Is your favorite Southeastern Conference program a football school or a basketball school?
This question is asked after a dustup of sorts at the University of Kentucky that was prompted by an interesting quote from men’s basketball coach John Calipari on Thursday.
The incident began with Coach Cal publicly lobbying for a new basketball practice facility as only he can, rightly pointing out that UK has recently spent millions to upgrade football facilities and those of several nonrevenue sports, with the school supposedly ignoring his pleas for the basketball facility.
But then he took it about three steps too far.
“The reason (we need a new practice facility) is, this is a basketball school,” he said. “It’s always been that. Alabama is a football school. So is Georgia. No disrespect to our football team. I hope they win 10 games and go to bowls. At the end of the day, that makes my job easier and it makes the job of all of us easier. But this is a basketball school.”