Maroon Nation

Well, I guess the good news is that EKU has done a really good job of keeping this quiet since no one on this board is aware.

EKU has had a student athletics fee since about 2021. Athletics receives a portion of the fee called "Eastern Experience". In 2023-24 that fee was $175 for students with ...

Yesterday got to play in a golf scramble up in NKY. Large group and got paired with a guy that worked for EKU also within EKU athletics for many many years, he currently still works with EKU on many projects but for a private company and still lives in the area (he was a friend of a friend). We ...

I’ll believe it when I see it. Let’s just start with a winning football team and a competent head coach first. Had 300 people in the stands for a playoff blowout loss to Gardner Webb, not a very appealing football program right now.


Were you one of the 300 ? I was there . That seems like a ...

Great info to hear and mostly in line with what most of the more involved people believe/expect. RKS, as many memories as I have there, is in dire need of big changes and has been for years. Regardless of plans to move up or not. Downtown has become a disaster over the years after having been a ...

The 2020-2025 Master Plan for the campus lists the Begley renovation as a TBD. Many of the other items on the master plan have already happened or are in the works. Most likely any full scale Reno of Begley will be pushed to the next master plan, if one is currently in the works. That may have been ...

My biggest worry is the university focus on the medical school (but we NEED it). That will pull resources away from RKS when it comes to the legislature because of UK and UL putting the screws to the legislators. UK already got caught basically trying to take money from UPike and Pikeville Medical ...

Like all new hires, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and see how they actually perform in the role. But will say I think Roan was an overall strong AD who made some missteps along the way, Covid did not help (didn’t help anyone), but some of his more glaring missteps were not Covid related ...

Kelly being a finalist is definitely not surprising if true. High quality character, would have done things the absolute right way every time, basketball strength football experience but not overly so. I can understand the donor’s disappointment but this is not surprising that he was not the choice ...

A little extra research on this hire, I will reserve judgement until I see him in action but I’m concerned with Walt continuing to hire friends and former WKU players/coaches.

From DIII Trine University.