Today should be a celebration

Goingfor9

All-Conference
Jan 27, 2003
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Based upon my calendar today is Barney’s last day! His last act was to self report which he was excited to do. The guy spent a quarter century as an anemic low energy AD who destroyed our bb program and accomplished a lot of nothing. He left us 30 million in the hole because of the sweet heart deals he gave his coaches. Stoops took full advantage and will be on the sidelines at Texas next year while we pay his salary.

Then of course he left the stench on our AD of our rapist swim coach he hired. I think that’s partially why we hired the ad from msu who also had to bounce back from a rape scandal with the dr for US women’s gymnastics. I’ve seen zero mention of this as a reason for bringing Batt in and even though he wasn’t the AD immediately after he still had to restore those programs due to the severity. I just hope this dude is a winner or even better I hope he hates losing.

Nevertheless the end is here!!! Finally! And look if you see Barney around town feel free to let him know what he did to our programs and our state. The man on his way out the door tried to con the state for a million dollars a year? You think that was the first time he screwed UK or tried? Nope! He’s been doing it unimpeded with Eli’s backing for the last 12-13 years. As long as that significantly old alumni of university of Alabama born and raised there is running the school we have to be on our toes for corruption Ukraine and Russia would be envious of

But today is worthy of a dinner or something. It’s a day to celebrate a new dawn. At least if batt screws it up he won’t wait around and hold on to this job. What a waste of time the last quarter century as a UK fan. Our best season in fb since the late 70s and we had to vacate the season because Barney loves self reporting. Never though did he report himself or hold himself accountable. And look if you don’t want to call Barney out just tell him goingfor9 who has been on uk message forums longer than he’s been AD says “gTH out of Kentucky unless….. you want to live in Louisville.
 

Battle_Cat

All-Conference
Sep 1, 2002
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Wow what a bunch of clueless clods that know nothing about what an AD job is all about. I did not care for everything he did but to not look at the ENTIRE body of work given where all programs were before and after his tenure, is just not objective and pure biased hate. To each their own. Stay stupid I guess.
 
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gbl97

All-American
Mar 12, 2002
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Stay up past midnight and see what executive orders get signed by the new AD.
 

JPFisher

Heisman
Jul 24, 2013
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Wow what a bunch of clueless clods that know nothing about what an AD job is all about. I did not care for everything he did but to not look at the ENTIRE body of work given where all programs were before and after his tenure, is just not objective and pure biased hate. To each their own. Stay stupid I guess.
Barnhart has one basketball championship in all his years and it was basically because he was gonna get jumped if he didn't hire Cal. Tubby stuck around too long. BCG hire. Two catastrophic contracts with both coaches of both major sports. Cal either slipped up or left gracefully by intentionally nullifying his buyout. Stoops bailed UK out by allowing the institution to pay out his buyout over several years rather than a lump sum.

Swimming scandal.

Didn't give Rich Brooks, the best UK coach of my lifetime, the funding or facilities necessary to build on his amazing 06 and 07 teams. Speaking of Rich Brooks, MB hired Joker Phillips and was strong-armed into firing him. That's all that needs to be said. Love Joker – not a head coach.

The JMI deal is still clear as mud and has direct, flashing red beacons for conflicts of interest and nepotism. We're in that for another, what, 25 years? Hopefully the next AD shines some light on the deal.

Barnhart went to games and I never doubted that he enjoyed his job. He helped ensure that several alum in sports aside from the big two made it to the Olympics thanks to his insistence that those sports get more equal footing. He also made a good call with the Mingione hire and handling. That's about as much praise as I would give him. Didn't see much of him aside from on the sidelines in his last 10-15 years. Last time I remember any sort of public visibility from him was when he helped endorse Papa John's pizzas with 45% off the day after a win with the code Cats45. Otherwise, it was official business.

I used to not really care what he did, but the last five years of poor management and seemingly dodging public scrutiny or accountability changed that.

