[Stardust]

A lack of financial support is what is holding UK's football program back. We have a below average recruiting center on-campus, average stadium, average coaching, and average players.

If we invested more money into the football program, we would see better results. There is no denying that and Rich Brooks stated this many times before he retired. I don't think scheduling has anything to do with anything, because UK plays one of the toughest schedules year in and year out. Our bigger recruits don't come here because they want to play against Indiana, West Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest. They come here because they want a shot at Florida, Georgia, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, etc. That's where our schedule is, the non conference games are something we can go back on so that we can become bowl eligible.

All-in-all, our athletic department needs to invest more money into our football program and until that's done we should get used to seeing the 7-6 & 6-7 seasons.

That's definitely a factor in the whole argument, from scheduling, to coaching, to support for the program - we have football because we are supposed to, not because we want to competed. We are happy to have a team, and could care less if we are better than average!