Do we deserve this crap?

[FurdTerguson]

We have Jay Williams addressing BBN (see other thread) and now Dick Vitale lecturing us about how we're trashing Calipari. My first thought is to lash out, because BBN is not one collective hive mind, so who are you to address us as such? But then....we DO have a lot of obnoxious fans. We're like the Cowboys, Yankees or Lakers. We can't control the outer fringe.

 

[Skyguyb27]

We have Jay Williams addressing BBN (see other thread) and now Dick Vitale lecturing us about how we're trashing Calipari. My first thought is to lash out, because BBN is not one collective hive mind, so who are you to address us as such? But then....we DO have a lot of obnoxious fans. We're like the Cowboys, Yankees or Lakers. We can't control the outer fringe.

I am no fan of Jay but I took the Jay Williams video to be a little more “yeah you guys earned it but the big corporations aren’t interested in an other Rudy story”. To me he kinda stuck his neck out to congratulate us and spilled some facts.

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

We have Jay Williams addressing BBN (see other thread) and now Dick Vitale lecturing us about how we're trashing Calipari. My first thought is to lash out, because BBN is not one collective hive mind, so who are you to address us as such? But then....we DO have a lot of obnoxious fans. We're like the Cowboys, Yankees or Lakers. We can't control the outer fringe.

I guess i'm part of the lunatic fringe...I'm going to keep trashing him for about as long as he trashed the program. I've got a solid 5 or 6 yrs. left

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

Williams' comments didn't bother me in the least.

Vitale's comments have to be taken with a grain of salt.

Much ado about nothing on both counts.

 

[kyfanrob]

JMHO...... I think the talking heads at ESPN are very upset that Kentucky basketball is back. They all wanted so bad for Cal to stay another 10-20 years in hopes of Kentucky not being relevant. They know Cal isn't winning anymore big-time games. Now, Coach Pope comes along and beats their precious Duke. So, who do they blame and lash out at, BBN.

 

[FurdTerguson]

Do you all ever hear of any other fan base being addressed by people in the media? For some reason BBN is treated differently. Wilbon will probably be next.

 

[chevyman 50]

All I say is screw both of them they are mad because Ky beat their Dukies.

 

[WeWant9]

The media really only stirs this stuff up when UK is winning, so I don’t care.

It’s also hilarious when they want to act like UK is the only unreasonable fanbase. Check out the blue bloods of football when they drop a game.

 

[jeffky]

Jay got a second half beat down that made Jay look like a fool

 

[HerrosHeroes]

What really peeved me re. the vid was the sneaky jab at UK for having a bunch of 5th yr Senior transfers.

So F’in what you loser?

Can guys not improve throughout college and get better and better until they get “so” good that UK pays them to play for the greatest CB tradition of all time and then turn around and beat your diaper dandies?

One more thing Jay; your comment at half about This Duke team being the best Duke team this century puts some light on this Ky team now doesn’t it; since we held you guys to 26 points in the 2nd half

 

[Emarc]

Who cares. Just keep winning.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Jay got a second half beat down that made Jay look like a fool

And he’s salty, as he should be.
He needs to go back into the arena and pick up the lingerie that Duke’s big/bad center left on the court after Carr faked his ass out on the and one.

Enjoy your weekend Jay as I know I will!

 

[Fox2monk]

Do you all ever hear of any other fan base being addressed by people in the media? For some reason BBN is treated differently. Wilbon will probably be next.

That’s funny because PTI is on right now and Wilson is talking.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Who cares. Just keep winning.

Who cares? What that DA did is basically unheard of. Calling out “the” fanbase of CB after UK embarrassed Duke in the 2nd half.
Fire him ESPN!!!!

 

[Oldbluefart]

Vitale is just anyone else who at one time was relevant in their field.
Time caught up with him like so many before him who didn't know when to shut up or just couldn't because of their need to feel important.

I have respect for the man but also lose respect for him for not having the balls to say out loud what everyone knows and thinks ; and that is when coaches like Calipari get paid millions and do not produce results.

