{"id":431185,"date":"2024-10-12T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=431185"},"modified":"2024-10-12T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:32:39","slug":"mark-stoops-appears-to-throw-shade-at-john-calipari-during-big-blue-madness-appearance","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/kentucky-football\/mark-stoops-appears-to-throw-shade-at-john-calipari-during-big-blue-madness-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Stoops appears to throw shade at John Calipari during Big Blue Madness appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Stoops attended his very first Big Blue Madness Friday, Kentucky basketball&#8217;s tipoff event that the Wildcats host in Lexington every year.<\/p>\n<p>Stoops made his appearance on Kentucky&#8217;s new LED court, which was transformed into a football field for the Wildcats&#8217; head coach. While addressing the crowd, Stoops was sure to point out the fact that he was new to this event &#8211; an obvious jab at former Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the scene below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mark Stoops: \u201cSo this is Madness? I\u2019ve been missing this for 12 years.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FMVavSCczI\">pic.twitter.com\/FMVavSCczI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Pilgrim (@JackPilgrimKSR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPilgrimKSR\/status\/1844891203407384881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stoops and Calipari&#8217;s feud at Kentucky is well-known. The football coach took exception to Calipari&#8217;s comments in 2022 when he insisted UK is a &#8220;basketball school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And while it may kind of be true &#8211; Kentucky basketball is a blue blood and a premier program in CBB history &#8211; his comment came in pretty poor taste. That&#8217;s not exactly the thing you say as the head coach in a major athletic program. Especially one where football is finally on the upswing after years of disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been that way,&#8221; Calipari said when campaigning for a new practice facility. &#8220;Alabama is a football school. So is Georgia. I mean, they are. No disrespect to our football program. I hope they win 10 games and go to bowls. But this is a basketball school and we need to keep moving in that direction and keep doing what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stoops fired back with a few comments during a weekday presser, as well as the following response on social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Basketball school? I thought we competed in the SEC? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/4straightpostseasonwins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#4straightpostseasonwins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xUoKmUeonH\">https:\/\/t.co\/xUoKmUeonH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Stoops (@UKCoachStoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKCoachStoops\/status\/1557808704480808961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this isn&#8217;t what you want from 2 of the top programs at the same school<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pope is in charge of things on the basketball court now. The former Wildcat and BYU head coach made the Cougars a constant threat in Provo, complemented by one of the best offenses in the country last season. He is working with a brand new team &#8211; there&#8217;s not a single returning player from last season&#8217;s squad &#8211; but the Wildcats should still be a fringe top 25 team in Year 1.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky&#8217;s season tips off against Wright State on November 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Stoops attended his first Big Blue Madness on Friday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364280,"featured_media":431187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-431185","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","series_tags-hoops","teams-kentucky-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/431185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}