Re: Huggins was a money machine

[eseeskin]

I believe that football might be the only other one that did.  I know it was a couple of years ago, maybe minter's last season, where they had gotten out of the red on the books. 

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From: Mike Brungs <address@hidden>

Date: Thursday, December 1, 2005 1:27 pm

Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Huggins was a money machine

> I would love to see a financial breakdown on each of the sports in the 
> athletic department. Have any of them, other than basketball, turned 
> a profit. My guess is.. not even close ! 
> 
> address@hidden wrote: 
> Some people just don't realize how much money Huggins 
> generated with a winning basketball program. Huggins meant 
> millions to the athletic program. They bragged on Goin in today's 
> paper about how he raised the athletic budget from 14 million to 
> 25 million and he really had little to do with it. If it wasn't 
> for Huggins and the money the basketball team brought in it 
> wouldn't have happened. If Goin accomplished anything, it all came 
> about by riding on Huggins back all the time he was here. The new 
> AD doesn't have Huggins to ride on and with the money going south 
> it's going to be a different story. He's got so many holes in the 
> dike !
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