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PHOTOS BY JARED GLOVER | STAFFTop & above: Club bass fishing team president Ryan Collins pre-fish-es at Taylorsville Lake in Taylorsville, Ky., on Sept. 8 to prepare for atournament the following day. UK will add bass fishing as a varsitysport in April and become the second school to do so, after Illinois.

Fishing for success

Many students dread getting up foran 8 a.m. class, but for the club bassfishing team, that’s a late start.

For business management sopho-more Ryan Collins, the club bass fish-ing team’s president, tournament week-end starts on Friday after class.

He spends Friday night at the baitshop buying bait and tackle, picking uphis boat and getting ready for the tour-nament.

Saturday mornings begin even ear-lier. While some students are returningto their dorms, Ryan is leaving for thelake, usually around 3:30 a.m. Afterspending all day Saturday, 7 a.m. to 9p.m., Ryan goes to his hotel room con-fident he knows what the best setup forthe tournament will be.

The tournaments last from 7 a.m. to3 p.m. on Sundays with the participantsbeing awarded points based on the totalweight of their five largest fish.

The club bass fishing team has seenan explosion in interest in recent years,increasing from 18 members last yearto 35 people interested this year.

Collins attributes this increase to bassfishing being added as a varsity sport atUK, beginning in April. UK is the sec-ond school to add bass fishing as a var-sity sport, following Illinois, whichadded it as a sport in 2008.

“A lot of people think we go out toa little pond with bobbers and nightcrawlers,” Collins said. “In reality,we’re traveling across the UnitedStates, competing against some of thenation’s top college anglers.”

The team plans to compete in fivetournaments this season. It competes inthe Forrest L. Wood series and the Col-lege BoatUS series. Last year, it fin-ished 11th out of 40 teams at a ForrestL. Wood series tournament at LakeShelbyville in Illinois, and also had twotop-10 finishes at College BoatUS tour-naments, including one at the MurrayState Invitational against 70 otherteams at Kentucky Lake in Marion, Ky.

The team’s goal is to qualify for theNational Championships, which tookplace last year at Pickwick Lake inSheffield, Ala., with more than 200teams.

Like other club sports, the bass fish-

By Jared Glover

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See BASS FISHING on page 2

UK club bass fishing team has upped membership, aiming for national title

A document to be celebrated

Editor’s note: This is the first in afour-part series about the state of theUK football program.

The Southeastern Conference dom-inates the college-football landscape.The conference has six teams ranked inthe AP Top 25, including four of thetop seven.

Teams from the same conferenceclashed for the first time ever in a BCSChampionship game last season, as Al-abama and LSU vied for a national ti-tle.

Since 2006, college football’s na-tional champion has come from theSEC — an unprecedented six-yearstreak.

During those six years, UK is acombined 16-32 against SEC competi-tion.

Football is the greatest revenuegenerator for UK Athletics, but lack ofinvestment in the program may be im-pacting its ability to compete in theSEC.

And despite the historic winningtradition of men’s basketball, footballgenerates more profit for UK Athletics— and basketball isn’t even close.

“What most people don’t under-stand is that every school is a footballschool. The amount of revenue thatfootball can generate dwarfs even thegreatest basketball programs,” saidMark Nagel, associate professor in thesport and entertainment managementdepartment at the University of SouthCarolina. “Certainly the fans identifywith what sport wins the most, butfootball just has the potential to makeso much more money with attendanceand television contracts.”

The 2012-13 athletic budget ap-proved in the summer by the UKBoard of Trustees shows that football isslated to produce $27.6 million in rev-enue while spending $9.5 million —for a profit of $18.1 million.

By comparison, men’s basketball,even coming off a national champi-onship, is projected to produce $20.8million in revenue, while spending$12.6 million — for an $8.2 millionprofit.

Those are the only two profitableprograms for the university. The other20 sports lose a combined $11.6 mil-lion, according to the 2012-13 budget.

“We have to have football be good.We can’t sit here and not let football dogood at the gate,” UK athletic directorMitch Barnhart told the Kernel in Au-gust. “We will always look at thatclosely. We are in a good league andthat does give us stability.”

