His Louisville days may be over, but Rick Pitino isn’t done battling with rival coach Kevin Stallings of Pittsburgh.

In response to Stallings’ digs at the Louisville scandal that got Pitino fired, the former Cardinals coach sent the following text message to WKRD in Louisville personality John Ramsey: “U can quote me – Stallings is a jackass.”

During Pitt’s 77-51 loss to the Cardinals on Tuesday, Stallings turned to heckling fans in the second half and said, “At least we didn’t pay our guys $100,000,” and, “We didn’t pay our guys 100 grand, though.”

Stallings discussed the exchange after the game.

“Somebody said something bad about my players, and so, I’m just going to stick up for my players,” he said. “I probably said the wrong thing, but I’m not going to let people talk crap about my players.”

And Pitino apparently won’t coaches talk crap about him. Pitino has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since he was fired in October after Louisville was implicated in the federal bribery investigation. He is suing Louisville for breach of contract (and Louisville is suing him right back), and has hinted he would like to coach again someday.