Kentucky football: Mark Stoops continues to fire shots at John Calipari

Kentucky football head coach Mark Stoops’ emerging feud with Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari is the epitome of a big cat fight.

Mark Stoops vs. John Calipari is the university blood feud that we never knew we needed.

It is not bloods vs. crips, Sharks vs. Jets or even Deltas vs. Omegas. However, we have the Kentucky football coach and the Kentucky basketball coach fighting like Cats who will lose to Dawgs. Okay, maybe not Cal, but definitely Stoops this fall. This all started with Cal poking the angry bear that lives inside of the littlest Stoops brother. He has that Youngstown blood in him.

Stoops told the Kentucky media on Saturday he is going to stay in his lane over this blood feud.

Stoops: “I don’t care about anyone’s program, I stay in my lane. But when you start talking about mine, and people I compete against, I’m going to defend my players… Don’t demean and distract from what we’ve done to get to this point.”
— Jeff Drummond (@JDrumUK) August 13, 2022

He then went on to say, “this program wasn’t born on third base.” Shots fired in Lexington…

“This program wasn’t born on third base,” Stoops said. Noted how many people have worked tirelessly to get it to this point.
— Jeff Drummond (@JDrumUK) August 13, 2022

Calipari may have regretted firing up Stoops in this manner, as he may have publicly apologized.

I was told about comments Mark Stoops made in his press conference. I reached out to Mark Thursday & will try again. Comparing our athletic dept. to others was my bad. I have supported Mark & the football team through good and bad. I will continue to support them & cheer them on.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) August 13, 2022

This is what happens when the football team creeps up on the turf of a sacred basketball program.

Mark Stoops and John Calipari need to settle this is a Kroger parking lot, alright

This may be major college athletics, but why does this feel like high school all over again? Because nobody wants to tell their parents that they got expelled in junior year for fighting in school, that is what a Kroger parking lot is for. One absolute beater of an automobile circles another shortly after dusk, but before the grocery store closes for the evening on what should be a typical Friday night.

As one of their classmates gathers the last few remaining shopping carts from the nearby outside receptacle, punches are thrown, blood is splattering and chiclets are flying everywhere before one of the two combatants his the tarmac harder than Lane Kiffin getting fired by Pat Haden at USC. This could have been settled in a bluegrass field too, but the parking lot lighting was far superior.

Ultimately, this has to be beyond embarrassing for athletic director Mitch Barnhart. He is starting to feel like Dean Vernon Wormer putting the Deltas on double-secret probation before finally kicking them off campus for throwing a toga party. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, but when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, you had no choice but to protect your house.

Barnhant should not let a furious Stoops make his way to Iowa City or Tallahassee this December.

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