The House of Blue

It is a finalized plan from before but they made an announcement about it the other day. It's unclear as to whether or not the money is from private UKAA funds or if they are saying that someone donated the $7M for the project.

IF it's from UKAA funds then I agree that the money could have been better spent for FB.

from the article below:
On December 13, 2011, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved UK Athletics’ initial scope proposal to renovate and upgrade the UK Softball Complex. Tuesday’s meeting increased that initial scope by approximately $2 million.

Know the facts before complaining. According to the article that cobbycobb posted, the $7 million dollars for the soccer complex came from private donors, not from the UKAA.

allegedly that is a done deal and will be announced after the first of 2013 (minus 30 mil or so for a new baseball field)

Rumor on the street is that the legislature is going to approve around 500 million in new bonding for uk of which a portion will r used by the athletic department.

Okay, so are you willing to name your source? Probably not.

I sure hope that is true. I am actually one of the few people that do not mind the minor sports getting upgrades in facilities. Both softball, track, and soccer were long over due as our facilites looked high schoolish. BUT football needs some improvements to Commenwealth Stadium. There is no doubt about that.

As of now, UK Football is scheduled to get approximately $70 million. That will be used towards updating Commonwealth Stadium.

Hop,i sure hope you are right..That would be great...

Oh snap. I wish there was an emoticon for bringing facts to the table.

You portray something like you're an insider...you know as much as I do and I live in DC.

I know Title IX exists and that it exists for very good reasons, BUT there are A LOT of schools that are not compliant with Title IX. The NCAA is not too critical of it unless there is some huge discrepancies. It's a lot like accounting too. The numbers for co-ed teams are fudged to make it look better than it typically is.

I for one am very happy to see all these facility upgrades to other sports. So in the past ten years we will have a new Track and Field Stadium, new softball stadium, new soccer stadium, renovation of nutter field house and practice fields, new basketball practice facility, new wildcat lodge, renovation of the shively sports center (baseball and track and field/cross country team locker rooms, coaches offices, lounges, and weight room), and countless other locker room/team lounge renovations of other sports. I guess things down the road are a new baseball stadium, indoor tennis center renovations, Commonwealth stadium renovations, new rifle facility, and new golf facility. If Mitch Barnhart were to tackle all these facility issues by the time he's done He would probably go down as the best athletic director we've ever had (Yes even though football struggles, it has always struggled). Also here are the renderings and plans for the new softball facility and the preliminary drawings for the new soccer stadium.