Lmao. Yall still whining about the "pony up" comment?! How long has it been? Must.have.struck.a.nerve. to have been so effective and lasting.
Or true.
If yall want the players Georgia and Bama sign regularly the previous few years, the only option is to open your pocketbooks. Spend spend spend. You have a staff that has put you in the ballpark. Within a TD of Georgia on more than one occasion. We were just a few Jimmys and Joes from winning those games and everyone knows it.
Yet everyone is STILL whining about how much the coach is paid....
Here's the truth for ya, if you can handle reading it- UK is not Georgia. We're not Bama, UT, UF, or even Auburn, Ole Miss, or MSU. We're sure as sht not Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, or TA&M. We're not even Missouri. We're not even Vandy or USCj if you want to really compare.
This program has been bottom tier for a long time and only recently made a great run YEARS IN THE MAKING to crawl out of it.
1- UK has to pay MORE for its coach than other schools do, just to compete.
2- UK will have to pay MORE than EVERYONE ELSE for THAT PLAYER that everyone else wants, or they're NOT GETTING HIM.
3- UK will have to do that for EVERY key player until they PROVE they can win those games like the ones they've not quite finished against Georgia, UT, Bama, Auburn, etc.
4- UK is going to have to make itself a desirable FOOTBALL job OVER AND ABOVE the rest of the SEC in SOME RESPECT for the HC, DC, AND OC POSITIONS or they will lag WAY behind the programs that have already won national, conference, and division titles.
5- The offers will have to be so good and the contracts so strong in our favor as a result, that anyone wanting our coaches is going to have to pay us a SHT TON just to talk to them, not to mention hire them away.
6- The UK fans that want this to happen need to PONY UP and force the admin to STEP UP in every way like these other FOOTBALL FIRST programs HAVE STEPPED UP FOR YEARS on the marketing and player promotion level.
FFS we still DON'T EVEN HAVE A STADIUM with all the amenities as NICE AS PAPA JOHNS was when it was built. We don't go all out for the press in the press box or the on field media. We're still playing catch up to the other SEC schools at the top, when we need to lead them by 5-10 years in ways that we can.
You can have Mario Andretti driving a Yugo, a Civic, or a Maxima, but it's still gonna get its ask kicked in most races by a BMW even with just a decent driver. When you go up against a Formula One driver and vehicle, you need to have an advantage in multiple ASPECTS to win the race. At some point you need to have an even better vehicle and/or pit crew than the competition. That costs money.
The truth can suck. But it's still the truth.