I was HIGHLY po'd over the micro-wave statement, and unlike you, I wasn't afraid to tell him so to his face in a normal tone of voice. Didn't attend almost a whole year with tickets and my entire group didn't buy any JP's last year ...when your boy was signed and he looked like he was going to go the way of his brother we all bought tickets again. We were displaced , but ended up with better seats.
We shall see how it all plays out , but as much as it might surprise I hope MS is highly successful here, but because of his 1970's coaching style I don't see it happening. You can continue to bemoan the season ticket sales losses, but if Stoops, or whoever, is able to get this program to consistently EIGHT PLUS wins each season then you'll see season ticket sales sold out each year...a beautiful stadium, practice facility as good as any in the sec, new state of the art baseball stadium, great SB, soccer , track facilities and MORE ALL UNDER THE WATCH OF MB...now his contract negotiations with SOME head coaches is questionable at best.
Well, according to you, we are still losing fans. Kind of stupid IMO since STOOPS has brought in the best overall talent ever assembled by UK, IMO, a far cry from the 92nd ranked class in 02 that had TWO recruits above a two star.
And if some bean counters hadn't noticed how much money was being lost from losing TWENTY THOUSAND season ticket holders (plus loss from donations) and if the OTHER SEC ADs hadn't been investing in THE MONEY COW so that we are getting FORTY MILLION DOLLAR bonuses (plus selling naming rights, etc) so there is an INCREDIBLE amount of money to throw around ($12,000,000 buyouts, seven wins an automatic extension, etc etc) we probably would still have Joker as the coach.
And LOL, it is pretty obvious from my posts that I am scared to death of mitch.
And I still contend that although I am in favor of helping out academics as much as anyone, being able to borrow (and obligating the athletic department for that much more) about a hundred million more than the cost of renovating CW makes a mockery of not having any chance to finance $100,000,000 LESS for all those years we had the "recruiting room" pictures to be used against us.
AND I also contend spending the $156,000 to hang some pictures on a wall somewhere instead of correcting the major flaws in the "recruiting room" was his way of showing the "microwave fans' who was boss.
PLUS, since we did lose TWENTY THOUSAND season ticket holders (many of whom will never be back) the money from that PLUS the loss in donations cost us a lot more than he ever saved with his penny wise pound foolish support of football. With the proper support of football he would have had MORE money for the minor sports.
Most good business men INVEST in their biggest money maker-------and while UK has just about everything imaginable in basketball AND the best overall program in the nation, the stepchild named FOOTBALL was the MONEY COW.
He starved it. For OVER a decade, while football was emerging as THE money sport.
I will stand by for your personal insults you like to use instead of discussing the FACTS in this post.
