It doesn’t sound like John Calipari is getting his new basketball dorms anytime soon. The Kentucky men’s basketball head coach has publicly called for a new ‘Taj Mahal’ to house his team, but it was not included in this year’s athletic budget.
The Courier Journal’s Jon Hale had a wide-ranging conversation with Mitch Barnhart following last week’s Board of Trustees meeting. That included asking UK’s director of athletics if new dorms are on the horizon for the men’s basketball program.
“I told him, I said we’ll always look,” Barnhart said. “But I think we’ve got a really good landscape, we’ve got a lot of really good things in Kentucky basketball.