Just a few thoughts:
1. Our football facility is costing $45 million, right in the same ballpark as the USC facility.
2. Nutter cost $8.5 million.
3. Prove that Mitch was FORCED to do something and that the University wasn't allowing him to utilize bond capacity needed on campus prior to major improvements to the football facilities.
4. Football will always pay for improvements in other sports. Football paid for softball, soccer, baseball and track and field improvements.
5. I agree that it is overdue...I said that in my post. This should have been done awhile ago.
6. As I mentioned, from an administration perspective, he is a great AD
7. I understand why diehard football fans disagree
8. He is not as bad as many make him out to be
I appreciate the fact that your position gives you a lot more insight into how big time athletics work now BUT:
1. Didn't we have a LOT more ground to make up than USC, don't they still have millions of dollars in facilities which they had already invested in football, similar to our basketball having the "basketball facility" for almost ten years, the "Coal House", Midnight Madness, etc etc etc.` Also the $240m invested is very misleading, almost all of it due to football, and also almost all of the investment in football after ten years of NOTHING invested in football AND after the STRIKE.
2. Nutter alone accounted for about 30% of the money spent on improvements in that era, surely even more was spent on football facilities during that period. And the money went a LOT farther back in the LAST century. What percentage of mitch's facilities improvements went to football in his first ten years, when it DESPERATELY needed help because of probation, 5%, 10 % on the high side? I can't think of anything substantial for football, and I still think the $156,000 spent to hang some pictures on a wall somewhere SHOULD have been used to replace the folding chairs in the "recruiting room", (or carpet the floor, or replace the folding projector screen, or--------) ALL of which it could have done. But it did show the microwave fans that wanted something done for football who was the boss. And the ONLY substantial investment, the scoreboards, two years late and 12 years old, was unavoidable.
3 LOL. Nothing to prove there, and as I have said, that strike cost UK literally millions of dollars AND still is, football season ticket sales still 6,000 short of Joker's first year with an unbelievable upgrade in our talent. Now there is unbelievable SEC level talent at many positions on BOTH sides of the ball, not just a chance to see visitors great talent and a lot of long suffering fans still aren't buying, they bought a big screen. TWO four stars (both JCs) that Joker inherited while the seven SEC teams we faced in 2010 (minus Vandy) averaged 38 four star commits the prior four classes.
mitch was being paid to lead our athletics department and be the PR man, he should have been pointing out to the powers that football was the emerging money cow (already was, due to other SEC programs), not a cent of the first UNEXPECTED $5M TV bonus (DUE to FOOTBALL) did anything for football that I am aware of.
If there was nothing he could do to improve football then why were (are) we paying him the big bucks? AND adding to it.
Ask anyone on here if there was a football fan revolt or not, by fans that cared enough, and ask them if our PR man didn't need a PR man for himself. He lost millions of dollars that football fans wanted to donate to FOOTBALL but wouldn't donate a dime for him to spend on his projects.
4. True, but no excuse to milk it dry with BARE MINIMUM support while basketball with the BEST of everything got MORE of a recruiting budget for usually 3 or 4 commits (before Cal) than football did for a minimum of 25 a year, when ALL the facilities improvements went to sports that DIDN'T bring in the money, the operating budget for football was about the same for EIGHTY FIVE rides as for THIRTEEN in basketball, etc etc. How are some of these numbers even possible? All while football, with laughable support, cleared THREE times the money bb (with literally EVERYTHING) did.
I still say that he should have noticed that football was the emerging "money cow" and given it some support, especially since everyone else was AND we were in such a hole with its support to start with (recruiting room, what a joke, and that was just the prime example). Was he brain dead, he didn't notice any of this? Football with a little more investment could have provided a lot MORE money for the other sports with even a small portion of the money it had EARNED a right to being reinvested.
5. No contest, thank you, not just late but ten years late.
6. Does that mean he is good at kissing A--? How much did the contract for CBC cost UK in severance pay because it was written on a piece of toilet paper? Not to mention his hire to start with.
7. And you would probably be surprised to know how many of them are, even though everything is going MUCH better now. Most don't want to stick their neck out like I do.
8. How in hell could he possibly be that bad, read my post. LOL
Wasted enough time, bye.
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/152470378/ncaa-best-athletic-directors-rankings
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