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Ouch More national embarrassment for our BIGGEST revenue sport

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7 months ago

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2012/kentucky-atheltics-spending/
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That article says only 5000 people showed up for BBM...yeah....ok.
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7 months ago

MaineCat said...
That article says only 5000 people showed up for BBM...yeah....ok.

May have the attendance wrong, but the $$$ figures are spot on.
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7 months ago

probably supposed to read 25,000, likely just a typo.
What's even more disheartening is reading the comments below from other SEC fans. Truly embarrassing.
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Here's the way the Administration sees it. All bowl revenue is split anyway as a conference so what does an extra investment in football actually get us? If you get to a BCS bowl versus a let's say Music City bowl you are only talking an extra 750-900K toward what is already coming in. The SEC shares all bowl money anyway so you get 1/12 of the pie every year regardless how you do. To UK it is free money for putting 11 guys out there on Saturday no matter the product.
Basketball however, is where the merchandising money comes from so they have to keep that up to keep the majority of the fans happy and keeps those merchandise dollars rolling in.

This post was edited by shauner17 on 10/14/2012 at 10:00 PM
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7 months ago

Appalled is the word .... nuff said
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7 months ago

Clearly the recruiting expenses are so very important. That is why our extra expenditures over and above the likes of USCe, LSU, and aTm (among others) have led to us landing recruiting classes that are so very superior to those of the same previously mentioned teams.

This post was edited by rompcat on 10/16/2012 at 4:05 PM
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7 months ago

is recruiting the problem right now?
Just wondering. Don't know about football...
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7 months ago

And you ya'll wonder what the problem is. Go to the root cause to fix it!
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