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I really miss those days, too, but those days, as they say are "Gone With the Wind." It's a time gone by, like letting your kids play up the street without worrying that they may be abducted, or leaving your house unlocked when you went to the grocery because you knew your neighbors would watch it for you. Nowadays, you have to lock it to keep your neighbors from emptying it while you're gone. lol. The NBA has created this monster, and Cal just has to play to their rules the best he can. If you have to reload every year, and just keep one or two, to be competitive, we'll just have to live with it. I hate that you don't get to know these kids better and get to enjoy them for 3-4 years, but that is how it is in 2020. We also can only have 8 people for Thanksgiving dinner.
Arizona sunsets haven't changed.
Well, I ain’t obliging Andy either 😒 just because that’s the way they say it has to be done don’t make it right. Sometimes you have to go against the grain to get the right finish you’re looking for. But I know what you’re saying.I really miss those days, too, but those days, as they say are "Gone With the Wind." It's a time gone by, like letting your kids play up the street without worrying that they may be abducted, or leaving your house unlocked when you went to the grocery because you knew your neighbors would watch it for you. Nowadays, you have to lock it to keep your neighbors from emptying it while you're gone. lol. The NBA has created this monster, and Cal just has to play to their rules the best he can. If you have to reload every year, and just keep one or two, to be competitive, we'll just have to live with it. I hate that you don't get to know these kids better and get to enjoy them for 3-4 years, but that is how it is in 2020. We also can only have 8 people for Thanksgiving dinner.
I agree that experience means a lot, but talent does also. That is why Cal's teams play so well in February/March. Those kids are almost sophomores by that time. You know, Cal would like to have players longer, but the kids that he recruits are either sure fire one and dones like Fox and Monk, or they are kids that he thinks will stay a couple of years, and maybe three. The problem is that kids like Herro and Gilgeous-Alexander who are ranked in the mid 30's in their class, who you expect to be there 2-3 years end up being lottery picks after one. Then you have kids like Johnny Juzang and Quade Green who transfer on you. Every now and then you have kids like Poythress, Richards and Cauley-Stein who stay awhile and these kids get better. Now, with the immediate transfer rule, you had better recruit the best kids you can to come in and play, because you never know who will transfer out. It's just a crazy time for college basketball, and the way the NBA is acting, college basketball may go the way of the dinosaur. But going back to the original thought, experience does count, and if the talent is close to equal, the team with the experience will win. If it's talent vs experience, it's a tossup, if the experienced team isn't too out- talented.
I know. I long for the Louie Dampier, Kyle Macy days myself. Just think how badly Adolph would have hated this system.
I just can't see Adolph Rupp coaching in this system. He was an educator and valued school work and preparing for a career. I remember going to school when Pat Riley was at UK and you would always find him with a text book in his hand studying be it in the Student Union or library. Louie Dampier, Cotton Nash and Pat Riley were All America basketball players but they were also serious students. Cotton was Pre Dental but professional sports derailed dental school.
The image of our apartment in Daegu, South Korea. 14 floors up and it was a nice apartment. We lived in the rich area of Korea. Oh how times change...
May your day be a life day to where it will be memorable to you going forward. A GOOD memory going forward. God Bless you all...
Morning D-Legionnaires!
Hope this day and week finds all doing well if not, better than before. For those traveling, stay safe and Gods speed in your trek.
Going out today to check out some backyard firepits. Been wanting one since last year but never got around to getting one. Miss the fireplace we had at the old house we moved out of in 2014. This house has a fireplace but, it is electric which is just not the same. Need to feel the warmth of an actual fire and roast up some weenies and marshmallows. probably get one with a grill on the top as well.
Good morning from Nolin Lake near Anneta, KY. Currently 35°F and partly cloudy. I'm leaving here in about an hour, heading to eastern KY/TN. Daughter is off work today. Plan on arriving around 12 noon or 1 pm today.
Keeping it short this morning. We'll check back later. Wishing happiness and health to all our fellow D-Leaguers.
Keeping it short this morning. We'll check back later. Wishing happiness and health to all our fellow D-Leaguers.
For you old time baseball fans here is "Babe Ruth's Cabin" located in Aripeka, FL. Aripeka is a really neat little place directly on the Gulf. Very tiny. But it had / has some of the best fishing on the Gulf of Mexico. The Babe loved to fish in the Gulf. I live in the same county as the location of his cabin
SC, I have a buddy that lives in New Port Richey
It is a crisp 33.8°F with light clouds and, son of a gun, frost on my neighbors roof.