The other sports rely on funds gen-

Less fundingcould hurtUK football

By Les Johns

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Three UK football playerswere charged with possession ofmarijuana on Thursday, UK Po-lice Chief Joe Monroe confirmed

in an email to the Kernel on Mon-day.

The players are running backRaymond Sanders, cornerbackMarcus Caffey and wide receiverBookie Cobbins.

The citations were issued atabout 10 p.m. Thursday at Build-

ing A of Cooperstown Apart-ments, 700 Woodland Ave., ac-cording to the documents.

All three citations said an offi-cer smelled marijuana comingfrom “the basement area of Build-ing A” and all three told men po-lice they were smoking marijua-

na, and marijuana was found in-side the apartment.

The players’ court date is setfor 1 p.m. Oct. 9, according totheir uniform citations.

UK head coach Joker Phillipsspoke on the matter during hisMonday press conference.

“Kids don’t always do all the

3 football players face drug chargesCited for possession of marijuana Thursday

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Elizabeth Crews,a political science

senior, interactswith students

during Constitu-tion Day at the

Cats Den onMonday.

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Lexington Mayor JimGray will visit campus Tues-day at noon in the UK Ath-letics Auditorium of W.T.Young Library.

As a guest speaker of theUK Women’s Forum, Graywill discuss “InspiringWomen in Business and Pub-

lic Service,” — a part of theforum’s professional devel-opment program.

Since taking office near-ly two years ago, Gray, aVanderbilt University gradu-ate, has applied his businessacumen to governing thecity.

As the former CEO ofGray Construction, the may-or took his financial and

business expertise into officeand addressed Lexington’sbudget deficits and investedin citywide initiatives.

Gray is, “doing a lot ofgreat work, empoweringwomen and minorities,” saidSarah Nikirk, chair of theUK Women’s Forum.

The mayor’s work

Lexington mayor to speakat UK Women’s Forum

By Taylor Clements

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Jim Gray will talk about business, public service

BookieCobbins

Raymond Sanders

Marcus Caffey

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TORONTO — It’s been a long time sinceWoody Allen acted in a film he didn’t direct.It’s probably even longer — as in never —since he’s played a pimp.

The 76-year-old will do just that in “Fad-ing Gigolo,” a movie conceived and writtenby John Turturro. Turturro will direct and —of course — play the hooker. The johns?Those would be Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Par-adis and Sharon Stone.

There were plenty of highly touted Holly-wood movies at the Toronto International FilmFestival playing to the eager masses and me-dia. But somewhat below the radar were anumber of not-yet-shot projects, such as “Fad-ing Gigolo,” that are seeking attention withinthe industry as their principals talk them up todistributors. (A poster at the festival showedroses strategically covering the lower half of anaked body. It’s not Turturro’s. We don’tthink.)

Turturro took a break from peddling thefilm to stop to chat with the Los AngelesTimes about his strange project. Turturro hasdirected before, but it’s usually movies set in aworld he (presumably) knows a little moreabout, like 2010’s “Passione,” about music inhis ancestral Naples, Italy.

“Gigolo” is a comedy, the 55-year-oldsaid, “but tender, sweet.” Turturro’s characteroffers his skills to women in various NewYork social subsets, the comedy emergingfrom the attendant culture clashes. (Paradis,for instance, plays a Hasidic woman who de-cides to hire his services.)

If the story of the movie is strange enough,its back story is even weirder. Turturro wokeup one day and had an idea to play a maleprostitute. He told his barber, who was WoodyAllen’s barber, who told Allen, who liked theidea and wanted to play his pimp.

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ing team does receive somefunding from Student Govern-ment, but because of the costsassociated with the sport, mostof its funds are raised throughsponsorships put on uniformsand from T-shirt sales.

Despite the costs, the pay-offs can be equally high.

First place at Forrest L.

Wood tournaments pays$5,000, and the winner of theNational Championship isawarded $20,000.

This can help pay fortravel expenses, which accu-mulate with the increasingcost of gas and having to haula boat to and from tourna-ment locations, which havebeen as far away as Missouri.

