John Calipari's Son, Brad, Joining Jerry Stackhouse's Staff at Vanderbilt

The former Wildcat is back in the SEC, but not in Lexington.

Brad Calipari is headed back to the SEC, but he won't be reuniting with his father at Kentucky. 

On Monday, The Athletic's Kyle Tucker reported that the former Wildcat is joining Jerry Stackhouse's staff at Vanderbilt in a "player development" role:

Hearing Brad Calipari is headed back to the SEC — but as a rival to his dad. Jerry Stackhouse expected to hire Brad in a player development role at Vanderbilt.

— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) July 3, 2023

Calipari was previously the director of player development at LIU Brooklyn, but will now head to Nashville to re-join the conference he once played in. In two seasons at UK from 2016-18, Calipari played in 27 games, averaging just 2.6 minutes a game. 

He then transferred to Detroit Mercy, where he played 27 games — starting six — in the 2019-20 season, averaging 6.1 points and 1.1 rebounds. He was a 38-percent 3-point shooter. He played in just six games in his final season before becoming a coach, returning to be a grad assistant under his dad, John, for the 2021-22 campaign. 

The move to coach alongside Stackhouse is a big jump in the young coaching career of Calipari, who has major footsteps to follow in his hall-of-fame father, who spoke to local reporters in Lexington last week for the first time since the Cats lost in the NCAA Tournament in March. 

That press conference can be found here.

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