Big Blue Linkapalooza: Narrow Escape Edition

He doesn’t mention a thing about Knight being a straight A student who’s scores are good enough to get him into Princeton if he liked. He chose UK.

People really should be required to remove their brains from their backsides before engaging their keyboards.

I do not know what to make of Tressel. Maybe he really does know what he did was really wrong. Not sure how to take his act of contrition.

Stacey Poole is not being forced to do anything. He is not playing well enough to be out there or Calipari would have had him in the game right along with the other “Three Amigos”. Another blogger with his brain tightly wedged in his sphincter.

I take offense at the idea that the tournament is costing employers money. I busted my butt yesterday to get all of my work done early so it would not interfere with the games. I think I was more productive than usual, and I would dare say I was not the only one. Besides, my phone only rang once after the game started anyway. this is Kentucky, they are dang lucky we don’t call the first day of the NCAA Tourney a state sanctioned holiday.

We will be in for a real brusing with WV and the kids know that. Look for this game to mirror the ones we had in the SECT. If it doesn’t we won’t have a shot of seeing Ohio State.

… a new entry for facepalm.com in the “double facepalm” section. :-)

lower their admissions standards for athletes. Now I do not mean to infer that Jalen Rose or any other player is not qualified to get into Duke, but they do have higher standards. What their reasons for these standards are is beyond me. But I have heard it used as reasoning for their lack of a gridiron program on more than one occasion. They claim that the top athletes that they can get are just not as academically gifted as they need to be to get into Duke.

Now one could say that the standards themselves are biased, but I cannot answer to that because I do not have a point of reference.

Gotta say, this is the best succinct response to the recent Fab Five documentary that I have seen. I have waffled back and forth on how I think reactions to Rose’s statement as a young man were way too harsh, but if he really didn’t feel that way anymore, he would have retracted that part of the story.

Thanks for the post. This one stuck for me.

about the insults in particular but wonder about the insults in general. This goes political real fast so I won’t go there but it is obvious that there is a great deal of resentment out there towards programs who seem to be exclusive of certain types of players based on their environment. Just saying there is a reason for the hatred that should be explored on many fronts.

Strong accusations to make without any proof at all.

there were no positive role models on the ‘not so fab five’. I lived in MI at the time and lots of folks weren’t thrilled with them. We knew some were on the take but everyone looked the other way. I give Rose credit for speaking his mind, but ‘uncle tom’ is a bit over the top. That’s one way a black insults another black……………….ok, so he shoulda use different words, as he admitted later.

How do you divide your fan loyalty among the three 33% each or shade it toward one particular team..?

TheRealTWill Terrence Williams
Why these half ass ville fans mad at me I didn’t loose the game all I said was we beat teams like that they didn’t have that same passion

Criiimson Matt
@TheRealTWill You lost us the elite 8 game against Michigan St. You choked it when the team needed you the most.

_Hundley Tyler Hundley
@TheRealTWill you realize half of UL fans don’t like you right? Your ass can’t even go back to your hometown #losing

n8doginthelab nate heckmann
@TheRealTWill get the hell off twitter and work on your game or you’ll be sitting at home like the rest of the cards.

_Hundley Tyler Hundley
@ your right @TheRealTWill. Times HAVE changed. You used to be a ball player, now your ass is sitting at the end of the bench where you belong

There is more…but I think this is enough. More than makes my point about the Card Chronicle post from January.

will have to find a way to do that, the first round of the NBA draft won’t bail him out.

depending on who leaves for the NBA. My guess is one, two, if an NBA team takes Rip Van Jones. It will be an interesting off-season after April :)