The Big Blue Daily Mail -- UK Fans Just Make Internet Polling Impossible

You mention “The Cardinal boards have decided to take their anger out on UK fans” but link to a site (KSR) where Kentucky fans express hope that a certain UofL fan drowned in Tuesday’s flood.

“EllisUK10 Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Yeah Craig Eat It!Hopefully you drownd.”

Yeah, that’ll show him. He can’t like a team other than Kentucky if he’s dead!

So it goes both ways.

…he is suggesting that UK fans have nothing better to do, because he knows that the mere suggestion of a loafing, unindustrious Wildcat fan base will lead to someone, in this case Truzenzuzex, taking time to ponder-via-blog Parrish’s “logic” at 12:06 in the morning. You UK fans make this too easy for Parrish and the rest of the national sports media.

From the same article:

"Swear to God, if you asked for the best coach in NCAA history and made the choices John Wooden, Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and John Calipari, Calipari would win by at least 18 percent of the vote. Likewise, if you asked for the best Beatles album and made the choices Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver, Abbey Road and Rupp Arena, Rupp Arena would win easily, and — case you didn’t know — there’s not even a Beatles album called Rupp Arena.

But that doesn’t matter.

Kentucky fans would vote Rupp Arena the best Beatles album.

They’d do it convincingly and with great pride."

To claim that Parrish doesn’t have his finger directly on the pulse of the Big Blue Nation’s blue pumping blood is obtuse. Of course he is right; of course UK fans would vote for their arena even though most voting would be unable to claim that they had attended a game in any of the other eight arenas. And to call Parrish’s logic into question, when it is he who can claim attendance at each of the nine arenas, further self perpetuates the insolent shadow that the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program’s fans cast on themselves and their team.

“when you are a basketball writer or blogger in the middle of summer, you will seize on almost anything to generate a little controversy or interest in your readers”

You mean like dedicating a blog entry to a guy who dedicated a blog entry to poking at UK fans? :)

The guy is right, Rupp is not that great anymore. Maybe 15 years ago, but nobody is afraid to play us there anymore and it’s not intense. Maybe Cal will get it back, or maybe they should just kick the yuppies out.

You mean like dedicating a blog entry to a guy who dedicated a blog entry to poking at UK fans? :)

You caught that, huh? :-)

its standing room only, we have reclining seats, cupholders, great a/c, no obstructed views of the court, and sound comes in from UK Radio while the TV plays( when the delay is not too bad)….If I wasnt a UK fan, I could have made Parrish’s list I’ll bet…..its small, but we can seat 10 if we really push it and roll the office chairs in there….lol…not to mention, it makes for a wonderful game day experience when you dont have to pay concession stand prices for concessions….

Definitely Top 25 (3rd best in SEC), but 8 is pushing it.

I have yet to see a Card fan blame UK for missing out on Melo, and I follow the Cards closely.

to good acting. There are more UK fans living in Louisville than cards fans and that has to drive them up the wall.

he makes and get a real hair cut…..

yeah, i know that was juvenile, but his picture is a hoot.

actually, he used to write for the memphis paper – i thought he was one of the better writers and i took his post today as a compliment – guess that makes me a dilusional UK fan.

finally – TRU – you forgot your own advice on this one… Embrace. The. Hate.

He looks like the lead singer from Rancid. I also thought his post was a compliment.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp09/news/story?id=4380679

Former U of L receiver Harry Douglas out for the season. With him out and Roddy White still holding out, Dicky should get even more reps at camp.

Well…..what can I say? I am biased. Yes, I will admit it. And yes, I am not alone. But come on, Gary. We are the greatest fans in the world. Even the ESPN commentators go on and on about how much they look forward to their games at Rupp.
Oh, by the way, we have a little record going on here in KY.

UK Basketball Leads Nation in Attendance

Lexington, Ky. – Just as fans routinely pack Rupp Arena to watch the Wildcats play, Kentucky annually leads the nation in average attendance. The NCAA’s recently compiled attendance figures from this past season reveal that in 2008-09, for the 13th time in 14 years, UK’s average crowd of 22,239 led all of Division I men’s basketball.

It marks the 21st time in the 33-year history of Rupp Arena that Kentucky has had the top attendance figure. A total of 422,547 fans passed through the turnstiles for 19 Wildcat games during the 2008-09 season. Syracuse, with an average crowd of 21,044, was second, followed by North Carolina (21,035), Tennessee (20,483) and Louisville (19,397)

Nationally, 27.7 million attended Division I men’s games last season, an average of 5,378 per game. The Southeastern Conference was second among all conferences in average attendance, drawing 11,625 fans, behind only the Big Ten’s 12,519 average.

Courtesy of UKathletics.com.

If this parrish guy had a lick of sense, he wouldn’t have even compared RUPP vs. Freedom hall! It should have been RUPP vs. Memorial.. Having lived in Louisville for 24yrs of my life, I have seen my fair share of doodoo birds games in cheatom hall. Also being in attendance for UK’s NIT game last season at Memorial. I must say, 9,000 Cat fans cheering for a subpar team is WAY more rukus then 19’000 cards cheering for a final 4 caliber team!! UK’s new home court! 30,000+

contrary to Parrish’s beliefs, UK fans are willing to work for the top honor in Arena Wars. I didn’t sift through all the pages of the “written poll” (same as a regular poll, just a bit of time) but, it looks like Rupp is being listed at the top a lot more often than not.

Now I wonder if Parrish is surprised by this…(Are we surprised?….No!)…Just because it involves more than selecting a number 1, doesn’t mean we won’t win. This is the Big Blue Nation.

These people have no concept of the whole UK Wildcat thing, do they? They definitely do not get “IT”.
I suppose they never will….

Anyway… Arena War results next Wednesday, August 12th. We shall see…
:-)

I’ve been to both and they were an incredible facility for their time. I suggest we build another arena with Rupp’s seating capacity and “modern” upgrades.
We could call it Freedom Hall Stinks. Feel free to insert other words for stinks (OK, that was rude).
Cincy replaced Riverfront. If we built another arena at least we could fill it with a winner.

knew all along that he couldn’t allow Ky to vote. He just wanted to stir up our fans and generate more hits for his article. I think he was succesful. I have been to his top six and i will stick with Rupp. We went to Duke to watch Va. play in 67-68. Va. won big time.
   
 I was wearing my flight jacket with an embroidered Okinawan patch on the back with a tiger modified to look like a wildcat(somewhat), a big K overlaid in the middle, RUPPS RAIDERS on top and LINE UP WE ARE TAKING NAMES in two lines across the bottom. They didn’t like my jacket or our “trash talking”. I have had no use for them ever since and go out of my way to jab them, every chance I get.

1. Number of fans that travel to SEC away games or to a tourney in Hawaii (interestingly, Cubs fans have the same fascination).

2. The size of the basketball arena. The biggest yawn on the list….quick can you name the biggest MLB or NFL stadium? I didn’t think so.

3. The total number of NCAA wins (UNC doesn’t obsess over this…and UCLA’s record on tourney wins is completely ignored by the UK faithful).

4. Number of movie ‘stars’ that irregularly attend the game. Oh…..and who has the best cheerleader by vote on some obscure website.

5. How many 5-star eighth graders that have UK on their college list. This stat is just creepy.