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The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

312. Ellen Calipari: Mrs Cal

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ellen Calipari has spent nearly four decades living life beside one of the biggest names in college basketball. In this episode, she opens up about her journey from small-town Missouri to the center of the college hoops world — sharing what it's really like to be a coach's wife, raise a family through constant moves, and still find humor and grace along the way. From "roommate" and "princess" nicknames to brownies for players and John's quirky superstitions, Ellen gives a rare, candid look at the woman behind the man who never stops coaching.

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0:00.0

Behind the persona, you're very normal.

0:05.0

And I think people don't see you as being normal.

0:09.0

They have a perception, you know, of you being a different way.

0:14.0

And really, it's just like anybody else for the most part.

0:18.0

Well, you mentioned you call them roommate.

0:20.0

I do.

0:21.1

How did that start?

0:22.0

I got to know.

0:24.4

I think it goes back to where I naively thought nobody would know who I was on social media.

0:33.7

Roommate, and then he calls you princess.

0:35.8

He does in a very condescending way.

0:39.9

See, I think it's so cute, but if he's like poking fun a little bit, calls you princess?

0:45.4

Yes, definitely.

0:46.6

That's great. Welcome into the hog pot.

1:00.1

I'm Beaumatically, and this episode is brought to you by our friends at Dollar Shave Club

1:04.6

and South by Northwest Hospitality. For Elgin' For Ellen Calipari, life alongside one of the biggest coaching names in college basketball, has meant learning to live just outside the spotlight and laughing through it all.

1:29.3

It's hard to go places with him. You feel unseen. It used to be where I was the one to take the pictures.

1:38.3

And I said, I'm not your photographer. And there would be a couple of times he would see somebody start to approach

1:45.3

me and he'd be like, don't ask her. She grew up in a tiny Missouri town, population 900, never

1:52.9

imagining she'd end up in packed arenas, or that her husband's players would one day call her

1:58.3

brownies legendary. These kids are children and they're away from home.

2:03.8

Most of them for the first time and they're not going to say, you know, hey, it's my birthday.

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