What happened to the first unexpected $5,000,000 bonus from the TV contract, couldn't he have at least replaced the folding chairs in the "recruiting room"? How do you justify not spending more money on the sport that cleared more than THREE times the BEST basketball program in the nation? Talk about milking the program in the emerging money sport dry while other SEC teams were investing in it------which created the TV and SEC contracts that has caused more money to be rolling in than mitch can spend on basketball and his other sports (and basketball brings in a lot of money other SEC programs don't get)-------and I probably follow ALL the other "minor" sports as much as anyone on here, devastating loss to Transfer U today, who said cheaters never prosper.
One of our best posters, loucatfan (that disappeared for a while, probably disgusted with the ignorance on here at the time) did a very good report card on mitch the other day., and he said we lost about 15,000 fans due to mitch's lack of support AND stupid comments that he never tried to explain or apologize for that I know of. He started a long running thread about replacing the long overdue scoreboards before the season ticket renewals wanting mitch to announce something about fixing them so he could keep his CROWD of tailgaters and season ticket holders together BEFORE the ordering deadline.. NOTHING announced until they were replaced at the last minute, and the money that SHOULD have been planned for for TWELVE years was borrowed from UK at the last minute-------but, funny thing, the money that couldn't be raised in the two years AFTER the system was projected to be obsolete when built (anyone still using the big clunker tube TV you were using then) was raised in like a day when the stupid faculty that athletics has GIVEN millions over the years objected to LOANING the money with interest to football. .
My objection to mitch's penny pinching on football is not that he shouldn't have built up the minor sports, it is that every other AD in the SEC recognized the emergence of football as the MONEY COW, most of it from the huge contracts and OTHER teams bowl games, and mitch would have had a LOT more money to spend on his sports if he hadn't run all those fans off and had given football SOME of the millions it had EARNED.
And Blue Decade, quit making up things about me not knowing about the vast amount of money being poured into our facilities, thank God for all the other SEC ADs that weren't asleep at the wheel so athletics has more money to spend than they know what to do with. And, to set the record straight, I have always supported Stoops and his plan even when we lost our bowl game with the five game losing streak, AND have argued with the short sighted Negative Nellies that criticize everything, I really think if it wasn't for them Stoops would have inherited more than two four star players when he started------the same number that Joker inherited when he was playing the seven SEC teams (not counting Vandy, who had ONE this century, before lying Franklin, but their one four star unjustly got shot before he got there) in his first year that AVERAGED THIRTY EIGHT four star commits the previous four classes-----not counting five stars, and that included the two Misses that everybody thought we should own-----because we had better talent, LOL. And he beat top ten USC and came withing three points of NC Auburn with Cam. NOT a good head coach apparently but neither Brooks or him had a chance to be really competitive in the SEC, Brooks hit gold with three in state four stars and some other underrated players he coached up in 07, but still ended up with a losing record in the SEC. And we went from that peak to ZERO wins in the SEC AND inexcusable OOC losses. AND we went from a fan base that sold out a 67,000 seat stadium to a program that lost 6,000 seats AND about 15,000 season ticket holders------under mitch's guidance AND primarily due to his penny pinching, IMO. But then our PR man's lack of PR skills didn't help him any.
Well, guess I shouldn't have been allowed to vote for Trump because I don't live in DC, where all the politicians and bloodsuckers in the in crowd live and where about 80% of them voted for Hilarious Hilary, surely they should have been the only ones allowed to vote.
Games over. we lost to Transfer U, things to do and people to see, I can't believe I wasted all this time talking to a wall again, LOL..
