re: Who’s next on the list if it isn’t Drew?

I don’t know how many times this has to be debunked but that’s simply not true whatsoever.

Cal pushed long time Kentucky donors out. Our biggest contributors. He didn’t want them to have any input at all on anything. So he brought in his own donors that he could manipulate and do what he wanted with their money.

All NIL deals had to go through the coaching staff first and not UK. Several times the players didn’t even know they had been offered NIL deals by reputable companies that had already been set up with the football team. Antonio Reeves was offer $100k and the coaches never even told him about it.

THE biggest booster at UK came back into the fold merely hours after Cal did his farewell video and said whatever he’s getting at Arkansas(for NIL) I will beat for whoever we hire. That’s how bad people wanted cal gone. It’s not sour grapes because he went to Arkansas. It’s because he won’t let anyone help him do his job.

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Heard Today that UK does not really have people on the NIL collective stuff and that Cal was on his own. If any great coach is serious about UK he will need Mitch to answer how the collective is going to work and who is going to be in charge.

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Until late last year we did not have an official NIL collective. There were several private groups running collectives. We started one exclusively for football and announced one for basketball at the end of last year.

So guys were getting NIL but it was from individual collectives. Basically our AD hated the idea of NIL so we were very late to formalizing it