No scandals we have had measure up to the sickness in place at Spartan pedo U.
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I live in Louisville area and wear UK gear daily.
I’ve been I Florida for 8 years, moved here from Owensboro. A lot of KY fans here. I haven’t had any problems with any rival fans. First of all neither Florida St. or Florida fans care much about basketball. So far this year neither care much about football either😂
Grew up in Owensboro. UK territory for sure. A few contrarians that were UL guys. They were always vocal, of course, but no one paid them any attention.
Lived in Louisville in the 90s. No issue then, Louisville was heavier blue back then and UK ruled during the Pitino years, so I never noticed any hostility. Most people I knew were UK fans or were pretty tame UL fans.
Lived in Louisville again 2013-2015. Different vibe. UL definitely was in an uptick with football and basketball and the natives were aggressive and unfriendly. Still alot of UK fans, but Pitino to UL def moved the scales back then.
Worked in central Indiana for several years. That was the worst. Just an angry bunch living in the past. Could not wear a UK shirt without being harassed. I am not a vocally aggressive UK fan and never engage, but they never ceased to harass.
Lived in Georgia for most of the last 22 years. Never and issue. UGA fans know their place in football and UK in basketball. For the most part a tame and reasonable fan base.
Atlanta also is a melting pot of SEC and ACC fans, tons of transplants, so you don’t get overwhelmed and various fans are everywhere. The worst group in Atlanta is oddly the Bama fans.
Lived in Louisville in the 90s. No issue then, Louisville was heavier blue back then and UK ruled during the Pitino years, so I never noticed any hostility. Most people I knew were UK fans or were pretty tame UL fans.
Lived in Louisville again 2013-2015. Different vibe. UL definitely was in an uptick with football and basketball and the natives were aggressive and unfriendly. Still alot of UK fans, but Pitino to UL def moved the scales back then.
Worked in central Indiana for several years. That was the worst. Just an angry bunch living in the past. Could not wear a UK shirt without being harassed. I am not a vocally aggressive UK fan and never engage, but they never ceased to harass.
Lived in Georgia for most of the last 22 years. Never and issue. UGA fans know their place in football and UK in basketball. For the most part a tame and reasonable fan base.
Atlanta also is a melting pot of SEC and ACC fans, tons of transplants, so you don’t get overwhelmed and various fans are everywhere. The worst group in Atlanta is oddly the Bama fans.
I lived in Valdosta, ga a few months. My best friend worked for the AD over Valdosta st. The ADs dad was AD of Georgia. They liked Kentucky (football). Talked of UK like a little brother. Did not meet a single Georgian that disliked Kentucky. Probably because they didn't feel threatened. This was 1984ish.
Interesting.
Because I wear my UK gear ALL THE TIME, spending 28 years DEEP in enemy territory next to UNC and Duke. My truck is UK blue with an official UK license plate. But I am respectful of them (I hate when people are a**holes over sports), and for the most part the UNC and Duke fans return that respect.
Before moving to NC, I spent 2 years near Philly. Where they don't give a crap about college sports (I remember sports-talk-radio only talking about the mediocre hockey team instead of the brackets the morning after Selection Sunday, WTF). So, when I moved to NC, it was nice to be back where people are passionate about college basketball.
So, I usually am representing UK when I go out. And often other UK fans will give a "Go Big Blue" to me.
I get that. Grew up just 5 miles from TN (but closer to Nashville than Knoxville). Still there were UT fans in that part of KY (more than UL fans, I knew of just 1 of those).
I did 4 years hard labor for selling couch insurance to minors.
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If I’m in the NE US, I’ll talk basketball if someone engages me first. although it’s not because of anything I wear—but when they ask where I went to school. Basketball is the deal up there and I respect that.
I usually won’t talk college sports unless someone brings it up. Then it’s usually football—especially when I travel in the SEC. I enjoy talking w any fanbase except Florida and UTenn, and Alabama. I’ll wear UK gear to fb games
If I’m in the NE US, I’ll talk basketball if someone engages me first. although it’s not because of anything I wear—but when they ask where I went to school. Basketball is the deal up there and I respect that.
I have been stationed in Florida - no one cared, Mississippi - no one cared, California - no one cared, Italy, Louisiana and Washington DC all the same.
