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John Calipari met with the media today at the SEC meetings and dropped a line that was the next logical progression in the “What will Cal do next?” series. Calipari threw out the idea of wanting to play a triple header in a football stadium with a men’s and women’s basketball game, followed by a football game. The basketball double header would take place on Friday night with the football game to follow on Saturday. Calipari wants the same opponent for all 3 games, all in 1 stadium. The idea sounds a bit farfetched in theory, but does anyone doubt that Calipari will try to make this happen in the near future?
The biggest question mark would likely be which team would fit the criteria for all 3 programs: men’s basketball, women’s basketball and football. Baylor was a perfect fit for both basketball programs. Football proves a bit trickier though. With the race to get to 6 wins to become bowl eligible, when Kentucky already plays in arguably the toughest conference in college football, the non-conference opponents (you would have to assume the opponent would not be from the SEC) outside of Louisville are usually teams that Kentucky is expected to beat.
The chance to play in an event of this magnitude, the first ever triple header featuring basketball and football, might change the non-conference strategy for football. Would Kentucky be willing to play a tougher opponent in football to take part in such an event?
Is such an event even really possible? Calipari is constantly pushing the envelope, throwing out new ideas and creating new experiences for players and fans. This would certainly be the most innovative of any of his ideas yet.
Which teams might fit the criteria for a triple header with men’s basketball, women’s basketball and football? In which major stadium would this event take place? Will it actually happen? Or perhaps a better question, when will this actually happen?
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May 29th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Any Big East team would work and most ACC teams. None are that good at football.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Duke is first one to come to mind. Beatable football program for UK. High profile in both mens and womens basketball. Maybe UConn too.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Notre Dame @ Lucas Oil
May 29th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Indiana??? Oh wait they wont play in football stadiums.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Duke.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Notre Dame or Ohio State at Lucas Oil. Not sure either of those football programs would waste time with ours though, at least not in the current state. ND could be looking for teams to put on its football schedule soon though–are all those Big 10 teams going to want to continue to play them when they add another conference game?
May 29th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
4) that would have been funny if Cal put a little dig in there stating he was hoping to do this with IU but …..
May 29th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I agree with #3. Notre Dame would be a good game for all 3 sports. Plus, could you imagine the publicity our football team would get if they beat Notre Dame or at least gave them a competitive game?! Duke would also be a good opponent (cristoforouk) but who wants to watch a Duke vs. UK football game outside of Lexington and Durham?
May 29th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
#3 has nailed it! Notre Dame would be perfect! They honestly aren’t as good as the majority of teams we play in the SEC and could be a winnable game in a given year. It would be great for basketball and football and would put UK football on national TV. A Kentucky-Duke football game wouldn’t grab much attention and would be an embarassing game to lose, while Notre Dame would not. Plus, there isn’t a domed stadium that fits in geographically with Duke/UK as well as in Indy for ND/UK. You could also play Texas in Dallas, but that would probably just be an embarassment in football…although they have had some down years recently and missed a bowl 2 years ago.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Anyone who thinks we could beat a Brian Kelly coached Notre Dame squad is delusional.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Texas They would kill us in football, but both basketball teams would make for a great game; plus maybe we could finally get our foot in the door for football recruiting in Texas.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
duke we wouldnt lose to duke in fb but notre dame would be a good game they not the same notre dame as they use to or if we play texas a&m in a confrence game
May 29th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Kansas in the Edward Jones Dome in STL
May 29th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
I think Cal id going to line up UNC in the Georgia dome that be pretty cool.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
why couldnt they do it with uofl
May 29th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
UCONN in NYC.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Oklahoma and Texas. Decent Women’s schools. High profile football and Men’s basketball are close enough in talent and rivalry will make a good game to watch. The Duke suggestion, though, is a good one for us, especially with the Duke women’s game last year.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
13) You beat me to it! Kansas (2-10 in 2011, 3-9 in 2010) in STL is a great fit and they are over their brief period of major success on the gridiron. Great early November match-up…. Duke, UNC, Maryland could all be interesting in the Georgia Dome.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Kansas… are they going to get alot better with Charlie Weis?
May 29th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Why would anyone want Kansas for this? No one would want to see UK vs KU in football. NO ONE!
Go with Notre Dame, Baylor or Purdue.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
UCLA, West Virginia, Okla St, Florida St, Georgia Tech (in Catlanta), Miami, UNC, Illinios, and my favorite is Syracuse!
