Kentucky changes its athletic department to an LLC, hoping to become more nimble in finding revenue

Published May 1, 2025

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 quotes Helen “Nellie” Drew in an article about the University of Kentucky Athletic Department’s transition to an LLC to increase funding opportunities. “The traditional structure has never fit particularly well, and certainly now it does not fit well at all with the transactional nature of college sports,” Drew said. “This is the first institution to acknowledge that we’re in a different era and that the organizational structures that we’ve used up until this time don’t work well with the new reality.”

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