Once I got stationed in Memphis there was a little smack talk about basketball. Once Cal left for UK there was pure hatred from Memphis fans for anything UK. Of course, I wore and still wear my UK gear all the time and fly my UK flag win or lose. Now that Cal is gone and Penny is running the Memphis program into the ground the hate has subsided for now.
Once I got stationed in Memphis there was a little smack talk about basketball. Once Cal left for UK there was pure hatred from Memphis fans for anything UK. Of course, I wore and still wear my UK gear all the time and fly my UK flag win or lose. Now that Cal is gone and Penny is running the Memphis program into the ground the hate has subsided for now.
My wife is from Indiana, but couldn’t care less about sports. Her family is a mix of UL and IU fans. I drive them nuts when I won’t bite into the banter they throw out there.
Always moving (Navy) but currently live in the northern suburbs of Memphis. Healthy split of UT and Memphis fans here. There's occasionally some good natured ribbing back and forth. But nothing anyone takes serious and nothing gets personal. Have UK vanity plates, wear a lot of UK shirts and it more often doesn't even come up.
I lived in Gainesville, FL from '98 - '04. Was a tough place and time to be a UK football fan (which, I'm not much of one, much more UK Basketball). The UF football fans, at least back then, acted so entitled like they were football royalty. It was nauseating.
Florida fans in the early 1990s are a perfect case study for “not being able to handle sudden success”. What’s worse, most of them were FSU fans in the 1980s.
Aside from Bear Bryant leaving UK, Spurriers arrival was one of the worst things to happen to college sports. Please don’t even attempt to tell me cheating wasn’t rampant there to make THAT big of a cut into FSU and UM recruits.
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On 12/27/1986, during Rex Chapman's freshman year, I attended the UK/UL basketball game at Freedom Hall wearing my UK shirt and baseball cap. My friend, also a UK fan, wore a UK shirt, and we were treated horribly. UL fans shot us the bird (pun intended, middle finger) several times, pelted us with ice, and directed many 4-letter words toward us. On 11/19/22, I wore my UK jersey (Jared Lorenzen's #22 jersey), sitting in the GA section in a UK football game between the UK and UGA. I was surrounded by UGA fans, and they treated me with the utmost respect. I was the only blue among UGA's red. UGA has earned my respect and has become my favorite SEC team, following the UK.
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I live in Franklin TN in a sea of orange, but thankfully there's a lot of transplants here.
My son wears his UK gear proudly and is harassed mercilessly by his friends, but he stays strong.
My son wears his UK gear proudly and is harassed mercilessly by his friends, but he stays strong.
I’m from South Carolina . Not many care about college basketball enough to give me hell lol
Plus I’m not loud in public . It doesn’t matter if we are winning or losing I don’t show much emotion either way.
Plus I’m not loud in public . It doesn’t matter if we are winning or losing I don’t show much emotion either way.
I lived in Florida a couple years in the 80s; I probably met more UK basketball fans than Florida basketball fans. The only ribbing I ever got was on that day of the year when Florida abused us on the football field(was pretty much always that way then). As a general rule they loved me but that's probably just because of how lovable I am...
Have lived in West TN for the whole Calipari era. I even attend a few Memphis games a season. Most Memphis fans were realistic about why Cal jumped to UK. Was kinda surreal though, being at a sports bar watching UK/UL in the 2012 final four, and the whole place is cheering for Louisville.
I have lived near Nashville, TN my whole life. UT and Vandy fan's are fine overall here. We have a lot of random fanbases due to everyone wanting to move to middle TN so its a melting pot anyways.
In Ohio now but lived in Salisbury NC for 17 years. My house was sandwiched between a UNC, Duke, and a NC State fan.
We had some brutal battles. I shot holes in their UNC blowup Christmas lawn decorations with a BB gun. That thing has duct tape all over it when we moved.
The Duke families kids were not allowed to be in the yard wearing anything with a Duke logo on it. Would send them home to change.
Babysat a 6 month old one time and dressed them up in every UK outfit that we bought for my unborn son, took pictures and posted them throughout their house and forwarded to others in their family This family had hard core graduates of UNC and they didn’t appreciate our humor.
The NC State family just egged everyone on and switched sides depending on the subject. Was a ton of fun and everyone had a blast trying to outdo the other from a fan perspective.
