Mike Pratt was the public mouthpiece for it, and Matt Jones reported on this pretty much every week during that time.It wasn't a secret. A group of prominent UK basketball people, lead by Mike Pratt, brought Cal here. RJ Corman had to fly him into Lexington....
...because Cal and Mitch don't work together. Peevy is the basketball AD, and I assume a large reason why Cal is here right now.
MJ has also hinted and said that he doesn't know if Cal will stay here once Peevy leaves.
MITCH HIRED FN BILLY GILLISPIE. I doubt there's been a worse hire in the history of college athletics, considering we are the top basketball program of all time. So why in the world would you be shocked that the greatest basketball program of all time came together and took control of hiring the next coach of the greatest college program of all time - and they hired one of the greatest coaches of all time, a coach the sitting AD would not even consider hiring. I mean, Mitch is a lucky man. A very blessed guy. And we're lucky to have him AND Dwayne Peevy because it's worked out very well for our University and basketball program.