Kentucky should leave the SEC

[HerrosHeroes]

Kentucky shall rise again!

 

[HeismaNole]

We don’t have the donors to compete with the football powers and we can’t shake the stigma of being a basketball school. Not many want to join a place that has never won anything.

I like football more than basketball at my age and I hate that we can’t be competitive. Our best year would get coaches fired at premier programs.

All of the major football programs get whoever they want.

 

[katwest]

I don't think our basketball prowess means much to the conference.

When Kentucky doesn't do well in the SEC tournament it means a lot less money, from a financial standpoint, it means a lot.

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

To be clear, if we change conferences you aren't getting the same quality of players to come that you get now (quality debatable after a 4 win season but it would be worse n the acc or big 12). The SEC brand gets UK better players.

I don't think that point is relevant or less and less relevant every year when you are paying players.

 

[TheKentuckyKid]

You would be lucky to watch 3 games on tv.

 

[SmokinGun9]

Yea let's join the WAC. With NIL anybody can compete with the right amount of money, a strong QB and a good Coach. Look at Vandy this year.

6-6

 

[Kybluedude]

I have smoked a lot and I have never been that high where I’m turning down 50+ Million or more for being in the SEC. “It just means more” and where would we go, we would struggle to win the OVC.

The ACC generated a record $706.6 million in gross revenue in 2022-23, distributing an average of $44.8 million to its 14 football-playing members.May 24, 2024

 

[jacbud]

Not too many Kentuckian's tuck tail and run. We are one of the Charter members. No reason to go anywhere. Work harder, get better. Oh, lowly Vandy and lowly South Carolina can have good years and we have a horrible year and tuck tail. Nah, we need to get tougher, better, stronger and compete as much as we can and as best we can. I feel under Stoops we have had tough teams, but we have had coaching gaffs and issues from day 1. It looks like we are in for down year 2 in a row coming up. Get over it and get better, if that means all out change, so be it. We have replaced 3 and 4 star players leaving in the portal for low 3 star guys, which is what we are looking at bringing in. We only have a couple of Power 4 players that we are getting to campus. We are getting MAC level players coming to look at us now. So be it. I have seen MAC players that are great pro players. But not sure that is what we are looking at right now. No matter, stay in the SEC, take your lumps, try to avoid 16th place next year, that will be our main goal. TRY HARDER STOOPS. WORK HARDER PLAYERS, we are KENTUCKY. We do not run. United we stand!

awsome post!!!
I am from KY, became a football fan in 1951, Bear Bryant, have been a Wildcat fan ever since! Went to school at UK worked in Ky until mid 90s, moved out to TX (weather) and love that we can watch most of the KY games via SEC network.

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

You would be lucky to watch 3 games on tv.

People still watch "tv" ??? Not in the traditional sense I would say Most folks stream, plane and simple, under the age of say 45 or 50 at least. The ability to watch any team you want pretty much every game is out there.

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

The ACC generated a record $706.6 million in gross revenue in 2022-23, distributing an average of $44.8 million to its 14 football-playing members.May 24, 2024

What's an extra 4 or 5 million when you get your sh*t kicked in virtually every time you play a conference game?

 

[Blue Bigfoot]

OR we could stop with the one sided contracts, up our coaching game and compete. ( Looking at you, Barnhart)
Another thing to be considered is the movement and consolidation towards just a few mega conferences. Move out of the SEC and we could get locked out of any decent conference when the musical chairs stop playing. Make Kentucky football Great Again.

 

[maysvilleky]

What's an extra 4 or 5 million when you get your sh*t kicked in virtually every time you play a conference game?

4-5 million would literally pay for 2 or 3 Olympic sports that UK fields.

 

[Bluesnky]

4-5 million would literally pay for 2 or 3 Olympic sports that UK fields.

It’s also a gap that is poised to explode which is why the good programs are trying to get out of the ACC.

 

[kats23]

I've said it for years I wished we could play in the ACC. Look at Louisville's soft ass schedule. We had won 6 games this year with that schedule. I know we got boat raced this year by them but that's because the team just quit and didn't show up. Buut on a practical level it's never going to happen. Too much money to walk away from. Teams are fighting to join the SEC.

 

[hmt5000]

And wave bye-bye to $50M....bullshit.

Way more than that.

 

[Jeff Sykes]

I'm guess you were one of those kids that when he got beat in a game of horse on the playground you took your ball and went home. With that quitter's mentality, there is no wonder UK doesn't expect it's fans to want more.

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

4-5 million would literally pay for 2 or 3 Olympic sports that UK fields.

Would rather stand a chance to make the playoff which would increase profitability than fund Olympic sports. Schools in other conferences fund Olympic sports too.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

The SEC is always going to have one football program that the others just subsidize and allow to drag along like the red headed step kid with leg braces. Someone who doesn't compete, is kind of an embarrassment, but makes everyone else feel better about themselves by comparison. That will be Kentucky's role until Mitch has the balls to get rid of Elmer Fudd Stupe, or someone gets rid of Mitch.

But that is no reason to give up the money and prestige of being in the SEC. That's a ludicrous idea.

 

[RunninRichie]

UK is an OG. We we're in the SEC before it was called the SEC.

 

[DACats86]

UK CAN compete in the SEC. UK chooses to not make the commitment REQUIRED to compete in the SEC. Regardless, UK will never give up the prestige, and payday, that comes with being in the SEC. Mainly because the SEC money insulates Mitch from the demands of the detested unwashed masses (i.e., UK fans).

I think the OP is Oscar Combs - he has beat that drum for years...