Randall Cobb wants to thank UK fans

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He deleted it, but by the time he did, it had been put on several message boards and/or re-tweeted by others.

Will probably serve as a good lesson in not airing out your frustrations over social media. These guys are covered by fans, rival fans, and numerous beat writers, so once they say it, there is no taking it back, even if you delete it.
 
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i was there, he's right. uk fball has been a social event for a number of years and imo after being @ 4 games there the last few years it has a flat feeling and i think there could be some athletic dept. changes made to make the game day experience more exciting while inside commonwealth.

on the flip side uk has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for years and fans want something worth cheering for. it's getting there now, but even twice this year we've shot ourselves in the foot. if the defense hadn't felt the need to spot auburn and ole miss 14 in the first quarters we are in the drivers seat in the east.

randall's a kid, he said what he said. he made it right as best he knew how. there were empty seats in two upper corners....prolly not a half a section total, but still. cobb wants to win and if we can get about 21 more guys to buy into that mentality and play balls to the wall every play we'll be getting somewhere.

right now it seems like about every 3rd play we have everyone going all out.
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
i was there, he's right. uk fball has been a social event for a number of years and imo after being @ 4 games there the last few years it has a flat feeling and i think there could be some athletic dept. changes made to make the game day experience more exciting while inside commonwealth.

on the flip side uk has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for years and fans want something worth cheering for. it's getting there now, but even twice this year we've shot ourselves in the foot. if the defense hadn't felt the need to spot auburn and ole miss 14 in the first quarters we are in the drivers seat in the east.

randall's a kid, he said what he said. he made it right as best he knew how. there were empty seats in two upper corners....prolly not a half a section total, but still. cobb wants to win and if we can get about 21 more guys to buy into that mentality and play balls to the wall every play we'll be getting somewhere.

right now it seems like about every 3rd play we have everyone going all out.
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Pretty much well said.
 
#31
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well my nose was a lil stuffy and i worked 9.5 hours yesterday so i gave it my best shot. i got too lazy to be too reflective but i'm glad you got i could relate the idea.
 
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Brian McCat said:
You have a team on a 3 game losing streak and 69,000 still show up- 1K short of capacity. I don't get it.
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It was also Keeneland, and there were about 1,000 other activities going on around campus. UK supports their football, as sorry as it has been historically and for the last 3 weeks; if Cobb actually posted this, he is off base.

wildnkrazykat said:
i was there, he's right. uk fball has been a social event for a number of years and imo after being @ 4 games there the last few years it has a flat feeling and i think there could be some athletic dept. changes made to make the game day experience more exciting while inside commonwealth.

on the flip side uk has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for years and fans want something worth cheering for. it's getting there now, but even twice this year we've shot ourselves in the foot. if the defense hadn't felt the need to spot auburn and ole miss 14 in the first quarters we are in the drivers seat in the east.

randall's a kid, he said what he said. he made it right as best he knew how. there were empty seats in two upper corners....prolly not a half a section total, but still. cobb wants to win and if we can get about 21 more guys to buy into that mentality and play balls to the wall every play we'll be getting somewhere.

right now it seems like about every 3rd play we have everyone going all out.
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UK football has been a social event for as long as I have been around it. I don't think that is going to change.

I also don't know what you have been seeing that makes you think the other 21 aren't going full speed. With the close loss to Auburn and the win over So Cal, the Cats have now overachieved for their talent level, which aside from Cobb and an injured Locke, just isn't very high.
 
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see, that's where i disagree. i don't think we have overachieved at all for our talent level. we have solid receivers, our oline is young and our secondary is a mixture of youth and experience, but the players on the field aren't trash. you don't play that well with an auburn or uscjr for 3 quarters if you're a shat team. our problem right now is that we have been coming out flat, especially defensively, for the first half of the first quarter or so. if defensively we play the first quarter like we play the last 3 we could be 6-1 and who knows how the florida game might have been different.
 
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Kentucky is slow at LB except for Trevathan and young at DB. That gets you gashed in the SEC.

The offense is pretty top notch tho. Hartline is a darn good QB- 32/42 375 yds 4 tds 0 ints last weekend. And matthews hauled in 12 catches for 177 yards. So i don't consider our offense to be garbage outside the "big two."
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And make no mistake about it...when Marcus Lattimore left the game, USC's offense went sour. Their success hinged on iso-ing him up with a slow LB.

I attribute the 2nd half comeback to that injury more than anything.
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#37
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Historically UK has certainly supported their football team way better than we've supported our basketball program. Every year they fill the place up even though most years there's not much to cheer for. Tennessee was lucky to get 5,000 before the 05-06 season.

