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05-06-2008, 08:03 AM
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| | Negavol Savant
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| Pretty Impressive, Do We Have One?
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - 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.
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05-06-2008, 08:05 AM
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| | Senior Member
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| I'm pretty sure UT has one. People were tracking Fulmer's jet during his search for OC candidates. | |
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05-06-2008, 08:07 AM
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| | Negavol Savant
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Russellville, AR
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| owned or leased? to own one is just so much more "Entouragesque".
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05-06-2008, 01:49 PM
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| | Id10T Error
Join Date: Jul 2007
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| UT has a jet, I dont think it belongs to the University but I think one of the bigger boosters who lets them use it all they want. It gets alot of miles out of our staff thats for sure. | 
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05-06-2008, 02:19 PM
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| | Valid Victorian
Join Date: Feb 2006
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| It's owned by the Pilot gas guys.
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05-06-2008, 02:20 PM
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| | Valid Victorian
Join Date: Feb 2006
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| And upon that plane was when Bruce Pearl told the staff that Hopson had committed weeeeeeks before it was public.
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05-06-2008, 04:23 PM
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| | Go back to the hotel, E.B
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05-06-2008, 05:40 PM
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| | Id10T Error
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Originally Posted by JZVOL  source? | 
I wanted to but I just couldnt do it.  | |
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