Terrible metaphor. Tax dollars pay for those phones, hence the uproar.Never seen so much bitching about a free product.
Its like people bitching about the service on ObamaPhones.
Dont want them? Dont get them.
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Terrible metaphor. Tax dollars pay for those phones, hence the uproar.Never seen so much bitching about a free product.
Its like people bitching about the service on ObamaPhones.
Dont want them? Dont get them.
I love ASeaOfBlue's football coverage. Keep doing what you do guys!
Regardless, it's free to whoever chooses to get one.Terrible metaphor. Tax dollars pay for those phones, hence the uproar.
Matt Jones and KSR is something i am very fond of. I think he does a great job personally and also KSR is the best site on the internet for UK Athletics. If i want to find out what is going on, I open up the KSR website and start reading. But to each his own.
That's why you shouldn't talk politics on a sports board.I've been banned from the KSR web site for years, apparently because I differed with Jones or one of the other "writers" on politics. They like to dish it out, but they sure as hell can't take it, not for a second. And for me, that's all I need to know.
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No ...that is why you don't argue with the left when they have a bully pulpit. They are not about debating. They are all in on silencing. Why do you think they never make fun of those on the left when there is plenty there.That's why you shouldn't talk politics on a sports board.
Can't say I've ever understood the mindless hate, Matt. Mostly, I think it comes from people who wish they'd had your idea beforehand. You've probably got the best single-team-oriented sports talk show in the country, and your site is designed to be entertainment with a smattering of news. It's not like the people on this board don't get all the news they could possibly want from JRow and the crew.
I don't really like UK fans bashing other UK fans on their UK fandom. We've got more interesting and trashy fish to fry just up and down the roads in Louisville and Knoxville, respectively.
Drew is just a terrible person and is the main reason why I stopped listening to the show and visiting the site.
So if he doesn't comment he's just an idiot who doesn't care what the fans want and if he does comment he's a thin skinned arrogant jerk. Glad we've covered all the bases.Jones is without a doubt the most thin-skinned media type I've ever seen. Most of these egocentrics could care less what you and I think, Jones feels he must explain every move he makes. He must be a very insecure person.
---That's why you shouldn't talk politics on a sports board.
You're 100% right about that. The issue, for myself, is that KSR's basketball coverage is great. It's just that they cover basketball to the point of posting highlight videos of HS sophomores Cal might be interested in, and in the same breath say no one wants to hear about the finer points of football recruiting. That's a crock. We do want that same level of coverage for football. Just own the fact you weren't giving football its due, that you're trying to do better, and move on.I really like KSR and don`t understand people who bash, If I disliked a program, I would not listen or pay attention to it, therefore I would not bash, I just don`t understand unless you are forced to listen against your will and if that is the case their are probably legal ways to avoid this, maybe you should check in on that.
My best friend is a UofLsucksville grad. Poor guy. We're best of friends but on the days any sports program plays between the two schools were rivals. On the bigger stage games we may not speak for several days regardless of the outcome.Yeah its easier to like having shingles then to like a ul fan.
To bad you stopped listening cause you have missed all the interviews with most of the football coaches, Coach Stoops has been on three or four times, Daniels been on couple times.........whatever, don't listen....I think most "football" fans view the KSR website and radio show very differently.
Even the most fervent football fan would have to say that football coverage on your website has picked up significantly and at a much more in-depth level as the season has approached. Football fans might have to sift through what they see as basketball non-stories to get it but the coverage is becoming more readily available.
The radio show is a different story. Basketball/bball recruiting/off topic is your bread and butter and you obviously have done a very good job building the show on those strengths. Here's the deal... whether you mean to or not you have a very dismissive tone toward most things football related that go any further than scratching the surface. Maybe it's not good for business? Maybe you just don't feel comfortable with it so you'd rather move on? I don't know. The radio show is good at many things and it's ok that football isn't one of them.
But, it's patronizing when you continuously say there's nothing football related to talk about... and then spend 2 segments talking "news" of a new bball walk-on and how many Twitter followers you can get him. If you don't want to talk football it would be better to say as much instead of blaming it on "nothing to talk about". It's become a cop-out. Your interest/lack of in the subject comes through loud and clear on your radio show.
