Stadium’s Jeff Goodman and Brett McMurphy give grades to every SEC Athletic Director and they make Kentucky’s Mitch Barnhart pay for a couple of bad basketball hires.
I guess your grade definitely goes down when you hired Billy Gillispie for anything.
They gave Mitch at C+.
Analysis: Mitch Barnhart came to Kentucky in 2002 after four years as the athletic director at Oregon State — and he’ll forever be known as the one who brought John Calipari to Lexington. However, as great of a hire as Cal has been, Barnhart’s other basketball hires have been underwhelming. It started with Ritchie McKay (22-37) and Jay John (72-97) at Oregon State, but the worst one was Billy Gillispie, who was a terrible fit and lasted just two years at UK. On the football side, Barnhart has done fairly well. Dennis Erickson went to three bowl games in four years at Oregon State, while Mark Stoops has found his footing at UK.
Read “Ranking the SEC ADs With Jeff Goodman and Brett McMurphy” by clicking here.
After reading the rest of the rankings do you think Mitch should have a higher or lower grade?
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