If you’ve followed Kentucky football long enough, this story should sound familiar. A head coach struggles. The fans grow restless. The results don’t match the investment. And then Mitch Barnhart steps to the microphone to assure everyone that patience is a virtue.
The problem is, we’ve seen this movie before. And we already know how it ends.
The ghost of Joker Phillips
Before there was Mark Stoops, there was Joker Phillips. To tell the full story, we have to back up. Rich Brooks came to Kentucky and rebuilt a program on probation, knocking off a No.