I stopped listening to the radio show simply because I'm not your target audience and in this state I probably shouldn't be. At this point, if football fans go to your radio show for football talk and are disappointed then that's on them. If you go to one of the better Mexican restaurants in town but order a hamburger you really don't have room to complain when it's not any good.
In all fairness, Stoops and company may be evaluating 100+ recruits for the 2016 or 2017 class when Cal is likely zeroed in on 15-20. Also, it's much easier to show highlight videos of a guy from an AAU tourney than a random d-lineman at a regional camp. Again, you know what KSR is and how they operate, so why complain that they don't change to fit what you think they should be?You're 100% right about that. The issue, for myself, is that KSR's basketball coverage is great. It's just that they cover basketball to the point of posting highlight videos of HS sophomores Cal might be interested in, and in the same breath say no one wants to hear about the finer points of football recruiting. That's a crock. We do want that same level of coverage for football. Just own the fact you weren't giving football its due, that you're trying to do better, and move on.
After having no cell phone for most of today, I logged on here tonight to see the Football chatter and saw three different threads that each in some form were about the lack of football coverage (or the poor coverage) on KSR. While I understand that some of those complaints are from the same few screen names that curse the mere mention of me or KSR (and likely will join Ky Joe as my future killers one day), some raised a couple of points I wanted to address.
--- On the website, I am not sure how anyone can say we haven't had a massive increase of football coverage in the past two months. We brought on Freddie Maggard and are about to hire a third full time writer whose main focus will be football. The football recruiting posts have been thorough, we have done previews of every position on the team and much more. As a matter of fact, I am certain that there is no site on the internet that has had more football stories than we have over the past two months. Practice has not even started and the coverage has been significant and will only ramp up (we are sending five people to Football Media Day). Comparing the amount of posts to basketball strikes me as silly, when the reality is that our coverage of football has never been more thorough.
--- The other line of complaint seems to be that I don't know anything about football and am an idiot when it comes to football...that could be true. I think it is very much exaggerated (I rarely see many posts from minature Bill Belicheks on fan message boards or blogs), but it is true that I am by no means an expert. However I have admitted that and it was part of the reason we brought Freddie on. I do know more about basketball but haven't claimed to be an expert in that either...instead I try to put on an entertaining radio show about UK sports and being a UK sports fan. Yes, I will get names incorrect (my Bell and Wiggins thing was strong) but when you are on 2 hours a day, mistakes happen. But I will also note that even in football, we break news all the time (the Marcelys Jones and Tate Leavitt commitments recently...the Stoops hire and Marrow extension in the past) and we try to give fans a fun option to talk sports. If you want expertise on Xs and Os, it isn't a secret that I am probably not your guy, but we have made the site include some that are.
Here is the deal about football coverage about UK on KSR and other sites in general...it has increased because Mark Stoops has put some life in the program and has folks excited...and the more UK wins the more you will see. However, diehard posts about the minutia of UK football will always be rare...first because there simply isn't a huge market for it...the amount of people who want that information is WAY less than those who want more general coverage of both sports...and because when football isn't in season, we have so little access to the team that there is very little to say or report. Football coaches are by their very nature (and for understandable reasons) quiet...thus you are just left with predictions...and you can only predict the same 12 games so many times.
I like football and want UK to win BIG...it would be great for my favorite program and would also be great for KSR. The more sports UK is good at, the better for us...especially when it comes to football. If UK wins 6 games, it would be (absent a national title in basketball) the best thing that could happen for KSR and for UK sports in general. To think otherwise is absurd. We have tried to increase football coverage for what I do think is a slowly growing demand and more is coming (including a weekly football-only podcast with Freddie, Nick and Lorenzen). Yes radio shows in other areas of the country talk more about football than we do...they also are, even in those areas, FAR less successful than ours in part because they dont get casual, non-hardcore fans like we do. Our model is Finebaum when he was in Alabama...it has worked and we will continue to do it. The more UK wins, the more football will be front and center. But I don't think we get anywhere as a fanbase by complaining about "basketball only" fans or getting mad that others aren't as serious as you...the reason the UK FB coaches reach out to us is simple...for UK to get where it needs to be, the casual fan has to get on board and be into it....that is where we try to play a role.
With all that said, I would be glad to check back tonight (since I have no cell phone coverage) and answer any questions from people who have real ones (and don't just want to blast us).