UK’s New Basketball Arena Is Going To Be Absolutely Insane
Kentucky basketball is not your run-of-the-mill college basketball program. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s more like a religion, and just like any religion, it needs a cathedral for followers to properly worship.
The school recently released this video that shows renovation plans for the aging, decrepit Rupp Arena. As expected, the final product is unreal.
Watch the amazing video of the renderings:
Glass walls. Expanded lobbies. An NBA-sized jumbotron. And…is that a moat? The entire renovation will cost an astounding $310 million. Combine that with the state’s education budget and that is $311 million those poor Kentucky residents will never see again. Kentucky just raised the basketball bar to a standard that, until now, was never before imagined.
This sucks for everybody who is not a Kentucky fan for a variety of reasons, but mainly because we don’t believe that Kentucky needs any more recruiting advantages. The school already locks up around 80 percent of the nation’s best five-star recruits, so this just means it’s going to take the other 20 percent. Whatever. At least they will suck at football forever.
[via USA Today]
The one good thing to happen to Merica since Obama became POTUS.
11 years ago at 9:06 pmGo Cayuttts!
11 years ago at 1:37 pmGotta do something to lure those kids to Kaintuck. They rarely recruit from instate as there’s just not much basketball talent.. The school is a joke, more of a bait shop than a university. My father-in-law’s best friend is a UK grad. He cannot read. True. He graduated from the University of Kentucky and the man cannot read. He wasn’t a student athlete so it’s not like they made up a fake curriculum, as they’ve been caught doing numerous times. UK is the only basketball program to get the NCAA “Death Penalty” and one of only 2 schools to ever be so penalized. They are also the only program to be sanctioned by the NCAA in EVERY decade of the NCAA’s existence.
To call it an educational institution is a joke.
11 years ago at 3:08 pmThe ultimate “safety school”. Everyone gets accepted. My sister’s family lives in Kaintuck (Louisville). I can’t even bring myself to visit that gawdawful, backassward place, anymore. If they can ever bring themselves to travel out of state they can visit Colorado. They’ll be welcome here but I’ll never go to that ugly, polluted cesspool of a Commonwealth again. The television show “Justified” truly hit the nail on the head with their portrayal of Kentuckians.
11 years ago at 3:23 pmViewed this fully expecting to read news of a British basketball arena.
Do you fancy a game of netball, Nigel?
11 years ago at 2:14 amciting awesome renovations to recruits. TFM.
11 years ago at 12:26 pm