abstract:Mitch Barnhart (born August 27, 1959 in Kansas City, KS) is the athletics director for the Kentucky Wildcats athletics program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Barnhart was hired by the university in 2002 succeeding Larry Ivy.
When athletic director MitchBarnhart arrived from the University of Tennessee, a longtime power, he noticed OSU students had eschewed the school colors for those of Notre Dame and Georgetown University duds.