The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Late Edition
by Glenn Logan on Jan 28, 2010 11:48 PM EST
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PrintYes, it's late, but I wanted to get in another edition of the Big Blue Daily Mail before I hit the rack and mail myself off to the land where the Kentucky Wildcats pay back the Vanderbilt Commodores for the 93-52 drubbing they put on us back in 2007-08.
Just for the fun of it, let's relive that game for a moment:
Oh, that's nice, isn't it? Is anybody getting in that sensation again, that wonderful feeling of being obliterated in Nashville by an embarrassing margin? I'll bet you are.
Why am I dredging up such a painful memory? Because it's all I can ever think about whenever I think of the Commodores, this unpaid debt. Yes, we owe several teams one, but we can't get them all back at once. This one, however, is the one I would most like to put paid to.
I'm not talking in-kind revenge -- Vandy is probably too good for us to hang a 41-point thumping on. I'll settle for fifteen or twenty. Frankly, I'd settle for a one-point victory in triple-overtime, but I feel like shooting for the moon here.
At this point in time, there really isn't much doubt that UK is more talented than the Commodores. There also isn't much doubt that the Commodores are much more experienced, and that does give me pause. But again, why not be positive? After the recent disappointment in Columbia, I think the 'Cats will be, in the words of Gimli son of Glóin, "Fully armed and filthy."
But more on that tomorrow. Right now, the news after the jump.
- Vaught's Views: Cats lacked intensity against Gamecocks: AMNews.com
- Basketball Prospectus | Articles | This Time it Cost Them
- " Big Cuz is no Mike "Mad Dog" Curtis John Clay’s Sidelines
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UNC? UCLA? Florida? What's happened to the hoops dynasties? - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
Heh. -
Word on the Street: Quincy Miller Will be a Wildcat
Sounds good to me. - Opinion: NBA’s worst can begin dreaming of Wall - NBA- nbcsports.msnbc.com
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Danny Jett's Inner Circle: Kentucky Got Beat, Fire Calipari
Heh. -
Fan criticism will not help Cats | Vaught's Views
This is right. Sometimes, Kentucky fans can be their own worst enemy. - 2010 NCAA Tournament: National Championship Contenders
- Texas coach Rick Barnes, Kentucky coach John Calipari talk trip ups at top spot - ESPN
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John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Kentucky talented, but are still young - Paul Daugherty - SI.com
You sign three of the best kids in the country -- John Wall, Eric Bledsoe and DeMarcus Cousins -- you're going to have a fun ride, more fun than most. But it won't be without a whoopee cushion or two along the way. That's just how it is.
Heh. Yep. That's how it is, all right. -
S.C. reporter downplays Cousins' post-game incident | KentuckySports.com
Okay. Let it go then. -
Why is the SEC fining South Carolina for something it has no control over? | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times
I actually think this is a fair question. How can the school control a mob? I think storming the floor is dangerous and not a good thing, but I think we are punishing the wrong party here. -
Questions, answers from UK loss - Beyond the Arc - msnbc.com
The initial reaction to Kentucky’s 68-62 loss Tuesday to South Carolina gives much of the credit to a scrappy Gamecocks team and especially their star guard, Devan Downey. Always one of the game’s more underrated players (a combination of his 5-10 stature and playing for S.C.), there’s no doubt he came up big when it mattered.
That's the way I see it. -
Afternoon Linkage: The eyes don't have it - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
Eamon Brennan praises our sportsmanship at A Sea of Blue. Thanks, Eammon! - Andy Katz: Dissed Gamecocks deliver season-changer - ESPN
- Darrin Horn: In his own words - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
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Instant reaction: No. 1 goes down - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
-- Should Barack Obama now put in a congratulatory call to the Gamecocks, after his afternoon call to the Wildcats?
Can Pat Forde possibly be any more of a douchebag?
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Well, at least
in our case, there is MORE than one Wildcat that still draws breath. And I’m hoping they all bring out their battle axes and take down that ugly mountain troll called AJ.
I consider myself quite the LOTR nerd..
but I had to look up Tru’s quote.. well done sir.
Lady Cats Upset LSU — On The Road
UK wins 71-62, Victoria Dunlap leads with 24. First win in 10 years, snaps 16-game winning streak.
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson
I am actually excited about going to see them play next month......got tix for the
SC game…….we do owe SC one dont we????…..lol
Remember, we're having fun now!!!
The ladies ...
… are most impressive this year. Most impressive.
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The answer is no Tru
In the Pantheon of Douche Baggery, Pate Forde is at its zenith……
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
by btcoop71 on Jan 29, 2010 8:15 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
worse than Jerry Tipton?
"Ignorance, I can fix, stupidity, well that's another matter!"-82nd Airborne NCO
Tipton is more of a Curmudgeon
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
Dick Vitale likes UK
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/dickvitale/news/story?id=4866645
No matter where you're at, there you are
I'm in the "Dick Vitale annoys the crap out of me" crowd
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
They oughtta have Dukie V cover the ACC like he wants..
And Larry Conley or Jimmy Dykes cover the SEC.
"Ignorance, I can fix, stupidity, well that's another matter!"-82nd Airborne NCO
It depends on when I hear him.
I appreciate Vitale’s enthusiasm for college basketball.
I think we UK fans are a little touchy when he mentions Duke & UNC when he’s covering one of our games. (I admit that I could do without that)
But to be fair to him, he mentions a lot of teams. He likes to talk about the state of college basketball when he’s broadcasting.
Bill Rafferty is enthusiastic also..
He is just not on Duke’s jock, and also, did not announce that UK fans should accept mediocrity for the program.
"Ignorance, I can fix, stupidity, well that's another matter!"-82nd Airborne NCO
Now Raffery I find annoying
And I have to say that I give Vitale a bit of grace.
