Kentucky Playing at the Rose Garden in November!

Stonehouse wrote:Thanks, Geez, for that time-suck of a link. An hour or so later:

Men's Basketball Expenses
GU - 3,053,437 23.7%
USD - 2,354,414 13.6%
USF - 2,258,049 17.5%
LMU - 2,140,989 12.1%
SMC - 1,967,983 16.3%
PEP - 1,861,123 13.5%
SCU - 1,728,259 13.6%
UP - 1,691,831 16.6%
Interesting that UP lags so far behind (1,863,273) behind the school in 7th place (SMC), which is more than the difference between SMC and PEP, which is in third place.

I added the MBB expense as a percent of total expense. LMU is lowest, and an outlier because they spend some much somewhere else. Three schools are clustered around 13.5%, three schools are around 17%, including UP with the third highest percentage. Then there's GU, which spends almost a quarter of their budget on MBB. The conference average spending on MBB not counting GU is almost exactly $2M. GU spends 50% more on MBB than they would if they spent the conference average.

My dad went to med school at UK. My attempt to trash talk with him ended with him saying "Even if the entire KY team goes to the pros this year the Pilots will never beat KY!" Gah.