In the last few years I sort of liked him better when he couldn't talk. But the reasons why he could not talk sucked, but it is what it is.

Caliper left like a thief in the night. Anything we say about him we earned the right to do so. He talked down to UK fans and acted like some spoiled little rich kid.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Vitale is just anyone else who at one time was relevant in their field.
Time caught up with him like so many before him who didn't know when to shut up or just couldn't because of their need to feel important.

I have respect for the man but also lose respect for him for not having the balls to say out loud what everyone knows and thinks ; and that is when coaches like Calipari get paid millions and do not produce results.

In the last few years I sort of liked him better when he couldn't talk. But the reasons why he could not talk sucked, but it is what it is.

Caliper left like a thief in the night. Anything we say about him we earned the right to do so. He talked down to UK fans and acted like some spoiled little rich kid.

Now he’s shoveling Hog dung in Pig Souie land.

 

[yoshukai]

I pay attention to Vitale telling me how to be a fan the same way I pay attention to celebrities telling me how to vote.

 

[Phil_The_Music]

I respect Vitale as a person. But I don't respect his opinion on coaches one iota. He kisses ass to every coach who's ever coached. And it's all because he is still butt hurt over being fired back in 1979. No coach should ever be fired according to him.

 

[electricat2]

All I say is screw both of them they are mad because Ky beat their Dukies.

100

 

[BigBlueGoo2]

F em. Kentucky vs all y’all bitches.

 

[TheDude73]

Once America returns to ignoring these idiotic talking heads (politics, sports, news, all of it) and making their own decisions, we'll be much better off. I'm tired of "Tweets" and social media making the "news". I don't care about millions of opinions puked up on social media. And regular news and sports media has turned into nothing more than mouthpieces for everyone's opinions.

Hell, I go read the news and all I see are "so and so was trashed on social media" articles. It's like reality TV has made its way to text/tweet/social media platforms!

 

[FurdTerguson]

Once America returns to ignoring these idiotic talking heads (politics, sports, news, all of it) and making their own decisions, we'll be much better off. I'm tired of "Tweets" and social media making the "news". I don't care about millions of opinions puked up on social media. And regular news and sports media has turned into nothing more than mouthpieces for everyone's opinions.

Hell, I go read the news and all I see are "so and so was trashed on social media" articles. It's like reality TV has made its way to text/tweet/social media platforms!

I agree. I just don't think we should be singled out, even if we do have nut jobs on the extreme.

 

[EliteBlue]

I am no fan of Jay but I took the Jay Williams video to be a little more “yeah you guys earned it but the big corporations aren’t interested in an other Rudy story”. To me he kinda stuck his neck out to congratulate us and spilled some facts.

And that’s where they are wrong.

1) it isn’t a Rudy story. It’s the greatest tradition in college basketball once agains showing that it doesn’t matter who is at the helm, this is still Kentucky. They are bitter it was at the expense of the media darling and it’s espn running cover for why they didn’t have a UK postgame script ready and still had to run nothing but Flagg and Duke highlights.

2) saying big corporations aren’t interested in Kentucky when they know good and well that the biggest story lines and views/hits almost always center around Kentucky basketball. It has the largest following in CBB…. So they have 2 options for views. Lead w us…or write hit pieces to stoke the fire and get views by pissing off the fanbase bc they know it’ll trend if the UK base gets fired up.

3) ESPN is no longer subjective college basketball coverage. It’s UConn and Duke alumn running a national version of KSR while pretending to be subjective on college basketball. At least their football coverage isn’t just a bunch of Bama and OSU ex players

4) Dick V is just an “old guard” coaches shill similar to Greenberg that would rather had seen us fail to prove that Cal was still the right fit here

 

[FirewithFire]

The program is in a good spot and the haters are mad. What a shock. Jay is a little bitch and always has been. Also, Calipari deserves to be trashed. He drove our program into the dirt and smiled the whole time.

 

[anonymous_2011]

Is Digger Phelps still alive? I'd like to hear him trash us again.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

The program is in a good spot and the haters are mad. What a shock. Jay is a little bitch and always has been. Also, Calipari deserves to be trashed. He drove our program into the dirt and smiled the whole time.

