The Kentucky men's basketball program has added James “Bruiser” Flint – a former John Calipari assistant with more than 30 years of coaching experience – to the staff as an assistant coach.
Flint will fill an opening created earlier this month when associate head coach Kenny Payne accepted an offer to join the New York Knicks as an assistant coach.
“Bruiser and I go back to our days at UMass,” UK head coach John Calipari said. “Bru is not only a terrific coach, he's like my brother. You're not going to find anyone that says a bad word about him. He forms great relationships with players because he listens, has a terrific personality and can relate to anyone. Bruiser has an incredible basketball mind and is going to help us in a lot of ways. He was a terrific player, too.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.