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Kentucky Basketball Spent Just About As Much Money Lighting A Basketball Pep Rally As It Does On Football Recruiting

It shows!:idunno: That's about all that can be said.

Not surprising.

 

What do other SEC schools spend on an annual basis?

Not surprising.

 

What do other SEC schools spend on an annual basis?

 

SEC Football Recruiting Budgets

Damn shame.....

Thanks GT!

 

UK spent more than LSU in 2011?

 

To me, these numbers reveal what is expected: that basketball trumps football at UK. I think this expenditure would be more accepted by complaining football fans if some of the facility needs were being met.

UT spent over 1M in 2010 and 2011. :lol: :lol: :lol:

At some point UK is going to have to make a commitment to football.

At some point UK is going to have to make a commitment to football.

 

There is no way they attract a top teer coach, until they do. Nobody of stature is going to come in to Lexington and play second fiddle Cal and company.

 

See Bear Bryant.

UK spent more than LSU in 2011?

 

With as much talent as they have in that state, they probably wouldn't have to go any more than 100 miles out of Baton Rouge to find their football team.

With as much talent as they have in that state, they probably wouldn't have to go any more than 100 miles out of Baton Rouge to find their football team.

 

Same with South Carolina.

There is no way they attract a top teer coach, until they do. Nobody of stature is going to come in to Lexington and play second fiddle Cal and company.

 

See Bear Bryant.

 

Well the only way we will get a competent coach (not necessarily top of the brass) is if the Athletic Department actually makes some sort of financial commitment to the football program. Obviously, from the numbers we have seen here, the commitment isn't there.

 

One would think that since the basketball program is self-sustaining, that more of the money brought in from the football program would be reinvested back into it. I know some is used to support the other athletic programs but it is obvious the Athletic Department isn't trying to improve the football program but rather milking it like a cash cow from the success it started to have under Rich Brooks.

Another reason Mitch should be out the door with Joker!

 

I know, I know, he hired Brooks & Cal blah, blah, blah...and before anyone brings up a baseball or soccer hire nobody down there cares.

 

I still blame him for Gillispie!

 

BTW- does Barnhart really deserve that much credit for Cal I mean he was in Memphis for god sakes'. I'm sure it was not that tough of a sale...

Atleast the soccer teams are good...

Atleast the soccer teams are good...

 

I'll take your word for it. No disrespect to those programs, but nobody outside the program cares. The success of soccer or lack thereof will have no bearing on the AD's employment status. I'm not anti-UK soccer, I'm anti-Barnhart. I hope both soccer teams win every game they play.