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[Tim0808]

True BBN fans of Kentucky Sports - 100% Positivity Only - No Negativity​

Aria Bota · eotornpsdS14mlau7u29uhh210i508h296h34mml49a4a46l440f2l8i5h5m ·

I got a message from Bob Arroyo who used to be in the group and is close to Cal and followed him to Arkansas.
He sent me a message about this tweet from TyTy Washington. - “Coach Cal understands it now

“
He said that is was pretty much the same message most of Cals former players were sending Cal privately.
While they all know BBN has some great fans and some True fans that support you Win or lose there is a large portion of the fan base that want to act like True fans but just support you if you are winning. These are not true fans. They are fair weather fans. They are bandwagon fans. They are fans with no lives. Thus are fans that have nothing but UK basketball in their lives and if UK loses you don’t want to be in their households. Wives and kids are probably beaten.
But TyTy sent the message to tell Cal what many of the players already knew. The fans don’t care about them. They only care about winning a championship so they can boast and brag to a coupe of the few friends they actually have or they can troll social media now.
This was made obvious also by tweets from AD and MKG and Darius Miller another Kentucky boy and all on a championship team and all congratulating Cal and then the fans turned on them. Calling them traitors. Saying they should never come to Rupp again. Calling Miller a Benedict Arnold.
Again this is known in the high school ranks and AAU circuit and all over college basketball. It was a reason no top coach wanted the job
It is a reason that UK has always struggled getting the elite players and it Took Cal
To get them and turn the program around and put UK back on the National map.
Pope unfortunately can’t do that on his name. He will continue to keep having to buy and outbid other coaches. Even that doesn’t always work as they had largest NIL offer for Wilson and he chose UNC then trolled Pope and UK afterwards.
UK fans are known as the worst fan base in college basketball by far as bad as Notre Dame and Ohio St in football. They are destroying and embarrassing the program little by little with their ridiculous tweets and social media comments. Bashing UK royalty like Sheppard and Miller and champions like AD and MKG.
The thing is this is not new. UK fans have been this way for years. Many still try to act like they are the greatest living off irrelevant wins in the 40’s and 50’s when basketball wasn’t even remotely competitive and players were being paid under the table. The only difference today is we now have Social media so instead of dealing with these fans locally and only at work you have them all over social media as the little keyboard warriors they are
They are disgusting and an embarrassment to BBN and how I wish there was a way to dis own them before they destroy the program

 

[jwphelps]

Stop it, tired of people making excuses. Cal lost it, turned on the donors and the true fans.

 

[lj bulldog]

Amen. Have a top prospect nephew who chose to go elsewhere for this reason.

 

[ukcatz12]

I agree with most of that. I've been saying a lot of it for a long time. I was at the game Saturday and there were a few fans near me that were absolutely unhinged. Caleb Wilson's mom was posting DMs she was getting after Caleb committed to UNC. They were horrible. I stand by my opinion that the fanbase is a net negative on the program's success.

 

[chroix]

Bunch of bullshit. All this guy is doing is shitting on fans.

 

[chroix]

Prove to me that a troll on Twitter is a UK fan and not an opposing fan posing as a UK fan.

 

[Seth_C]

All I see is a list of selfish whiners who only care about themselves. This isn't a Kentucky problem. It is and always has been a CAL problem. He created this environment. He created animosity between the fans, players, and himself. Bob Arroyo simply has his head too far up Cal's ass to realize Cal is, was, and always will be the problem.

Good news is Cal will also have to keep buying players, only to prove he has zero clue what to do with them.

 

[ukcatz12]

Stop it, tired of people making excuses. Cal lost it, turned on the donors and the true fans.

None of that has anything to do with the fans' behavior. Go read the thread about Reed, some of the comments in that thread border on deranged.

 

[Seth_C]

Amen. Have a top prospect nephew who chose to go elsewhere for this reason.

I'm sure you meant to say "because he wasn't good enough to be recruited by Kentucky."

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

lol. Goodness man.

 

[NociHTTP]

Bunch of bullshit. All this guy is doing is shitting on fans.

OP or the one referenced in the post? I can't tell the difference.

 

[Seth_C]

OP or the one referenced in the post? I can't tell the difference.

Both in equal measure.

 

[sk73]

All I see is a list of selfish whiners who on;y care about themselves. This isn't a Kentucky problem. It is and always has been a CAL problem. He created this environment. He created animosity between the fans, players, and himself. Bob Arroyo simply has his head too far up Cal's ass to realize Cal is, was, and always will be the problem.

Good news is Cal will also have to keep buying players, only to prove he has zero clue what to do with them.

How do you explain many of the posts about the last game. Pope and Chandler were getting blasted. New Coach, new player and both, especially Chandler, getting the Cal treatment. In a way, I guess you can blame that on Cal as well.

 

[jwphelps]

None of that has anything to do with the fans' behavior. Go read the thread about Reed, some of the comments in that thread border on deranged.

And yes we have some nut job fans, but do you realize how many trolls are out there posting things acting like they are UK fans.

 

[Seth_C]

How do you explain many of the posts about the last game. Pope and Chandler were getting blasted. New Coach, new player and both, especially Chandler, getting the Cal treatment. In a way, I guess you can blame that on Cal as well.

First, I would say this forum does not represent reality. Although I understand the posts persist long after the game, a lot of what gets posted here is ranting during the emotions of a loss.

