Brad Calipari reportedly expected to join John Calipari's staff at Arkansas

If it wasn’t going to be at Kentucky next season, it was going to be somewhere else. And that somewhere else is in Fayetteville.

According to Trey Biddy of 247Sports, John Calipari expects to bring his son, Brad, along with him to Arkansas as a member of his 2024-25 coaching staff. Brad, 27, was most recently the Director of On-Court Player Development at Vanderbilt under former head coach Jerry Stackhouse.

The younger Calipari played as a walk-on at UK (2016-19) under his father and then worked briefly as a graduate assistant with the Wildcats. He averaged 0.4 points in 2.7 minutes per outing across 27 appearances for Kentucky.

On Sunday night, news broke that Calipari plans to leave Kentucky after 15 years as head coach for the Razorbacks.

Expecting John Calipari's son Brad Calipari to join the staff at Arkansas when this all gets finalized. Was director of on-court player development at Vandy. #wps

— Trey Biddy (@TreyBiddy) April 8, 2024

After graduating from UK in 2019, Brad Calipari transferred to Detroit Mercy where he played out his final two seasons (2019-21) of college basketball. His first coaching gig was as the Director of Player Development for Long Island University in Brooklyn under head coach Rod Strickland. Stackhouse then hired him at Vandy last offseason.

Rumors of Brad possibly joining Calipari’s staff at Kentucky this offseason had been whispered since the offseason began a couple of weeks ago. It was reported last week that Calipari did not plan to make any significant changes to his coaching staff, but that was more associated with the current staff in place — not so much about possibly adding Brad into the mix.

But barring a major collapse in negotiations, there will be a pair of Calipari men working the sidelines at Arkansas next season. That first trip back to Rupp Arena should be something…