Ellen Calipari, the wife of new Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari, posted her goodbyes to Kentucky fans and Big Blue Nation on Tuesday during an emotional three-minute video post on Instagram. She’s been around for the highs and lows in Lexington and said leaving for Fayetteville was a difficult move. Appropriately nicknamed “Mrs. Cal,” she attached a teary-eyed emoji before delivering her thoughts to more than 64,000 followers on the social media platform.
“If you think this is easy to do, you’d be wrong,” Calipari’s wife said Tuesday in the video. “It’s been a great pleasure to be here, we’ve been here 15 years — which is very hard to believe. We’ll have a lot of very fond memories of being in Lexington. It’s been an honor to be a part of the university and I hope we leave behind a lasting legacy. We will miss a lot of things about Lexington and the University of Kentucky and we just both want to give our thanks.
“You’ve been very good to me and I appreciate that and it couldn’t have been a better place to be for 15 years. It’s been my honor to be ‘Mrs. Cal’ and make brownies for a lot of these guys who have come through here. Thank you for everything you’ve done for myself and my family and my roommate. Thank you.”
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