We had some brutal battles. I shot holes in their UNC blowup Christmas lawn decorations with a BB gun. That thing has duct tape all over it when we moved.
The Duke families kids were not allowed to be in the yard wearing anything with a Duke logo on it. Would send them home to change.
Babysat a 6 month old one time and dressed them up in every UK outfit that we bought for my unborn son, took pictures and posted them throughout their house and forwarded to others in their family This family had hard core graduates of UNC and they didn’t appreciate our humor.
The NC State family just egged everyone on and switched sides depending on the subject. Was a ton of fun and everyone had a blast trying to outdo the other from a fan perspective.
I was a guest a few times in Indiana where the family cheered half for IU and half for Purdue. Basketball never came up even though they were ardent fans. Can't imagine why.
Now I regularly go to Tennessee for my wife's family and thank God they're Purdue fans that couldn't give a flying rat turd about 90% of the games. My wife is actually a UTM alum and hates UT fans. She even says UT should get sponsored *and f-d* by French's. I'm a Plochman's man, myself, but I digress... So all things considered, I've lucked out.
Now I regularly go to Tennessee for my wife's family and thank God they're Purdue fans that couldn't give a flying rat turd about 90% of the games. My wife is actually a UTM alum and hates UT fans. She even says UT should get sponsored *and f-d* by French's. I'm a Plochman's man, myself, but I digress... So all things considered, I've lucked out.
About the same time we had a major earthquake here in so Calif, my wife and daughter were running around the house catching thinks off of wall shelves and Aaron Harrison hit that shot that beat the Tards there was a human earthquake and I was shaking things in the house.
40 years ago I lived in Dalton GA and was wearing a UK shirt inside an Ingles Supermarket. A male employee chest bumped me into one of the shelves ( I did not say a word) and he proceeded to cuss me and to say I was Kentucky inbreed scum. So I walked off found the manager and got his ass fired on the spot. I've often wondered if he regretted it. Lol
West coast of Florida, OSU, yeah I believe it. I live Cincinnati, where we hear very little about OSU. It infuriates people from Columbus when you tell them you couldn’t care less about Ohio State. I tell them I’m not from Ohio. I’m from Cincinnati.
I could not imagine living in Columbus, Ohio. That would be a living hell listening to the Ohio State garbage 24 seven.
I live in Columbus, have for 14 years. Lived in Tucson and Morgantown as well. Morgantown was the worst (lived there when we lost to them with John Wall). People in Tucson didn’t really care. Also don’t really hear too much about OSU here. I mean I could, there are tons of Ohio State fans here, but thankfully Columbus is a really big city (2.2 million) and growing like crazy so there are tons of non Ohio State people as well. Overall if people actually like you they arent going to be a dick about the team you like unless you yourself are a DB. I’m sure my kids will root for OSU in some capacity growing up here, which I’m fine with, I don’t want to raise those weirdo contrarian kids that don’t root for the home team. At least they’re always competitive.
I'm 41 and have lived in Lexington my entire life, so zero experience living behind enemy lines.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
I went to school in Indiana at DePauw University for two years. I took a little grief for being a UK fan when it was tournament time each year. What was worse were all the jokes I heard about the stupid redneck Kentucky people. I think I heard them all.
After those two years I transferred to NKU where I met a woman. we both graduated and then married. One time we were traveling through Indiana either visiting Turkey run or visiting my old friends at DePauw. We stopped at a rural Indiana bar. I was wearing a UK basketball shirt. We went inside and everybody looked really rough and looked at us. There was IU gear all over the wall and people were wearing IU shirts. I thought, “uh oh.”
Nobody said anything negative to us at all. They pretty much left us alone and anything they did say to us was friendly. Looking back on it it was really probably pretty risky to be wearing that shirt and going in a place like that, but it was fine.
Live in southern KY about 40 mins from TN. I’ve only met 4 UL fans all my life. It’s UK or UT here.
Outside Columbus Ohio the last 2 plus years and get treated well wearing UK gear, but do get a few double takes around all these Buckeyes. I usually run into someone who stops me and is either originally from KY or is a KY fan.
I lived in NW Ohio. That’s where the Scarlet and Maize started to mix. Not being a fan of either actually made it more tolerable.
