Thoughts on (Louisville) Kentucky

#51
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VolFreakJosh said:
I'm not saying Calapari invented it. I'm saying they should get rid of the one and done rule. What's the point of them staying 1 year in college then going straight to the NBA? I say if they think they're good enough to go straight to the pros then let them prove theirselves. Most high caliber recruits think they're better than some NBA players anyway. Take this years incoming Kentucky recruits for example.
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It is not the NCAA's rule. It is the NBA's rule. I have come around to believing that Calipari does right by these kids. He knows they should not have to spend a year between high school and the NBA in college. He knows they are being exploited. He knows that nobody in the NCAA, to include these kids, gives a damn about their education. He takes it as his number one task to get these kids from high school into a multi-million dollar contract in the NBA. It is actually refreshingly honest, in my opinion.
 
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Its the fans that irritate me. Calipari and the players are following the rules that exist. Its the fans who want it both ways..."we won and we're young"....then "we lost, but we were so young"...
 
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tim said:
Its the fans that irritate me. Calipari and the players are following the rules that exist. Its the fans who want it both ways..."we won and we're young"....then "we lost, but we were so young"...
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It does work. Like said before, no coach is going to be contenders every single year for the title and go deep. The one-and-done finally caught up with us. In the past years, we've had older players. This year, we have a nice mix imo. But wouldn't be shocked if in two years we have a 2012 repeat.
 
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mad4vols said:
Louisville has class, Kentucky doesn't.
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Bwahahahahahha!

True ignorance has reared its ugly head. Classy indeed. Who wears a pink wife-beater?

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mad4vols said:
Louisville has class, Kentucky doesn't.
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Yea... neither fan base is anything to write home about by any stretch of the imagination. It's not a lie to say that thugs make up a large majority of Louisville's supporters in the Bluegrass, just as Kentucky fans are overwhelmingly backwoods. They're both schools in Kentucky... you can't really expect too much.

As for my thoughts on Louisville football this fall...

I'll be disappointed if the Cards don't make a BCS bowl.

I'll be sad if they don't go undefeated, as they're going to be favored fairly heavily in every matchup. Upsets are a fact of life, but it doesn't mean I have to just accept them.

I will be so incredibly thrilled if Louisville makes the national title game. Seems ridiculous, but they really should go undefeated. If they go 12-0 and begin the season as a top-ten team... they've got a shot.

No words if they became the first 3-touchdown underdog to win the BCS title game.
 
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mad4vols said:
Louisville has class, Kentucky doesn't.
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Hahahahahah

Maybe if you ignore the bball players beating up their girlfriends (and on one occasion, her dad as well) and a head coach who after impregnating a stranger (on a table in a restaurant) paid 3000 bucks and sent an assistant coach to take her to an abortion clinic...then I could see where that comment mkes some sense...

Stick to football bruh
 
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tim said:
Its the fans that irritate me. Calipari and the players are following the rules that exist. Its the fans who want it both ways..."we won and we're young"....then "we lost, but we were so young"...
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The internet portion of every fanbase is always crazy and for whatever reason UK's online fanbase is louder that most - spreads the crazy further.
 
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tim said:
Duke, I wasnt talking about the internet.
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Well I know a lot of UK fans (having gone to school there) and for the most part they're reasonable. If your not talking about internet trolls I can only make assumptions about the type of company you keep.
 
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dukes_of_maggard said:
Well I know a lot of UK fans (having gone to school there) and for the most part they're reasonable. If your not talking about internet trolls I can only make assumptions about the type of company you keep.
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Honestly its not even the alums that get under my skin. Its the bandwagoners in their singlewides with their UK mailbox covers and the Alabama window stickers. My comments are mostly directed to those who fit under that category, Im pretty sure "Littlecat" is one of them.
 
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tim said:
Honestly its not even the alums that get under my skin. Its the bandwagoners in their singlewides with their UK mailbox covers and the Alabama window stickers. My comments are mostly directed to those who fit under that category, Im pretty sure "Littlecat" is one of them.
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I get irritated at bandwagon fans of any team but they often don't know anything about the program anyway so I mostly ignore them. If there is a silver lining to last year it's that we may have shaken a few of ours...
 
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dukes_of_maggard said:
I get irritated at bandwagon fans of any team but they often don't know anything about the program anyway so I mostly ignore them. If there is a silver lining to last year it's that we may have shaken a few of ours...
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Thats what "Weeeee're Baaaaack" tshirts are for. Bandwagoners
 
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LittleCat said:
In general really. I spent a lot of summers there with family and don't follow it like I used to. I cheer them when they're playing, but not a fanatic.
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You know what Im saying. Everyone can have some sort of tie to a program, it just reeks bandwagoner to be a fan of two sports from two states and they just happen to be successful. Why not Oklahoma State?
 
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tim said:
You know what Im saying. Everyone can have some sort of tie to a program, it just reeks bandwagoner to be a fan of two sports from two states and they just happen to be successful. Why not Oklahoma State?
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I understand what you mean. I've said it a million times here, I don't pretend to be a huge fan of Oklahoma. I like the school, have good memories of the state. Why not Osu? My uncle and aunt both went to Oklahoma, my cousin goes there now, other than knowing Travis Ford I've just never followed osu. I don't pretend to be a huge vol fan. But I have tons of family from there and support them when they are not playing UK. It's the world I was born into.

I have family living in other states, but I never had that gut feeling for liking any schools. From an early age, I liked certain schools. Were they picked partially because size and success, maybe. I could have easily picked Florida, Oregon, or Boise St. But I've had my rough years with my schools. I've been solid OK/UT/UK for 18+ years, not gonna change.
 
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