Via ZillowCALACE INTRIGUE: Coach Calipari purchases $2.2 million home.
New Arkansas Razorbacks basketball coach John Calipari has found his novel digs, the Fayetteville Flyer reports:
The Razorbacks’ novel head Hog this month purchased a house in the Clear Creek neighborhood for $2.2 million, according to property records. The gated community at Blessings Golf Club is located about 5.5 miles north of the University of Arkansas campus.
The 7,350-square-foot home has five bedrooms and includes views of the 10th and 11th golf club fairways. It was built in 2006 and later remodeled by Goddard Design Group.
Nice life if you can stay on the boosters’ good side. Calipari inked a five-year contract — at $7.5 million-per-year plus bonuses — with the Razorbacks in April. Prior to taking the offer with the Hogs, the off-brand-Pitino recruiting whiz racked up more than 400 wins, four Final Four appearances and a national title during his 15-year stint as the basketball coach for the University of Kentucky Wildcats.
The Flyer has the scoop on some keeping-up-with-the-Joneses real estate gossip that is beyond our purview:
Calipari is the second Arkansas coach of the three major men’s teams to facilitate break the trend of purchasing a home in the upscale neighborhood at Bridgewater Estates where current coaches Dave Van Horn and Sam Pittman live, and where former coaches Chad Morris, Bret Bielema, Bobby Petrino, Mike Anderson and John Pelphrey all resided.
Former basketball coach Eric Musselman was the first in many years to break the mold when he purchased a home in Clear Creek. The University of Southern California hired Musselman as the Trojans’ novel head coach in April. Musselman’s former home, which is currently on the market for $3.25 million, is just around the corner from Calipari’s novel house.
Calipari purchased his novel home from T&B White Family Trust. His venerable place in Lexington went on sale for $3.99 million in May.