I think he was hoping for things to imporve under Tubby and was trying to encourage us.
Maybe I give him a little too much slack, but his love of the college game makes me take it easy on him.
At least he has enthusiasm
I find him annoying many times too, but nothing like grumpy old Billy Packer.
Saturday's Game is the first game that "matters"
Until, now, we’ve been going for #1, number 1 seeds, etc. All in the future of March.
Saturday we play in the SEC Present. A loss to Vandy and we go down two games. The “filthy” begins tomorrow.
No matter where you're at, there you are
Wait a second, you can pull a fast one on me
I know that Florida was never a hoops dynasty!
Nice try Tru.
3 > 2, except for very large values of 2.
Hehe.
Too many think so. Perhaps you can school them – I can’t. :-)
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I laughed at that too
They had a nice little run, there. Florida is not a dynasty.
No matter where you're at, there you are
Only in the sense that ...
… say, UNLV could be considered a dynasty. :-) Or St. Johns.
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Why can't schools stop fans from storming the court?
If schools were serious about stopping diehards from rushing onto the court they could most certainly put an end to it. Arrest as many people as possible. Lifetime bans for those that do come on the playing surface. In short manner, fans would get the message. The SEC, however, sends an ambivalent message about the seriousness of the incident when they only fine schools a partly $25,000.
by Thomas Hunt Morgan on Jan 29, 2010 8:44 AM EST reply actions
It's dangerous
Cal said he couldn’t even shake Horn’s hand. In those situations you’ve got to get off the court. You don’t know who is in that crowd.
No matter where you're at, there you are
It is going to happen
Some idiot “fan” storming the court is going to end up sucker punching a player……and then all hell will break loose.
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
S.C. is at fault in other ways as well.
The players were inviting the students to rush the court and calling for them to come down. It doesn’t do much good to have a few members of security telling people to head to the exits when the players are calling for the students to rush the court. S.C. should definately pay the fine. Perhaps the SEC can donate the fine to Haiti relief.
The best punishment
for storming the court is empty seats for the next game or two. Punish a lack of crowd control by taking away the crowd.
Or
build a fence around the court. Behave like animals, treated like animals.
Heh.
Tempting indeed.
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by Glenn Logan on Jan 29, 2010 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
That's only time I remember anyone getting seriously hurt.
In 1993, Wisconsin had just beaten Michigan in football. The students attempted to storm the field, but an erected fence prevented the students from going onto the field. Unaware of the impediment, students from higher seats continued to pour downward, essentially crushing some fans against the fence. I remember that dozens were injured, some critical, but I can’t recall if anyone died.
Sometimes it is better to just let the mob run its course.
by Thomas Hunt Morgan on Jan 29, 2010 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
I could not disagree more.
There is no place for mobs in any sport let alone college sports. Nip it, I say! If the students rush the court or the field, then no students at the next game. Its a game and no one should get seriously hurt or die for it.
We were the ones rushing the field not that long ago in football.
I remember the fans saying they would chip in to pay the fine.
What about
hospital bills or funeral costs. You go to a game in one piece, you shouldn’t return home in pieces.
People rush the court, what weekly, daily?
How many of these people are seriously hurt or killed?
by Thomas Hunt Morgan on Jan 29, 2010 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
We could put the cages back up.
Yes they used to play in cages and that is where the cagers came from.
Just for the record, fwiw
Even though it is cool, the SEC widget is sucking the life out of my ASoB load times…..LOL…….Must I upgrade my internet speed? It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya’. ;-)
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
by a2d2 on Jan 29, 2010 9:35 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Thanks cincy,
but had already tried that. It only stopped it from playing. Still loads the widget. You all know I need all the help I can get…LOL
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
Just a thought
If you use Firefox, then you could download the extension “BlockSite” and then blacklist the url “http://secwidget.xosdigital.com/*”
That way your browser will load everything on A Sea of Blue and only block the SEC widget.
That is how I stop Facebook from reporting back to the mothership everything I do online.
Thanks, Strangeite....."BlockSite" on the way...lol
I do appreciate it. :-)
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
To be on the safe side
You might consider blacklisting “*.xosdigital.com” as well, just in case they make a change to their server.
The only bad thing would be if you ever want to actually visit xosdigital.com. Which in that case you would have to disable blocksite in order to visit it.
Hope that helps.
daughtery
what’s up with him calling kentucky a “quasi-amateur basketball team”? is this a dig at calipari’s past? there’s nothing suggesting that in the rest of the article though.
It's just his schtick
All big-time college sports are “quasi-amateur” to him, due to his view on the excesses that they attract. Nothing to do with Kentucky per se.
It's time. . .
He writes for the Cincinnati Enquirer
He hates life……think Cincy’s version of Tipton……only he thinks he is smarter than everyone.
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
I just love
this little quote from Tru when talking about what to think about the game on Saturday — "But again, why not be positive?"
That’s right, Tru, good for you! Because you know, even though a positive attitude may not solve all your problems, it will hopefully annoy enough people to make it well worth the effort. ; )
Smile,
it makes everyone wonder what you’re up to!
One Banner
Three Blocks for the Gamecocks under the sky,
Seven for the Gator-lords in their halls of dome,
Nine for Razorbacks doomed to die,
One for Coach Cal on his blue throne
In the Land of Horses where the Banners lie.
One Banner to rule them all, One Banner to find them,
One Banner to bring them all and in the blueness bind them
In the Land of Horses where the Banners lie.
Brilliant. Just brilliant :-)
stuck in the middle of the college basketball wasteland....
Vandy is feeling it
The folks at Anchor of Gold seem to feel pretty good about their chances tomorrow.
Well ...
… nothing wrong with that. They have a very good team.
Hopefully, we can send them home with a frown, though. :-)
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