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Crain & Company

Ep. 116 - Coach Calipari Disrespects Kentucky Football

Crain & Company

The Daily Wire

Sports

3.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari calls UK a basketball school; Deshaun Watson will take the field tonight for the Browns; and Shane Beamer shines a light on what makes college football great.

Transcript

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Kentucky basketball coach John Calapary disrespects the football program.

0:04.0

To Sean Watson will take the field tonight for the Browns.

0:07.0

And Shane Beamer shines a light on what makes college football awesome.

0:10.6

I'm Jake Crane. It's Flamin' Dragon Friday.

0:12.9

Hopefully you've blamed it and burned the studio down.

0:14.7

Hey, folks, John Calapary found himself in an awkward spot yesterday after saying, and I quote,

0:31.9

about Kentucky, this is a basketball school. It's always been that Alabama's a football school,

0:37.9

and so is Georgia. Now, I hope the team football team wins 10 games, but this is a basketball school,

0:43.2

and we need to keep pushing in that direction. And that got an instant reaction on social media

0:49.2

from Kentucky head football coach Mark Stoops, who said, basketball school, I thought we competed

0:54.6

in the SEC. Now, there's a lot to unpack here. First off, Cal is right. Kentucky is a basketball school.

1:02.0

But why are you up here causing problems for no reason? I also know the sun is the star,

1:07.3

and not to walk into traffic. I don't need you to tell me obvious things, let alone disrespect

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the entire football program. Now, some Kentucky fans will say that he said this because he wants

1:18.0

a new practice facility upgrade ASAP. But if Kentucky was such a basketball school, why is Coach Cal out

1:25.2

here having the beg for it like Oliver Twist? In my eyes, if you're having to convince the people

1:30.6

at Kentucky to give you a new practice facility for basketball, then it must not be going great.

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And if you look at what Cal has actually accomplished at Kentucky recently,

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he isn't exactly bawling out. Nobody has done less with more than John Calipari.

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Kentucky basketball recruits itself and has more tradition than the entire country of Ireland,

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yet Cal only has one championship since he took over the job in 2009. They haven't been to

1:58.0

a final four since 2015 and just got bounced out in the first round by a school in St. Peter's

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