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 live closer to TN than most of KY down here in Bell County.
For the most part it's UK but some of those orange wearing buttholes seem to cross the border from Harrogate with regularity 🤢
For the most part it's UK but some of those orange wearing buttholes seem to cross the border from Harrogate with regularity 🤢
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.
One thing
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’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.