In addition to increasedinterest, the team found suc-cess on the water. Former

club president Brandon Cardwas the first collegiate angleron the Bass Master Elite procircuit, and he won the 2012rookie of the year award,beating out 98 other rookies.

Twelve members of theteam competed in a tourna-ment Sept. 9 at TaylorsvilleLake in Taylorsville, Ky.

Despite a subpar show-ing, team members are stillenthusiastic about this year.

“It’s going to be a fun

season. Hopefully we can geta couple of days when thebite really turns on,” civil en-gineering sophomore KrisSteele said.

Anyone interested inmore information can contactpresident Ryan Collins atRyan_Collins51@yahoo.com,on Facebook at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000282293897, on Twitter@UKBassTeam, or its web-site, ukbassteam.webs.com.

BASS FISHINGContinued from page 1

right thing. The thing we do iswe hold our kids account-able,” Phillips said, “and wediscipline right away. Wedon’t wait. We try to get asmany of the facts as we possi-bly can, and we got them onFriday.”

All three players are rein-stated this week for the pro-gram, Phillips said.

However, Caffey remainsacademically ineligible, aswas reported during UK’sAug. 3 media day.

In February, UK line-backer Ridge Wilson was dis-missed from the team follow-ing an arrest in Louisville ona felony drug charge.

When asking for the cita-tions related to the incidents,the Kernel was asked to put inan open records request. TheKernel sent in a records re-quest Monday afternoon andthe citations were sent to theKernel just after 4 p.m. Mon-day. The birth dates and So-cial Security numbers of theplayers were redacted.

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throughout the city will helpthe forum “make connec-tions,” Nikirk said.

She said through the fo-rum’s professional develop-ment speakers, such as Gray,she hopes to involve the UKWomen’s Forum in connect-ing “with the campus, thecommunity and the city.”

The UK Women’s Forumorganizers hope the mayor’svisit to campus will encour-age members to become moreensconced in the business andpublic service sectors of theLexington community.

“We feel very honoredthat the mayor found time inhis schedule to come to cam-

pus and speak on such animportant topic,” said GailHairston, co-chair of thePublic Relations Committeeat the UK Women’s Forum.

Though the organizationprimarily focuses on UK’sfaculty and staff, Nikirk en-sures that knowledge of UKWomen’s Forum’s existencewill empower “students thatinitiatives are thought aboutand the groundwork is beinglaid” for the future.

“I feel reassured know-ing that there are organiza-tions like (the UK Women’sForum) paving the way forthe future,” dietetic freshmanErin Smith said. “The may-or’s presence on campusshows his support ofwomen’s rights, which is im-portant in such a patriarchal

society.”Among the programs and

initiatives the UK Women’sForum coordinates is the an-nual Educational AssistanceAward.

Given to a full-time UKemployee and student, theaward “helps with the cost ofbooks and lab fees,” Hair-ston said.

No matter your gender,age, political affiliation orrole on campus, Gray’sspeech is expected to offersomething for everyone.

The UK Women’s Forumextends an open invitation tothe free campus event.

The forum is not onlyabout women.

“We’re interested in em-powering all people,” Nikirksaid.

GRAYContinued from page 1

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tuesday 09.18.12 page 3kernelopinionsEarlier this month, Ringling Bros. and

Barnum & Bailey Circus returned to per-form at Lexington’s Rupp Arena. Sadly, arecent commentary in the Kentucky Kerneldistorts Ringling Bros.’ animal-care recordand disparages the dedicated men andwomen who spend their lives caring for ouranimals. I want to set the record straight.

Contrary to the opinions expressed byMs. Joseph, Ringling Bros. is very proud ofits human and animal partnerships, and thephysical and behavioral needs of all our ani-mals are a top priority that can be seen inevery city we visit. Our animal care profes-sionals spend 24 hours a day, seven days aweek making sure all our animals receiveappropriate food, water, exercise and veteri-nary care. In fact, during our engagement inLexington, visitors to Ringling Bros. sawfirst-hand our animal care during our Ani-mal Open House, where they saw the ele-phants, tigers, horses and other animals up

close and had a chance to take photos andask questions.

