UK fans better than UT fans?

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:snort

UK fans are better than UT fans...

in the inability to determine fantasy v. reality. At least UT fans for the most part can recognize the failures and shortcomings where they exist within the program.

I'll take "Delusions" for $400, Alex. Alabama needs to watch out, they may have some competition in that category.

One would think they would hang up the trash talk until the day they actually beat us in football. They couldn't even do that during the season-which-shall-not-be-named.

Heartless, sure, but I'll admit that I got a chuckle out of the Brooks' capsized boat story. If that's not a metaphor for a program, I don't know what is.
 
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poeklm said:
i love your signature. Will you be at the game when we beat the vols and shock the football world yet again? I am just hoping to make it out of k-ville alive.
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ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaha
 
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I like the argument that they're better because they won the Music City Bowl twice...

Considering Vandy was one score away from usurping their place there...

I don't even get the argument that no one is a UT fan during football season...uh...what?
 
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Brian McCat said:
I would say that as far as being fans, considering the team's historical lack of success, UK has a pretty robust fanbase, packing the stadium out even in dreadful times.
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I definitely agree considering some of the football teams UK has put on the field.
 
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My feelings, I would rather lose 12 straight and be a UK fan than win 12 straight and be a UT fan. I'll still support the CATS!!!! Go BLUE!!!!!
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so how's he feel about 23 straight?
 
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When the most popular phrase during football season is "wait till basketball" they can't be compared to anybody.
 
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tkemo said:
When the most popular phrase during football season is "wait till basketball" they can't be compared to anybody.
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Unfortunately for them, basketball is no longer a guarantee. It'll be a dark day when they finally beat us, but at least we'll be able to fall back on "what took you so long?"
 
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Brian McCat said:
Back for more after being banned the first time, eh?

I would say that as far as being fans, considering the team's historical lack of success, UK has a pretty robust fanbase, packing the stadium out even in dreadful times.
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I come back to get the satisfaction that I made the right decision of becoming a Tennessee Volunteers fan while being born and raised in KY.

The constant claims by UK fans that "Kentucky is the Roman Empire" hardly outweigh the posts of the negativity directed at rival fans who try to have legitimate discussions with "you" guys. "Roman Empire?" I think not. More along the line of "Redneck White Trash." :salute:


Having family from Cookeville, TN. helps out a lot too.
 
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This guys said he only saw 2 car with UT flags on them this season... Where does this guy live?? In the mud with the catfish on the bottom of the Tennessee River?
 
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I like the "Georgia, LSU, Arkansas - look out Tennessee, we're coming" comments - they've been coming for 23 years. It's kinda like that scene in the Holy Grail when the guards are watching the guys charge and it replays over and over with them always the same distance away.
 
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Brian McCat said:
Back for more after being banned the first time, eh?

I would say that as far as being fans, considering the team's historical lack of success, UK has a pretty robust fanbase, packing the stadium out even in dreadful times.
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i've never seen a full stadium any time i've been there.
 
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Every school has delusoinal fans. Some stupid some on the funny level. Take your pick on this one.
 
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UK fans supported the 2002 team that went 7-5 while on probation. Other than that, attendance gradually drops all year during losing seasons - so no, the linked UK poster is wrong - attendance did not rise during probation. They thought they would beat UT in 2005 (despite UK having an even worse season than UT), and there were plenty of empty seats. The only guaranteed sellout is the home game against UofL every other year, because it's a rival, and it's early.

That said, yes, given the futility over the years, the support is pretty good overall.
 
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I think Kentucky fans out number Tennessee fans across the nation. Kentucky has to have a home basketball game in Cincinnati every year just to please the large number of fans up north.
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No.
 
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ukvols said:
UK fans supported the 2002 team that went 7-5 while on probation. Other than that, attendance gradually drops all year during losing seasons - so no, the linked UK poster is wrong - attendance did not rise during probation. They thought they would beat UT in 2005 (despite UK having an even worse season than UT), and there were plenty of empty seats. The only guaranteed sellout is the home game against UofL every other year, because it's a rival, and it's early.
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ukvols said:

That said, yes, given the futility over the years, the support is pretty good overall.
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Everybody's attendance dips in losing times, but considering that Commonwealth holds 70K, here is the attendance over the last several years, with UK's final record.

2007 - 68824 8-5
2006 - 57,330 8-5
2005 - 62,450 3-8
2004 - Not found 2-9
2003 - 64,922 4-8
2002 - 64,155 7-5
2001 - 63,480 2-9
2000 - 65,462 2-9
1999 - 67,756 6-6
1998 - 57,737 7-5 *

* Capacity was 58K before stadium expansion.

Except for 2006, when people just didn't show up because most felt that Brooks would/should be fired, the UK fan has been pretty darn loyal through some really bad football.

Have any of you ever been to an Indiana home game? Their stadium holds 40,000, and i have never seen more than 15,000 IU fans attend. There have been times when there were more Kentucky fans in attendance than Indiana.
 
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Brian McCat said:
Everybody's attendance dips in losing times, but considering that Commonwealth holds 70K, here is the attendance over the last several years, with UK's final record.

2007 - 68824 8-5
2006 - 57,330 8-5
2005 - 62,450 3-8
2004 - Not found 2-9
2003 - 64,922 4-8
2002 - 64,155 7-5
2001 - 63,480 2-9
2000 - 65,462 2-9
1999 - 67,756 6-6
1998 - 57,737 7-5 *

* Capacity was 58K before stadium expansion.

Except for 2006, when people just didn't show up because most felt that Brooks would/should be fired, the UK fan has been pretty darn loyal through some really bad football.

Have any of you ever been to an Indiana home game? Their stadium holds 40,000, and i have never seen more than 15,000 IU fans attend. There have been times when there were more Kentucky fans in attendance than Indiana.
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I agree that everybody's attendance dips during down times. I was just disputing the suggestion that attendance went up during UK's most recent down time.

I surely can't dispute your numbers. Based on % of capacity, that looks pretty good for the bad years. Based on total numbers, 60sK isn't exactly sparkling for SEC football. I do wonder if that's paid attendance and not the number of people actually there. I was at a few games between 2003 and 2005. It certainly wasn't empty by any means. I just remember the emergence of gaping holes of empty seats in the upper level. Using your numbers, 7,000 empty seats in a 70,000-seat stadium creates some pretty large gaps.

I have been to IU and made the same observation. I think their fans largely gave up on football a long time ago, and it is now difficult to get them back even with the team playing better. If UK fans would have given up like that during some of the ugly seasons of most of the 1990s, UK football would look like IU. Their loyalty is a big reason for the revival the program has experienced the last couple of seasons, IMO.
 
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