What almost makes this season more stressful as a fan is that these kids deserve it. They’ve had an unreal amount of individual adversity and are shouldering 5 years of fan frustration.
Kentucky fans really determined to make things as toxic as possible with a team that is 15-4 and ranked in the top 10. I've never seen anything like this.
I got news for some of BBN. If Reeves and CJ combine 0/8 from 3 Kentucky probably isn't going to win games against good teams. This team isn't talented enough to overcome that.
Someone let Mitch know. Ridiculous that Kentucky has one of the worst homecourts in the SEC. We play in raucous environments everywhere and don't get the same advantage in our own building.
Lesson for all SEC AD´s
I´ve seen a few schools change their lower level seating guidelines and let students sit closer to the court.
Do it everywhere.
The crowds have been incredible.
Sounds loud, looks great on TV and the teams respond.
Make stadiums loud again.
Pitino offering to be a booster for a school he might be recruiting against is absolutley hilarious. The man wants to be back in Lexington so bad. 25 year of regret and he's finally letting it all out.
Kentucky fans are going to have to get used to analyzing games at an NBA pace now that we’re playing that way. You can’t just blindly say 41 points in a half is bad anymore. We’re increasing the possessions so everything will be inflated.
In the last calendar year Cal has beaten Oats and Muss comprehensively without a PG on his roster. Please stop listening to Matt Jones and Boomer Sports Radio. Respect the man.
@Jaberuski
Not at all. I wish someone would recreate Twitter and keep the political/news stuff off it. Site was much better when things weren't so serious around here.
If it’s true that Mitch is denying Cal staff moves and raising private funding I don’t know how tbis thing gets solved ever. It’s probably well past time to have a conversation about our AD.
Reminder that a radio station in Louisville and a prominent radio host picked this up and ran with it including bragging about being the frat's spokesperson while his co-workers at the station made jokes about his obsession. Turns out it never should have been funny.
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Is Nolan Smith really arguing with his own fans on Twitter lol? You lost to Bellarmine and Wright State at home in one week, get off of Twitter my dude.
@MattSakBBN
We have national CBB folks saying our facilities aren't in the top 50. You lose Cal we're staring at becoming Indiana with one bad hire. Personally I think that is why Cal is so adamant about the facilities, he's trying to prepare for him eventually walking away.
Mark Stoops is not perfect but this sweet milky man has given me some of the coolest moments of my sports life. I'm 31 and I longed to have nights where I could celebrate big CFB wins and I was denied that. Not sure how any Kentucky fan can dislike him at this point.
Dajuan Harris since scoring 23 in the Champions Classic against Kentucky: 4.6 PPG, 6.8 APG, 31.4% from the field, 36.3% from 3-point range.
Averaged 11.5 PPG in two NCAA Tournament games last March.
Kentucky didn’t really deserve to win that but the last 5 years have been some of the craziest unlucky end of game moments I can ever remember for Kentucky basketball.
Now that Kentucky won and didn’t impact the outcome can we talk about that overturned targeting call? What is the rule? It feels like each crew just makes it up as they go along. Got no problem if it’s not, but some consistency would be nice.
Tell me more about how Cal has held Rob back. Watched the game again and see a coach protecting a player from himself and deploying him in situations where he can shine. It will make Rob a lot of money this summer.
All the hemming and hawing and Cal is going to end up with a roster good enough to win a title. Almost like you should be patient and wait instead of panicking.
At some point announcers have to be honest about refs. Language like “learning to play through contact” is dishonest. Refs pick and choose when to call fouls and it impacts everything. Stop letting them off the hook.
Whatever the result I think we’ve answered the question of “has Cal lost this team?”. Backs against the wall against an opponent trying to bully you with no expectations and we get this level of fight.
Cal realizing that DJ’s cutting ability would keep Arkansas attached and started screening with Tre’s man was perfect. Elite rolling the ball out from him.
The people bemoaning that Cal “doesn’t care” about the SEC Tournament need to look in the mirror. BBN is the one that doesn’t really care. We say we do and some fans probably do. But the reality is we won the SEC 4 years in a row and pretended those seasons were failures.
I didn’t expect Edwards to stay but the biggest issue Cal has had lately is the inability to not convince talented guys who aren’t sure fire NBA players to return lately.
The quicker we can raise the money, the sooner we can hang the billboard! (Extra donations will go to charitable causes.) Donate and share, BBN!!
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Paul Finebaum is one of the dullest personalities I've ever seen on TV or heard on the radio. The fact that he's been able to carve out a decades long media career and hoodwink ESPN is truly remarkable and a credit to his intelligence.
The best case for everyone is Cal takes another job. That way there is no ugliness between two camps squabbling over money. It'll be sad and hopefully we can all be gracious about it but it's probably what needs to happen.
We probably don't talk enough about how unlucky Cal has been. Both Nick Smith and Brandon Miller would be at Kentucky (and conversely not at other SEC contenders) if Skyy Clark and Shaedon Sharpe didn't exist. All-time bad luck.
@ForTheCOLTure_J
Did they lose because of that? Or did they lose because Pascal and Hines handed them 10 points, they got away with a PI for an INT, and Fisher got smoked in pass pro? They had 31 points and 400 yards of offense. I’m not sure what else you want.
Reeves has to be tougher but it’s super annoying watching Kansas, UNC, and Duke get that call and we can’t. Has to be a personal issue refs have with Cal combined with the losers who went after that roofer. Doesn’t make any sense otherwise.
No way you can convince me that Cal doesn’t say stuff on purpose to get media personalities riled up. He mentions one possible lineup and certain radio hosts are apoplectic as if he said he was going to play that specific lineup 40 minutes a game.
Surprise, surprise. A lineup completely devoid of any creativity and full of guys who run fast can’t create anything. Maybe playing 3 CDM’s with two CF as wingers is a bad idea. Maybe
A lot of people hate so much, they watched the Tyler Childers music video and fell right into the point he was making. They’ll never see the irony though.
If Cal lost at home to a good mid-major every single CBB nerd would be doing victory laps about needing old guys. Izzo loses at home with most of his team returning and we get nothing.