LEXINGTON, Ky. — So much for the feud between John Calipari and Mark Stoops blowing over quickly.
Two days after Stoops took to Twitter to fire back at Calipari’s assertion that Kentucky is a basketball school and the athletics department should spend accordingly, Stoops made it clear he has no regrets about standing up for his program and UK Director of Athletics Mitch Barnhart delivered a fiery 40-minute news conference in which he called on both coaches to act like adults moving forward.
“I don’t care what anybody says about their program,” Stoops said in his regularly scheduled post-scrimmage news conference Saturday. “That’s not my business, that’s not my lane, but when you start talking about the program and others we compete against, to me, I don’t do that. I stay in my lane.