Perhaps Cal’s a bargain at that price.
However, when I look at the budget presentation here, I see a $2.2 Billion budget for the University of Kentucky (slide 5). Calipari’s $4,375,000 per year is right at 0.2% of the total budget. A pittance? Again, perhaps.
However, when we flip over to slide 11, notice a budget slashed to meet declining revenue projections, with 188 positions eliminated.
It makes me sick to my stomach to read the last slide, Dr. Todd’s valediction to those whose education become unaffordable, and those staff who lost their jobs:
The budget before you is far from perfect. There is pain here
that no one seeks and no one deserves. In it lies the sacrifice of
our students, who will pay more tuition. In it too lies the
sacrifice of our faculty and staff, who will not see their pay
increase.
Yet, you found $35 million to pay some scoundrel who’ll probably lead us straight to NCAA sanctions.
I can’t believe my tax dollars support this kind of crap.
/rant