The Silence From Barnhart Is Deafening, And Stoops Deserves No Comment, At Best!

[DraftCat]

Dumb question but everyone is saying Stoops is friends with the boosters.... why is he so cushy with these guys?

What made Stoops so special that his results don't matter to UK Boosters?

 

[TACcat7]

Thanks Bob. I enjoyed watching your teams at Oklahoma.

I don’t care who you are that’s funny. When pumpers get on here and defend this joke of a football program and the direction our AD is taking us, they deserve the criticism. 100%

 

[Wildcats1st]

If Barnhart even wants to keep Stoops, after that post-U of L meltdown last season with aTm, Barnhart had to feel he was being screwed by Stoops. Making Stoops a 9 million dollar a year man and putting his own neck on the line, then seeing Stoops playing footsie with aTm . . . bet there ain’t no Barnhart gift under the Stoops Christmas tree (unless a 36 million dollar buyout counts).

Because with ole Barney that’ll showem. Time for Barney to hit the bricks

 

[The-Hack]

If it pissed Barnhart off, and as insinuated if not insisted here, he didn't allow Stoops to talk to A&M in the first place, he could fire him at any point after that for breach of contract and walk away without a buyout being paid. You think he wouldn't have fired Stoops and hired Sumrall by now, if he had that breach of contract in his pocket and he was "furious" about it?

So, you are saying that had you been Barnhart, and had you made Stoops the ninth highest paid Coach in the US, you would have had no harsh feelings . . . no sense of betrayal . . . that he accepted the aTm job, until either the Aggie fan revolt (or his assistant’s) revolt?

If so, you have a thicker skin than most!!

My original post does not allude to whether Stoops breached his contract by speaking to aTm. I am an attorney, and understand that basic legality, having drafted (in many other fields) contracts, including employment contracts.

Again, a subject for another thread.

I’ll repeat my original assertion: Barnhart’s (now lengthier) silence is telling. Stoops didn’t entirely burn his bridge with Barnhart, but his AD has been very silent, even as Stoops, KSR and Marrow are issuing statements of resolution.

Typically AD’s join the chorus in support of an embattled Coach . . . and the clock on Barnhart’s silence keeps ticking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

[Wildcats1st]

So, you are saying that had you been Barnhart, and had you made Stoops the ninth highest paid Coach in the US, you would have had no harsh feelings . . . no sense of betrayal . . . that he accepted the aTm job, until either the Aggie fan revolt (or his assistant’s) revolt?

If so, you have a thicker skin than most!!

My original post does not allude to whether Stoops breached his contract by speaking to aTm. I am an attorney, and understand that basic legality, having drafted (in many other fields) contracts, including employment contracts.

Again, a subject for another thread.

I’ll repeat my original assertion: Barnhart’s (now lengthier) silence is telling. Stoops didn’t entirely burn his bridge with Barnhart, but his AD has been very silent, even as Stoops, KSR and Marrow are issuing statements of resolution.

Typically AD’s join the chorus in support of an embattled Coach . . . and the clock on Barnhart’s silence keeps ticking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

He’s gonna make sure we’re locked out of a bowl first. That’s my guess or he’s gonna split as he should

 

[The-Hack]

He’s gonna make sure we’re locked out of a bowl first. That’s my guess or he’s gonna split as he should

I’m quite certain we will see no bowl game with a 4-8 record. Excepting the 2020 Covid season, and a few freak examples from the 1950’s, I’ve not seen a team worse than 5-7 get a bowl invite.

 

[cole854]

It would also be interesting to see the local beat writers actually express some journalistic thoughts about this situation versus having to toe the company line for fear of backlash.

 

[Titpwhami2014]

Agreed he would have to be deaf, blind and dumb. However… we must keep in mind this is Mitch Barnhart. Calipari was 100% here until the end of time without the friendly Arkansas bailout. He even got on TV and yucked it up with Cal like they were best friends for life to give his formal “vote of confidence”. He’s shown tone-deaf tendencies.

The Lex-18 piece was political theater. Mitch and Cal despise each other.