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Barnhart unhappy Cats didn't host

  • http://kentucky.247sports.com/Article/Mitch-Barnhart-was-unhappy-Kentucky-didnt-host-baseball--76496

    The morning of Kentucky's last baseball game athletics director Mitch Barnhart pulled no punches in discussing how he felt about the NCAA's decision making process.

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  • The NCAA Selection Committtees are very frustrating. Their house is built on sand. - It is constantly moving and shiftless, er, I mean shifting. Go Cats!!!

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  • NCAA won't be relevent much longer anyways, and a lot of that is their own fault.

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  • Not Consistent At All

    The only consistent thing about the NCAA is their inconsistency. I hope everything about that organization crumbles in front of Mark Emmerts eyes!

    One big hypocrisy!

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  • NCAA has become a total farce. The only consistent thing about the NCAA is $$$.

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  • The NCAA is concerned about the welfare of its players as much as Pitino is!

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  • A-holes. All I gotta say about that.

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    TKE_

  • UK must prove itself by winning games in the post season. Win and you get respect.
    Miami has won in the past and has that. What has UK done in the post season to prove they can move on. Yes I know Miami was put out also, but they are a power house in baseball. UK is not, well not yet. lol. UK loosing to lville both times and to teams down the streatch did not help.

    This post was edited by dvillepro1 on 6/8/2012 at 1:35 AM

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    Sort of hard to argue. Have never won a regional and in fact, haven't won the first game of the NCAA tourney since 1988, last three trips, once as the host, have resulted in losses to Ball State, Michigan and Kent State. As an aside, I think this is the first season I can ever remember Kentucky winning two games in the SEC tournament. Thus it is a stretch to demand respect with that sort of track record in the postseason.

    Tskware

  • So your argument is because we don't have baseball tradition we deserve to get screwed???!!! SMDH

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  • dvillepro1 said...

    UK must prove itself by winning games in the post season. Win and you get respect.
    Miami has won in the past and has that. What has UK done in the post season to prove they can move on. Yes I know Miami was put out also, but they are a power house in baseball. UK is not, well not yet. lol. UK loosing to lville both times and to teams down the streatch did not help.

    I don't think losing to Lville had anything to do with it. I'm not sure how we played down the stretch did either. I think it came down to whether they were going to allow a quarter of the regional sites be hosted by one conf. and even had we won the SEC outright I do not believe we would have hosted over Florida or LSU. I think when hey made the decision it was down to us or Miami and to them Miami was a better decision because of who Miami normally is (wasn't this year...had NO BUSINESS HOSTING!) and who we normally are. I don't think how things turned out last time we hosted helped us either.

    At the end of the day I do not believe the season we had, wins losses, or anything else on the field had anything to do with the decision which is the norm when it comes to the bastards at the NCAA. They have no interest in student athletes whatsoever. They have no interest in the integrity of collegiate sports whatsoever, and because of that...they have NO BUSINESS running shit related to collegiate sports.

    The bastards have been exempt of accountability for far far too long but with every blind eye they turn, with every corrupt decision they make, with every folly made at every single opportunity to do something right...they are diggin their graves just a little bit deeper. Their time is coming. They will eventually be pushed out. I just hope I'm around to witness and revel in it.

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  • I think this came down to money.....which is usually the cause of most things. The venue in Miami is considerably larger than UK. Not to mention that Miami has a much, much larger fan base that is high on baseball.

    I think if this happens in the future that the powers that be should schedule the games in the post season at Appleby's/"Current Bank Sponsor of the yr" Park.

    Still doesn't change the fact that we earned it.

    This post was edited by BlueRaider22 on 6/8/2012 at 10:31 AM

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  • BlueRaider22 said...

    I think this came down to money.....which is usually the cause of most things. The venue in Miami is considerably larger than UK. Not to mention that Miami has a much, much larger fan base that is high on baseball.

    I think if this happens in the future that the powers that be should schedule the games in the post season at Appleby's/"Current Bank Sponsor of the yr" Park.

    Still doesn't change the fact that we earned it.

    One thing I don't understand is putting the regional in Gary Indiana, where there was a guarantee to have zero people show up. That had to be one of those decisions made in a committee full of people who had no idea where the park was and what kind of facility it was.

    Tskware

  • Gary is basically a suburb of Chicago.....a huge pull for baseball. The stadium that they play in is home to a professional team. The park is really, really nice.....and seats well over >6000. It's comparable to where the Lexington Legends play. As a tournament venue it buries our facilities at UK.

    Though understand, that I still we earned it to be here.

    BlueRaider22

  • Tskware said...

