LEXINGTON, Ky. — Saturday seemed like an opportunity to smooth the rocky road that had emerged between Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops and his men’s basketball counterpart, John Calipari.
It seemed like a logical day for mea culpas and a let’s-move-forward chorus, a time for UK athletics hatchets to be buried. Athletic director Mitch Barnhart even made a rare appearance in front of the media, ostensibly to calm the choppy seas in his department after a feud between the two coaches became public days earlier.
But it became clear quickly that the week’s wounds hadn’t yet healed – at least not on Stoops’ part.