I think the word outrage shows how some of UK fans take a basketball game too serious.
Congratulations, Internet.
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I think the word outrage shows how some of UK fans take a basketball game too serious.
Can someone please supply a link where "the internet" demanded an apology? What complete and total ***-hattery. Nothing more than sports writers trying create a story where very little exists.
You get your butt whipped by 20 points, show very little competitiveness and then a camera catches you yucking it up on the bench...yeah, you're going to get a little criticism. No one is asking for an apology, just a better performance. Grow a pair, stop the super sensitive hyperbole and just compete!
You get your butt whipped by 20 points, show very little competitiveness and then a camera catches you yucking it up on the bench...yeah, you're going to get a little criticism. No one is asking for an apology, just a better performance. Grow a pair, stop the super sensitive hyperbole and just compete!
If you think UK fans take basketball too seriously, you're probably in the wrong fanbase. For better or worse, it's what we do.
Agreed. Aside from feeding the "our fans suck" trolls nothing really came of this. And those *** clowns can't wait for the next "our fans suck" thread.
We're internet bullies? How? Because we supposedly pressured someone into an apology? Oh the horrors. We actually made someone apologize for something. It doesn't get any worse than that.
And this came from a CBS journalist. Excuse me but didn't a CBS columnist also write a story on this?
KSR currently has a post on fake UK controversies, the purpose of which seems to be to act as a back drop for KSR to continue their childish rant against UK fans on the Monk issue. The whole topic on KSR is silly but it might have some merit if they include the controversy over the so called internet bullies.
I'll have to apologize, if I don't give a crap about quotes from a hit piece in a political tabloid like the Washington examiner. Seriously, OP. With all due respect, if this is your source that the "internet" forced Monk to do anything that's pretty embarrassing.
The one thing everyone agrees on is that there is no moderation on the internet. People over-reacted to the laugh and people over reacted to the overreaction.
The one thing that players and fans (who could not hit a 15 footer if their life depended upon it) should have in common is a desire to compete. If as a fan you feel that a player or team doesn’t care as much as you then it is a letdown. I am sure it goes the other way too. What if UK was undefeated and playing at the highest possible level and the fans stopped cheering (or showing up). I think they would think that is a letdown as well. There is a relationship between the team and the fans and we should set the bar high for one another. They should bring it each game and so should we. Players and fans will lose their minds occasionally but that comes with the territory when competition is involved. The main thing is, like with any relationship, it should never get personal. Focus on the action not the person. Ultimately, all of us want the same things and we are all learning.*
*except trump. that guy is the worst...kidding. just wanted to end on a less kumbaya note.
The one thing that players and fans (who could not hit a 15 footer if their life depended upon it) should have in common is a desire to compete. If as a fan you feel that a player or team doesn’t care as much as you then it is a letdown. I am sure it goes the other way too. What if UK was undefeated and playing at the highest possible level and the fans stopped cheering (or showing up). I think they would think that is a letdown as well. There is a relationship between the team and the fans and we should set the bar high for one another. They should bring it each game and so should we. Players and fans will lose their minds occasionally but that comes with the territory when competition is involved. The main thing is, like with any relationship, it should never get personal. Focus on the action not the person. Ultimately, all of us want the same things and we are all learning.*
*except trump. that guy is the worst...kidding. just wanted to end on a less kumbaya note.
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Can't we just all get along? We all love the Cats and Cal. Love All BBN members. We are a family. Like most families we have some relatives that we don't get along with sometimes. We have relatives that are just plan stupid. We have relatives that are mentally unstable. See we are just like a family. Now don't all of you feel better? Peace and Love BBN.
Now that's funny right there. Play hard or you get Trumped on. Did you see those Kentucky fans trumping all over their player. Those fans just Trump all over their own team.
Y'all just Trump away.
Internet is full of people who are miserable pussies in their real life, and take it out on strangers online or a celebrity/athlete's twitter. It's been that way since the beginning but seems like it keeps getting worse. You can barely even start a topic anywhere without someone jumping all over you for it, why a lot of people don't bother to start threads.
I should have done that, but didn't.
I made a realization/rationalization long ago - figured out that many people are simply using this forum as a place to vent during a game or after. They are just letting off steam, and often don't even mean what they say, or all of it. Once I figured that out (even if I'm wrong or naïve) I take all the discord and crazy pronouncements better.
I forgot that Saturday night. I was in a foul mood - like a lot of us - by the way we were playing. I got referred to as a "moron" after what I thought was a pretty plain vanilla post. So now I'm exercised. I ended up barking at another poster - when he didn't even say what I thought he said when I first read his post. I should have simply stayed off the board until I wasn't in the same mood.
This site is polarizing - puts people in corners in an inaccurate way. Take Cal. To the extent there's real controversy, it puts people in opposing corners and it appears that one side is saying "He never makes a mistake" and the other side appears to say "He couldn't coach middle school and should be fired today." There may be a handful of posters at those two extremes, but most of us are somewhere in the more reasonable middle. But you forget that when it's just words on a screen - especially during a game when things are inflamed - and you attack the "other side" because you ascribe to that side something they don't even really think.....
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You have to be all kinds of douche to use the word "triggered." You're probably a white guy from the suburbs too. I know you wanna sound cool using words like Snowflake and Triggered but the truth is just the opposite.
I can't remember, was that before or after he invented global warming? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:Blame him. He invented the internet. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
STHU..He's my favorite player in a long time, but he was wrong..He admitted and even Cal told him it was wrong...So build a bridge and get over it sally..
You must be totally daft. Have you ever played on a team with someone who acted like losing didn't matter? I have. How you act matters. The reason he was laughing had nothing to do with the game though, so it is a nonissue. If you don't like it, too bad.
I'm so glad UK basketball is just a game and we can have fun whether we win or lose. It's not doom or gloom.
There is no wrong in laughter.
"Stop having fun damn it. Our lives happiness depends on it."
Get bent.
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There is no wrong in laughter.
"Stop having fun damn it. Our lives happiness depends on it."
Get bent.
You still on this..build a bridge and get over it..let it go,,move on,stop beating a dead horse
I disagree. I only played at the high school level but I know many times my team was on the business end of an ***-whooping. There is a such thing as gallows humor, and the phrase 'laughing so I don't cry' is a phrase for a reason. Laughing during a beating does not necessarily equate to not caring and it sure as hell doesn't provide proof that 'this team is playing for the draft only'. That may be what made me the most ticked off - how so many profess to have even a clue as to what these players' motives are.
Well it's different when your team loses a lot to laugh at the losses. When you're used to winning, losing should upset you. If you're really good at your job, and have a bad day, it probably upsets you. If you're normally bad at your job, and you have a bad job I wouldn't be surprised if you laughed it off. Competitors don't like losing. And they sure as hell don't laugh at it. But again, he wasn't laughing at the game, he was laughing at the fans singing happy birthday so as I said, it's a non-issue.
Also, Cal recruits kids based off his rep of getting kids to the NBA. So of course they're motivated to get there. If they weren't they'd either not be good enough to go, or they have interests other than basketball. I'll agree with you if one of Fox or Monk comes back though.
This thread should be locked..Monk made an apology that he didn't have to.He said it was taken the wrong way..let's stop talking about it and move on..
I've been coaching a long time and if our team had a guy laughing at the end of a league blow out he would get his *** chewed. Period! Has nothing to do with any internet and I wouldn't care whose birthday bc if I don't reprimand him the I lose credibility with my players to reprimand any of them. The out cry was justified