ESPN.com · Mar 27, 2025
The rare coaching carousel dominoes to work for every team involved
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Almost exactly one year ago to the day, Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart and then-head coach John Calipari sat down for a joint interview on a local television station after the team's second first-round exit from the NCAA tournament in three years.
Barnhart had already announced Calipari would return for another season but reports of a frigid bond between them remained.
"He's been married 40-plus years. I've been married for 40-plus years," Barnhart said during the March 29, 2024 interview. "We know how to manage relationships. And I think we've been together for 15 years, so we're sort of, like, semi-married."
But nine days later, the two sides had divorced.
