Maybe during fball season, the UL fandom increases amongst fair weathered KY fans. Not during basketball. Still roughly what? 90 percent of the state bleeds blue?
Mitch Barnhart should be fired tomorrow
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Maybe during fball season, the UL fandom increases amongst fair weathered KY fans. Not during basketball. Still roughly what? 90 percent of the state bleeds blue?
They will care soon if they don't already b/c football pays the bills. Football is america's sport. When the season ticket base withers up and dies, they'll care.
UofL will be going to the College Playoffs this year. UK will be watching from home in the toilet bowl. Good ole Moral U.
Well getting rid of this coach isn't going to be cheap either.
LouievileKat, if you truly believe that then you have your head in the sand.I grew up in the south end of Jefferson county and it was Kentucky territory, nowadays there is as many Louisville as Kentucky fans. They are being brought up as Louisville fans and its all about perception. At my work, we are outnumbered 40 to 10, fifteen years ago it was reversed. These aren't fair weather fans these are Louisville fans for life.
My dad passed away Thursday night... one of our last conversations was how Barnhart has to go along with Stoops.
He was 87 so he saw many years of UK Football. He told me nothing will change because it never has.
He didn't like Petrino but knew he would win at UK.
We both wanted Stoops to succeed but we never have seen any indication that's going to happen.
He was 87 so he saw many years of UK Football. He told me nothing will change because it never has.
He didn't like Petrino but knew he would win at UK.
We both wanted Stoops to succeed but we never have seen any indication that's going to happen.
I can agree with his decision to not hire Petrino and disagree with his decision to give Stoops a raise at the same time.
Don't we play Louisville every year? So their success has a direct effect on our problems.
You have no idea what my emotional state is, but one should always learn from past events. We warned Mitch and his sycophants that not hiring Petrino would come back to bite us, and it has and it will continue to.
same recruiting pool. same state (govt support). same in state corporations. it matters. it's relevant.
Then go give BP a bj and be a Louisville fan , one game a year but you cry all year and offseason about UL . It's a back to the future marathon on amc , you should check it out . The doc just came back to warn Jennifer and Marty about their future .
cite evidence. I doubt it's that high. overplaying the basketball card is something UK excels at.
They recruit mostly Florida , we recruit primarily in Ohio . The in state kids are far and few between , certainly the minority . Corporations , ha ha . It matters because your UL friends , neighbors , co workers talk ish to you and it burns you up .
No evidence, just a hunch. I don't live in state anymore unfortunately but I can't imagine UL is that close to closing the gap with UK in the number of in state fans.
Obviously there's more of a buzz around fball season than basketball for UL.
So, UK being a colossal failure doesn't bother you? Interesting.
I've always said that apathy is far worse than anger.
The same guy who refused to hire Petrino.
youre a riot you're so wrong. ULs current roster has 32 Ky kids and 18 from Florida.
i looked it up. was going to look up UKs too but you were so far off the mark w UL didn't have to.
naw, I'm good. fat fingered reply. I fixed it. thanks though.
That's known as moving the goalposts. He nailed you to the wall and you changed the rules of the debate.
You said UofL recruits mostly in Florida, he proved you wrong, you changed the subject and accused him of being obsessed with UofL.
Did I get it right?
Of course he would. That UofL job has so many more advantages than the UK job. It's such a peach I don't know how anyone could turn it down. They play in a better conference, have a bigger fanbase, have better facilities, have a better recruiting base, have more tradition. All of the biggies. He probably would've left two weeks into the season to take that juggernaut of a job if it came open. Same with Brohm. He'd probably leave UK after an hour as coach to go lead that vaunted UofL program into battle. That's one of the two or three best jobs in the nation. Those UofL guys are loyal to that school, so much so that they'd make a lateral move from an SEC school to an ACC school with zero advantages simply because they're "UofL" guys. Someone told me they sleep with a UofL pillow under their head every night and would leave a job with Alabama if the UofL job came open.
But we as fans keep buying the tickets every time a new coach is hired. They sell us on hope, plain and simple.
What it will take to change is for our fans NOT to come back until there is something better on the field. Rather than the fanbase using hope for its approach, it needs to take a show me approach.
Yea I'm not an expert on all things Louisville , their skilled players seem to come from out of state but you guys know a lot more about UL than I ever will .
don't forget that better 24/7 network at your disposal.
If UL wins a fb title you guys are going to lose it , I want to see what that looks like .
dont go actng like you don't care. you wouldn't be on these boards if that was true.
I'm on this board for UK , I don't care what UL does . If they win the title it doesn't matter to me , you guys are obsessed with UL and I'm just having fun with it .
Until Kentucky concerns itself with real programs and not Louisville, they'll never be successful