Oregon and Kentucky

[3632]

As an old retired financial advisor, "it not always how much you make but how you spend it." Football at Oregon gets a higher percent of revenue than football does at KY. Basketball at KY gets a larger percent than basketball at Oregon. Most schools think basketball is a lesser important sport than KY. The football coaching staff at UK is way way overpaid.

Yes. We fund basketball and some other sports at a higher clip than our department revenue rankings. Football gets adequate money but it doesn’t get ‘take the next step’ money. We also do not do innovation well.

 

[3632]

Exactly. Yuuuge. It's what Gatorade did for UF for decades. Best thing we could hope for is to recruit and land a huge sports product/marketing Co here in KY.



It's both cool and sad at the same time.



We have the money to compete in the old pac10. We don't have the money or commitment from the fans, boosters, and admin to win the SEC. We don't have football minded fans. We have some. Most don't or can't look at UK Football objectively because of their basketball mindset.

We also don't allocate enough money to football recruiting and we can't just hop on a private jet to recruit the best QB, OL, WR, or other position player in the country.

It’s the AD making choices. He took over and we were way behind in facilities etc in everything. Basketball didn’t have a practice facility while others did, football had nothing, etc. it wasn’t just Olympic sports behind. he chose to start facility building for secondary sports first before the cash cow and basketball which does generate profit at UK. We now have adequate football $ but it’s not the ‘let’s kick this thing in the rear’ level.

 

[hmt5000]

So, endowment funds aren't included in revenue? Because UK has much more revenue.

No but it does show how wealthy your alumni base is. Sports schools are obviously going to give more to sports than academics.

 

[hmt5000]

Texas endowment is misleading, it's for the UT system. I am sure UT Austin provides the vast majority but it isn't just one schools. Stanford is also in the ballpark and could be more than just UT Austin.

Harvard must have some of the Oak Island treasure as they are the largest by a good bit.

Yes but just pointing out alumni base wealth. UT has many millionaire donors. They can come up with money at the drop of a hat. Bama can get money but they rely on everyone giving something. Mich OSU Texas and places like that probably have more millionaire donors than any other school. Stanford has wealthy donors but aren't necessarily sports fans. I don't think most students at stanford even pay tuition... I think their endowment pays for it.