... is a clear gap in how the rules and responsibilities overseeing the program are viewed," said athletic director Mitch Barnhart. "It is a gap I do not believe can be solved by just winning games." - Advertisement - Losing too many games during ...

... smiled, a rarity during his final days with the program. And he said he had no ill feelings toward athletic director Mitch Barnhart, who cited philosophical differences as the reason Gillispie was let go. "I'm not a woe-is-me kind of person ...

... but the chance to makeover one of college basketball's elite programs proved to be too much. Athletic director Mitch Barnhart stressed the need to find a coach who can handle all that comes with coaching the Wildcats. Calipari has never met ...

... job at UK, washing away the sting of the university's bitter divorce of Gillispie. Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart admits going after Gillispie instead of Calipari in 2007 was "my mistake." "I went where I thought I needed to ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart needed only four games to know in his heart that Guy Morriss was the man to lead the school's football program. Barnhart solidified ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- How serious is Mitch Barnhart about his new job as Kentucky's athletic director ... around programs in the country, they say. "I'm a Mitch Barnhart fan, and I think when Kentucky fans see what he ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - University of Kentucky President Lee Todd and Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart expressed their support Tuesday for football coach Rich Brooks, whose team is guaranteed to post its second losing season in a ...

... running for the job. He said Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart told him the school had chosen another person ... that had already offered the job to somebody. He (Mitch Barnhart) wouldn't he elaborate on who it was," Williams ...

... Falcons' defensive coordinator. When Guy Morriss left Kentucky for Baylor on Dec. 9, Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart immediately called Brooks at his Springfield, Ore., home. The two worked together at Oregon in the early 1980s ...

... him the benefits in his contract. He names Oregon State, university President Paul Risser and athletic director Mitch Barnhart in his claim. Payne was fired March 12 after the Beavers finished with a 13-16 record, his fifth consecutive losing ...