re: How Kentucky raided Big Ten territory to rise to national prominence

quote:

---

If Kentucky heavily invests in their program, the B1G is gonna shite their clothes. Playing in the SEC is a big draw and that part of the country is beautiful.

---

We actually have. Mostly made possible by Mark Stoops going after the big basketball donors. In 2016 we built a 45 million dollar football training complex that Florida is actually using a model for their next one. We did a mostly cosmetic refurbish of Commonwealth Stadium in 2015, adding a recruiting room and more luxury boxes (it actually reduced seating capacity) and they're adding more minor improvements for 2018-2019 with chair backs etc. Not quite Tennessee empty the coffers level of spending but its up there on a lot of other programs around the country.