Earlier this summer, Mitch Barnhart balked at the rising cost of college athletics.
“We’re growing faster than we have in the past and a lot of that is things we can’t control,” the Kentucky athletics director said in an interview with the Herald-Leader.
He rattled off a list of logical culprits: “Travel expenses have become difficult (and the) cost of higher education has become significantly more.”
And then Barnhart mentioned one new operating expense that isn’t getting a lot of attention, but will cost the athletics department around $2.68 million this coming year.
“The excise tax that was levied in the new tax bill is big,” Barnhart said.