John Calipari and Mark Stoops get into a Twitter spat over a practice facility; SEC Commisioner Greg Sankey wants to look into expanding the NCAA Tournament (College Basketball 08/12)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
John Calipari lobbied for a new practice facility and angered the Kentucky football program in the process. Is this spat about a practice facility or something more? Plus SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey wants to expand the NCAA Tournament, is it a good idea or not? Gary Parrish and Adam Finklestein discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, scary parish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on college basketball |
| 0:06.4 | podcast where we sometimes discuss Campbell fighting Dota birds and Leaky Black. Adam |
| 0:11.1 | Fakelsteen's here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, please smash the like button |
| 0:14.6 | like your brand of Davies, you have consent. And what an unusual story we have |
| 0:19.3 | developing at the University of Kentucky, UK basketball coach John Calapari. He |
| 0:24.6 | woke up Thursday in the Bahamas and decided he wanted to publicly campaign for a |
| 0:28.6 | brand new practice facility for his program. He talked with the athletics, Kyle Tucker, |
| 0:33.2 | and after detailing how the school has invested in football, baseball, and lots of other sports, |
| 0:39.1 | John Calapari, he said the following quote, this is a basketball school. It's always been that. |
| 0:45.3 | Alabama's a football school. So as Georgia, I mean, they are no disrespect to our football team. |
| 0:51.6 | I hope they win 10 games and go to bowls. At the end of the day, that makes my job easier, |
| 0:56.1 | and it makes the job of all of us easier. But this is a basketball school. And so we need to keep |
| 1:01.0 | moving in that direction and keep doing what we're doing. In quote, now, like I wrote in a column |
| 1:06.5 | that published Thursday night CBS sports.com, those words didn't really even make me flinch. |
| 1:11.5 | Like I understood the point. Kyle was making. I think he's largely right. But the UK football staff |
| 1:17.4 | took offense less than two hours after the story published. Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops, |
| 1:22.2 | he jumped on Twitter. He typed a basketball school. I thought we competed in the SEC hashtag |
| 1:28.2 | four straight postseason wins worth noting the Kentucky basketball program has zero postseason |
| 1:33.6 | wins since 2019 after that. This is where he got really interesting. Somebody tweeted that UK's |
| 1:39.7 | football program has had more success lately than UK's basketball program. Mark Stoops retweeted |
| 1:45.7 | it. Then somebody tweeted that cows comments were insulting. Mark Stoops retweeted that. I don't |
| 1:51.5 | remember one coach at a school ever clapping back at another coach at the same school in such a |
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