The Arkansas males’s basketball program doubled its variety of Caliparis on the teaching employees Thursday with the hiring of John Calipari’s son, Brad Calipari, the college introduced. Brad will function an assistant coach within the position of director of on-court participant improvement beneath his father.
Brad beforehand performed beneath his father as a walk-on at Kentucky earlier than ending out his last years of eligibility at Detroit Mercy. He dove into teaching following the top of his faculty profession, first at Kentucky as a graduate assistant with John earlier than stints at Lengthy Island and Vanderbilt working in participant improvement. The youthful Calipari had the identical position at Vanderbilt however strikes to Arkansas with a recent title as an assistant coach.
John left Kentucky in a seismic transfer earlier this offseason to hitch SEC foe Arkansas following a number of disappointing early NCAA Match exits in Lexington. The transfer got here with him successfully importing the UK operation to Fayetteville as he introduced with him Chin Coleman and Chuck Martin together with an enormous chunk of UK’s signing class.
As a participant at Kentucky, Brad was part of two Elite Eight groups and a Candy 16 staff taking part in alongside the likes of De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tyler Herro and PJ Washington. He graduated from Kentucky in 2019 with a bachelor’s diploma in communications and media research earlier than transferring to earn a grasp’s diploma in liberal arts in 2021 from Detroit Mercy.