A Backhanded Compliment by Forde?

makes it more palatable when being forced to eat it. Especially in light of his BFF Pitino’s struggles of late.Besides, his being employed by ESPN makes everything he says suspect anyway……lol

You know what happens when a person does that, right?? You get saddle sore!! :-)

biased and always will be since he is like any other viewer of college basketball. But he does seem to stick his opinionated foot in his mouth more than what I’ve seen from any other analyst on ESPN or CBS for that matter (outside of the ridiculous Seth Davis). Whenever I read articles written by Forde, I read his underlining fluff (and Kentucky hate) but then I look at some of his other reasonable points and take the good with the bad. Bobbie Knight is coming in a close 2nd in the race of irritation.

…who cares what these guys think?

By posting items about their columns and discussing them, you’re only demonstrating their ability to do their job – creating controversy and presenting opinions that get people to react. These guys don’t get paid because their predictions and views are correct, they get paid because of their readership and the volume of discussion they generate.

If you really don’t like Pat Forde, don’t read his stuff. And if you do read it, why post something complaining about him on ASoB? Number one: you’ll be “preaching to the choir,” and number two: you’re implicitly illustrating that he’s doing his job – getting you to talk about him.

That was the national edition of Forde. I’m sure he will come out with a different one for us in Kentucky. How in the world could a man who is so biased against us be on national television? Or the others on ESPN who have questioned the things that happening in Lextington.
‘We won’t have to worry about this stuff as soon as the viewing numbers fall below the membership of ASOB. Until then I guess we’ll have to put up with it.

from being around the team…….lol…..and he had all of the right people in the right places to make it stick too….now everyone gets to have their own opinion…..AND voice it……grrrrrrr……democracy……lol

Maybe I just have outrage fatigue, but I thought what he said was reasonable. We DON’T really have one great signature win, largely because the usual big-ticket nonconference rivals that we beat are turning out to kind of suck (thanks for nothing, guys). It’s really nothing against Kentucky to say that…all the team can do is play their schedule (which is pretty similar to schedules we’ve had in the past—these same teams just aren’t as good as they have been) and they’ve won every one they played. Our schedule strength isn’t that good though. Of COURSE if an undefeated team gets to number one with a weaker schedule, the knock of them is going to be “they haven’t played anyone.”

I really don’t think we Kentucky fans have a leg to stand on about not getting respect from the media. We are covered CONSTANTLY. It’s crazy. We are definitely THE team this year, as far as the sports media are concerned. You can’t go to the ESPN or the cbs sports page without seeing something UK. Some of the attention is negative, but most isn’t, and I think you just have to take the negative as a small price to pay for having everyone talking about us again : )

I agree that Forde does not appear to like Calipari very much, but he’s still one of my favorite reporters. I just think he’s an excellent sportswriter, and he is extremely Kentucky-centric.

Very good points Blue Girl!
i agree on Forde. He didn’t get on ESPN being unable to write and point out things the readers need th consider. I like you style/