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John80

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  1. I know University presidents aren't hired for their athletics knowledge but how can you be this clueless and out of touch with reality? I can see why USC felt that they have to get away from these people.
  2. Colorado once had a nationally relevant program while Rutgers has always been bad.
  3. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Oregon. Any school that cares about their football program can't stick with the incompetent clown show out there.
  4. Oregon/Phil Knight have spent too much money on their football program to let it fall into oblivion with Cal and Stanford. They will do whatever is best for their football program, whatever that is.
  5. I agree with Huard about Cal but Stanford's administration tries at football within their academic limitations and they have had several good teams in the last 15 years. An elite private school with only 8,000 undergrads isn't going to have great attendance but I don't think their administration can do much about that.
  6. SEC expansion has always been about increasing payouts for existing members and no one is going to take less money to be in the same conference with Florida State or UNC or anyone else. There's plenty of four year universities in the South that play football and if the B10 wants to have schools in every corner of the US, more power to them. That isn't the SEC's goal which was to get into Texas and that's done.
  7. I'm surprised at Arkansas and Tennessee but I know Arkansas had good support when Nolan Richardson had things going. I'm a UK fan but I know the money is in football. If basketball mattered financially, then the ACC would be worth a fortune. Most UK fans are tired of Cal and his one and done crap but our AD gave him a huge a contract. If he doesn't get to the Final Four this year I think it will be his last year because he's aware most people are tired of him.
  8. Kentucky is the only school in the SEC that has much fan interest in men's basketball. Players generally don't want to go to schools where there is little fan interest in the sport so it's difficult to consistently be good.
  9. I would ignore any source that thinks the heart of SEC country is in North Carolina and South Florida.
  10. Joker Phillips was the low point of UK's program but that was what finally convinced UK that they have to spend money on football. A lot of visitors to UK football games go to Keeneland and/or the Bourbon Trail. If you're flying into Bluegrass airport that isn't too far from the stadium.
  11. The money should have been settled BEFORE further expansion. They shouldn't be haggling over this now when the SEC has zero leverage. Some SEC schools have been successful in spite of the incompetent SEC management.
  12. It's hilarious that "Kentucky football" is in the same sentence with "top ten." Uk hasn't won the SEC since 1950 and in the last 40 years we have had a winning conference record two times. The one top 10 team Kentucky had in 1977 was achieved with massive cheating and probation. Kentucky is like Kansas State when Bill Snyder took over and schedules as such.
  13. The UK Louisville football series has never benefitted UK and was started by a basketball coach athletics director that didn't care about building a football program. There's very little in state football talent and no one outside the state cares about the game.
  14. Research funding has nothing to do with athletics or athletics conferences. UC-San Francisco is in the top 3 of research funding every year and they have never had any sports.
  15. Maryland is a basketball school that was in a great basketball conference and they only moved because their athletics department was in terrible financial shape. They had a lot of classic games against Duke and UNC and that's gone.
  16. Stanford has the resources to be independent in football but Cal has a large stadium debt to repay and they are not in the position to be snobbish.
  17. Bobby Bowden openly said he didn't want the SEC schedule and it's not surprising Clemson feels the same way.
  18. Aaron Rogers and some other former Cal players have talked about the hostility they have gotten from professors. Cal's administration allows some professors to do whatever they can to sabotage football. You would think Cal would look at a peer school like Michigan and see how a winning program helps the school but they don't care.
  19. When Stoops was hired UK made overdue improvements to the facilities and increased coaching salaries. He has won 3 of the last 5 against Florida. When he arrived UK had lost 25 times in a row against Florida and most of those games were massacres. The only coach that has done better here is Bear Bryant. The boast is purely about recruiting. In the past other football coaches would recruit against Kentucky by saying we only cared about basketball and that unfortunately was true until Stoops arrived and got UK to invest in football.
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