Let me try to address your post a step at a time to try to enlighten you, though enlightening a know-it-all like yourself is probably impossible. :sunglasses:
(1) self-loathing -- LMAO. My self-concept is pretty strong, thank you very much. Why? Demonstrated performance as Coach Cal likes to say.
(2) your buddy Mitch -- For the first 10 or so years of his AD administration, Marvelous Mitch was syphoning every dime he could from FB revenues to fund his and Tood's agenda to become a leader in Olympic sports. You may have missed the fact that we pay a women's BB coach, who all of a sudden can't keep players or coaches, over $1,000,000 per year. But he sure can dance!!!
Only a total revolt by "ordinary" season ticketholders and others stopped the Barnhart and Todd marauding and forced real spending on UK FB.
I've said it before and I'll say it again "Without the fan revolt, Joker Phillips would still be our FB coach and the facilities renovation/expansion would be a UK FB fan's wet dream."
(3) "Like most cheapo's . . . cheapest tickets in the SEC." A poster above offered an interesting observation. On a cost per win basis over the past 15 years UK's ticket prices most likely are among the most expensive in the SEC and, IMHO, in all of college FB.
(4) ". . . never cared to actually do what it takes to have a winning football program." Guess you missed the part where I purchased season tickets and parking pass and, I will add, paid the K-fund extortion for nearly 35 years.
(5) watered-down OOC schedule -- just stating facts. But, since everyone else has watered down their OOC schedule, I guess its ok with you.
(6) the $110 million (or is it $180 million) renovation -- I'm all for the relatively small portion spent on player facilities and the relatively small amount spent on upgrades that benefit all fans, even us "ordinary" fans.
But I do have a problem with the vast majority of the funds being spent on "catering" to the fat Cats, so Mitch can rub elbows with his rich buddies in their private sanctum and pat themselves on the back for what they are doing for UK football, while hardly bothering to watch the team getting clobbered on the field.
And do I need to remind you that our "little brother", you know the "redheaded step-child" down the road, has had chair seats, as ugly as they are, for their "ordinary" fans for the past 15+ years, while UK's "ordinary" fans had the option to pay extra to have cloth seatbacks installed on their seats.
Oh, and before I hear from the "true fans stand the entire game" crowd. You can cheer just as loud and just as hard while remaining seated. Standing should be reserved for those times when something exceptional occurs--great catch, TD, drive stopping open-field tackle, etc.--or to provide support for a game changing third down stop or goal-line stand.
(7) "The fact is the rest of the SEC has been outspending UK on football for decades until recently." -- Makes me wonder whose pockets were lined with all of the K-fund monies collected from season ticketholders, including myself, for all those decades.
