BBN Tonight full episode (3-27-24)
Following the tip of the 2023-24 Kentucky basketball season, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart and Head Coach John Calipari received collectively for his or her annual, low season assembly.
Following stated assembly, Barnhart posted an announcement confirming Coach Calipari will return for his sixteenth season with this system.
As we usually do on the finish of each season, Coach Calipari and I’ve had conversations concerning the course of our males’s basketball program and I can affirm that he’ll return for his sixteenth season as our head coach.
— Mitch Barnhart (@UKMitchBarnhart) March 27, 2024
BBN Tonight anchor Keith Farmer sat down completely with the pair to debate that assembly, their plans for the way forward for this system, and the state of their very own relationship:
“He’s going his method 200 days a 12 months; I’m going my method 200 days a 12 months,” Calipari began with amusing.
“That’s somewhat little bit of the misinformation on the market,” Barnhart interjected. “I say this jokingly and critically: he’s been married 40-plus years and I’ve been married 40-plus years. We all know learn how to handle relationships. I believe we’ve been collectively for 15, so we’re kind of like semi-married.”
“You ever had an argument together with your spouse?,” Calipari poked.
“Simply sometimes. I believe you and I’ve, too!,” Barnhart responded.
“Do you all the time agree?”
“No we don’t all the time agree, and that’s a part of the deal.”
“We comply with disagree!,” Calipari added.
“To his level, that’s a part of this deal,” Barnhart stated. “This notion that we have now no relationship and stuff like that’s rubbish. The best way we’ve gotten by 15 years has been fairly good. We’ve had our highs and lows, and we’ve had some issues that haven’t gone precisely the way in which we needed to, however by and huge, I’m sitting subsequent to the man I introduced right here 15 years in the past. We’ve been collectively simply superb.”
So far as the assembly itself?
“One of many issues I’ve stated concerning the assembly is Mitch saying, ‘how can I assist you? What can we do that will help you get the place you’re making an attempt to get this factor?,'” Calipari advised Farmer. “We talked about three or 4 issues, however once you’re teaching, that’s vital stuff.”
“Cal’s averaged 27 wins a 12 months since he’s been right here. We received to a spot this 12 months, [where] we had some unimaginable victories after which we get to March and we stubbed our toe somewhat bit. There’s no thriller in that,” Barnhart stated. “We’ve had a few instances down the stretch that we need to be higher in March – there’s no thriller in that, both. Our followers know what the usual is; we all know what the usual is.”
Each Barnhart and Calipari acknowledge their disappointment in how previous seasons have ended, including that hanging banners is and all the time will probably be one of many cornerstones of this program.
“It’s not that we don’t know learn how to get there, [but] we’ve hit a patch the place we haven’t, and that isn’t misplaced on us,” Barnhart stated. “He and I are somewhat bit aggressive – we definitely prefer to win. That has been in our DNA from the start of his profession and mine. We did not come to this program to take a seat right here and say: let’s casually sit right here and sashay all the way in which to the tip of the deal. I need to win.”
Barnhart and Calipiari additionally went in-depth on potential modifications transferring ahead, this system’s method to the postseason, how they’d every ideally like to finish their respective careers, and their message to the fan base.
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BBN Tonight full episode (3-27-24)