    ^ Sort of hard to argue. Have never won a regional and in fact, haven't won the first game of the NCAA tourney since 1988, last three trips, once as the host, have resulted in losses to Ball State, Michigan and Kent State. As an aside, I think this is the first season I can ever remember Kentucky winning two games in the SEC tournament. Thus it is a stretch to demand respect with that sort of track record in the postseason.

    Even though they've lost the first game of the tournament in 2006, 2008 and 2012, they have also come back to win 2 games in each of those tournaments and eventually lost to the team that went to the Super Regionals so it's not like they've just folded up shop and not shown up.

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  • WilmoreCat said...

    So your argument is because we don't have baseball tradition we deserve to get screwed???!!! SMDH

    They didn't get screwed. If they had played better at the end of the season(2-5 in the last 7 games), they probably would have gotten to host. They didn't deserve it, and Barnhart knows it. You have to earn it.

    ukblueforever

  • ukblueforever said...

    They didn't get screwed. If they had played better at the end of the season(2-5 in the last 7 games), they probably would have gotten to host. They didn't deserve it, and Barnhart knows it. You have to earn it.

    Horrible, horrible take. Completely clueless.

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  • ukblueforever said...

    They didn't get screwed. If they had played better at the end of the season(2-5 in the last 7 games), they probably would have gotten to host. They didn't deserve it, and Barnhart knows it. You have to earn it.

    Wow...that's all I can say. 40+ wins, (first tram in nation to hit 40 wins) 6-3 series record against 3 hosting SEC programs, and only 3 non conf losses. That resume holds its own against any program in the country including Baylor. And the seeding is based on the body of work, not the last 7 games.

    Sayin UK didn't deserve to host...That's just a ridiculous take, and simply an uneducated opinion.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by tommy on 6/8/2012 at 11:57 PM

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  • tommy said...

    Wow...that's all I can say. 40+ wins, (first tram in nation to hit 40 wins) 6-3 series record against 3 hosting SEC programs, and only 3 non conf losses. That resume holds its own against any program in the country including Baylor. And the seeding is based on the body of work, not the last 7 games.

    Sayin UK didn't deserve to host...That's just a ridiculous take, and simply an uneducated opinion.

    rack em...

    ukbf, you pick one small part of the season and base your whole argument on that and you cant' do that. The body of work was much better than both Purdue AND Miami.

    This post was edited by TKE_ on 6/9/2012 at 3:29 PM

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    TKE_

  • To add... it amazes me that at UK it seems the fans can be so negative towards any sport that isn't basketball. Don't get it... I'm a UK fan from basketball through chess.

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    TKE_

  • TKE_ said...

    To add... it amazes me that at UK it seems the fans can be so negative towards any sport that isn't basketball. Don't get it... I'm a UK fan from basketball through chess.

    The UK Rifle Team are my boys (& girls). As we said in the Corps, "Anyone that can hold 'em, and squeeze 'em, is a friend of mine".

    Anyone heard if any UK shooters are on the USA Olympic Team in London later this year?

    USMCatFan

  • ukblueforever said...

    They didn't get screwed. If they had played better at the end of the season(2-5 in the last 7 games), they probably would have gotten to host. They didn't deserve it, and Barnhart knows it. You have to earn it.

    Interesting, since Miami went 4-11 in its last 15 regular season conference games, 2-1 in ACC Tournament. Kentucky went 7-8 (against 2 national seeds and the 2 teams in SEC Tournament final) and 2-1 in SEC Tournament. Clearly, Miami played better than Kentucky down the stretch to take the Cats' host site.

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  • I'll say it again. The eggheads clearly went by RPI.

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  • Matt May said...

    Interesting, since Miami went 4-11 in its last 15 regular season conference games, 2-1 in ACC Tournament. Kentucky went 7-8 (against 2 national seeds and the 2 teams in SEC Tournament final) and 2-1 in SEC Tournament. Clearly, Miami played better than Kentucky down the stretch to take the Cats' host site.

    Clearly Matt. Now that all of this new info has come ro light we (those who thought UK received a raw deal) should feel foolish and somewhat embarassed of our supreme ignorance and obvious bias. sarcasm

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    tommy

  • Beavis13 said...

    I'll say it again. The eggheads clearly went by RPI.

    You're darn right they did... and the RPI is not always accurate. They also wanted to 'punish' UK the same way the did LSU last year.

    How is the RPI flawed? Like other systems (KENPOM) have Wisconsin #1 for a lot of the year last year over one stupid stat... offensive efficiency.

    We would have beat them by 30.

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    TKE_

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