On Friday, Mitch Barnhart joined Clay Travis on the “Three Hour Lunch” talk show in Nashville. Mitch was asked about Bledsoe, Grades, Transcripts and the New York Times. He didn’t back down from any of the questions and sent a message that we (Kentucky) expect this type of attention when you’re at the top!
Here’s a quote from the article that sums it all up….
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“The flag always blows really hard at the top,” he said said. “And so it’s blowing hard up there. And if you want to to be at the top of the flagpole, you’ve got to understand how hard it blows.”
Ultimately, Barnhart felt Kentucky’s success brought greater attention. “It’s unfortunate in our world,” Barnhart said, “there will be people who will be jealous.” [/QUOTE]Barnhart was also asked if he felt the New York Times Article was fair…
[QUOTE]”I guess I’m not a real good, from an unobjective position, [person] to talk about fairness,” he said. “I think that’s in the eyes of whoever is talking. I know that we go through it at UK, work real hard at it. Sandy Bell in our compliance office does a marvelous job. She’s really good at what she does. We went through every review at our level, at the NCAA level on Eric’s academics and they were comfortable with it, we’re comfortable with it. [The NCAA] cleared him.
He fought hard for us for a year, we wish him all the best. He did everything down the stretch academically we needed him to do. So I’m not going to get into fairness. People have to live with what they do and we’re comfortable with where we are with [URL=”http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/players/eric-bledsoe/88595″]Eric Bledsoe[/URL] and wish him all the best as a pro.”[/QUOTE]You can read [URL=”http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/06/04/eric-bledsoes-transcript-release-angers-kentucky-ad-mitch-barnh/?sms_ss=twitter”]the entire article here…[/URL]
