UK Considering New Oversight Committee

{Kentucky}...Under a proposal approved Thursday by a special committee of trustees, oversight of athletics at the University of Kentucky would move from the UK Athletics Association to a committee of the UK Board of Trustees. The university said Thursday that the new committee would be similar to other board of trustees committees that oversee various operations, including the UK Chandler Hospital. The recommendation came from a specially formed committee of trustees that Chairman Britt Brockman formed shortly after former university President Lee T. Todd gave Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart a contract extension and raise without consulting the board of trustees or the Athletics Association board. Brockman says Barnhart's contract extension had nothing to do with the pending changes.