Vandy hiring Calipari’s son to Stackhouse’s staff

Subsequent season’s SEC schedule will characteristic a Calipari vs. Calipari sideline battle.

Vanderbilt introduced Monday it was hiring Brad Calipari as the lads’s basketball program’s director of on-court participant growth. Calipari, in fact, is the son of John Calipari, head males’s basketball coach at Kentucky.

“Brad is a gifted, younger coach who has labored exhausting to arrange himself for this chance,” Commodores coach Jerry Stackhouse stated. “He’s educated, excessive power, and a robust communicator. We’re very enthusiastic about his skill so as to add worth with our student-athletes and inside our teaching workers.”

Calipari spent final season because the director of participant growth at Lengthy Island College underneath head coach Rod Strickland, his first teaching cease after being a graduate assistant at Kentucky through the 2021-22 marketing campaign.

Calipari performed two seasons underneath his father in Lexington, showing in 27 video games as a freshman and sophomore. He then transferred to Detroit, the place he performed 33 video games — beginning six — for Mike Davis within the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The 6-foot guard averaged a career-high 6.1 factors and shot 38% from 3-point vary as a junior.

Vanderbilt and Kentucky will play twice subsequent season. Dates will likely be introduced later this summer season.