Kelvin Sampson: "We have a very poor athletic department. We're poor. We were poor when I got here, and we're still poor."

[BleedGopher]

Per Myron P:

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said his top-10 team can't sign more recruits because the school's athletic department is "very poor."

After the eighth-ranked Cougars' 79-55 victory Wednesday over UCF, Sampson said his team's greatest hurdle in recruiting is a lack of funding.

"We have a very poor athletic department," he said. "We're poor. We were poor when I got here, and we're still poor.

"We probably have the lowest budget of anybody in Power 4. The way our recruiting is going, we have to stop at some point because we don't have the money to keep bringing in many good players. And that's not easy for us to do."

Kelvin Sampson bemoans Houston NIL budget: 'We're poor'

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said his top-10 team can't sign more recruits because the school's athletic department is "very poor."

www.espn.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[GoodasGold]

I’m trying hard to care, but…no.

 

[GopherGuy82]

They have enough money to pay the players that got them to the title game, which they should have won, and they are top ten this year and they don't have any money. Sure coach. Maybe you don't have a fancy athletes village but you obviously have good NIL money.

 

[FinnGopher]

Coach needs to take a pay cut.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Last summer, Sampson signed a 4-year, $23.5 million extension, so the UH athletics department has SOME money. Or, maybe that contract is why they’re poor.

 

[dbmn]

boooo-hooooo!

 

[BBJones]

So sad.

 

[GopherGuy82]

Maybe they could start passing a donation basket around during the game like it is church. Whatever it takes to pay their $23.5 million dollar "God".

 

[Bobek]

Kelvin Sampson isn’t poor! Maybe he could donate $500 K from his $5.5 million salary and $1 million bonus for his roster.

 

[MonikerSchmoniker45]

Kelvin Sampson isn’t poor! Maybe he could donate $500 K from his $5.5 million salary and $1 million bonus for his roster.

The only rule being enforced is coaches not contributing to NIL.

 

[The Deliberate Stranger]

But do they have to cross the street in the winter to lift weights in the hockey arena?