re: Vandy fans aren't as dumb as we thought, but just as whiny.

Well then write them a letter.

Or just leave them a comment.

I already admitted it was wrong. Why so butt hurt?

That would be "fricking furiousLY".


Oh, wait. You meant something else. Never mind.

Ah, the annual whiney and bitch fest displayed by TenTex regarding UK fans.

Here is a thought, if Vandy did not want UK fans invading the Opera House, then do not sell the tickets to Big Blue Faithful and actually go to the game. You think UK fans would allow an influx of Vandy fans to invade Rupp?


Carry on TenTex with your
I would not expect anything else from you this time of year.

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- Matt Jones and the dipshits he's brought on to write for KSR are just that. Dipshits.

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You realize, at times, KSR has satire and it is not to be taken seriously...come on, not the real Jerry Tipton segments.

Why do you think KSR has a huge following from Vitale to Bilas to Hopkins of Cougartown and even the real J. Williams...it is funny and very informative on the Cats. Catspause and Catsillustrated blows...and KSR Radio Show is by far the best UK show, period.

Whiny Vandy Fans Right Here...

Newsflash, quit being a little bitch.

Fill your damn arena with your fans and you will not have to worry about us. It is not our fault that visiting teams takes over Vandy's football and basketball facilities for games.

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For some reason you can get the best recruits out of high school to come to play for Coach Cal. We know how that turned out at Memphis and many wonder if the same thing will happen at UK...time will tell.

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This is Kentucky, not Memphis. If there were some smoking gun out there involving improper benefits to a player or academic fraud, it would take it about ten seconds to leak. There's a line of reporters that would absolutely love to be the one that brings down Calipari and Kentucky. Pat Forde went knocking on doors in Birmingham, Alabama, trying to uncover academic fraud on the part of Eric Bledsoe. If there's a scandal to be broken, it will quickly become the biggest story in college basketball. It's not like everyone is looking the other way when it comes to Kentucky basketball.

As far as the "some reason" that the best recruits come to play for Calipari, well he is the best recruiter in college basketball. Calipari understands that most of the best recruits' primary objective is to play in the NBA as quickly as possible. So that's his sales pitch to kids. He also has a track record of producing star players and sending them to the NBA in short order to back up said sales pitch. Other top tier coaches are slow to embrace this methodology. Does anyone think Roy Williams or Tom Izzo go into a kid's home and make the primary selling point how fast the kid can potentially be a lottery pick? No.

When you add that approach to the fact that Kentucky plays on national television every week, plays in front of sold out crowds everywhere they go, has the best practice facility in college basketball and turns star players into household names it's quite a dynamic. Kentucky made John Wall millions. Look at the difference in Wall & Rose coming out of college. Rose was a very highly regarded prospect and a great talent. Wall was all of those things as well, but he was also a national celebrity. His image and notoriety helped him sign a ridiculous shoe contract with Reebok before he stepped foot on an NBA court. Same kind of player. Same coach. Different school. North Carolina or maybe Duke are the only two schools in the country that can come close to competing with that and their coaches aren't exactly embracing the same recruiting philosophy as Calipari.

In short, if you're a top high school prospect, from a strictly business perspective, it absolutely makes perfect sense to play for John Calipari at the University of Kentucky. Why even bother risking paying some kid $200k to come here when you can point to the tens of millions of dollars of free exposure that you receive just by playing for Cal at Kentucky? Kentucky basketball is more about marketing and business strategy for recruits at this point than it is history and tradition.

As a fan, I'm fine with that, because I want to win. That's the point of the game. It's why they keep score. For the most part, the kids have held up their end of the deal as well. They finish out their semesters at Kentucky, speak highly of the school and haven't caused serious problems on/off the court. Daniel Orton is the only guy who left early and didn't finish out his semester. He was also recruited and signed by Billy Gillispie and not John Calipari. Calipari did convince him to keep his commitment and honored his scholarship though.