And how great would it be if UK/Pope won it all the very next season? Only possible, under the circumstances, with Pay for Play and immediate transfer.
But guess what-thats whats up!

 

[UKAlum84]

Its all par for the course. Remember how Billy Packer was on air sometimes?

Just keep giving this team fuel, its a long season.

 

[BlueSince92]

For 5 years Cal gave his best to @KentuckyMBB & BBN

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Lashing out would be silly but Williams and Vitale are acting like little bitches for needing to frame it that way in the first place. Cal dragged our program through the mud and then THEY (Williams and Vitale among others) made a big fuss about how we were supposedly falsely accusing Cal and not appreciating his genius.

Now we're celebrating a little the fact that:

1 ---- Cal is not our problem anymore
2---- The whole world can see that it was never us falsely accusing Calipari, it was Williams and Vitale's crowd falsely accusing us.

Why shouldn't we celebrate a little bit?

Them acting this way now is just like a dog returning to its vomit. Let 'em.

I might add that the smell of Ky burning couches is aromatically pleasing to the big blue nostrils.

 

[Philstat]

JW was very supportive of UK's win afterwards, exceptionally complimentary and he's 100% correct in the video response he posted, to say otherwise, gives the impression our fan-base is delusional at times.

 

[jr40831]

Hey Vitale, I don't give a ↓↓ what you think.

 

[yoshukai]

JW was very supportive of UK's win afterwards, exceptionally complimentary and he's 100% correct in the video response he posted, to say otherwise, gives the impression our fan-base is delusional at times.

Yeah , and you know he had to wing it because he just said in the video that espn’s narrative is to promote Cooper Flagg .

 

[jwphelps]

We have Jay Williams addressing BBN (see other thread) and now Dick Vitale lecturing us about how we're trashing Calipari. My first thought is to lash out, because BBN is not one collective hive mind, so who are you to address us as such? But then....we DO have a lot of obnoxious fans. We're like the Cowboys, Yankees or Lakers. We can't control the outer fringe.

Who cares what those idiots are saying, Jay Williams is so bias when it comes to Duke it is not funny, Vitale has lost his mind a few years ago. As far as Cal goes, why some obsess about him I will never know, Cal is gone be thankful and let the Hogs worry about Cal.

 

[podgejeff_]

Do you all ever hear of any other fan base being addressed by people in the media? For some reason BBN is treated differently. Wilbon will probably be next.

It generates buzz. We're the biggest college basketball fanbase.

They're the media, it's their job to get us talking about what they say, and they do not care in the slightest if they're right or wrong as long as people are talking about what they said.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

No we don’t deserve this. The heck with Vitale, we gave every right to criticize Cal. Thank goodness he is Arkansas’s problem now.

 

[bowfreak]

So Duke, UNC or KU go something like 20-12 for the next 5 years and their fan bases will be praising their coach?

MCBB coaches make a ton of money and coaches at blue bloods even more so. They are not paid for their good looks or pithy press conferences, they are paid to win. Whenever they stop doing so they are going to be ran out of town. Cal left UK. He is coaching somebody else. Why are we expected to sing the guy’s praises?

 

[FatestCat]

I am no fan of Jay but I took the Jay Williams video to be a little more “yeah you guys earned it but the big corporations aren’t interested in an other Rudy story”. To me he kinda stuck his neck out to congratulate us and spilled some facts.

Another Rudy story? This is UK not some division 2 school and UK was #18. What a d-bag thing to say

 

[ccukuk]

I guess i'm part of the lunatic fringe...I'm going to keep trashing him for about as long as he trashed the program. I've got a solid 5 or 6 yrs. left

Him being cow or evel kneviel like williams?

 

[yabbadabbadoo]

They liked Cow being here because they knew we’d be mediocre. Took a blue blood off the table to worry about. When I say they, I mean a lot of them. New ballgame boys.

 

[billoliver40]

Much ado about nothing.