I'd have to say Cobb was off base on his comments. Sure UK isn't a rabid football crowd, but I bet if he had to play for Vandy for a season he'd understand what apathy really is.
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
see, that's where i disagree. i don't think we have overachieved at all for our talent level. we have solid receivers, our oline is young and our secondary is a mixture of youth and experience, but the players on the field aren't trash. you don't play that well with an auburn or uscjr for 3 quarters if you're a shat team. our problem right now is that we have been coming out flat, especially defensively, for the first half of the first quarter or so. if defensively we play the first quarter like we play the last 3 we could be 6-1 and who knows how the florida game might have been different.
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Your talent level is roughly on par with Ole Miss. It is worse than Carolina's, Florida's, and Auburn's. It is better than UofL's and the patsies'. You are 4-3. That's overachieving by 1 game in my mind, the SC game.

Florida beat you like a stepchild. I don't know what you saw in that game that made you think it would be different. Auburn, SC, and Ole Miss all had 17+ point second half leads. It is to the credit of the team and the coaches that they won one of those and made games of the other two, but that in no way puts you close to 6-1. You are about as close to that mark at Tennessee, who played with Oregon and Florida for a while and couldn't count to 11 against LSU, is to 5-1.
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
our problem right now is that we have been coming out flat, especially defensively, for the first half of the first quarter or so. if defensively we play the first quarter like we play the last 3 we could be 6-1 and who knows how the florida game might have been different.
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You don't think Lattimore going out after the 1st quarter had anything to do with your defense's turn-around?
 
#41
#41
He was at the game. I'm sure he was more aware than most of the fans what was going on. Kudos to him for speaking his mind. People say crazy **** on message boards about players all the time. Good to see one player standing up for his team.
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#42
#42
I agree. It's his body that's getting destroyed every week. I saw some pics of the student section when the team ran onto the field. It was pretty pathetic. Also, Commonwealth is a late-arriving crowd from their tailgates, which does seem to mean that many there are only there for the social event.

Randall was justified in what he said.

PoochPunt3rdDown said:
He was at the game. I'm sure he was more aware than most of the fans what was going on. Kudos to him for speaking his mind. People say crazy **** on message boards about players all the time. Good to see one player standing up for his team.
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#43
#43
Well it does remind me of a UK/Arkansas game back when Lorenzen was the QB. Arkansas was beating UK pretty soundly but there was still almost the entire second half to go and UK scored. They cut to shots of the crowd filing out and after UK scored they cut to the sideline and Lorenzen was ticked off and he yelled something like "Where is everyone going? We're going to come back and you're not even going to see it".

UK still ended up losing but they did come back to lose pretty close.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Well it does remind me of a UK/Arkansas game back when Lorenzen was the QB. Arkansas was beating UK pretty soundly but there was still almost the entire second half to go and UK scored. They cut to shots of the crowd filing out and after UK scored they cut to the sideline and Lorenzen was ticked off and he yelled something like "Where is everyone going? We're going to come back and you're not even going to see it".

UK still ended up losing but they did come back to lose pretty close.
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That was the 7 overtime game, and J-Lo yelled on TV, "Where ya'll going? Ya'll are gonna miss a hell of a game!" I have it somewhere on VHS....

I'll be honest- most UK fans are football retards spoiled by basketball. Later that same season, we were 2-8 on a cold November day. There weren't more than 60,000 at kickoff, and after falling behind Vandy at halftime 13-0, people started filing out of the exits. I stayed with about 10,000 other people to watch Kentucky score 2 touchdowns in the 4th quarter, one right at the end, to take it. I've always said that those 10,000 are your true UK football fans.
 
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Brian McCat said:
I agree. It's his body that's getting destroyed every week. I saw some pics of the student section when the team ran onto the field. It was pretty pathetic. Also, Commonwealth is a late-arriving crowd from their tailgates, which does seem to mean that many there are only there for the social event.

Randall was justified in what he said.
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No he wasn't. I'm not sure I understand how you can make the argument that it is an athlete's place to criticize the fans that make his place on the field possible in any circumstance, but I really don't understand it with a fanbase that has supported that football program, historically and this season, better than it deserves.
 
#47
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What does he expect he went to Kentucky? If he would have came to UT he would not have had this trouble. And he did have an offer but Kentucky just lied to him and told him he could play QB and where is he now. Great player though.
 
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Jayson Swain has something to say...

JaysonSwain

randall was right .RT @espn: Randall Cobb of Kentucky Wildcats sorry for ripping fans on Twitter - Randall Cobb of Kentucky Wildcats sorry for ripping fans on Twitter - ESPN
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JaysonSwain

Uk fans ought to be shame of themselves for the way they treat the fb team last Saturday. They beat a very good sc team after 4 qts not 1
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Jayson Swain JaysonSwain

Fans are not above criticism just bc money is paid. Does not give u the right to be knuckleheads. I'm glad vol fans didn't do that
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