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Will the joke end up being on Barnhart?

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

And on April Fools' Day, Mitch Barnhart will introduce John Calipari as the basketball coach at Kentucky. This is the show-stopping conclusion to a two-year running prank Barnhart has been playing on the populace, showing what a wacky jokester the publicly bland athletic director really is. Seriously, see if this isn't short-sheet-the-bed hilarious: In two years, Kentucky has gone from paying national championship-winning coach Tubby Smith $2.1 million a year to reportedly forking over $31.65 ...

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