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New Chess Piece Emerges as Calipari Reportedly Lags Behind on Class of 2026 Starlets

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When you’ve coached as long and with as much success as John Calipari, haters come with the territory. They’ve followed him from UMass all the way to Kentucky, and now to Arkansas.

Perhaps his most famous critic is Jeff Goodman, whose feud with Calipari dates back more than a decade to Cal’s days at Memphis, when Goodman claimed the coach tried to have him fired. Lately, Goodman infamously declared that “the game has passed John Calipari by” during an episode of the Field of 68 podcast in January after Arkansas basketball started 0-5 in SEC play.