we are located the middle.
Top of the south. Our advantage is we can promise midwestern recruits a chance to play in the SEC without being too far from home.
UK Football will never be above average. Why? Long.
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Top of the south. Our advantage is we can promise midwestern recruits a chance to play in the SEC without being too far from home.
No one said to back off funding for basketball. Just spend more on football. Football should be outspending basketball anyway.
I see where many have called you a Vanderbilt fan in the past. This post seems to confirm it. Were you salivating at the thought of being able to write this dog sh*t post ?
You are correct, 100%. Calipari should have never vocalized it, but UK is and always will be a basketball school.
I'm not sure why this is so difficult for folks to understand. Also, everything you said about the recruiting and location, etc is 100% accurate. Our fans don't want to admit it, but it is true.
All that said, Stoops probably needs to move on. Much like Cal, it has gotten stale and I think the issue is he (Stoops) set a bar that he simply cannot achieve here on a regular basis (10 wins). To be clear, I'm not saying Cal set a bar...he didn't, UKMBB is a different beast, unlike football.
Being known as a “basketball school” isn’t exactly a compliment. It’s just a source of laughter for SEC fans. I don’t know why THIS is so difficult to understand.
Basketball is an afterthought. Like it or not it’s true. Accepting were just a basketball school and being fine with it is accepting mediocrity.
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You're not defined by what other SEC schools think of you, you are defined by what you are successful at.
At UK that's basketball.
It's not like they are going to kick us out of the conference.
Arkansas, South Carolina, Ole Miss and Texas A&M all claim to be football schools but what has any of them accomplished nationally?
I'll take our 8 Natty's in basketball over all of the before mentioned schools combined accomplishments in football.
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Ok, if you want to hop in your Delorian and go fix it you can. You are acting like basketball is some 3rd world sport. Basketball is far from an afterthought. It may be to you, but not the majority of people.
Your comparison would be the equivalent of me saying what the majority of the world thinks about soccer vs. NFL.
It doesn’t matter. Even nationally outside of a few fanbases, basketball is irrelevant.
College BB is second to college FB.
Second not fifth.
I'll take being an 8 time national champion in the second most popular sport .
If you can't be Alabama, Georgia, Ohio St, LSU, Michigan what's so great about being a second tier top 25 football program.
None of those guys are winning shit.
I wouldn't trade our basketball program for Penn St's football program.
They're not winning shit ever again and they would get their ass kicked by Georgia just like we will.
Stoops was doing pretty well before we lost the Big Blue Wall coach. Since then our O line has been hot garbage. Not sure if it's a lack of coaching, talent, injuries or a huge heaping combination of it all. When you have 7 players protecting the QB and they rush 3....and pressure the QB.... Something is wrong. But until the OLine solidifies, it will not matter if we have Tim Couch as QB, we are going to lose, regardless of the talent gap else where.
Most college fb teams ARE second tier, but they are still fighting. Ole Miss was as mediocre as us, but now they are killing it. Alabama was mediocre in the 1990s and early 2000’s.
FB programs keep investing and prioritizing because it makes good business sense. Football is by far the cash cow everywhere except Duke, and it needs to be fostered.
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Would you rather UK and Ole Miss trade performances on basketball court and football field?
Meaning, have UK be mediocre at bball and really good, boardering elite at football?
The bad news for you is trashing the football program with assertions that are everything from exaggerations to being patently false is not going to help your basketball team win one game. My advise to you is go back to the Rafters where you live the rest of time.
You’re a respectful. Poster and I appreciate that.
As a football guy I’d easily trade 8 NCs in bball for the 6 div champiomships and three ncs. The pageantry and the Grove is awesome. Again, I’m a fb guy. Winning in basketball is nice, I guess, but when you win in football it’s huge.
Ask a ut fan the same question. They only have 2 NCs in fb (1951 and 1958). You’d be surprised . As a UK fan, traveling to other SEC venues opened my eyes. It’s a TRUE celebration .
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Honestly, if we can’t ever be top tier I’d assume just drop fb and change conferences. Getting our asses handed to us by sec teams in fb while our fans Fire back with “wait til basketball season has grown old really fast.
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Well, thanks. I appreciate the honest response and kind words. Admittedly, I'm basketball first. I like the sport more and tradition of UKMBB. I'm not a huge NCAA FB guy, much much prefer the NFL and similarly, but opposite, prefer NCAA BB over NBA.
To each their own. For me, I'd much prefer us be what we've been my whole life in football and eventually catch UCLA in MBB titles prior to me kicking rocks on planet Earth 😂
