Kentucky football player reacts to John Calipari's 'basketball school' comment

John Calipari is relaxing in the Bahamas right now, preparing for what he hopes to be another 50-point beatdown during the Big Blue Bahamas four-game tour. Ahead of Thursday’s game, Calipari discussed how Kentucky is historically a basketball school – and believes his program deserves the best, no matter how much other programs, like football, succeed.

These comments seem to have been taken personally to the Kentucky football team. The backlash started with head coach Mark Stoops responding on Twitter about Calipari’s comments, and his players have since followed. None, however, are as blatant and savage as defensive back Vito Tisdale‘s.

“[John Calipari], check dis out, Y’all crapp .. we run the bluegrass yall boys went out first round to saint Peters Lmaoo,” Tisdale wrote in the since deleted tweet. He also tagged two of his teammates, Octavious Oxendine and JJ Weaver.

The Kentucky football team record its second 10-win season in four years under Stoops in 2021, including a Citrus Bowl victory, while Calipari’s Wildcats had all the momentum heading into the 2022 NCAA Tournament before getting bounced from the tournament in the first round by 15-seeded Saint Peter’s.

Without a Final Four run since the 2015 team that nearly went undefeated, Kentucky football is the talk of the town in Lexington these days – and maybe Calipari isn’t willing to hand over the keys to the kingdom to Stoops and his Wildcat team that is expected to have yet another breakout season on the gridiron.

Kentucky assistant Vince Marrow takes issue with SEC Network QB rankings

SEC Network analyst Jordan Rodgers dropped his top five SEC quarterback rankings on Thursday, but Kentucky quarterback Will Levis missed the cut. That led to a response from a Wildcats assistant.

Kentucky associate head coach Vince Marrow retweeted the rankings and disagreed with Levis’ omission. He kept his thoughts short and sweet, using three letters to sum up his feelings.

“LOL,” he tweeted.

Rodgers’ listed was led by Alabama quarterback Bryce Young at No. 1, which isn’t much of a surprise considering he’s coming off a Heisman Trophy season in 2021. South Carolina transfer Spencer Rattler came in right behind him at No. 2, followed by Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker at No. 3, Arkansas’ KJ Jefferson at No. 4 and Mississippi State quarterback Will Rogers at No. 5.

Last year, Levis put together the best numbers of his three-year career, completing 66% of his passes for 2,826 yards and 24 touchdowns. He helped the Wildcats to a 10-3 record and a Citrus Bowl victory over Iowa.