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superjohn said:
Agreed, it's gross. Some of the nicest people you'll ever meet live down there and yes some of those awesome people don't have much money at all but their lives are rich and they'll give others the shirt off their back.
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All true and fair but they are an incredibly toxic fanbase. I think they are unique. Surely due to the size of the fanbase - there are both more good and bad. But good Lord the bad are so bad and they are everywhere.
 
John said:
The levels of misinformation about UConn, the Big East, basketball in general, life in general, geography, economics, and their so-called blueblood status is astounding.
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Three of the eight championships came during the TRUMAN administration, and one came during the EISENHOWER administration. That's four championships before the US even put a man in orbit. Three of those championships came before the US had highways.
 
John said:
Three of the eight championships came during the TRUMAN administration, and one came during the EISENHOWER administration. That's four championships before the US even put a man in orbit. Three of those championships came before the US had highways.
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Plus, the NCAA didn't really surpass the NIT until 1951, when the NIT semi-imploded due to a huge point-shaving scandal, and the NCAA picked up the pieces and expanded to 16 teams. So, the first couple of Kentucky titles aren't clearly determinative of being the top college basketball team anyway. It's murky at that point.
 
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runner11 said:
All true and fair but they are an incredibly toxic fanbase. I think they are unique. Surely due to the size of the fanbase - there are both more good and bad. But good Lord the bad are so bad and they are everywhere.
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Rex Chapman case in point
 
ninety-nine said:
Plus, the NCAA didn't really surpass the NIT until 1951, when the NIT semi-imploded due to a huge point-shaving scandal, and the NCAA picked up the pieces and expanded to 16 teams. So, the first couple of Kentucky titles aren't clearly determinative of being the top college basketball team anyway. It's murky at that point.
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So you're saying that Kentucky has four Helms-level championships and four legitimate championships. Double check my math here
6>4
 
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Inyatkin said:
Seems likely to end poorly. He's been in the SEC forever, but Kentucky is a national job. This is a Southern thing. He's not a Southerner. Maybe doesn't matter.
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What mattters more is that he isn’t a great coach. He succeeded in a time when he was willing to live in a very dark grey area and had equally shady friends and perhaps a shoe company who enabled him. Nil neutralized Cal completely. it actually happened a bit before then when another prominent program started playing the game.
 
Scot-e said:
The Purdue fans I talked to almost universally said things like " I did not go for our last FF in 1980 and I was not going to miss this one". Ours fans -arrogant and spoiled as we are- went last year in huge numbers and had a Women's FF at the same time this year. If it had been 45 years since our last FF we would have filled the whole stadium as well.
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Exactly. How was our turnout in St. Pete in 1999? I also think being so close the first two weekends didn’t help. If you attended those games, it already got expensive and then flights to phoenix were outrageous. Point is, I just feel this time around was more a confluence of events than a testimony on our fanbase.
 
djct1999 said:
Exactly. How was our turnout in St. Pete in 1999? I also think being so close the first two weekends didn’t help. If you attended those games, it already got expensive and then flights to phoenix were outrageous. Point is, I just feel this time around was more a confluence of events than a testimony on our fanbase.
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I was there in St. Petersburg in 1999. I can tell you first hand the turnout of UConn fans was excellent. Not only was there a ton of UConn fans in the stands, but the Michgan State and the Ohio State fans that decided stick around and watch the final game were pulling for UConn and the locals in St. Petersburg really liked UConn. In fact, in the local papers, which I have saved they stated the #1 thing they liked was the U-C-O-N-N, UConn, UConn, UConn, chant.
 
gsmooth said:
I was there in St. Petersburg in 1999. I can tell you first hand the turnout of UConn fans was excellent. Not only was there a ton of UConn fans in the stands, but the Michgan State and the Ohio State fans that decided stick around and watch the final game were pulling for UConn and the locals in St. Petersburg really liked UConn. In fact, in the local papers, which I have saved they stated the #1 thing they liked was the U-C-O-N-N, UConn, UConn, UConn, chant.
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I actually managed to get myself banned from Hammer and Rails by responding to multiple Purdue fan accusations that we UConn fans are undeserving of such a great team because we don't support our university, as evidenced by the dominance of Purdue fans at the Final Four. They suck, man. If we'd only made one FF in 45 years, we'd fill the entire stadium too.
 
Currently have a 7 page thread tracking a plane and speculating if it's to pick up Hurley. Funny stuff outside of a few continued lies about the fan base.

Craft Jet On the Move

But not towards TX. Just left LEX and is headed east / northeast. May not mean much but if they planned to use it for Drew today, they’re going the wrong way. More Tracking Fun
kentucky.forums.rivals.com kentucky.forums.rivals.com
 
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Travelman32 said:
Currently have a 7 page thread tracking a plane and speculating if it's to pick up Hurley. Funny stuff outside of a few continued lies about the fan base.

Craft Jet On the Move

But not towards TX. Just left LEX and is headed east / northeast. May not mean much but if they planned to use it for Drew today, they’re going the wrong way. More Tracking Fun
kentucky.forums.rivals.com kentucky.forums.rivals.com
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I was just reading that... I mean they are life/death fans of their team; I'll give them that. They were literally calculating landing spots based on altitude, heading, etc. That place is a freaking trip. Latest rumor is that Drew is going to pass. The whole thing is pretty fascinating to watch go down.
 
Travelman32 said:
Currently have a 7 page thread tracking a plane and speculating if it's to pick up Hurley. Funny stuff outside of a few continued lies about the fan base.

Craft Jet On the Move

But not towards TX. Just left LEX and is headed east / northeast. May not mean much but if they planned to use it for Drew today, they’re going the wrong way. More Tracking Fun
kentucky.forums.rivals.com kentucky.forums.rivals.com
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Love the speculation about Tony Bennett. Would be awesome to see Kentucky put up 33 in a first-round loss.
 
Travelman32 said:
Currently have a 7 page thread tracking a plane and speculating if it's to pick up Hurley. Funny stuff outside of a few continued lies about the fan base.

Craft Jet On the Move

But not towards TX. Just left LEX and is headed east / northeast. May not mean much but if they planned to use it for Drew today, they’re going the wrong way. More Tracking Fun
kentucky.forums.rivals.com kentucky.forums.rivals.com
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Plane landed at LaGuardia. Rick pitino is not walking through that door.
 
If you're Hurley's agent, I think you tell him to take these meetings in order to score another pay bump. (And increase your own commission, of course.)
 
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TheHorde said:
4 of their championships happened when there were only 48 states in the union lol.
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You could say before the flag had 50 stars, but that would fly way over the UK contingent's heads.
 
TheRealKBuks said:
And now you know that your program doesn't have the prestige you think it does. What a clown.
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Let's wait to see who is hired before we celebrate. Sometimes coaches not being considered or who are about to be passed over release a statement like this.

If they end up with Pitino (joking, sort of), yeah, he passed on Kentucky. If they end up with someone more exciting, he didn't.
 
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