John Calipari is pushing to remove the July evaluation period

And guess how he's doing it.

Via twitter. Surprised?:

I enjoy watching ball, but I don't believe we should recruit in the summer. My time would be better spent on campus with our guys.

He's 100% correct. His time would be much better served working with his players. Because he is John Calipari. And he coaches the University of Kentucky. Why does he need (or want) to spend two-thirds of July on the road sitting in hot gyms watching basketball for 10 hours a day when all he needs to do is pick up the phone to call just about any recruit in the country and automatically shoot into that player's top five schools?

Because that's how it works when you're the "hottest" coach in the country coaching at the school with arguably the best basketball tradition this side of Pauley Pavilion.

But what about the other guys? The coaches that can't fall back on their name, their tradition, or their private jet when it comes to recruiting?

Gary Parrish takes a look at those guys and how they use the July recruiting period in his latest column.

And he hits it right on the head.

When you are a high-profile coach at a high-major school, you don't go out with the intention of identifying players. I can guarantee that the Roy Williams and Bill Selfs and Ben Howlands of the world already know the guys they want from the class of 2014, also known as rising 8th graders. They pick and choose who they want from top 100 lists, and travel to games simply to be seen in the stands.

At the mid-major level it is different.

These coaches aren't going to land top 100 players on the regular.

They need to get out on the road and find the guys that the big boys don't know about yet. The kids with high-major talents and low-major reputations. They need to find the Stephen Curry's (too small) and Eric Maynor's (not athletic enough) and Lester Hudson's (character and academic problems) of the world.

For a mid-major coach, the July recruiting period is when you earn your money. If you land a Courtney Lee or a George Hill, not only does it bring your program success (and hopefully a raise or promotion to a bigger school) but it lends credibility to your team - you can produce pro's.

And how does a mid-major coach land kids like that?

By spending two-thirds of July in hot gyms, watching as many kids as possible play. Get rid of July's evaluation period, and you get rid of the mid-major's chance to compete.