Sounds good, I know, but completely unrelated? Like student athletes won’t attend classes there? It’s only a matter of time before the AD (or Calipari) says to someone “Hey, he needs a C. Remember all those $$$ we gave you?” Wink, wink.
Maybe it won’t be on the scale of North Carolina, but if it happens don’t say I didn’t think it might.
It’s stories like this that remind us that school and athletics are joined at the hip for their own purposes as a part of the university experience. Innovation (in this case) is only limited by imagination, much the same as science. Kentucky is to be congratulated and admired for it’s academic/athletic environment that would make any alum proud.
Do any of these fancy projects include a full-size indoor practice facility?
bonds are how states take on debt and then say they balance their budgets every year. the state money goes to the yearly payments. all that being said – even if the UK athletic association is kicking in bond financing over the life of the bond issue, kudos to them.
This makes me ask: Why is it necessary for state and local government funds to be used to build a new stadium for a privately owned professional football franchise?
So espn, TV revenue, conference expansion etc is not suvh a bad thing?