Had Ms. Joseph attended our AnimalOpen House, rather than stopping by withher pet dog to peek through a fence, shewould have had the opportunity to learn thatRingling Bros. also meets or exceeds allfederal, state and local animal standards.She would have also learned that RinglingBros. has made a lifetime commitment tothe Asian elephant through the RinglingBros. Center for Elephant Conservation, aunique facility designed for the research, re-production and retirement of the Asian ele-phant. The valuable work done at the centerenables us to share our elephant husbandryknowledge with the veterinary and conser-vation organizations around the world to en-sure future generations have the opportunityto experience this magnificent yet endan-gered species. To date we have had 24 Asianelephants born into our conservation pro-

gram and we are take great pride in the goalof our conservation program.

In addition, despite the claims made inthe editorial about Ringling Bros.’ regulato-ry settlement with the U.S. Department ofAgriculture, Ringling Bros. has never beenfound in violation of the federal AnimalWelfare Act. In fact, the USDA conductsregular unannounced inspections of all fed-erally licensed zoos and circuses, includingRingling Bros. The specific instance cited inthe editorial involved a difference of opinionabout proper veterinary care for an elephantand the characterizations about that care, ap-parently as reported by a local televisionstation, are not accurate. Ringling Bros. hasa staff of full-time veterinarians, veterinaryconsultants and technicians who havedecades of experience caring not just for ourelephants but all of our animals. We standby their professional experience and judg-ment when it comes to decisions about our

animals’ health and well being.Animal activist groups will no doubt

continue to distort the commitment we havefor all of our animal performers. RinglingBros. is one of the few opportunities peoplehave to witness the special bond betweenhumans and animals and experience thewonder and excitement all our animals bringto every city we visit. Rather than takewhat these animal rights groups claim atface value, we encourage everyone to learnmore about our animal care by visitingwww.elephantcenter.com. And the next timeRingling Bros. returns to Rupp Arena, weinvite all Lexington area families to comesee for themselves how the animals arethriving at The Greatest Show On Earth.

Stephen Payne is the vice president ofCorporate Communications for Feld Enter-tainment Inc., the parent company of Rin-gling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

Ringling Bros. responds to animal-care claims

Immediately after the West-ern Kentucky Hilltoppers baffledthe Cats with a trick play on agame-winning two-point conver-sion in overtime, college footballpundits christened head coachWillie Taggart as the country’snewest hot coaching commodity.

A lot of folks on Twittertook the logical step of suggest-ing Taggart as the replacementfor Joker Phillips, once they hadfinished tossing the dirt on thegrave of his UK coaching ca-reer.

The problem I have with that suggestion isUK has already hired Willie Taggart — the Wild-cat version of him, anyway.

Taggart was a four-year starter at quarterbackfor WKU from 1995 to 1998. Upon graduating,the Division I-AA All-American took an assistantcoaching position at his alma mater, ascending toassistant head coach in 2003. After spendingthree years as running backs coach at Stanford,he returned to Bowling Green to accept the headcoaching job.

Joker Phillips’ bio reads pretty similarly. Heplayed four years at UK, took a coaching posi-tion at his alma mater soon after graduating, leftto coach elsewhere, returned to UK as offensivecoordinator and was eventually named headcoach.

It seems the two have taken parallel paths towhere they are now. What isn’t parallel is the on-field product.

On Saturday night, Western looked like themore physical team, pushing UK around thefield, breaking tackles and ultimately powering toa victory.

More notably, it looked like the more pas-sionate team.

Taggart’s team seemed to play with a confi-dence never before seen on a Kentucky sideline.

Players considered less talented than the boys inblue overcame any apparent skill deficit by sheerforce of will. They lusted for victory.

The team has taken on Taggart’s personality.He’s a prideful guy, bent on proving himself tothe world. He made clear this week that heloves his alma mater, questioning why studentsattending WKU would wear UK apparel. AfterHilltopper quarterback Kawaun Jakes caughtthe throwback pass from running back Antonio

Andrews and sauntered into the end zone, Tag-gart reacted like he had just won the SuperBowl.

