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Post by Sixth Man on May 5, 2008 14:54:38 GMT -5
Kentucky to use private plane for recruiting visits Sunday May 4, 2008 LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- University of Kentucky athletics is joining the jet set of college sports. The University of Kentucky Athletics Association Board of Directors approved funding a private plane for use in recruiting. The plane will be available to the sports of football, men's basketball and, to a lesser degree, women's basketball. University of Kentucky Deputy Athletics Director Rob Mullens says the university will look to buy between 100 and 150 hours of flight time in the 2008-09 school year. In recent years, members Luther Deaton and Bill Gatton lobbied for UK to buy a plane to help football and men's basketball coaches keep pace with competing recruiters. Deaton and Mullens noted that as many as two-thirds of Kentucky's competing schools in the Southeastern Conference owned their own planes. While Kentucky will look to lease a plane this coming academic year, UK president Lee Todd adamantly opposed the idea of buying a plane. "That will not happen," he said in a post-meeting interview. "I don't see it happening under my (tenure)." Todd saw the leasing of a plane as "budget neutral." The cost, which Mullens estimated at about $4,000 per hour, would be partially offset by what UKAA would have paid for commercial flights, hotel rooms and other travel expenses. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/ncaa/05/04/kentucky.jet.ap/index.html
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Post by Raider Country on May 5, 2008 15:20:17 GMT -5
The NCAA should not allow this. It gives BCS programs an unfair recruiting advantage, but they won't do anything to stop it.
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