Right.
That isn't counting the $30,000,000 contract they just recently signed for the ancillary rights or whatever it is called.
You can see the effects already, since the NCAA decided to allow schools to pay their players legally mitch or someone decided that players can live in Lexington for about half of what it costs to live in Louisville (or Knoxville, or Auburn), wonder what genius figured that out? .Maybe the profs on the appeals board? And mitch or someone decided that we could do away with 6,000 screaming fans because the big wheels in their soundproofed boxes could bring in more money to a starving program------well, they couldn't afford to replace the two years obsolete scoreboards OR the folding chairs in the "recruiting room" (what a joke AND disgrace that was) until years after they were scheduled to be replaced so they must have been broke, and why invest in football, basketball and the minor sports is where the money is, LOL.
Yes, things are really looking up for football at UK, (I believe that, by the way) LUCKY to chance into a coach and a great staff IMO, but when you look at the FACT that UK football was primarily responsible for financing the huge loan for Commonwealth and got about HALF the money you really have to wonder (NOT that I don't think UK's primary purpose should be education) about why they couldn't finance half that much on their own much earlier? And most of the stadium improvements are just to increase the revenue football can bring in. I know, I know, huge amounts of money coming in now, but where did the $5,000,000 BONUS from the new TV contract about five years ago go to, and with UK football bringing in an $18,000,000 profit at the same time (operating expenses about the same as for 13 basketball players) while basketball cleared about $5,000,000 wonder why they thought they couldn't afford to replace the folding chairs in the "recruiting room" OR finance the new scoreboards when they were supposed to be replaced.
Check out A&M's $400,000,000 renovation just for the stadium (Increased seating, by the way, now largest in the SEC), with Arkansas and California spending about the same for all their sports programs.
We are on the rise, but still decades behind the football powers------I don't know about you but I know who to blame at least one of those decades on, and we aren't really gaining any ground, MSU is passing us up in football capacity and apparently the city college will soon.
But the dumbest thing lately IMO is the NCAA allowing schools to buy their players and we come in as a low bidder for their services. Typical.
And a sad commentary that UK doesn't learn very fast, IMO. Transfer U, TU, Auburn, etc already have huge advantages from bending every rule possible and here we have a chance to "buy" players legally (yes, they are bought in a lot of cases) and do our typical flop for football.
Sorry about all the sour grapes, but this latest inequity is absurd.
