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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.

 

[G0 B1G BLUE]

I mean I’ve read some stuff before but wow.

“Only care about us if we win” I mean dude come on. We’ve had people name their kids after players before. Who haven’t won a championship. We all love and embrace these dudes like family. Camp out. Spend time learning about them. Spend hard earned money to see moments of what they will do win or lose.

Do we want to win? Absolutely. Who is hyper competitive and doesn’t want to win. Get beat and pout that the fans hurt their feelings. “Cal knows now 100..” Calipari had us on a string and could do or say anything and we would’ve supported him. Cal got tired of us and stopped caring himself.

 

[Mike_Edwards]

Quite honestly in this day and age anyone can pose as anything and get away with it. Opposing fans posing as UK fans and purposely talking posting and acting like fools on social media. Heck this very site is a perfect example of it. It is rampant here every day. Look at the OP as a good example. Unless I hear it directly with my own ears I don’t take things for the gospel, but when it fits a certain narrative or agenda there are PLENTY that do. UK has far more loyal and gracious fans than not. Ignore the fake ones. (Literally you can and I do, the ignore feature is your friend here)

 

[chiefthief]

It's one thing to talk about what a player or the team can do better. It's another thing to belittle them or talk about their character.

People who consistently belittle others with hurtful comments have issues. Everyone lets something slip now and then in frustration but when you do you apologize and go on. But some people let what 18-22 years do in a GAME....affect their daily lives.

A game. That's like losing in monopoly to a 10 year old and blaming God for a bad roll or the kid is cheating. Then proceed to get drunk and depressed over it.

On the flip side. People who let message board folk and opinion social media platforms like Matt Jones and KSR bother them to the extent some players allegedly have. Knowing that it's a minority of the fan base or trolls. Need to toughen up. They need to get into the real workforce where criticism, rumors, backstabbing, etc. is part of the daily grind. If only I could go through life with someone saying I couldn't guard a stump as my worse fear.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

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

Cal sucks.

 

[ManitouDan]

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 post since 2013 , and still yet , you need to post less often

 

[ukdesi]

This is dumb. BBN is passionate, and so out of a 100 fans, maybe 10 are the "nut job" fans, where Arkansas maybe has 5/100. I just made up numbers, but every fanbase has this fringe.

 

[CHAMPCAT11]

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.

Why call me a Jackass ? I’m a loyal UK fan that watches or attends almost every game. I’m happy with Mark Pope and I think this team is full of great kids and good players considering with what we were left with. I don’t get mad if we lose … maybe a little disappointed though. But when Arkansas came to Rupp it was a huge game and from what the OP (you and he are the true Jackasses here) stated, everyone should have kissed Triple C’s ring and gave the former players a key to the city. The way the ex Calipari players jumped in his camp after the way he coached and talked about BBN the past five years or so is nuts. They played for UK and the fans supported them as always. Hell Reed made his brilliant statement ‘before’ the game even started and no one treated Reed better than BBN. Triple C didn’t even want him in the beginning. So, don’t lump me in with the so called crazies. Half of them are trolls anyway. But if you want to be a Cal / Arkansas fan you have every right. It’s not mandatory to pull for UK so if you don’t like it I support your choice if you want to make a switch. Louisville seems to be a hot commodity right now. Maybe give them a shot.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

This is dumb. BBN is passionate, and so out of a 100 fans, maybe 10 are the "nut job" fans, where Arkansas maybe has 5/100. I just made up numbers, but every fanbase has this fringe.

They wear razorback mask and you think 5/100 are nut jobs?

 

[ukdesi]

They were razorback mask and you think 5/100 are nut jobs?

Why would wearing a mask be indicative of nut job? Make up whatever numbers you want -- point is every fanbase has this fringe.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

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

Good.

 

[CatDadCoog]

Funny how it implies BBN destroying program, then compares to fanbases of two football teams that just played for national championship… yeah those two programs are in shambles, holding on by a string LOL

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I argued with them for years but thought all the Cal apologist had gone away.

How dumb are these people?

You guys are like Japanese soldiers in 1960 that think the war is still going on.

Cal quit on us. Cal refused to change. Cal has one NCAA win this decade.

 

[Ron Mehico]

OP just went on ignore, good grief

 

[catlogic15]

Cal turned on the fans long before they turned on him.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

OP just went on ignore, good grief

Most misleading thread title ever.

 

[Deli owl]

Which wives and kids are beaten? I’ll call it in.

 

[catlogic15]

You can’t say Kentucky basketball fans are more wired than Alabama football fans. Yet you’ll never see national writers lambast Alabama fans as single handedly ruining the program. Hogwash.

 

[Ron Mehico]

Most misleading thread title ever.

I mean it’s such a stupid thread. I live in columbus. You should see how Ohio State fans are towards their players. Kirk Herbstreit said it was a negative that the playoff game with UT and OSU was at OSU on gameday because the fans would start booing if OSU was losing 😂. Has anyone been to an NFL game? Philly fans are a treat. I mean this whole thing is so dumb. What a loser the OP is and the people that agree with him. “Passionate fans are a net negative” 🙄