...you took the time to write a comment. why keep reading after the jump? couldn’t figure out this was about “some silly feud bloggers are having” huh?

I guess you don’t realize that this is a blog you are reading? It sometimes has news and sometimes has other things of interest to those that like UK sports. In reading your other comments, I even wonder why you are here as each one is in some way painting the referenced article in bad light. I rather enjoy the commentary, insights, news, and other articles that are published on this site and I think I am in the majority when I tell you to get over it. If you don’t like the article, don’t read it. And go somewhere else for your “news.”

Well, sometimes I enjoy writing about our rivals, and chiding them a bit. Writing every story about UK athletics is not what we have ever done here.

During the doldrums of summer, you may find me writing about the theoretical relationship between the strong nuclear force and a jelly doughnut.

That’s just how I roll.

I think even without Vandy, we wouldn’t have been “sucking hind tit” in either of the last two years.

Not that you would have noticed, apparently.

I go back to the 50’s and 60’s and I grew up with the black community in my predominantly Catholic small town. I never had prejudice towards them as my parents taught me to love all peoples. And many of the Negro community in my hometown have shown themselves to be outstanding citizens and I have known many personally.

Get over the racist thing…that has been deleted for a very long time.

Keep Smith out of this thread, please. His name is not mentioned. This thread is about football, not basketball.

His comment was unfair and out of line; I was going to say that, but Tru had already closed the comments. Still, I hope we’ll leave it in the past for the sake of the excellent discussion that usually takes place here. If it does come up again, I trust Tru will handle it appropriately.

until you are made to eat your words by Billy G., Brooks and eventually Joker Phillips. Your statements are idiotic and utterly negative. Who needs opposing teams to play against when a University has a fan like you? Why don’t you and Billy Packer work as Wal Mart greeters together and talk about how great everything was before electricity was invented.

Your excessive negativism is extremely annoying. You are welcome to disagree, but you are not welcome to drag down the blog with comments like this. If you wish to criticize, support it with something other than “Sorry people, I can’t be happy like you while the kingdom is crumbling.”

Most people here are positive fans who want to encourage the program, not drag it down with hypercritical opinions based on nothing other than an unfounded nonsense and living 50 years in the past. I don’t quite know how to tell you this, but Kentucky’s football kingdom crumbled back in 1955, and despite an occasional foray into competency, has pretty much remained in ruins since.

How you can be critical of Brooks for restoring to program to at least a modicum of respectability simply cannot be justified rationally. At least your dislike of Gillispie has some basis that could be considered “rational,” even if is taken only in isolation and without considering the fact that he hasn’t had but one year here. Bear Bryant and Adolph Rupp are not walking through that door—in fact, neither of them are walking anywhere on this Earth.

So please, don’t come in here just to stir the pot, or if you are going to do that, try to do it with a sense of respect for your fellow member and Kentucky fan, no matter how much you disagree with them. You are welcome to dislike the entire athletic department from Barnhart on down, that’s your right. But if you are going to bash them, at least have the decency to support your position with something other than an orphaned statement of criticism, so that others may respond to the logic (if that’s what it is) that theoretically lies behind your dislike. Comparing 2008 to 1952 is not, generally speaking, a valid argument.

If I’d read more Koestler I wouldn’t make these types of mistakes.

... with Diggs’ comment that the Big East is “struggling to maintain it’s BCS affiliation.” I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean.

Part and parcel, though, of understanding football or any other sport is understanding who you have beaten, and where their place is in the hierarchy that year. South Florida beating Auburn at Auburn in overtime is no more shocking than Auburn beating Florida at Florida. Auburn had a schizophrenic team last year, capable of losing to anyone or beating anyone, which they proved in a microcosm in those two games. They barely beat an average Arkansas team, turned around and almost upset the BCS champs in Baton Rouge.

Mississippi State, a traditional doormat turned mid-pack SEC team last year who could have just as easily been 1-7 in the league instead of 4-4 with just a few bounces of the football lost huge to Virginia Tech, traditionally the best team in the Big East, in Morgantown. What a shocker.

Nobody is suggesting the Big East has no good football teams, and if they are, they are wrong. Virginia Tech could compete at a high level in any league including the SEC. Louisville has a strong program that could also be successful in the SEC, although I think most years the best they could hope for is mid-pack with the odd foray (see 2004, 2006) into the upper reaches.

Syracuse has a rich history of good football, and presumably will someday recover from their current state of futility, but they would be food for the gods in the SEC right now. Pittsburgh isn’t horrible, and USF is up and coming, but neither of those would be anything but a cannon fodder in the SEC, much like Kentucky has been and pretty much continues to be. After that, the Big East has teams that Vanderbilt would have beaten soundly last year.

Where is the ACC? Right there with the Big East - a great basketball conference. :)

... ask you to get out. In fact, this comment is right in line with what I prefer here. You made a very fair point and defended it, and I have no truck with that.

Some people get annoyed by your point of view. Many fans want to see the glass half-full all the time, and I think that’s what helps keep fans together. Sometimes ignoring reality and leaning on the future is the only way to get through tough times. Constantly delving into negativism is not a way to keep a fan base united—recall the terrible online wars of the late Tubby Smith era, some of which still echo today.

I am fine with what you are saying, my concern is about how you have been saying it. When you make an extremely negative comment, it is what we call in the biz, “baiting.” You know when you make one that it is going to attract a negative reaction, and calls for you to go somewhere else. Those kinds of comments are not helpful. We all can be critical of our program without being so overtly negative that the reflex reaction is anger and outrage.

All I’m asking is for you to be considerate of your fellow-members and fellow-fans, and they will be considerate of you. If they don’t, I’ll correct them. But blasting our head coaches and athletics director as incompetents is never going to win you friends and influence people on this blog. We have too many people who wear blue-colored sunglasses, including yours truly.

As far as questioning my judgment, you are free to do that anytime, but please remember that I am a person, too. How would you like it if I told you something you were proud of sucked? You wouldn’t like it. How would you like it if, when you were trying to get some positive thinking on a subject, somebody came up and told you that you were wasting your time and that reality is much worse than your hopes? Nobody likes that. Arguing realism is one thing, but trashing everyone else’s worldview with blunt comments is just totally different.

Love the analogy!