Caitlin Clark’s boyfriend mocked after FOX broadcast doesn’t show his coaching job, just his relationship

Caitlin Clark’s boyfriend Connor McCaffery has begun his tenure as an assistant coach at Butler University. During his team’s second game of the season, Clark appeared to support her McCaffery from the stands. But in the eyes of the broadcast team, Clark may have outshone his girlfriend by coming.

During Butler’s loss to Austin Peay on Friday, the Fox College Hoops broadcast showed Clark sitting in the stands. The broadcast name card identified her as “Caitlin Clark 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year.” Then, as the camera turned to McCaffery on the sidelines, a name card identified him as “Connor McCaffery WNBA ROTY Caitlin Clark’s boyfriend.”

But the show even had McCaffery’s little brother in on the gimmick.

After ignoring McCaffery’s title, his brother Patrick McCaffery, who is a player on Butler’s team, was shown with a name card that read: “Patrick McCaffery WNBA ROTY Caitlin Clark’s Boyfriend’s Brother.”

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That did the send off for the player on a night where he had 23 points and eight rebounds. Patrick is in his sixth college season and his first at Butler after transferring from Iowa, where both Clark and Connor also played. Connor’s other younger brother, Jack McCaffery, is also on the team as a freshman.

The broadcast’s ignoring of the McCafferys and their positions in favor of associating them with Clark drew mixed reactions on social media.

“Bad job,” one user wrote of the broadcast’s hijinx.

Another user wrote: “Nah, they did Patrick dirty.”

Head coach Fran McCaffery hugs his son Connor McCaffery of the Iowa Hawkeyes as he comes off the floor in the second half against the Auburn Tigers in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Legacy Arena at the BJCC on March 16, 2023, in Birmingham, Alabama. (Alex Slitz/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, a more frustrated user complained: “Honestly, it’s really embarrassing to keep trying to use your name for attention.”

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Iowa women’s basketball Caitlin Clark shows off her rings during a second quarter timeout during Iowa’s football game against Northwestern on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. (IMAGIN)

Connor played in 166 games at Iowa, which ranks second in Iowa history. He dealt with injuries throughout the majority of his college career, but a redshirt year and COVID-19 campaign cost him six seasons. He reached the NCAA Tournament in each of his full seasons, except for his COVID season. He averaged 4.5 points and 3.0 rebounds and played in 111 wins, tying Jordan Bohannon for the most in program history. His career assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.59 (527 assists to 147 turnovers) is the second best in NCAA history.

Iowa is also where McCaffery met Clark when she starred for the women’s team from 2020 to 24. The couple began dating in April 2023 after Clark led Iowa to a run to the NCAA title game. But McCaffery was a senior at the time, and he began his coaching career right after graduation.

In May of the same year, he began his career as an assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers. McCaffrey ended up with a job at Indiana before Clark even knew she was going to play for the Indiana Fever. As fate would have it, the Fever finished with a bad enough record last season to earn the top pick in the WNBA Draft lottery this year, which also sent Clark to Indiana.

Now, even with McCaffery’s new job, the Butler campus would be just seven miles from the Fever’s arena, Gainbridge Field House. So their fates remain together in Indianapolis for now.

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Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark and boyfriend Connor McCaffery attend a game between the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers at Yankee Stadium on August 10, 2024 in New York City. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

The couple celebrated their first anniversary on April 24, 2024, as seen in an Instagram post by Connor that day.

“A year (of) the best life (with) (you) has been easy and you never cease to amaze me..can’t wait to see (you) live out your dreams in person, love you,” he wrote in the caption.

On August 10, during the WNBA Olympic break, the couple took a trip to New York City to watch a Yankees game. However, only Clark was seen on a tour of the Yankees clubhouse, and only Clark took pictures with star players Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo and Juan Soto.

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