road to an atmosphere like Rupp Arena for the first time,” Barbee said. “We’re going to come in and play hard and guard our tails off and hopefully make some shots.”On Saturday against LSU in the first half, making shots was quite a challenge. Auburn managed to score only six first-half points, but rebounded in the second half.”I think we set the game back about 50 years with our offensive performance (in the first half),” Barbee joked. “I’ve never seen anything like that. But it is what it is, we’re on offensively challenged team. I was proud of the effort of our kids to battle back. You burn up so much energy trying to come back, we just didn’t have enough to get over the hump.”- Barbee also spoke about the winter storm in the Southeast and how it affected his team’s travel plans. Barbee said Auburn arrived in Lexington Sunday night, a day earlier than they had planned, in order to avoid the storm that is impacting so many people.LSU coach Trent Johnson– LSU plays against Arkansas at home before traveling to Lexington for Saturday’s game against the Wildcats, but Johnson spoke briefly about playing Kentucky in Rupp.”I haven’t seen Kentucky play that much other than maybe a half on TV,” Johnson said. “I’m trying to concentrate on our next opponent. My thoughts on Rupp Arena are just like my thoughts on any other facility or venue that you go to that’s one of the premier in college basketball. It’s exciting and I’m looking forward to the opportunity.”- LSU is among the youngest  in college basketball and Johnson was asked how his team has coped with that inexperience in light of a 9-7 start to the season.”Somebody brought to my attention that out of 345 Division I teams, we’re ranked 346th in terms of our youth and inexperience,” Johnson kidded. “This has been a group that’s stayed together and is working extremely hard. It hurts us right now, obviously, going into league play. For the most part, they’re done a very good job and team chemistry is very, very good.  We just haven’t made enough plays to win our share of games.”Georgia coach Mark Fox– Kentucky doesn’t play Georgia again until Jan. 29, but Fox was asked about his impressions of Kentucky point guard Brandon Knight. He was so effusive in his praise of the freshman that I thought his comments were worth reporting.”Brandon Knight is terrific, absolultely terrific,” Fox gushed. “I think he’s a better player in the half court than John Wall was.  I think he’s just a dynamite player. He is really good, I mean he is really good. There’s nothing he can’t do.”It’s one thing to compare Knight to Wall, but it’s another thing entirely to say he’s better than Wall, so Fox was asked to expand upon the comment that Knight is better in the half court.”He shoots the ball better,” Fox said. “He goes tight on the dribble. He’s got a super mind for the game, makes passes and makes players better. He’s a complete player in the half court. He is terrific.”