I won't miss a UK basketball game and I will judicially make a bluray of each. It is just what I do. I absolutely hate the BLM shit because they are "trained Marxist" as the founder proudly said. I don't think that followers of Marx would become millionaires in basketball as they practice pure capitalism. These kids don't know what it means, so I will forgive them.
I enjoyed seeing my daughter this weekend. She will be in Baltimore for Thanksgiving so we split holidays with her.
Do any of you know first hand if the Cats Pause yearbook is out yet?
I won't miss a UK basketball game and I will judicially make a bluray of each. It is just what I do. I absolutely hate the BLM shit because they are "trained Marxist" as the founder proudly said. I don't think that followers of Marx would become millionaires in basketball as they practice pure capitalism. These kids don't know what it means, so I will forgive them.
I enjoyed seeing my daughter this weekend. She will be in Baltimore for Thanksgiving so we split holidays with her.
Do any of you know first hand if the Cats Pause yearbook is out yet?
My nephew who's a doctor, use to own a used car lot just so he could help out a buddy who was have a hard time. Told him yesterday that if he still had the lot that he could park all the cars this Thursday in my driveway. Big, long driveway with a turn around. 😊
Anyhow, my wife and I(before kids) spent a week in Clearwater around 2002. Really enjoyed it. Visited some relatives in Riverview, then stayed with my buddy in NPR. We got to the Gulf from a canal in his backyard snd fished. Hope all is well!
I never thought anything could ever cause me to stop watching and rooting for the cats, but then here comes 2020. when our teams and coaches aligned themselves with the anti-american political movement that is blm, bringing their political leanings into the field if play, that did what i thought could never happen. i haven’t watched a minute of any sports except golf and my grandsons since all the covid hysteria began. sadly things will never be the same again—sports or otherwise.
Sadly, very sadly, I am with you.
Good morning D League
Our temperature at present is 62° with no active alerts of the Gulf. We do have some fog this morning and by noon we should have nice sunshine and our high may reach 78°. All in all a pleasant day with a nice breeze.
Trust Austin has a nice drive to the hills and great visit. I see the doc this afternoon for my annual visit. We will have a lot to discuss since I have had two major surgeries since my last physical. I have a few minor things to tweek but nothing serious or life threatening.
Trust all are well and if you have the COVID you are feeling better.
Our temperature at present is 62° with no active alerts of the Gulf. We do have some fog this morning and by noon we should have nice sunshine and our high may reach 78°. All in all a pleasant day with a nice breeze.
Trust Austin has a nice drive to the hills and great visit. I see the doc this afternoon for my annual visit. We will have a lot to discuss since I have had two major surgeries since my last physical. I have a few minor things to tweek but nothing serious or life threatening.
Trust all are well and if you have the COVID you are feeling better.
Bluewest I sure wish I could take you back in time when I was born in Clearwater (1943). There were few people there and life was so different. We had the Gulf beaches all to our self. No air conditioning in those days and tourism was pretty much non existent in the summer months. Some Yankees would come down after Thanksgiving or Christmas and stay until Easter. But they would bring a trailer with them and hook up to a trailer park and not clog up the roads that much. But then Mr Carrier brought in his AC and the world exploded.
Johnny Cash and his mother in law had a nice home on the river in New Port Richey that led to the Gulf. He would come down very often and fish with his nice boat in the Gulf waters
He wrote this song while in New Port Richey after a trip out with some shrimpers One of my freinds from childhood lives in Pasco and has a son who is a commercial fisherman and has a boat worth a couple of mil Not a bad life.
There are so many people who feel this way and it is really sad. Young people were already dropping off but the 50 and older crowd was still petty solid in their fandom. Then this subject came up. Telling a coal miner who is probably out of work in the mountains and a small factory worker in Western KY they have white privilege by a basketball team that is headed to a pro contract and millions is not smart. And reading between the lines this is what the coaches and players did.
The Cats will survive this but the spirit may not come back as it once was. When a fan, black or white, is trying to do everything in society the right way just to make a living and feed a family you don't need Cal to lecture about privilege. We have the privilege to live in America and that has nothing to do with our skin color.
Same here. Saturday was the first time I've even watched a minute of our football team. And only did that because my son, who lives in Georgia and is a huge Bama fan, I knew would be watching. So we texted back and forth during the game. He 'thanked' me at the end of the game for the scrimmage.
Looked like I haven't missed much.
Sawnee, being born in Clearwater, and now living on the Florida coast, how did you make your journey into UK fandom?
