Cal, Crean trade friendly barbs via Twitter

Good buddies John Calipari and Tom Crean have been trading friendly — and entertaining — barbs on their Twitters.

Crean, the Indiana coach, kidded Calipari about the tree cut down in the Kentucky coach’s front yard and UK thinking about staging a Midnight Madness outdoors.

Calipari returned the friendly fire.

Here’s a sampling of the Tweets, first from Crean, then from Calipari:

CREAN:

– I am concerned about the tree going down because his son doesn’t have a place to build his 7-room tree house.

– (The wood from the pin oak) should be enough to keep 50,000 people warm (at Madness).
– They could build a big bonfire with all the wood from the giant oak tree they just cut down in front of his new house.
– They will go from the dribble drive offense to the slip and slide lawsuit.
– I hope Nike makes velour snow suits for there players.
– Maybe they could have a ice skating competition rather than a dunk contest.
– Our recruits will be nice and warm and in a packed house. His will have to have a umbrella and hot chocolate available.

CALIPARI:

– 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.
– As we start bumping up against 100k followers (on the UK coach’s Twitter), let;s welcome Tom’s 5k followers to join us.
– I will make this one statement. I am crazy, I’ll always be crazy and I’ll always think crazy!

Turning more serious, Crean agreed with Calipari’s comment last week about reducing the college basketball activity in the summer.

To read these Twitters in full, go to Twitter.com/tomcrean and Twitter.com/ukcoachcalipari