Jurich, Abramson, Samuels, McConnell, Northup, Hindman, Downard, Bond, and Carmicle were not on the original Arena Authority Board. 10 of the 15 were appointed by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher (UK Grad).
You had five from the BOT on the Arena Authority. Hardly a quorum. Besides, Jurich wanted the damn thing on campus.
Kelly Downard is a man, by the way.
Funny. There literally is a street named after him
on campus. And you didn’t address the fact that he wanted the arena on campus, exclusively for UofL.
He had nothing to do with the current location. That was the Arena Authority’s decision.
So much misinformation..
The Arena Authority BEGGED UofL to play downtown. Jurich wanted to build an on campus arena and had the backing to do it. Of course he was going to negotiate the best deal possible for the University.
John Y. Brown made a catastrophic mistake by folding a very successful ABA franchise in 1976 rather than pay the $2 Million franchise fee. He was a good man and Governor, but that was dumb. The city also was short sighted (naturally) by not paying the fee with tax dollars .
The whole thing is out of control/ridiculous. Feds need to step in and and regulate.
And to think; the NCAA could have prevented this altogether with some proactive reforms.
Idiots.