Good morning all. Just learned a farmer friend a few miles away had a truck and cattle trailer stolen last week. Somebody’s asking for it. It’s gotten bad around here, and only going to get worse I’m afraid. Anyway, y’all have a great day, and hope everyone is well.
Every year nowadays..
- Good Morning, All & Lurkers.
- We have 48º in Cumming right now. Not a cloud. Just beautiful.
- Saw a huge stag yesterday. He is busy. Biggest one I've ever seen. He looked almost as big as a Moose.
- Get well soon to Oldville Cat.
- Keep on healing to Sawnee Cat.
- FCC called me back, he was DAAS. Pray for him. It seems like to me that he is trying to drink himself to death.
- I still miss Ymmot31. I wish he would come back to us.
- G-Grandson is walking. Cute. 11 months old.
- That is it.
- As you were. Hope all of you are well.
- Carry on.
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Born into Ben. My father was from Pike County. He met mom in college in Tennessee and moved to Florida before I was born. I was raised on WHAS radio, laying on the floor with dad as a small child cheering the Cats. Louisville was about 850 miles away so the radio was the only source. No TV games back then and no ESPN.
We never missed a game and dad would go to extreme measures to get the game. He bought a Hallicrafters short wave radio and had wires all over the house and roof to get reception. Dad bought tickets to the 1958 NCAA tournament and I saw my first UK games in person that Final Four. Before we drove back to Florida he swung by Lexington and we visited the UK campus. I decided I wanted to go to UK instead of the University of Florida and did. FSU was still considered a girls school when I graduated. That is how it came down.
That will get a man killed.
Thanks for the history. Speaking of listening to WHAS, in Florida, I remember when my grandparents has some property in Deland. It was about Christmas of 1969 and my Dad took my sister and I to see my grandparents. Dad and I couldn't pick up WHAS in Deland, so we drove to Daytona and parked on the beach. We hooked a wire coat hanger to the antenna, and listened to Cawood call the UK-Notre Dame game, from Freedom Hall. It was amazing what people would do to be able to listened to the Cats, back then. Just not quite the same today. Sad to see the change, along with everything else that has changed around us.
I love stories like this. I may have told this one before but. Back in the 1970's UK games on television were still not that common as ESPN had not come on the air. So WHAS was the only real source although there was another station in Cincy that caried the Cats. 1530 if I remember correctly.
Listening in Florida presented two challenges. One was Fidel Castro. He had a station in Havana that was more powerful than WHAS and he would turn the antenna to Florida and blast away. So right in the middle of Cawood you may suddenly get the Communist Manifesto coming out of Fidel's Cuba. In Spanish.
A second problem was the station would fade in and out and you would have to position your radio over and over. I discovered I could get better reception in my car and I would go out in the driveway to listen. In the Spring WHAS reception would get poor so you would find yourself moving the radio more and more. One night during the NCAA tournament I was listening to UK and I was having a problem. So I would start the car and move it to the point reception improved. I repeated this over and over and I heard a thump on my window. It was a police officer with a flashlight.
Someone saw me moving all over my yard and driveway and thought I was drunk so they called the police. I rolled down the window and he asked me what my problem was. I told him no problem we were up by 8. He looked at me with a puzzled look and said you are what. I answered, up by 8 I think the CATS can hold on. You know the Kentucky Wildcats.. He looked at me and started laughing, so you are one of those crazy Kentucky fans.
Great story. I hee hawd when I read that you told him no problem. We do have a reputation for being a little over the top.
Sounds like I didn't miss anything then.
Exactly! They live better then a lot of working people and then act like they have it so bad.
When my bride and I got married we lived in Iowa it was big Dan’s senior year! The radio signal from WHAS would come in great for the night games. We would have to switch it to Paducah or Cincy at different times during the day games. Took some effort it was worth it to listen to Cawood!
You may have seen this but it is worth a relook. I am amazed the man was able to keep the cigar in his mouth. I am thankful the puppy will live to see another day. Cute little fellow
Good stuff!
It was religious liberty. Emphasis on life, liberty & pursuit of happiness.
Paid for with blood more than once. That's why an honest vote is not an option. It saves lives. I agree it's bigger than sport. I've been turning off the insulting lying BS too, but as apes we NEED the primitive tribal interaction of sport to learn self control in collective struggle to prevent the worst of our nature.
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Back in Atlanta in '77 or '78 we were at a big Christmas party while we were playing Kansas (I think). Kept going out to the car to listen to the game. Must have went out 15 or 20 times.
Nowadays.....sadly I'd be more interested in the buffet at the party.
Nowadays.....sadly I'd be more interested in the buffet at the party.
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