Anyone else notice all the empty seats and how quite the arena is? It's like nobody cares, just there to have something to do. Same thing at Georgia. Lots of empty seats but will say it had a little bit of crowd noise. LeChance hits no shots and other than Jones, Vandy just didn't seem into it very much. Hope we can crush them next time, really dislike Stallings.
Florida vs Alabama
- Thread starter BigBlueManSouthCentralKY
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UF looks good but then again it is Bama who just has no heart what so ever . Hell even Walker looks like he understands the game of basketball .... Even a blind Squirrel and all that i guess.
They don't care, until they play UK. Alabama is looking forward to its true Super Bowl at Rupp this weekend. Alabama will be ready to play on Saturday, and we better be as well or it could be another Vandy type game at home for us. I'm interested to see how UK responds to its first two "2nd time" opponents this week.
The couple of times I have tuned in to a MO game at their place their fans have seemed a little more supportive and a little more into it than a lot of other arena's in the conference.
They ALL rock and roll when we come to town. And I guess with all our traveling fans the atmosphere is amped up even more. But it is irritating how most of these SEC basketball fans seem to hate us more than they like their own team. Maybe a lot of them are just excited to get to see the Wildcats.
This post was edited on 1/27 10:36 PM by BigBlueManSouthCentralKY
They ALL rock and roll when we come to town. And I guess with all our traveling fans the atmosphere is amped up even more. But it is irritating how most of these SEC basketball fans seem to hate us more than they like their own team. Maybe a lot of them are just excited to get to see the Wildcats.
This post was edited on 1/27 10:36 PM by BigBlueManSouthCentralKY
This game all but eliminates Alabama from NCAA consideration IMO. They will lose again Saturday, and then it is all over unless they win the SEC Tourney, which I doubt.
FL is just hoping to finish over .500 and I Guess tonight was a nice step for them, but with two games left against UK that is two losses most likely so good luck Gators.
FL is just hoping to finish over .500 and I Guess tonight was a nice step for them, but with two games left against UK that is two losses most likely so good luck Gators.
It is like that all over the SEC except when Bro.Cal's traveling salvation show comes to town,then it's pack up the baby and grab the old lady and everyone go.
They've still got 11 games to play but I'd call that a bad loss for Alabama and a good win for Florida. The Gator's have a high mountain to climb to get to the NCAA, but if they get hot and start playing well they could still make it. And of course a win over UK would be THE signature win of the season for any team.
I don't mean to be a smart *** but what in god's name are you talking about ? UF has to do a alot of work to make the freaking NIT and this isn't just mean saying that b/c i hate them with every fiber of my being , no that is what the local sports talk is all about , well when they even mention UF here in their basically hometown of Jacksonville . No UF would have to go undefeated or damn close to it from here on out to make the NCAA . UF is trying to right the ship so they can get into the NIT , and Billy has basically said as much . No last night ended Bama's chances basically but did help UF get back in the discussion... the NIT one . They won't get " hot " b/c they don't have the talent to . Last night they looked awful even in a win and they only scored 15 second half points but Bama is such a joke it didn't matter .
If the Gator's go 8-3, certainly 9-2 from here on, with 2 losses to UK, they finish at 20-11/19-12. I'm betting that would be enough for them to get it.
Now whether they can do that is certainly questionalble, just saying if they do.
It's the same thing every year. We see it time and time again. This is why people refer to the SEC as a football conference. It's because when it comes to basketball, they're all fair-weather fans.
And then you can look at the teams, the players and coaches, and you just don't see the same fire in them. I thought Arkansas and Tennessee looked like they were playing very hard last night. I'll give them credit. Arkansas fans seem to bring the intensity in Bud Walton every time out. But the other games last night- at Alabama, at Auburn, and at Georgia- just weren't anything close to what they ought to be. Every team that played last night should have been desperate for a win. None of them can afford to lose very many more games. But they all looked flat.
And then you can look at the teams, the players and coaches, and you just don't see the same fire in them. I thought Arkansas and Tennessee looked like they were playing very hard last night. I'll give them credit. Arkansas fans seem to bring the intensity in Bud Walton every time out. But the other games last night- at Alabama, at Auburn, and at Georgia- just weren't anything close to what they ought to be. Every team that played last night should have been desperate for a win. None of them can afford to lose very many more games. But they all looked flat.
Not sure why this is a surprise. This board doesn't seem to get that most people in the country simply don't care that much about college basketball. Aside from the states of KY, NC, Ind, and possibly Kansas, the rest of the country prefers football and really doesn't follow college bball closely until March.
In the SEC, this reality is magnified. The only schools that truly care about winning basketball are UK, Vandy, Mizzou, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Even at those schools basketball is easily second-fiddle to football (and by a long shot, except perhaps at Vandy and possibly Mizzou).
Everyone sells out their gym when UK comes to town b/c it's a circus and it's the #1 team and it's exciting and b/c UK fans will buy up all of the unused tickets (does it really count as a sellout for USC when UK had 8,000 fans there last weekend?).
This is why I have always said that UK needs to give more administrative support for football. It makes more money and everyone else in teh country cares about football the most (and it's not even close). Still want to have a great basketball program but it's now a second-place sport.
Wait a minute. No less of an authority than Jerry Tipton wrote that Florida has the best basketball fans in the SEC.
No, the "nobody cares" thing is definitely hyperbole.
ESPN gets more viewers for its marquee games than the NBA does. It's about on par with what MMA fighting gets on Fox, higher than the NBA gets on TNT, and significantly higher than MLB gets on Fox on most weekends. A Duke or Kentucky game is going to draw 2 million viewers or more--that isn't bad.
College basketball simply gets crushed by college football and the NFL, but all sports are in that boat.
UGA went through the motions and still won...just like we did against Vandy the week before. No one seems to want to get up for Vandy.
And FL has nothing to play for really....so not surprised they don't really care. Donovan has lost that team, they are not as bad as their 11-9 record. Alabama is the real disappointment.
Auburn has nothing to play for...A&M went down there and took care of business.
I was impressed with A&M and UGA for winning two games they had to win...very un-SEC like in that regard. That said, Bama gave up any chance they had of getting in by losing, as they will lose to UK on Saturday and be on the way to the NIT.
We are talking about reality here though . Sure if UK football signed 20 5 star players they could be a top 10 team next year but that is not REALITY. UF has no shot , realistically .
Same thing at Auburn and aside from the UK game at South Carolina, their games have mostly been poorly attended and dead quiet too. Bottom line is only the basketball bluebloods truly care about the regular season. Everyone else is just waiting for the tourney.
At some point you have to win some games...they can talk about how good they are in the NIT I guess.
At the moment Billy D. has quit recruiting and started transferring. Apparently it is getting harder and harder to recruit kids to play in front of empty seats.