Phillips also has displayed passion for hisschool and team, but maybe never to the level ofTaggart. Emotion crackled in Phillips’ voicewhen he implored fans to show up and supportthe team. He’s shown elation in victory and dis-gust in defeat.

For whatever reason, Phillips’ brand of pas-sion hasn’t translated to the field. Maybe that’s acondemnation of his ability to lead. Maybe itpoints to a lack of commitment to winning by theplayers. I don’t think either can be claimed withcertainty atthis point inthe season,but it’s clearsomething is-n’t working.

There’sno doubt Jok-er has asteeper hill toclimb thanTaggart. Tosucceed,Phillips must knock off SEC football factories;Taggart only has to win in the Sun Belt, and tothrill the nation, beat UK.

Taggart is sure to net some job offers at sea-son’s end, and one of those may be from UK.Who knows, he might elect to stay at his almamater, depending on how much the programmeans to him and how much the athletic depart-ment is willing to pay.

But if and when UK is looking for someonelike Taggart, remember that it already has some-one who should be like him.

For whatever reason, it’s not working out.Alex Forkner is the Kernel’s assistant opin-

ions editor. Email him at aforkner@kykernel.com.

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erated from the football pro-gram, which was budgeted togenerate $2 million less thanlast year at least partly be-cause of results on the field.

Last year the Cats ended afive-year run of bowl appear-ances and finished the seasonwith a 5-7 record. The Lex-ington Herald-Leader report-ed in late August that UKfootball season ticket saleswere down more than 10,000from last year.

UK’s home openeragainst Kent State brought48,346 fans to Common-wealth Stadium, the fewest toattend a home opener since1973 and the lightest-attendedhome game since 1996, be-fore a Commonwealth Stadi-um seating expansion.

Not many more (53,980)came Saturday night to wit-ness the Western KentuckyHilltoppers upset the Cats 32-31 in overtime. The last timethe Cats failed to draw morethan 60,000 for a game some-time during the season was in1998.

“In the grand scheme of a$91 million budget, if you areoff just a little bit obviouslythat is a problem. If we’re off10-15 percent of your totaldepartment revenue, obvious-ly that’s a $9 or $10 milliondollar hit,” Barnhart said inAugust. “A couple of percent-age points, we can figure away to manage our waythrough that.”

This is the first year foot-ball is budgeted to decline inrevenue since 2004-05. Foot-ball revenue grew nearly 50percent from 2008-09 ($20million) to 2011-12 ($29.6million), fueled by success onthe field and SEC revenue-sharing agreements.

“The primary spark ingrowth of football revenuesduring that time came fromthe increase from the newSEC television contract,which went into effect in thefall of 2009,” UK spokesmanTony Neely said in an emailto the Kernel.

The Cats generatedenough wins to reach a bowlgame for five straight years,and average attendance atCommonwealth Stadium ex-ceeded 68,000 in three con-secutive years.

The extra revenue gener-ated by football did not stayin the program, however.During the same periodwhere revenue increased by$9.6 million, budgeted ex-penses for the program grewby $1.05 million, meaningfootball got to keep 10.9 per-cent of the increased revenue,and the rest ($8.55 million)went to other sports.

“(UK) is competing in aconference that, for the mostpart, whatever football wantsat those schools sort of goesto the top of the list even be-yond academics — and I’mnot saying that’s right,” saidOscar Combs, founder of TheCats’ Pause and member ofthe Kentucky Journalism Hallof Fame. “That’s just the wayit is. If Alabama, Tennessee,Georgia or Florida wants todo something for football, no-body is going to stand in theirway on that campus.

“I’m not necessarily ad-vocating that happen here atUK, but if you are going tocompete with those guys youare going to have to invest alittle bit more.”

Men’s basketball revenuealso increased to $18.1 mil-lion from $14.3 million be-tween 2008-09 and 2011-12,a growth of $3.8 million. Ex-penses, however, grew $2.97

million, meaning the basket-ball program kept 77.3 per-cent of the revenue growth.

