re: Who is the worst AD in the SEC?

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Barnhart is one of the best in the SEC. I will never understand why our fans hate him. We could do sooooo much worse.

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He's gotten some heat for the Gillispie hire and he should have. But he weathered all the Tubby bullshite and was smart enough to learn from his Gillispie mistake to get guys like Mike Pratt to come in and help with the Calipari hire. The Phillips hire was a hope that the program could continue to build on Brooks from hiring a UK guy from within. He was under a lot of pressure to do so as well.

IMO the facility upgrades he's ushered in as of late, hiring Stoops and Calipari, and having success in some of the Olympic sports outweighs any residual bullshite from the other two hires. He's certainly done more for the program as a whole then Newton did.

ETA: You can also add to it that he brought in Rich Brooks when no one would touch our FB program with a ten foot pole.