Re: Huggins was a money machine

[Mick Bergman]

The only time I've ever known football to make a profit was 2002
(Minter's 2nd to last year) and that was thanks to the Ohio State game
down at PBS.

On 12/1/05, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Mike Brungs <address@hidden>
>
> Date: Thursday, December 1, 2005 1:27 pm
>
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Huggins was a money machine
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> > 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 ! to plug I