It isn't just about direct selling to the public as much as it is showing the community that you invest in things they are interested in. It is all about demonstrating that you are a good neighbor and not just in the community to be a taker of available resources of the human type, plus huge tax breaks.
Sheiks don't care about UK basketball.
I'm sure their plant manager has an amount he can spend on community based things but it wouldn't rise to the level of an NIL contribution to UK.
Well there is a lot of NIL money floating around the country and not all of these places have industry on a large scale selling directly to the public. It can't always be about where the corporate headquarter is located.
I doubt anyone outside of the Athletic Department knows if we have $2 Million or $20 Million. I bet we will have whatever it takes to build the squad we need.
I'd be happy to build on that foundation. Give me ten years, but I have a strategy to build a top 20 tech company. Kentucky needs to replace the void of IBM and both UK and Louisville, as a schools need to change that. AI revolution is here, and it's time for me to come back home to do something with it.
I can be your Chief Scientist. It would fit nicely with my electrical and system engineering degrees.
True, and a lot of those guys were recruited to BYU by Pope. He wanted to bring Saunders with him (and I seem to remember most on here weren't too excited about that prospect, but hindsight, right?).
Whats a good email for you (or DM me? I dont know how that works). I'm building this with other Kentucky folks.
The horse industry is the real money.
I don't think my current employer would like me leaving just now. However, I do wish you well. I do want to get you my email in a more private way so that I don't start receiving emails from posters who don't always agree with my posts. By the way, I used to work for both LA and Corvette.
I have been away from these boards for the last year and just came back for the tournament. I have to say, in the really short time that I've been back, I have come to the conclusion that you're either a troll or an insufferable gnostic who likes to hear himself talk. To paraphrase from that cinematic masterpiece Dr. Strange, do all of these people who think you're wonderful and clever work for you?
If that's the case, it would be donations to hospitals, higher learning, etc (which Toyota has done locally). Sports (unless it's Special Olympics) isn't going to be looked at by blue chip cos especially if not HQd in the state.
Yep, the William T. Youngs (and their families) of the world have either passed on or sold out.
But the majority of that money flows internationally or is held by Louisville fans in the form of CDI stock.
Our insiders say the UK NIL budget is right at or a little north of 10 million
Most of the bourbon industry is owned by foreign companies now. The tobacco industry used to have big boosters . The coal industry is a fraction of what it once was .
For the price they are charging for some of the so called allocated bourbon, they should be able to chip in some money!
Exactly. Kentucky Utilities is owned by PPL , a Pennsylvania company. No was in hell they’d allow KU to donate to UK’s nil . They spend there money on gay pride celebrations and such.
No one except Washington was ever going to get Great Osobar . He was getting everyone’s best offer and going to allow his old coach at Washington to match it . Once CMP realized this he moved on .
