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He will be getting $3.2 million as part of his retirement. This is just coming out via the Hearld

https://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/kentucky-sports/article316447472.html


The University of Kentucky will pay longtime athletics director Mitch Barnhart $3.2 million as part of a settlement agreement after he walked away from a plan to transition to a university administration position amid public criticism.

It will be paid with private funds
 
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This was signed on June 30th his last day. More details via KSR


“This new post-retirement deal for Barnhart will be roughly $700,000 less than the previous agreement and will not include extra benefits such as free tickets and courtesy vehicles, which were part of the controversial deal that ended up being pulled back. Regardless, it is quite the amount of money for someone retiring from the position.

Barnhart was originally expected to be given the title of Executive in Residence for the UK Sports and Workforce Initiative, but now, he will help with “fundraising and any other duties as assigned”, per his amended contract. His contract also states he will be listed as a part-time employee of the university, which will net him an additional salary of $40,000 annually.”
 
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Anon1739778738 said:
He's a crooked piece of **** glad he is gone
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It doesn't sound like he is even really gone. From the KSR article...

Barnhart was originally going to be given the title of Executive in Residence for the UK Sports and Workforce Initiative, but now, he will help with “fundraising and any other duties as assigned”, per his amended contract. His contract also states he will be listed as a part-time employee of the university, which will net him an additional salary of $40,000 annually.
 
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Remember when we thought Jurich was corrupt? At least he was corrupt to help the University.
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Exactly. Jurich was at least who he was in the open, he didn’t hide it, and he was there to improve athletics and did. He didn’t hide behind his grandiose sense of self and pretend he’s a noble and upstanding person, too clean to lay with the peasants.

Barnhart is far more corrupt and I’m just glad his colors have been seen on the way out. Shouldn’t he be leaving that money to women’s lacrosse?
 
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It doesn't sound like he is even really gone. From the KSR article...

Barnhart was originally going to be given the title of Executive in Residence for the UK Sports and Workforce Initiative, but now, he will help with “fundraising and any other duties as assigned”, per his amended contract. His contract also states he will be listed as a part-time employee of the university, which will net him an additional salary of $40,000 annually.
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Barnhart is going out kicking and screaming. He does not want to relinquish power, this is typical of hatchet men Who spend their lives squirming their way. The president has tried everything he can to keep him invovled, and the door was slammed shut twice. This is the 3rd attempt to keep him invovled in affairs. Looks like it’s going to be allowed, BOT and political side must feel it’s meanginless enough that it doesn’t matter and will finally shut the Barnhart cockroaches up.

The guy simply enjoys being in control and wants to make people live with it, he’s obviously got an axe to grind with the people of Kentucky. He’s always spoke about it and it’s well known he hates UK fans and the people of Kentucky. The guy is really bad, he needs to be removed 100%.
 
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UKGrad24 said:
Barnhart is going out kicking and screaming. He does not want to relinquish power, this is typical of hatchet men Who spend their lives squirming their way. The president has tried everything he can to keep him invovled, and the door was slammed shut twice. This is the 3rd attempt to keep him invovled in affairs. Looks like it’s going to be allowed, BOT and political side must feel it’s meanginless enough that it doesn’t matter and will finally shut the Barnhart cockroaches up.

The guy simply enjoys being in control and wants to make people live with it, he’s obviously got an axe to grind with the people of Kentucky. He’s always spoke about it and it’s well known he hates UK fans and the people of Kentucky. The guy is really bad, he needs to be removed 100%.
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Eli can kick rocks, too.
 
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Come on guys. We just hired a new AD at twice what a 20+ year employee made. It remains to be seen if that is worth it. The report said money was coming from private sources for Barnhart. the entire sequence of events just points to extravagance in college athletics as well as the bloat of administrative positions in all universities. Jurich hasn’t worked since he was canned at a relatively young age so he didn’t walk away a pauper.
 
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What a good Christian man for taking the high road. I am sure he will donate most of that to starving children somewhere in the third world.

Does he get to keep his country club membership and generational season tickets? I don't want him to go without.

It's hard times out there, ya know.
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Such a joke
 
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What a crook he is. For years all people would say is what a wonderful Christian man he is. We know the truth now. He and Capilouto are as crooked as they come. The university needs to clean house. We will be better off when those two and their cronies are gone.
 
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He got fired. What I mean is that the BOT wanted him to retire. He didn’t want to retire so he was forced out. They came up with that sweet deal paid by UK for Mitch to walk away. After the public along with the governor got involved, that deal was rescinded by UK. In the end he got paid anyway. Not by UK, but by Joe Craft and his conglomerate of boosters.
Mitch did a lot of good, but he lost a lost of respect in his last few years.
 
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Barnhart is going out kicking and screaming. He does not want to relinquish power, this is typical of hatchet men Who spend their lives squirming their way. The president has tried everything he can to keep him invovled, and the door was slammed shut twice. This is the 3rd attempt to keep him invovled in affairs. Looks like it’s going to be allowed, BOT and political side must feel it’s meanginless enough that it doesn’t matter and will finally shut the Barnhart cockroaches up.

The guy simply enjoys being in control and wants to make people live with it, he’s obviously got an axe to grind with the people of Kentucky. He’s always spoke about it and it’s well known he hates UK fans and the people of Kentucky. The guy is really bad, he needs to be removed 100%.
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I am fairly well positive he would still be the AD if that is truly what he wanted.
 