Cheers to 25 years. Onto the next guy. 🍻
 

Goingfor9

All-Conference
Jan 27, 2003
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Wow what a bunch of clueless clods that know nothing about what an AD job is all about. I did not care for everything he did but to not look at the ENTIRE body of work given where all programs were before and after his tenure, is just not objective and pure biased hate. To each their own. Stay stupid I guess.
Anyone to defend a corrupt AD who tried to literally steal a million a year by inventing a phantom position. Then when he’s caught he says something so stupid that we got a chance to see how he really thinks. He lashed out at the media, fans, just like a crook who got caught would.

I worked in an athletic department for 20 years. If you think the way Barney has run our athletics is ok well stupid is in your mirror I guess. I’ve never seen an AD less interested in winning. The guy was a fake fraud. People like you are what enabled this crook to be at UK for a quarter century, destroying our bb program. I mean our fb program had one way to go when the man was hired.

And money. The greed. His sole purpose at uk was to make money and he did that however he could. It came at the cost of winning. For as long as this rat was at UK he left us 30 million negative when he left. In part to that stupid contract he gave stoops.

Over 25 years he found a nut here and there but the Moron was forced to fire every coach that came through there. Fired guys like Bcg and joker who never should have been hired. But his parting shots were firing stoops and firing calipari. A man who was a great coach until Barney gave that idiotic contract. Then replacing him with a guy totally unproven, one of the strangest former uk players. Anyone jumping in there to defend Barney is either dumb as a rock or they are carry water for the hay eater. I mean since he didn’t get his million dollar job the guy is going to eat hay.

Absolutely the worst thing to happen to UK athletics. Anyone who accomplished nothing who tries to stay in that position will indefinitely is a tyrant not someone who cares about UK and winning.

But hey this is the last time I need to write about that hack because he’s finally gone. I hope he hired a moving company too and head back to where the hay flows for free.
 

UKWildcats1987

Heisman
Sep 9, 2021
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Barnhart has one basketball championship in all his years and it was basically because he was gonna get jumped if he didn't hire Cal. Tubby stuck around too long. BCG hire. Two catastrophic contracts with both coaches of both major sports. Cal either slipped up or left gracefully by intentionally nullifying his buyout. Stoops bailed UK out by allowing the institution to pay out his buyout over several years rather than a lump sum.

Swimming scandal.

Didn't give Rich Brooks, the best UK coach of my lifetime, the funding or facilities necessary to build on his amazing 06 and 07 teams. Speaking of Rich Brooks, MB hired Joker Phillips and was strong-armed into firing him. That's all that needs to be said. Love Joker – not a head coach.

The JMI deal is still clear as mud and has direct, flashing red beacons for conflicts of interest and nepotism. We're in that for another, what, 25 years? Hopefully the next AD shines some light on the deal.

Barnhart went to games and I never doubted that he enjoyed his job. He helped ensure that several alum in sports aside from the big two made it to the Olympics thanks to his insistence that those sports get more equal footing. He also made a good call with the Mingione hire and handling. That's about as much praise as I would give him. Didn't see much of him aside from on the sidelines in his last 10-15 years. Last time I remember any sort of public visibility from him was when he helped endorse Papa John's pizzas with 45% off the day after a win with the code Cats45. Otherwise, it was official business.

I used to not really care what he did, but the last five years of poor management and seemingly dodging public scrutiny or accountability changed that.

Cheers to 25 years. Onto the next guy. 🍻

Interesting with basketball u didnt mention the lazy hire of a guy not qualified for the job based on resume.

Otherwise. 100% agree.
 

JPFisher

Heisman
Jul 24, 2013
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Interesting with basketball u didnt mention the lazy hire of a guy not qualified for the job based on resume.

Otherwise. 100% agree.
I'm okay with the Pope hire. He had a decent enough resume coming in. Last year had me ready to get rid of him if he didn't show signs of life in the off-season, but he did. 🤷‍♂️
 

Im The Village Idiot

All-Conference
Sep 7, 2025
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Biggest problem with Mitch was his view of the hierarchy and role of various programs. He didn’t see Kentucky as a basketball school and it showed. Lowest average of national championships per season of any AD since the 1930s other than Larry Ivy, who was only here for two years.

Worst part — much of our fanbase have adopted his philosophy and now we have lost much of our identity. I think it’s very possible we see that continue with Batt — hope I’m wrong but we will see.
 

