I wouldn’t really say I have a favorite team in college basketball, I love to watch every team and every game I can every year. there’s typically a few teams each year that I think r better than others, I generally like players and coaches. I’ve been hearing alot about uk’s unreal expectations and how other teams have now caught up with them. I’ve only been watching it for 30 years, but its always been a pretty level playing field. even in 96,97,98 when they very well couldve 3peated, there were other teams capable of winning it all. so I really don’t think they need to face the fact that other teams can all of a sudden play 2. it’s been that way for a long time. I think calipari was a great hire for uk. I think between his ability to recruit and his fast paced offense and full court pressure defense, he brings back the style of play that made uk so fun to watch in the 90s. I think tubby slowed it down & took that away from uk, and there was a significant drop off in recruiting from pitino to tubby. I also agree that he is a good coach but not a great one, and if your happy being in the middle of the pack, tubby would be your guy. watching uk recently I was confused by gillispie. I’d seen what he’d done under bill self and on his own at utep and a&m, but I thought they rushed into it after being turned down by donovan. I seen strange rotations and subs with gillispie. outside of patterson & meeks, you could see players in 1 game and different ones in the next. they played good man to man, but I never seen any zone. the result was a team who led the sec in fg%,def. fg%, t1st in rebs. and 8-8 in their conference. between turnovers and giving up so many off boards, they cancelled out some of the good things they were doing. that’s on the players & the coaches. I don’t doubt gillispie couldve corrected those things, but if a team feels like they made a mistake and know they can get a calipari, I understand. that’s buisness 101. I love college basketball and I could watch a calipari coached team play all day long. the sec got a nice coaching upgrade this offseason, not just uk, and I think there’s gonna be some good competitve basketball in years to come. of course uk wants to win championships, so does everybody else, but it takes time to bring in your own guys and inccorporate your own system. I think uk will b happy just competing for championships again, if they win some even better, but it is ridiculous to assume that if they make a final four every year and don’t win, they’d call for anybodys head. to say such a ridiculous thing you’d have to be a disgruntled, insecure fan who feels threatened by the combination of john calipari and the university of kentucky. that’s a shame, cause it can only help college basketball.

I just noticed that you were the one who posted this article in the first place … with this heading “Here’s What Tubby Misses About UK (NOT!!!)”. The subject of the article and your heading lead me to believe that you are criticizing UK fans. I wonder, do you really think UK fans are all that bad? Even more, do you really think Richard Cheeks is all that bad?

Of course, i wonder this because you seem to devote a substantial amount of time to following UK basketball and offering your opinions about it. It seems odd that you would criticize another fan for offering their own opinion (or at least degrade them when they do).

So really, what provokes a fan of UK basketball to go on to another team’s website and post a negative portrayal of UK fans? Just curious is all …

misunderstood what i’ve said. I like tubby. I think he is a fine man and a good coach. I was merely pointing out to forty that he wasn’t beyond criticism in his recruiting. In a sense, i was defending UK fans concerning their perceived “Hogwash” and “BS”.

In fact, this is what i said: “Don’t get me wrong forty, i like tubby. I think he was a hell of a coach. But he did make SOME (as in not all) silly decisions on the recruiting front. That’s all i was saying.”

As for my home state, what did i say that could be considered a “rip”? Did you take my criticism of strip-mining and the foolish idea of “clean coal” as a “rip”? How is criticizing my state’s use of its resources within the context of a conversation (remember, i did not come over here and post an article about strip mining) a bad thing?

yeah, kentucky has racists. They also have antisemitics, misogynists, etc. So does Minnesota, California, New York, and every place in between. In fact, just to drive that point home, two of the largest and most prolific (quantity, obviously not quality) publishing houses for hate drenched drivel are located in Minneapolis.

But the question was why you posted this on this site? No matter why, you posted this as an attack on UK fans on another fan’s site … i’m just curious is all. Even more so since you are making it out to be a fight against racism.

But here’s another question: So what was racist about the remarks made by richard cheeks? have you ever met the man?

It’s simply not true. besides, what does % have to do with anything? Do you actually believe that California doesn’t have a serious problem with racism? Really?

in any case, you take this too seriously. It’s quite sad really. think about it: without having met someone you’ve called them a racist, given him a derogatory nickname (at least in your contextual use), and called him an idiot. All this over criticism of a basketball coach. It’s a sad little world you live in, isn’t it?

By the way, you still haven’t answered the question? Nor did you answer what was racist about richard cheeks?