Kentucky should leave the SEC
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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.
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.
When Kentucky doesn't do well in the SEC tournament it means a lot less money, from a financial standpoint, it means a lot.
I don't think that point is relevant or less and less relevant every year when you are paying players.
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
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.
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.
What's an extra 4 or 5 million when you get your sh*t kicked in virtually every time you play a conference game?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But that is no reason to give up the money and prestige of being in the SEC. That's a ludicrous idea.
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...
I think the OP is Oscar Combs - he has beat that drum for years...
For 2022-2023 ACC teams received $44.8 Million per team. However the new revenue plan I think starts this year. If a team makes the CFP they get $4 million extra. They would get an extra $4 million for reaching the Second round. An extra $6 million for the semi finals and another $6 for the CFP Title game. Teams also earn extra for finishing in the CFP Top 25 and going to a bowl game but not sure how much those amounts are.
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