I despise IU. But I could not care less about the UK-IU series until we get our own internal house in order. I love Mitch Barnhart for everything he has accomplished. Mitch has been a miracle worker. But Mitch and Cal have not gotten along, and it makes it harder for Mitch to enforce standards. This boiled over after Cal blindsided Mitch by declaring Kentucky a basketball school.
I mean. IU was ranked 30th in Kenpom at the end of last season. We were like 27th.
Nobody blindsided anyone with that comment. Cal shouldn't have said it but we have the second most titles in NCAA history. That would be like Saban saying Alabama was a football school. Cal shouldn't have said it and I'm not defending him but people act like he said something amazingly taboo. What's even more ridiculous is both programs got in a tizzy and both programs didn't do SQUAT in the post season.
Welp, it wasn’t quite 80 percent but as I said, a large majority of fans don’t want it.
Idk but those teams we play at home. Period. You can’t lump iu in with mid majors. They are a failed blue blood who will rise with anytime they beat Kentucky while we move closer to taking there spot. Beating them does nothing for us. It’s a one sided deal. A 4 year home and home? We have that with 75% of the non conference schedule? No only Louisville and that’s another annual game with nothing to gain. Another that should be dropped for fresh opponents. The question really is why IU? No one on UKs side cares about that game only the fervent iu fans. There that’s why we shouldn’t play them. I like the Arizona suggestion and or about 20-30 other teams.
So if we did drop UofL that means we'd play no rivalry games at all (minus UT because of conference). UNC is not a given due to not only the ACC/SEC Challenge but the CBS Classic.
Loser like isn’t a rival imo. We are a rival to them but I don’t give a shat about UL. We clean them out every season. Rivalry games go back and forth. We are 38-17 against them. UT imo is a bigger rival right now. No one cares if it’s out of conference look at duke and UNC. I would submit UNC is a bigger rival than UL ooc. Competing blue bloods whose fans really hate each other because the others successes. Those games actually mean something. It’s not a rival when you beat a team like we do UL. It had the pitino factor a few years ago and the 80s UL went no some runs but that’s it. They are the wanna be in state team. Play Cincinnati before UL or IU give someone else a shot.
Well, I have lived in Indianapolis since I graduated from UK in 78. I don't want to see the series continue.
Eye u is irrelevant why play them? Since they
UT in conference that’s enough for me. That’s duke UNC that’s their rivalry it’s in conference. Actually most are. USC ucla. Michigan Michigan st Oklahoma Texas on and on and on. I think UNC would admit their biggest non conference rival is UK. So make sure there is a game with them every year. Do a home and home and play it when we aren’t playing them in the cbs deal. I mean that is a legit heavy weight blue blood rivalry. Cultivate the hell outta that. UCLa too should be played every year. I mean we find a way it seems to play ku every year. Duke is afraid of us that will never happen but it’s another game that would have far greater value than playing UL. We are trying to catch UNC in head to head wins and UNC in all else. That’s a must play every year. All that comes from playing ul and iu is vitriol and hatred from their inferior fanbase. That’s the biggest reason it’s a loser for uk. I mean ul iu fans they are obsessed with UK where as UK don’t give a f—- about what’s happening in Bloomington or Louisville
I hear this argument a lot.
I just don't think they're any worse for us to play than another middling program.
I disagree that we don't care. We obviously care. People can say all they want that we don't care. But the message board and people pissed we are playing them shows we care. If we didn't care, it would fly under the radar. People care a lot more about this than they do about playing Miami, and that's a much better program these days.
I’ve seen people say this, but there was such a small group who was upset about not playing iu it didn’t matter. The majority didn’t care it was nixed.
No one is pissed. It’s like watching the same movie over and over. In all reality so has the entire tenure of cal a really bad one with a massive budget.
That's because Cal has alienated the fan base and some will just crap on anything he does to be contrarians. Don't get me wrong. Cal is still in my dog house. And he's earned EVERY bit of criticism over his screw ups. But Cal could come out tomorrow and say "The sky is blue; and it's blue because blue light has short wave lengths and is scattered more than any other color thus we see it the most." And someone would STILL argue him just because he said it. The shtick gets old from both them AND Cal.
