Honestly, Calipari dropped his end of the rope .
Greenberg does not have that much (or any pull) at ESPN. They made a business and TV decision. It's that simple.
Not sure what you mean. They pick the Basketball destinations before the season starts for whatever reason. Before they knew Cal would crap the bed. The storyline was still there and still is despite Arkansas being a dud. UNC has been a dud this year too, but any opportunity to showcase Cooper Flagg outweighs any bigger storyline with ESPN.
Duke and UNC typically play twice a year. It’s only as “premier” as it is because ESPN pimps them like a cheap hooker.
As long as economy lets them. If UNC continues to snooze and rivals like IU and UL heat up, ESPN will be forced to focus on us more for their bottom line. So strange that many here are opposed to that. Sawing off the branch they’re standing on.
According to Seth Greenburg nobody outside of Kentucky and Arkansas cares about the Cal angle and maybe he is right. Where he is wrong is in thinking anyone outside of UNC and Duke cares about that game or Cooper Flagg. I feel most fans are like I am and wish they would quit shoving him down our throats even when I am watching UK vs UT, Texas A&M or any other opponents we've faced and had to listen about him being 17 or from Maine.
I don't really believe that to be true. ESPN tries to promote it to be the biggest but both teams fans walk away from that game and don't think about it again because they will play again in the regular season or probably in the tournament. UK and U of L fans on the other hand think about it all year long whether they want revenge for losing it or whether they want to gloat for winning it. Either way they don't just forget about it. In my opinion without the ESPN hype machine telling us it's the greatest rivalry in college basketball it's no different than UK and UT.
Well you clearly didn’t listen to Seth Greenberg lol. Seth saying he has no input and anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot is comical.
You were talking about it being the biggest rivalry and program success has little to do with rivalries. There are a lot of very bitter rivalries and one or neither team has had a lot of success. In my opinion my point is still valid that they only care in that moment and then they go on about their lives. That doesn't constitute this "greatest rivalry in the sport" that you and ESPN apparently think it is.
ESPN is more woke than Disney who owns them. They'd rather pimp Flagg and UNCheats than cover a real story.
But they play again. This is once in all of history. Will never happen again. They play twice every year I'm sure you know that
Because all of the talking head alums say so? I've watched them nearly every year. They don't have the same energy our fan base brings.