The greater growth inkept revenue for basketball isattributed to the coachingstaff.

“The largest growth offootball spending has beenwith facilities, which are notreflected in the yearly foot-ball budget,” Neely said.“Looking at men’s basketball,the largest increase in itsbudget came from the hiringof Coach John Calipari andhis staff prior to the 2009-10season.”

The numbers speak to alessening investment in foot-ball that manifests itself byfalling behind the rest of theleague in facilities, coachingsalaries and recruiting —and in the end, wins andlosses.

“In all college athletics,the compensation for theplayers is capped, so theonly area that you can exertfinancial muscle is in areassuch as coaches salaries, fa-cilities, training centers andacademic support,” Nagelsaid. “Really where you seethe winning come from iswhen you can recruit betterathletes because your prac-tice facility, stadium, coach-ing staff or the way you trav-el is better.

“It is hard to say exactlywhat those yield in wins, butthere certainly is an impactbecause the more talentedplayers want to go to thenicer places.”

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On the corner of Colum-bia and Oldham avenues youcan get the scoop on Lexing-ton concerts, get your gro-ceries and buy more than 125different flavors of beer allwhile being greeted at thedoor by a friendly dog.

Owned by Lexingtonbusinessman Frank Bargo,the Wildcat Market opened in2011.

Its goal is to “bring thestudents and community to-gether,” said manager and op-erator Tim Wick.

The market is nestled inthe streets of the ColumbiaHeights neighborhood, be-tween North Campus and theKroger on Euclid Avenue.

Its windows are scatteredwith posters for 18-plus con-certs and shows in the Lexing-ton area. Its freezers are full of

ice cream and its shelves arestocked full of all the food astudent could need, such as ce-real and milk and peanut but-ter and jelly, all for about thesame price as Kroger.

“(The market) is morethan a store,” said Kelly Fink,an architecture junior, “it’s gotits own stories and culture.”

Wick said much of theculture comes from the home-made food his wife, BethWick, brings in and sells, in-cluding blazin’ Asian barbecuepork sandwiches, THC(turkey, ham and cheese)wraps and kush curry wraps.

Game day means a spe-cial menu, and when UKplays Florida Mrs. Wick sellshomemade alligator jamba-laya right at the counter.

The market isn’t knownjust for Mrs. Wick’s recipes,though.

On Thursday nights themarket hosts weekly cornhole

tournaments, and on Fridaysit has live music.

Acts such as 23 StringBand and Afroman havestopped by the market be-fore playing at CosmicCharlie’s, Al’s Bar orBusters, according to NickTotini, an agricultural eco-nomics junior.

“It’s hard to find goodfolk music,” Fink said, “hereyou can find people playingthe saw or the banjo. And ifyou’re looking for someoneto play with Tim (Wick) canfind you a guitarist or whoev-er you need.”

People from France, Ger-many, Croatia, China andEngland come to play musicand hang out, Wick said.

“It’s also a diversegroup,” Fink said, “there’speople from every generationand race relaxing here.”

The market also sells UKapparel, homemade tie-dyesand occasional treats such ashomemade beer cheese.

“Overall, you feel athome when you’re there,”said Scott Miller, an integrat-

ed strategic communicationjunior. “(The market) has agreat country style and afriendly vibe.”

The market accepts UKPlus Account and has freeWi-Fi for students.

It is open from 10 a.m. to

9 p.m. every day exceptThursdays, Fridays and Satur-days, when it is open untilmidnight.

By Judah Taylor

news@kykernel.com

Sells food, offers music inColumbia Heights neighborhood

In a year, Wildcat Market has become a local staple

PHOTO BY ADAM CHAFFINS | STAFFBusiness senior Patrick Sermershein makes a purchase from Frank Bargo, co-owner of Wildcat Market onColumbia and Oldham avenues.

PHOTO BY QUIANNA LIGE | STAFFUK athletic director Mitch Barnhart said “We have to have football be good” and that playing in a stableleague like the SEC helps.

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