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Arkansas coach John Calipari shocked the basketball world in April 2024 by leaving Kentucky for the Razorbacks. And as he tells it, divine intervention may have been in play when he opted to head South.

Coach Cal admitted as much to Dan Dakich, host of OutKick’s Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich on Thursday.

“We had Father Joe with us, a priest, in Vegas (where Cal was attending a friend’s bachelor party),” Cal told Dakich. “HE said, ‘Go for a walk. An hour. You’re the coach of Kentucky. Walk back. That next hour, you’re the coach of Arkansas.'”

Simple enough, right?

As Cal tells it, the walk back provided more excitement than the walk there as a Wildcat.

“About 15 minutes after coming back, I started whistling and skipping,” said Calipari. “Like,

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