If Barnhart were to hire me, the first thing I’d tell him would be to come out of his bunker and meet with the media.

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Still, Florida never has been, is not now, or never will be the equal of Kentucky. So I think Donovan will take the UK job. He will rebuild the Cats as quickly as Florida will slink back into the middle of the SEC swamp.

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Simon Cowell — UK fans aren’t ready for his British accent or brutal honesty. But it would be sort of fun to hear him analyze the hapless attempts of Joe Crawford and Rumel Bradley to be Kentucky’s Idol at the end of close games.

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Leading Georgetown by 11 points in the second half, North Carolina ‘07 suddenly turned into Kentucky ‘84. The Tar Heels made only one of their next 23 shots, including 0-for-12 to start the OT.

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Wildcat fans are nervous. They’ve always had a “basketball man” in place to pick the next coach. But listening to Barnhart, it’s easy to think that he things the basketball team is no more important than the rifle team, the swimming team, or the women’s softball team.

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I was aware of civil-rights movement, but pretty much oblivious to it. So when I became one of the first, if not the first, white reporter to actually go to Dunbar and cover its games, it wasn’t so much because I was a crusader as because the Bearcats had the best team in town. It was simple as that.

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On Tubby’s watch, UK’s talent level slowly, but steadily, slipped until, the last two seasons, it was obvious the Cats had fallen behind traditional rivals such as North Carolina, Florida, and Kansas

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One theory is that all the little rural schools that couldn’t afford football have been swallowed up by consolidation, and that one outgrowth of larger schools is that football has replaced basketball as the sport of choice for most boys.

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On a day when he scored 31 points and was the best guard on the floor – better even than A&M’s All-American – Sosa certainly deserved a better fate.

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If Barnhart botches up the basketball search — whenever it comes — as badly as he did the football search, he’ll bring a senior citizen out of retirement and hope for the best. Anybody have Dale Brown’s phone number?

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