Second, Pope deserved criticism for the last game. I am sure some may have, but I did not see anyone blasting Chandler. I did see many questioning why Pope played him so much. I think, given Pope played him very little against Tennessee (and we won), and that the roster was the same, it is a valid question.

Third, the fact that Pope is here, the fact that Pope is an outsider who played here and LOVES Kentucky, is quite obvious proof that everything in the original post is horse shit. We have evidence that players from earlier eras hold deep passion for the university and the fanbase.

 

[ukcatz12]

How do you explain many of the posts about the last game. Pope and Chandler were getting blasted. New Coach, new player and both, especially Chandler, getting the Cal treatment. In a way, I guess you can blame that on Cal as well.

First, I would say this forum does not represent reality.

I was at the game. What was said about Chandler here 100% matches what I heard in person. I was in the upper level so Chandler wouldn't have heard what was said, but after the game I was asking myself why Chandler would want to stay here next year if this is what the fanbase thought about him.

He's a freshman who hasn't played basketball for a few years and was giving it his all. Some of the stuff I heard was pretty disgusting. Root for the team and cheer when the do well. Personal attacks and insults when guys make some mistakes are way over the line.

 

[chroix]

OP or the one referenced in the post? I can't tell the difference.

That one.

 

[ManitouDan]

Cliff notes ? We suck ?

 

[CHAMPCAT11]

True BBN fans of Kentucky Sports - 100% Positivity Only - No Negativity​

Aria Bota · eotornpsdS14mlau7u29uhh210i508h296h34mml49a4a46l440f2l8i5h5m ·

I got a message from Bob Arroyo who used to be in the group and is close to Cal and followed him to Arkansas.
He sent me a message about this tweet from TyTy Washington. - “Coach Cal understands it now

“
He said that is was pretty much the same message most of Cals former players were sending Cal privately.
While they all know BBN has some great fans and some True fans that support you Win or lose there is a large portion of the fan base that want to act like True fans but just support you if you are winning. These are not true fans. They are fair weather fans. They are bandwagon fans. They are fans with no lives. Thus are fans that have nothing but UK basketball in their lives and if UK loses you don’t want to be in their households. Wives and kids are probably beaten.
But TyTy sent the message to tell Cal what many of the players already knew. The fans don’t care about them. They only care about winning a championship so they can boast and brag to a coupe of the few friends they actually have or they can troll social media now.
This was made obvious also by tweets from AD and MKG and Darius Miller another Kentucky boy and all on a championship team and all congratulating Cal and then the fans turned on them. Calling them traitors. Saying they should never come to Rupp again. Calling Miller a Benedict Arnold.
Again this is known in the high school ranks and AAU circuit and all over college basketball. It was a reason no top coach wanted the job
It is a reason that UK has always struggled getting the elite players and it Took Cal
To get them and turn the program around and put UK back on the National map.
Pope unfortunately can’t do that on his name. He will continue to keep having to buy and outbid other coaches. Even that doesn’t always work as they had largest NIL offer for Wilson and he chose UNC then trolled Pope and UK afterwards.
UK fans are known as the worst fan base in college basketball by far as bad as Notre Dame and Ohio St in football. They are destroying and embarrassing the program little by little with their ridiculous tweets and social media comments. Bashing UK royalty like Sheppard and Miller and champions like AD and MKG.
The thing is this is not new. UK fans have been this way for years. Many still try to act like they are the greatest living off irrelevant wins in the 40’s and 50’s when basketball wasn’t even remotely competitive and players were being paid under the table. The only difference today is we now have Social media so instead of dealing with these fans locally and only at work you have them all over social media as the little keyboard warriors they are
They are disgusting and an embarrassment to BBN and how I wish there was a way to dis own them before they destroy the program

52 posts in almost 12 years and a lot of those were in the past few days on THIS topic. It’s not really worth a response but I have to say something. UK has one of the largest and most passionate fan bases in college sports. Sure there are some idiots that go overboard just like any other blueblood school. The OP is an idiot by going overboard kissing Triple C’s ass as well as former players stabbing BBN in the back. Triple C is unacceptable, his former players turning on BBN are unacceptable, Reed Shepperd is unacceptable, and anyone criticizing BBN as a whole is unacceptable. Criticize the lunatic fringe but lumping all UK fans into that group is ridiculous. OP needs to get off of the board and go slurp the Triple C brigade that turned on the fan base they should be thankful for. GBB.

 

[cornbreadnmilk]

Oh Lord what a pile of horseshit.

 

[wardlow]

Weird post and article

 

[sk73]

52 posts in almost 12 years and a lot of those were in the past few days on THIS topic. It’s not really worth a response but I have to say something. UK has one of the largest and most passionate fan bases in college sports. Sure there are some idiots that go overboard just like any other blueblood school. The OP is an idiot by going overboard kissing Triple C’s ass as well as former players stabbing BBN in the back. Triple C is unacceptable, his former players turning on BBN are unacceptable, Reed Shepperd is unacceptable, and anyone criticizing BBN as a whole is unacceptable. Criticize the lunatic fringe but lumping all UK fans into that group is ridiculous. OP needs to get off of the board and go slurp the Triple C brigade that turned on the fan base they should be thankful for. GBB.

Who on this board considers themselves part the Lunatic Fringe , as you say. Much of what I read here , including your post, points fingers at other fans as being the problem. The fact that you are calling out past players for simply giving an opinion of what they saw and heard while playing here makes it very obvious that you are part of that Lunatic Fringe. Reed Sheppard is unacceptable? Former players are unacceptable? You, Jackass, are unacceptable.