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.