The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Kentucky versus Louisville Edition

… you will see all that, in spades. Sad, but true. I’m sure all the news sites have plenty of that, since they feel they have to allow that kind of crap.

Sad. But I guess my complaints will mostly fall on deaf ears.

as well as trying to push the freshmen out of their comfort zones, they should be able to handle the rest of what is to come…..and it is coming. Pitino’s reaction to Wall taking over the game in his press conference was priceless. He basically came out and said they tried to intentionally rattle Wall, and he threw it back in their faces. When is everyone going to learn that this team does not fold under pressure. They just turn it into something positive.

If Calipari had no problem with anything that happened yesterday, then I dont. Yes, Bledsoe got overly emotional, and yes, Cousins could have gotten out of that scuffle without the “forearm with emphasis”. But it did happen. The same way that all of the pushing, shoving, knees to the face, and scuffling that Louisville did could have been avoided. Pitino wanted this game to get ugly, and it did. He didint want his players to lose their edge, and he knew that he could do without one of his guys that were involved a lot easier than we could have done without ours.

They overcame a lousy day and an all-out war. And they did it better than a lot of other teams would have. They didnt pull a Tennessee and breakout the firearms did they???

because Cousins is doing his best impersonation of a vacuum cleaner in there. He just will not let any rebounds get away. He takes it personally when he does not lead the team in rebounds, AND he also still misses a shot or two, so he hustles to get his own misses.

… too many in our society support and excuse the acts of violence done on the floor and off under the rubric of any number of extreme rationalizations, including the exegesis of youth, social standing or partisan affiliation. The “in your face” society is responsible for much, if not all, the loss of civility we have universally experienced. It is the kind of thing that leads to EMT’s eating bagels and refusing to help while a young mother-to-be dies within 30 feet of them.

We should not be excusing this. We should be demanding better.

Perish The Thought!!

We are a big time media draw now. We have not been in a long time. The stars were aligned perfect for this. It is as Calipari called it “The Perfect Storm”. Relax…..wait and see what its like at 25-0……And it just MIGHT get there. There will be more with this ESPN OTL report. It will become an “Us Against The World” deal just the way Cal likes it. And if anyone is drinking the Kool-Aid right now it’s this team. And the big problem is that it’s for real. They are like a computer simulation program. They learn a little more each time out what to do and what not to do.Prepare for war folks. The first salvo has been fired and the enemies are lining up to take their shots.

and that is as hard as any SEC road game.

it’s inevitable

Find a new job. :-)

I needed that.

What did the five fingers say to the face?

Doesn’t it make your blood boil to have to defend players to a fellow “fan” Tink?

I hate to say it, but we all know Cousins elbowed dude in the face on purpose. I like Cousins, but this shouldn’t be a surprise, we knew what we were getting all along. I’m not saying Cousins wasn’t pushed to the elbow, but there’s no way it wasn’t intentional. Should he have been booted? I can see arguments for kicking both players out, I don’t think it could have been one or the other, but Cousins retaliation was much easier to pickup than the initial knee. Is that behavior “thuggish”? Some would say so, it’s not exactly brotherly love. I don’t think Cousins is a thug, I think he’s a bit of a spoiled baby that just happens to be bigger than everyone else. You can see it in his demeanor. Cal can say the techs didn’t bother him or whatever, but I fear if he doesn’t reign in Cousins he’s going to get ejected for at least one game if not multiple games by year’s end.
On Cal’s coaching vs. Rick’s, neither side could throw the ball in the ocean. They were too jacked up and worried about talking crap to each other to play decent basketball. If either team had played a decent offensive game, it would have been a blowout. And I don’t really think it was great defense either. People were clanking shots, open shots, left and right. Past history aside, I would take either Pitino or Cal, but I don’t think you’d see John Wall be quite as loose with the ball under Pitino as Cal. Wall was bailed out quite a few times on Saturday because he was out of control practically every time he got out on the break.
Final point, I said it at the first of the year and I stand by it. Cousins will be just as big of a factor on this team as Wall because he can impact the game in more ways than Wall. Offensively, defensively, rebounding, intimidation….if he continues to develop and if Calipari keeps him from elbowing the wrong person.

I suppose someone could sue on First Amendment grounds. They might win, I suspect. Win what, I don’t know. Rupp Arena is privately owned, and even though there are compelling arguments that doesn’t matter, I don’t think that has been fully ripened for litigation. Hopefully, we won’t find out on this one.

But I’m glad they did it, anyway. I think the value to our reputation has far outweighed the benefit of gigging Pitino, and I suspect most of those who got things confiscated would agree.

I wish people wanting to avail themselves of the opportunities of the First Amendment would do so with more rationality.

Alas, I fear that is an ideal will never be realized.

Of why my dad would mute the tv and turn up the radio =)

to say the least…..he definitely isnt the pomp and circumstance type of guy……he looked tired or maybe I should say relieved to be doing it…….

Just taking a quick break before attending the grindstone.

I’ll have something later today.