DarkPope

Freshman
Apr 7, 2025
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Based upon my calendar today is Barney’s last day! His last act was to self report which he was excited to do. The guy spent a quarter century as an anemic low energy AD who destroyed our bb program and accomplished a lot of nothing. He left us 30 million in the hole because of the sweet heart deals he gave his coaches. Stoops took full advantage and will be on the sidelines at Texas next year while we pay his salary.

Then of course he left the stench on our AD of our rapist swim coach he hired. I think that’s partially why we hired the ad from msu who also had to bounce back from a rape scandal with the dr for US women’s gymnastics. I’ve seen zero mention of this as a reason for bringing Batt in and even though he wasn’t the AD immediately after he still had to restore those programs due to the severity. I just hope this dude is a winner or even better I hope he hates losing.

Nevertheless the end is here!!! Finally! And look if you see Barney around town feel free to let him know what he did to our programs and our state. The man on his way out the door tried to con the state for a million dollars a year? You think that was the first time he screwed UK or tried? Nope! He’s been doing it unimpeded with Eli’s backing for the last 12-13 years. As long as that significantly old alumni of university of Alabama born and raised there is running the school we have to be on our toes for corruption Ukraine and Russia would be envious of

But today is worthy of a dinner or something. It’s a day to celebrate a new dawn. At least if batt screws it up he won’t wait around and hold on to this job. What a waste of time the last quarter century as a UK fan. Our best season in fb since the late 70s and we had to vacate the season because Barney loves self reporting. Never though did he report himself or hold himself accountable. And look if you don’t want to call Barney out just tell him goingfor9 who has been on uk message forums longer than he’s been AD says “gTH out of Kentucky unless….. you want to live in Louisville.
Yeah he only made one good hire, getting me here. I'll make sure to mention him when I'm cutting the nets down this season.
 
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CameronCat22

Junior
Apr 12, 2026
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Anyone to defend a corrupt AD who tried to literally steal a million a year by inventing a phantom position. Then when he’s caught he says something so stupid that we got a chance to see how he really thinks. He lashed out at the media, fans, just like a crook who got caught would.

I worked in an athletic department for 20 years. If you think the way Barney has run our athletics is ok well stupid is in your mirror I guess. I’ve never seen an AD less interested in winning. The guy was a fake fraud. People like you are what enabled this crook to be at UK for a quarter century, destroying our bb program. I mean our fb program had one way to go when the man was hired.

And money. The greed. His sole purpose at uk was to make money and he did that however he could. It came at the cost of winning. For as long as this rat was at UK he left us 30 million negative when he left. In part to that stupid contract he gave stoops.

Over 25 years he found a nut here and there but the Moron was forced to fire every coach that came through there. Fired guys like Bcg and joker who never should have been hired. But his parting shots were firing stoops and firing calipari. A man who was a great coach until Barney gave that idiotic contract. Then replacing him with a guy totally unproven, one of the strangest former uk players. Anyone jumping in there to defend Barney is either dumb as a rock or they are carry water for the hay eater. I mean since he didn’t get his million dollar job the guy is going to eat hay.

Absolutely the worst thing to happen to UK athletics. Anyone who accomplished nothing who tries to stay in that position will indefinitely is a tyrant not someone who cares about UK and winning.

But hey this is the last time I need to write about that hack because he’s finally gone. I hope he hired a moving company too and head back to where the hay flows for free.
Tried to steal with a position that was publicly announced 3 years ago in his contract extension ? They lie about everything.

 

CameronCat22

Junior
Apr 12, 2026
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Wow what a bunch of clueless clods that know nothing about what an AD job is all about. I did not care for everything he did but to not look at the ENTIRE body of work given where all programs were before and after his tenure, is just not objective and pure biased hate. To each their own. Stay stupid I guess.
They operate on hatred, ignorance, and lies.
 

Battle_Cat

All-Conference
Sep 1, 2002
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Enjoy your retirement Mitch. We are thankful you are no longer attached to this athletic program. Go find some volleyball games to watch with your new load of free time
I think I will just enjoy your mom. She asked if you would bring home some milk btw for your cereal in the morning...