May 29th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I’m thinking Purdue in Lucas Oil may be a good alternative to Notre Dame. We can beat Purdue in football….maybe, but not Notre Dame.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Good luck finding a football team that is a guaranteed win for UK that is considered a marquee match-up.
Notre Dame would be fun to play but they would win by about 3 TD’s.
The best way to approach it would be to play a team from an area where you might want to recruit
I’d say play Ohio State or Michigan or Notre Dame just for the exposure even though the result would not be pretty.
Kirby Smart could use it to his advantage though when he arrives for 2013……………
May 29th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
UCLA in the Rose Bowl
May 29th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Seriously, Cal is just more creative than any other D1 coach right now. Notre Dame would be perfect. Do it in Indiana as well, just to piss off IU even more.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
15 we already play them in all 3 and where would they play?
May 29th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
How about UTAH ST.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
26 it doesn’t say they have to play in a pro stadium so why not at UofL or UKs own football field, depending on whose turn it is to be home team that year? Or we could do it two years in a row and play at both teams’ fields. And UofL would make sense bc you wouldn’t have to come up with a new opponent.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Go even bigger – include a mens and womens soccer game. North Carolina seems like a good pick. Would be a great bball game, football game would be competitive, they have a very strong soccer program, but I know nothing about their womens bball.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
26 indy but i doubt in happens my bet is duke
May 29th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
How bout Cincinnati @ Lucas Oil
May 29th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
#13/14…..both great suggestions. Does it have to be out-of-conference? How about Missouri in Saint Louis??
May 29th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Scheduling bad teams in football to become bowl eligible is stupid. Wins over non-Division 1 schools shouldn’t count towards that. If you are bad enough to have to schedule sure wins to become eligible, you shouldn’t be playing in a bowl in the first place.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
The correct answer is Purdue in Indy. Not a huge game on the men’s basketball side, but it’s a recognizable name against a decent team. If you’re going to do this you have to make sure all teams have a chance. Purdue usually has a decent women’s team so that’s a good match up there as well. Our football team *could* and I emphasize could make a game out of it. Sure we’d probably lose, but it would be no where near the massacre that ND or some of these other schools people are throwing out would be.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
I know Missouri & Kansas used to play in the KC Chiefs stadium. I don’t know if that was considered a home game for either school. But the ticket sales for neutral site games are normally split 50/50. Don’t know if that would be profitable enough to give up a home conference game.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Ga Tech in ATL. Respectable in both fb and bb. BBN will travel to ATL and since it is local to Ga Tech they should show up too.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Yeah, let’s schedule our teams based on how bad they are so we can get to a crappy bowl. I would love for us to play in the Massengill bowl. Seriously, we don’t even sell out all of our tickets to these bottom of the barrel bowls.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Joker would never go for this even if he happens to be the coach at the time this could happen. Joker is not very creative and relies on old school principles in scheduling, recruiting, and playing football. No creativity in the football program so this will never work. Would be fun if it happened though but as long as we’ve got a dud of football coach it will never happen. I’m I being too harsh?
May 29th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
I do not like dumbing down the schedule so we can deserve to play in a bowl. If we can’t beat a better than average football team, we simply do not deserve to go to a bowl.
We have the worst FB program in the SEC, which means we can compete with mediocre teams from outside the conference. I don’t believe that justifies a bowl appearance.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
So Calipari is trying to help football recruiting too?
May 29th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
How bout LSU in New Orleans?
May 29th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
How ’bout Texas A&M in Houston in November?
May 29th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
39 so we should do the same in bball right? in bball we have a weaker schedule the fball dont hear nothing bout that when our fball schedule tougher then our basketball schedule
May 29th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
You all are crazy if you think adding Notre Dame to an SEC schedule is a good idea for UK football. The marquee match ups would be mens and womens basketball. You have to find a school with high profile basketball programs first. Then find a football program that UK has a shot at beating for bowl eligibility purposes. Definitely not Notre Dame.
UK would be stupid to add a team to its non-conference football schedule that it has no chance at beating. We get enough of those in the SEC. The bowl game would be more important than that one regular season game.
May 29th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Kansas at Lucas Oil. No brainer. Good series for all teams involved.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Why has no one mentioned UT? There are good rivalries in all 3 sports!