Kentucky Basketball: Hilarious Whine From Many Quarters Over Calipari's Comments
by Glenn Logan on Oct 5, 2011 3:59 PM EDT
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PrintCoach Calipari famously neglected to mention the Louisville Cardinals the other day in some comments to KSR at the Big Blue Madness camp-out, and it has not only generated indignation from Louisville fans, but from a bunch of other corners of the Blogosphere as well. Witness first Larry Brown Sports:
I know there are a few guys out there who wear black and red that have a different perspective on the state of Kentucky’s geography. Those guys happen to play pretty good ball and are considered an annual powerhouse. Honest mistake or pig-headed comment delivered to perfection?
Pig-headed? Well, I'd say more of a beautiful, well-deserved slap against a bitter foe who's fans spend all their time hating Calipari and Kentucky. Like my dad used to tell me when I was acting like a little beeyoch, "I'll give you something to whine about!" All Cal did was give Louisville, (and apparently LBS too) something to whine about, and they have responded in a most satisfactorily petulant manner.
Who else can we mock? Well, how about Deadspin? Nah, let's not mock them, even though I really wanted to. They actually apologized for the error they made, and where I come from, that puts mocking off limits. Kudos to them for being honest and taking responsibility for their unfounded criticism, it is refreshing to see.
Jeff Eisenberg from Yahoo! sports:
Calipari is obviously overlooking the large pocket of Louisville supporters throughout the state, but credit the man for knowing exactly how to stoke the fires of a rivalry. Louisville fans are already plotting retaliation or counting down the days until the Cards and 'Cats go at it again on Dec. 31.
I wonder if Jeff realizes that plotting retaliation is something you do when the game is on your turf, not on the opponents'? Apparently not. Anyway, Cardinal fans can plot all they want. It won't save them from their third straight butt-whipping. Yes, I just went there.
ESPN's Eamonn Brennan gets it exactly right, then asks this question:
My only question: If Calipari's counterfactual were true, would that mean Louisville is actually in Indiana? Or does it merely cease to exist, swallowed up in the time-space continuum? If there is a parallel dimension to our world, do UK fans wear red and UL fans blue? Where does the plot device from "Source Code" fit in?
Eamonn, Louisville thinks 1+1=7, and that places them firmly in an alternate reality. I think Louisville is really inside the Matrix, because I see all kinds of things here that I don't see in the saner areas outside the Louisville reality. Neo is not walking across the Sherman Minton bridge.
Finally, Matt Norlander of CBS Sports:
Of all the veiled shots John Calipari has taken at Louisville basketball and Rick Pitino, this might be my favorite.
Because Calipari doesn't mention either. He simply refuse to acknowledge that Louisville has a basketball program, and that basketball program is located within the defined borders of the state of Kentucky.
Heh. I think we should start a movement to make Louisville a principality like Monaco, and excise it from the rest of the state. Nah, where would we be without little brother to freak out at Calipari's every jibe?
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Haha, this is awesome!
I didn’t see the post from a2d2 yesterday, but I am glad you linked to it. This just made my day and reading the comments at CC made it even better! Cal is so awesome and I love the jabs that he takes at Louisville.
Yes, it really is fun.
They hate us so much it’s actually funny.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
I don't care how he meant it...
The UL fan base has been talking smack about Cal ever since he arrived at UK. They should expect Cal to smack back. I think it hurts them more, because he is getting the better of them. And that really kills them. They have been wrong from jump, and Cal nails this one out of the park.
Consider Calipari's perspective
He lives in Lexington, he travels to multiple towns in Kentucky, including Louisville, and all he sees or hears from are UK fans. He doesn’t just hear their words, he feels their adoration. From his perspective, UK is the commonwealth of Kentucky’s team, pure and simple.
Louisville might just be, might be mind you, in the state of Indiana.
I'm with you guys
Indiana can have them! Except for Church Hill Downs, we’ll keep that. But the rest….your welcome Indiana . Where do we start the petition?
ill give them churchill if it puts them somewhere else
No offense to those of you residing in that area.
I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!
by Greg Alan Edwards on Oct 5, 2011 7:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Grew up two blocks from there
not offended in the least.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
Years ago I always thought that the state should redefine it's boundaries and give Louisville to Indiana
My ideal was to get a federal loan/grant and dig an alternate channel for the Ohio River and construct it to follow the Jefferson County line from the Ohio area on the east side all the way around to the town of West Point on the west. The Salt and Ohio would merge at that point and empty together back into the original channel. Put in new dams at the altered points and make the orginal now non-flowing Ohio a long lake. Obama would come up with funding as part of his new stimulus package. Put people to work and rid ourselves of Louisville with the same stroke.
A man is nothing more than a summation of his scars!
After some thought, I took Cal's comments a little differently
They came within the context of mentioning how other basketball-centric states have multiple national powers within their borders: Michigan-Michigan St, Duke-UNC, etc.
Therefore the lack of mention for UL does not mean Cal thinks they don’t reside in the state, but rather that they aren’t nationally relevant.
1/x doesn't die, it just fades away.
That is exactly how I took Cal's comments the first time I listened to it.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
by a2d2 on Oct 5, 2011 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
UofL
Nice run under Crum in the 80’s,but not an elite.Like Billy Donovan at UF in the 2000’s,multiple Final Fours and a couple NCAA Titles,Excellent job.End of the day,UofL is a glorified mid major.
Actually 70's And 80's Under Crum
6 FF and 2 NC in those 2 decades.
Pretty good in 1960’s also. Not first tier (elite) but probably second tier.
10 years under Pitino have been Not So Hot. Only 72% W-L record, 1 FF, and 1 conference title in 10 years. RP is Over The Hill.
by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 6, 2011 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Did I hear that?!!!!
When I first heard it I did a double take too, and could hear the screaming in my mind all the way from Louisville. then he preceded to give his examples and I knew what he meant. (Well maybe he meant both things, but the examples pointed to one.)
When you travel and shop in Michigan you find both MSU and UM logo shirts and caps in all the stores, and you see both sprinkled on the streets. You may also find other schools (I got a very nice UK sweatshirt at Meier’s last Thanksgiving in Port Huron), both in state (EMU, WMU, Wayne State U.) and out of state (Notre Dame, OSU, etc.), but always MSU & UM.
Where ever I have been in Kentucky from Paducah to Ashland. from Covington to the Tennessee border, there is UK merchandise both on the shelves, and more importantly on the people. While you see the occasional Card fan away from L’ville, by and large the fans are wearlng Blue.
If you take North Carolina you find Duke Fans or UNC fans, even the the fans of NC State seem to maintain a secondary fan allegience to one of the big two. In California it is much the same.
I used to listen to UK basketball games on my car radio, before I got a internet connection that allowed me to do it from the warmth of my home. The station I could pull in was WHAS out of Louisville, and I don’t ever remember the UK game being bumped by a UL game, although I do remember them announcing that the UL game was available on a different station when there was a scheduling conflict. (that has to really, really rankle, when your biggest radio station carries the UK game, not the hometown game.)
But for most of UL’s history they were in a whole different strata of competition than UK, and a fan base is an accumulation of all that history. This isn’t a put down of the Cards, since i don’t have to put up with b.s. of the rivalry on a daily basis I don’t mind routing for them when they aren’t playing UK. But even during the down years of UK basketball I think more citizens of the Bluegrass were rooting for the Cats, than for the Cards.
Bozich the Bozo
jumped on the bandwagon today declaring Cal has Pitino envy. I guess Bozich’s hits were down.
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