re: Quick thanks to Kentucky

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So you know why every UK fan despises Kansas on a level similar to Mizzou's hatred of them.

I was at the revenge game and almost went deaf. Rupp Arena was never as loud as on that night. The Kansas players actually seemed afraid of the crowd. They would look nervously into the crowd, anticipating flying objects I suppose.

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And I hope it was for good reason.
We did used to throw whiskey bottles at the ku band at football games. Not our finest hour but hey, don't bring your band to our stadium.

The Mashburn/Unforgettables UK teams were the tits. There was, I suppose, something to be said for those days when coaches like Pitino and, nauseating to me as it is to say it, Roy Williams were out there proving to everyone they were in fact great coaches even when handed a bare minimum of talent and a massive rebuilding job. With all the 4/5 star talent pipelines that those kinda coaches get every year on name recognition alone nowadays its easy to forget that.

I was just googling and the halftime score of that 150-95 game in '89 was 80-61 ku...that's unreal.

FWIW, the Mizzou player who hit the game winning free throws against ku later that year in the #1 vs #2 showdown I mention above was...Travis Ford. I've heard rumors that just maybe he later went back home to become a slightly popular Kentucky Wildcat...so in a way you got revenge on 'em that year as well.