Calipari vs. Crean: Nothing Like a Friendly Rivalry

When John Calipari accepted the position of head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, he immediately entered into a traditional rivalry with the Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana head coach Tom Crean happens to be a good friend of Calipari's, which spices up the rivalry even more. Although it is now a "friendly" rivalry, the two have already began taking a few shots at each other via everyone's newest communication tool - Twitter.

Originally, Crean decided to do a battle with Calipari in seeing who could amass the most followers on the social networking tool. After the first month, the results show Calipari with nearly 54,000 followers. Crean, on the other hand, is sitting at a little over 5,200 followers. Now, the two have started a friendly Tweet battle.

Yesterday, Crean posted several comments, including:

"Our recruits will be nice and warm and in a packed house. His will have to have a umbrella and hot chocolate available"

"Maybe they could have a ice skating competition rather than a dunk contest."

"I hope Nike makes velour snow suits for there players."

"They will go from the dribble drive offense to the slip and slide lawsuit."

"That should be enough to keep 50000 people warm."

"I am concerned about the tree going down because his son doesnt have a place to build his 7 room tree house."

Calipari has returned the favor with:

"My good friend at Indiana, the honorable Tom Crean, had some interesting tweets yesterday. Basically questioned my sanity."

"I will make this one statement. I am crazy, I'll always be crazy and I'll always think crazy!"

"As we start bumping up against 100k followers, lets welcome Tom's 5k followers to join us."

"By the way, it doesn't snow in Lexington in October. It will be 75 and balmy in Lexington and of course snowing in Bloomington for Madness."

Ah, nothing like a couple of good friends embarking in a bitter, border rivalry. This is going to be a fun basketball season in the Bluegrass state!

You can follow Coach Calipari here: http://twitter.com/UKCoachCalipari

Follow Coach Crean here (he needs all the help he can get): http://twitter.com/TomCrean