Kentucky Spends Almost As Much On Midnight Madness As It Does for Football Recruiting

[Velo Vol]

Amazing.

No wonder they are so terrible.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Any of our Kentucky friends want to defend this?

 

[SEC-GoalTenda]

We spend more than Bama. Has your 1.4mil brought you to the top of the SEC east?

 

[ukvols]

It looks ridiculous to us, but consider their perspective. How much better would the UK football team really be if that 300k were put there? One could argue that Madness is the better bang for the buck there.

 

[ukvols]

We spend more than Bama. Has your 1.4mil brought you to the top of the SEC east?

No, but hopefully that huge recruiting budget will help lure a great football coach. Basically, UT will spend what it takes to try to compensate for the in-state recruiting disadvantage we have against Florida, LSU, UGA, Bama, etc. Winning at football doesn't interest UK enough to spend their money there. If UK would spend $1 million per year on football recruiting instead of breaking the bank on a renegade basketball coach, they'd eventually have a much better football team. To each his own.

 

[Coach Grizz]

Basketball sucks who cares

 

[wildnkrazykat]

25k were there, not 5k

 

[YankeeVol]

At UK, Basketball > Football

 

[volinbham]

When I was there Bill Curry was football coach and Pitino was in his 2nd year. Football was playing Ole Miss in Oxford on the same weekend as midnight madness. None of the local TV stations or paper sent reporters to Oxford.

 

[wildnkrazykat]

Oh bill curry

 

[Lawrence Wright]

I bet the majority of cash was spent on production for the women's coach MC Hammer tribute.

 

[Hardwood_fanatic]

Any of our Kentucky friends want to defend this?

Nothing to defend, this state is bat sheet crazy over basketball.

 

[State of the Vols]

And they beat us in football last year. Go figure.

 

[NeylandArmy]

LMFAO....this should be grounds for dismissal from the SEC

edit: not really

 

[McCat]

I bet the majority of cash was spent on production for the women's coach MC Hammer tribute.

worth every penny.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

worth every penny.

Matthew is good people.

He and my sister were assistant coaches under Carol Ross at UF back in the day.

 

[McCat]

Matthew is good people.

He and my sister were assistant coaches under Carol Ross at UF back in the day.

Good stuff. Definitely glad that we have Coach Mitchell.

 

[wildnkrazykat]

He was in the next section over from us at madness and just seems like a truly good, happy person. Was talking to everyone, laughing and having a good time. My grandpa thinks Cal talks too much, but he loves coach Mitchell and "my girls" as he calls them

 

[dukes_of_maggard]

The thing where they turned the court into a projection screen was the coolest thing I've ever seen...

 

[bigeasy]

The thing where they turned the court into a projection screen was the coolest thing I've ever seen...

That is depressing..you should get out more

 

[dukes_of_maggard]

That is depressing..you should get out more

at midnight madness...smh

we used to have people clogging so this is a step up.

 

[SEC-GoalTenda]

Already posted on another thread, but this shows how we recruit in BB:

Marcus Lee chooses Kentucky Wildcats, joins loaded recruting class for 2013 - ESPN

We just won't ever be truly competitive in football.

 

[Velo Vol]

It looks ridiculous to us, but consider their perspective. How much better would the UK football team really be if that 300k were put there? One could argue that Madness is the better bang for the buck there.

Did you see the numbers? As bad as UK football is, it still earns three times the profit of basketball.

Profits in 2011-2012

Football – $19,668,166
Basketball – $6,201,868

From a simple return on investment standpoint, why not put more money in football?

 

[McCat]

Basic math skills are not a Kentuckian's strong suit.

There are plans for a 100M upgrade at Commonwealth. Stay tuned....

Did you see the numbers? As bad as UK football is, it still earns three times the profit of basketball.




From a simple return on investment standpoint, why not put more money in football?

 

[LittleCat]

From a simple return on investment standpoint, why not put more money in football?

I dont know...maybe because we just won a ncaa title?