Barnhart was my boss. Is there anyone out there working for a company where results like this wouldn’t get you fired? Oooooooh, we’re in the SEC and we’re a basketball school so what do you expect?

I can just see someone telling their boss, Oooooh we’re a small bank and all those bigger banks have soooooooo many advantages….you should be happy that I opened 6 accounts this year.

Insert your profession ______ and then think about it. We should all work for Barnhart!!!!

What other decision could Barnhart have made? Do you think the Wildcat faithful would have stood for another NIT sesson?
We are very cumfortable in football. We are one of 68 of 120 teams going to a bowl and we buy three of the six wins to get eligible. A great formula. As long as Louisville stays bad, that’s four. Miss State doesn’t look like its going to play along anymore and be the fifth and then there’s Vandy. This year, we had the perfect game at Auburn. A great win. One of the best played games we have had.
We’ll get our six wins, Another bowl, moe statue talk for Brooks outside the stadium, basketball comes in and every one’s happy. Barnhart will get his bonus for us going to a bowl. ETC.

and Brooks has given us success…..just not where a lot of us want to be….but considering the 10 yrs previous to Brooks, he has every right to blow his own horn(which he never does). I know the Bowl game and stats are inflated concerning how bowls are handled now, and I have raised Cain more than anyone about that, but those are the only stats we have. If Brooks was 20 yrs younger and “upwardly mobile” then he would have a resume( based solely on what he has done at Kentucky) that might warrant him getting a shot at a bigger football school. I really and honestly believe that this problem is higher than Brooks or Barnhart….if the people holding the purse strings want results, then they turn over more $$$ and we get more for it…..The one thing that I had forgotten in this process and that has enlightened me recently is this.

The big money people that donate at UK are Basketball people. If you donate funds to the University of Kentucky, you can stipulate, or “earmark” those funds for certain things, i.e. the Wildcat “Coal” Lodge. The big time money people may not be shelling out all that much for football, or complaining loud enough. Until we get a T.Boone Pickens here at Kentucky that demands his money be spent on football, I dont see a lot more cash being funnelled into the program. I am not saying it can’t be done, just that it isn’t likely.

I will never say we don’t have a right to complain as fans, or that we should be satisfied with what we have. I have always said to anyone who will listen that this "geographically challenged " notion is pure barnyard fodder. Money is what brings these kids in….and I am not talking about bags of cash either. Newer and bigger facilities, money spent directly on the players in the form of equipment and training assistance, those things all follow the funding. The basketball program has a lodge…..the football team has what, a dorm??

We dont have as many Joe Craft’s or E.J. Nutters out there as we used to, due to the economy going into the tank, so this thing would take a while even if the wheels began turning today. It can be done, and we are a really good candidate for doing it. This state would support a football program as well or better than any other, actually we do it now, it just isn’t a priority in our lives like basketball has become. We just have to continue to push for it, and be ready when someone with the big bucks decides to step up.

I will make a prediction on this…..when Spurrier manages his first SEC title in football at USC, UK will get serious about it, because then it will be proven that it can be done. Right now, no one( who really needs to) really believes in it and that is our single biggest stumbling block.

I think it’s sad when we’re comparing ourselves to SC but I agree with both of you. As you’ve both outlined, until outside forces put pressure on the administration to do better…..then we’re going to get what we pay for. Don’t know about you two but I don’t have T. Boone’s resources so it’ll have to be someone else stepping up to do that!!!

Bottom line….until 65,000 quit showing up just to tailgate and demand improvment by not buying tickets…..nothings going to change.

Two? One of the top six in the league? Not quite.
Three? One of the top four in the conference? Get serious.
Four? We qualify for the third group. But who are the three worst at this time?
I want a winner too. But wishing, hoping and praying ain’t going to get it.
What is so depressing is the approach we are taking to get ‘respectful’. We just signed a four game contract with the team that is 120th in the country. We have Charleston Southern on the schedule for hext year. That one will draw respect won’t it?
We want to brag about getting to a bowl game and with only 68 teams going it would be sorta difficult not to.
I heard that some pne is pushing for all teams that win six gets a open chance to get to a bowl. No conference tie ins considered. Won’t that be a jolly good time?

Make sure and tell all your friends!!!;) Apparently we just don’t get it…….football in the Bluegrass is a loooooooooooooooooooong term project. We have no recruits, play in a conference that we have no business being in, we’re a BASKETBALL School for chrisakes, we should be THRILLED to barely beat Louisville, Thrilled to make a top notch bowl like the Music CIty, don’t you understand……..this is just an excuse to tailgate in the fall before heading to Keeneland!!!!