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The March contract amendment specified the university would owe Barnhart the $2.95 million in base salary it would have owed him if he remained as athletics director and two $650,000 retention bonuses he would have triggered in June 2027 and June 2028. The contract amendment he signed in March also specified he would still receive the $650,000 retention bonus he was owed June 30. Barnhart will be paid a $40,000 annual salary and continue to be eligible for insurance benefits. He will be paid annual compensation of $760,000 on Jan. 1 2027, 2028 and 2029. His final severance payment will be $780,000 on Dec 31, 2029.
 
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OK, I’m no attorney. But Mitch Barnhart announced his his retirement. Why the hell is the university paying him a dime? And don’t give me this crap that they’re firing him. Because if they wanna fire him, they can do it for cause no problem based on the swim team issue, rape issue like I say no problem. Let Barney come back and sue the university. The guy is getting basically what he was gonna get before sans tickets and a lol a car. Unless they’re paying him to leave the state of Kentucky, they should be fighting this in court. Barney got too close to Eli. They became too good friends and Eli went fun raise to get his buddy Barney a nice big going away chunk of money. If that’s not the sketchest sht ever at the University of Kentucky I don’t know what is. I mean a lot of people thought nine included cal was a problem. This egomaniac was the problem. Been problem for a long time and Eli is the corrupt as hell too. I mean it’s time to clean house.. don’t want this new athletic Director to forge a relationship with Eli for one year and he’s gonna be tainted too. The whole group of them the good old boy network the outsider from Alabama Crimson Tide lifelong fan. Then there are all the assist and the sketchy connections they have to freaking JMI. And then you have the assistant president or vice president whatever he sketchy as hell too he was a big part of this deal with Barney and he’s got his own skeleton. They should all go, man. Are they all just gonna squat until they get big settlements like stoops did? This is the culture that Barney has created and I’d like to know if he’s gonna be sticking around Lexington. Because if he is and I run into him at Kroger, that guy is gonna get a major piece of my mind. My moron brother wanted a picture taken with him. I’ll offset that by being very honest with him. I just can’t believe this guy bamboozled Kentuckians for a quarter century. It’s a big chunk of a lot of people’s lives.. and the whole time people have been saying I don’t know nobody wants to call this guy out. They’re afraid that he’ll take their season tickets or he’ll take their freaking tickets for the next game. I’ll definitely be writing a letter and when I see him I’ll make him feel unwelcomed. I won’t do anything any different than these fricking people that are following Ice around harassing them. I mean, I’ll take a page out of their book start blowing my whistle so everybody knows Barney’s here. Barney‘s here. Everyone can come by rip his butT. He should have to sit there for a week while every Kentucky and who wants to rip his *** comes up. Let him have it then he can have his 3.2 million.
 
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I find it amazing that pretty much everyone agrees this is BS and shady, yet most in Kentucky are perfectly fine with other public figures and their buddies engaging in far worse financial transactions.
 
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Goingfor9 said:
OK, I’m no attorney. But Mitch Barnhart announced his his retirement. Why the hell is the university paying him a dime? And don’t give me this crap that they’re firing him. Because if they wanna fire him, they can do it for cause no problem based on the swim team issue, rape issue like I say no problem. Let Barney come back and sue the university. The guy is getting basically what he was gonna get before sans tickets and a lol a car. Unless they’re paying him to leave the state of Kentucky, they should be fighting this in court. Barney got too close to Eli. They became too good friends and Eli went fun raise to get his buddy Barney a nice big going away chunk of money. If that’s not the sketchest sht ever at the University of Kentucky I don’t know what is. I mean a lot of people thought nine included cal was a problem. This egomaniac was the problem. Been problem for a long time and Eli is the corrupt as hell too. I mean it’s time to clean house.. don’t want this new athletic Director to forge a relationship with Eli for one year and he’s gonna be tainted too. The whole group of them the good old boy network the outsider from Alabama Crimson Tide lifelong fan. Then there are all the assist and the sketchy connections they have to freaking JMI. And then you have the assistant president or vice president whatever he sketchy as hell too he was a big part of this deal with Barney and he’s got his own skeleton. They should all go, man. Are they all just gonna squat until they get big settlements like stoops did? This is the culture that Barney has created and I’d like to know if he’s gonna be sticking around Lexington. Because if he is and I run into him at Kroger, that guy is gonna get a major piece of my mind. My moron brother wanted a picture taken with him. I’ll offset that by being very honest with him. I just can’t believe this guy bamboozled Kentuckians for a quarter century. It’s a big chunk of a lot of people’s lives.. and the whole time people have been saying I don’t know nobody wants to call this guy out. They’re afraid that he’ll take their season tickets or he’ll take their freaking tickets for the next game. I’ll definitely be writing a letter and when I see him I’ll make him feel unwelcomed. I won’t do anything any different than these fricking people that are following Ice around harassing them. I mean, I’ll take a page out of their book start blowing my whistle so everybody knows Barney’s here. Barney‘s here. Everyone can come by rip his butT. He should have to sit there for a week while every Kentucky and who wants to rip his *** comes up. Let him have it then he can have his 3.2 million.
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