What can we do?

[playmorezeppelin]

I can't help but feel stupid for being so emotionally invested in collegiate sports these days. It's becoming more apparent that following a season of college basketball is more like watching a broadway play that is designed to create drama and, ultimately, the ending has been decided long before the game actually begins.

The gross mishandling of investigations lately really makes it hard for me to feel the same way about the NCAA as I have in the past. I'm tired of devoting 5-6 months of my life to a basketball season and then feeling so cheated by the end of it. The fans are getting screwed, hard, by a committee that appears to be ran by the Sopranos.

There aren't many things that mean to me what Kentucky basketball means to me. Nothing makes me so emotional - I would like to believe that you couldn't find a more genuine fan than I am. But as it stands right now, I don't know if I can suffer through another circus next year. Call it my boycotting the NCAA, but after this tournament I refuse to buy into another illegitimate basketball season. We keep getting screwed and then coming back for more every year. Something has to give.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

I feel for you. I even feel similarly. But I'll be back. Just like I am every year. Ready for more.

 

[docholiday51]

We are focused on win it all or the season is a failure too much,of course that is the goal here at UK and it has only intensified since Cal began bringing in such high level talent for one year.We contend for the national championship almost every year,we had a great year this season ,32-6 is pretty damn good.

Some of us here go back to the late 50's as UK fans,we have had to adjust how we think to a degree but at the end of the day the kids that put on the UK uniform each year are our team.We know each season will be the only one that this team exists,we want them to win and win big,we want it for ourselves but we also want it for the players on the team.They get one shot as a team.

I see the word selfish thrown around quite a bit here and I guess there is some of that but for the old timers we want it for the guys that wear the uniform just as much ,that is the way we have been for a long time

The NCAA,cheating and media bias are part of the bad that goes along with the good,emotional investment in UK basketball has run deep in our veins for a long time.I won't let that go no matter what the NCAA does.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

We are focused on win it all or the season is a failure too much,of course that is the goal here at UK and it has only intensified since Cal began bringing in such high level talent for one year.We contend for the national championship almost every year,we had a great year this season ,32-6 is pretty damn good.

Some of us here go back to the late 50's as UK fans,we have had to adjust how we think to a degree but at the end of the day the kids that put on the UK uniform each year are our team.We know each season will be the only one that this team exists,we want them to win and win big,we want it for ourselves but we also want it for the players on the team.They get one shot as a team.

I see the word selfish thrown around quite a bit here and I guess there is some of that but for the old timers we want it for the guys that wear the uniform just as much ,that is the way we have been for a long time

The NCAA,cheating and media bias are part of the bad that goes along with the good,emotional investment in UK basketball has run deep in our veins for a long time.I won't let that go no matter what the NCAA does.

 

[Beast Johnson]

I suppose it all just depends on one's individual perspective. You can get all emotionally attached to it and take it so far as to wrap up your personal identity in how UK performs or you can take a giant step back and realize that, in the big picture of life, it's all just entertainment. Watching teenagers run around and put a ball through a circle for entertainment.

Those descriptions are a bit extreme, but you know what Im saying. Sure, I would love to see my alma mater UK perform at the highest level and win big, but it is what it is. What UK does or doesn't do on the playing field or court does not impact my daily life and the things that I need to get done at work/home. If that perspective makes me a "bad" UK fan, then I guess I'll just have to live with that?

 

[Beast Johnson]

It's all just a corrupt, broken, rigged system designed to make dump-truck loads of $$$. Don't let yourselves get carried away with emotion in all this. Most people realize the multi-layers of intent regarding the NCAA/Big TV Networks

 

[JasonS.]

This is why God put the Masters this week. Listen to this for 96 straight hours and you'll be ready for Midnight Madness.

 

[jameslee32]

See ya!

 

[docholiday51]

I suppose it all just depends on one's individual perspective. You can get all emotionally attached to it and take it so far as to wrap up your personal identity in how UK performs or you can take a giant step back and realize that, in the big picture of life, it's all just entertainment. Watching teenagers run around and put a ball through a circle for entertainment.

Those descriptions are a bit extreme, but you know what Im saying. Sure, I would love to see my alma mater UK perform at the highest level and win big, but it is what it is. What UK does or doesn't do on the playing field or court does not impact my daily life and the things that I need to get done at work/home. If that perspective makes me a "bad" UK fan, then I guess I'll just have to live with that?

Everyone who is a fan has families,jobs and lives outside of being a UK fan but it is still a part of who we are and who we were in the process of getting here. I've enjoyed being a fan since the age of six or seven,it was a connection to the outside world for a kid growing up in rural Kentucky.It helps me now to hold on to the memories of those days.

 

[TexKat]

Everyone who is a fan has families,jobs and lives outside of being a UK fan but it is still a part of who we are and who we were in the process of getting here. I've enjoyed being a fan since the age of six or seven,it was a connection to the outside world for a kid growing up in rural Kentucky.It helps me now to hold on to the memories of those days.

Doc, you're a daisy!

Midnight Madness....192 days away.

 

[barryn2000]

I can't help but feel stupid for being so emotionally invested in collegiate sports these days.