UK gets a terrible seed

#51
#51
Judge_Smails said:
I disagree.
Whoever your coach is next year, one of his selling points in recruiting is TV time and how many games are on ESPN, CBS and how many NBA scouts and national attention is drawn to each game. I dont know what UT's TV schedule was this year, but I guarantee they wouldnt have made national airtime on prime TV like they did when they played UK. Same goes for Florida. If they werent playing UK twice, thats 2 times they wouldnt have been on CBS and zero would be the number of the NBA scouts at the game.
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Funny, I watched several UT games on ESPN in primetime this year when UK wasn't playing. Guess ESPN missed the memo that only UK games count.

But you miss my point. If the NCAA banned the entire conference from playing basketball, most SEC fans would barely notice. Heck, Florida's won two national championships in recent years, and all the Gators I know can barely work up the energy to follow basketball. If there were no SEC basketball games on TV -- at all -- maybe 10 percent of SEC fans would care. I've been watching UT basketball since Bernard King was tearing it up against UK, but I will be the first to admit that I'm in a very small minority. To 11 of the 12 schools in the conference, basketball is a minor diversion between the bowl games and spring football. That's it.
 
#52
#52
vol66 said:
Hmmm, what a quandry. While my beloved Vols flounder in both men's football and basketball we still get out and support. Enough support in fact that we have a new basketball practice facility, a refurbished indoor football facility and a world class weight/training facility on the way. All this with a ninth seeded men's team, a one seeded women's team, albeit the winningest coach ever, and a football team coming off a bowl loss to UNC.

I don't question UK's basketball prowess or history or tradition. It just seems like you're only interested in being GREAT at one sport.
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Their tradition is indeed unmatched, if you like basketball played by all white guys with no shot clock. If you prefer modern basketball as all of us know it, then there are several other teams whose history you'd probably pick first.
 
#53
#53
vol66 said:
Hmmm, what a quandry. While my beloved Vols flounder in both men's football and basketball we still get out and support. Enough support in fact that we have a new basketball practice facility, a refurbished indoor football facility and a world class weight/training facility on the way. All this with a ninth seeded men's team, a one seeded women's team, albeit the winningest coach ever, and a football team coming off a bowl loss to UNC.

I don't question UK's basketball prowess or history or tradition. It just seems like you're only interested in being GREAT at one sport.
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Yeah, your last comment says it. I've grown up a huge basketball fan and I have zero interest in football. I must go to about 6 bb games a year...and I think I've been to 2 football games in my life and it was 20 years ago. I dont even know who the offense and defensive coaches are. Shows how much I care, but I'm not alone. UNC, Duke, IU and a few others feel the same. And I'm not so sure UT is that supportive of basketball....wasnt it you that was telling me a few mins ago how nobody cares about UT basketball and how nobody in orange goes to any SEC tourny games? Honestly, I'm not sure if it was you or the other guy....but look back a page or 2 here. UT only fills the arena when UK and Fla come to town anyway.
 
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#54
Vercingetorix said:
Their tradition is indeed unmatched, if you like basketball played by all white guys with no shot clock. If you prefer modern basketball as all of us know it, then there are several other teams whose history you'd probably pick first.
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UK has been a national contender in every decade except that last one. And we can thank Tubby for that one.

In the 90's....UK was in the title game THREE straight years and almost won all three. They made 4 final fours and in 1996 had one of the top 2 teams in college basketball history. I'd hardly call those years the "white guys with no shot clock" years.
 
#55
#55
Vercingetorix said:
Their tradition is indeed unmatched, if you like basketball played by all white guys with no shot clock. If you prefer modern basketball as all of us know it, then there are several other teams whose history you'd probably pick first.
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modern basketball,? Would that be the Kevin O'Neil brand, the Roy Williams' brand, the Coach K brand, the Thad Matta brand or the John Calipari "one and done" brand?
 
#56
#56
How have we managed to get saddled with a Kentucky fan who makes the nimrods over at Catspause look good by comparison?
 
#57
#57
Judge_Smails said:
UK has been a national contender in every decade except that last one. And we can thank Tubby for that one.

In the 90's....UK was in the title game THREE straight years and almost won all three. They made 4 final fours and in 1996 had one of the top 2 teams in college basketball history. I'd hardly call those years the "white guys with no shot clock" years.
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Well yeah, I didn't say ALL your history was made by white guys and no shot clock. Just most of it. Enough that in modern basketball, you guys are behind North Carolina, Duke, UCLA, Kansas, etc. I'm sure that legendary racist Adolph Rupp's all-vanilla teams of the 50s were awesome though.
 
#58
#58
hatvol96 said:
How have we managed to get saddled with a Kentucky fan who makes the nimrods over at Catspause look good by comparison?
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Downside of having a well-run board that's easy to use. A guy has trouble logging into Catspause on his WebTV, he ends up over here. Or maybe he just clicked on a link and never figured out that he could go back.
 
#59
#59
Judge_Smails said:
Yeah, your last comment says it. I've grown up a huge basketball fan and I have zero interest in football. I must go to about 6 bb games a year...and I think I've been to 2 football games in my life and it was 20 years ago. I dont even know who the offense and defensive coaches are. Shows how much I care, but I'm not alone. UNC, Duke, IU and a few others feel the same. And I'm not so sure UT is that supportive of basketball....wasnt it you that was telling me a few mins ago how nobody cares about UT basketball and how nobody in orange goes to any SEC tourny games? Honestly, I'm not sure if it was you or the other guy....but look back a page or 2 here. UT only fills the arena when UK and Fla come to town anyway.
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Nah, wasn't me. Dude, it's not whether it's filled, it's how many show up. We have a 20-25,000 seat arena and we put about 18,000 folks in there on average and fill it for UK, UF and Kansas and the like. Yeah, it's not sold out for the UT Martin game. What's your point? Build your own 25,000 seat arena, fill it up and give some of the proceeds to the football program, PPPPPPLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE.
 
#60
#60
Vercingetorix said:
Downside of having a well-run board that's easy to use. A guy has trouble logging into Catspause on his WebTV, he ends up over here. Or maybe he just clicked on a link and never figured out that he could go back.
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Both of those are distinct possibilities.
 
#62
#62
Judge_Smails said:
250 million cant be made from selling a few seats. And its too cold in KY during basketball season to hold games in a outdoor arena.

I'm not for the new arena, I like Rupp. The history, the location, its near perfect.
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250 million, c'mon Ashley Judd could throw in on that. Give her a seat at the end of the bench and you wouldn't have to change the name from Rupp to Judd. Think about it!
 
#64
#64
Judge_Smails said:
The new coaches polls are out. Fla is a 2 seed but ranked 13 in the country, but UK is now 10th in the country and they get a 4 seed? AND after kicking Fla's azz in the sec title game..

Way to go NCAA, glad we have such experts putting these things together.
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Well gee whiz batman...I mean your Kentucky, SEC champions, gods gift to basketball right?...At least according to most of your fanbase and yet you guys come HERE and complain about your seeding?....Amazing :eek:lol:
 
#66
#66
VOLnMiami said:
Well gee whiz batman...I mean your Kentucky, SEC champions, gods gift to basketball right?...At least according to most of your fanbase and yet you guys come HERE and complain about your seeding?....Amazing :eek:lol:
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This!! My point exactly my friend, why in the world are they on our boards whining about their seeding? I can't wait till football season so all the blue ballz will go into hibernation until girly ball starts. Be gone!!
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#67
#67
If you dont like reading about anything other than UT, dont go to the "Around The NCAA" page. Is it that difficult?
 
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