Barnhart says the University and it's fans feel right at home!

[KYhunter79]

http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/16427.html

The title is a joke guys, so don't get too carried away.:D

[MsgMills]

I taint going to Lexington again...No need to get all fired up over them being the 13th best in the state for something as pitiful as this...... uk uK puke, puke....Raaaaalph, ....Buuuuuuick...... I getting sick in my porceline thrown if you can't figure out what I'm doing.......:D

[Multidigits]

All the ULie birds heading up there tommorrow ought to have a real good time. Big bro provides you all with a good place to get beat and for the entertainment for after the game.

[MsgMills]

All the ULie birds heading up there tommorrow ought to have a real good time. Big bro provides you all with a good place to get beat and for the entertainment for after the game.

Hey you nailed it right on the head there Multi.... They will be right at home for sure.......:D

[KYhunter79]

That's where UK fans are born and raised. Not bred though...Doing some breeding. Not very good results. They can't figure out why?

[slickhead slayer]

I actually do think that it will be a very worthwhile trip for all the Louisville fans. It will be like a baseball fan visiting cooperstown.
You will see the mecca of college basketball. A ceiling with more National Championship banners than any UL fan thought imaginable.
I just hope that the UL fans act like they have been there before. I hope they don't tear the place up, steal mirrors off the bathroom wall, etc etc.
You are going to be in a classy place, so for just oneday try have some class.;)

[MsgMills]

The Louisville fans will be in too much awe...and won't no how to behave when they step onto a Classic Basketball floor...

The thoughts of wondering how in the world can we ever be as good as the Cats will be dancing around in their heads.....

To see 7 National Championship Banners hanging from the ceiling will probably make them too restless and unstable to play worth a hoot. Then if they do lose the first game they will blame all the Banners and other Championship items on the walls and ceiling as the distraction why they lost......lol :D

[nwest]

Don't forget who put a few of those banners up there. Rick knows his way around lexington:D

[maxcam]

Uh wasnt it the University of Loserville that institued the gay benefits for its faculty?

[yote hunter]

Uh wasnt it the University of Loserville that institued the gay benefits for its faculty?
if your gay and live in this state you natrually move to louisville.because thats where the biggest population of other gays are.so it only stands to reason that UofL hase alot more gay fans than UK.duh do the math:D

[AteUp]

http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10060627/1

Texas A&M's Gillespie
http://images.sportsline.com/u/photos/basketball/college/img10060637.jpg

Cats are away, so Cards, Aggies play with Lexington's emotions

It's hard enough for Ashley Judd and her unholy legion of blue-face painters to tolerate Pitino's traitorous existence an hour or so away in Louisville. Now he's actually here in Rupp, playing for a championship with the Cards, right underneath the championship banner he won with the 'Cats in 1996.

"I don't enjoy becoming a villain in my own house," Pitino said of his every-other-year trip here to play Kentucky. "This is totally different. There's so much more at stake."

Meanwhile, Gillispie is widely rumored to be on Kentucky's short list should the tortured Smith A) be fired (not likely); B) step down (more likely), or; C) lob the bird at the fools who spend more time on message boards than with their children (extremely likely if this goes on much longer).

Adding foreshadowing (perhaps) to the story, Gillispie will actually sit in Tubby's seat -- or the NCAA-logoed version of the same -- on Thursday. The Aggies are the designated home team against Penn.

Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhart must have had a team of Hollywood script doctors punching up his carefully worded, uh, what exactly was it this week? Certainly not a vote of confidence for Smith. It said exactly nothing on the surface, although it left room for broad interpretation.

Let's translate. What Barnhart said:

"Tubby's our basketball coach. He's done a great job of representing the platform of Kentucky basketball. We'll always look to make adjustments to the things we've got to do to get better. Tubby and I will do that collectively."

What Barnhart meant:

"If Tubby loses in the first round to Villanova, we'll be making adjustments all right."

It's still a UK state, even though the building has been hijacked -- which makes this place all the more frustrating for Big Blue fans. There wasn't so much as a hiss when Pitino (Kentucky 1990-97) and the Cardinals took the floor for practice at 1:30 p.m. ET. In fact, 500 Louisville fans cheered wildly from their blue seats when an impromptu dunk contest broke out in Wednesday's practice.

"I think fan interest has changed dramatically (in the state)," Pitino said. "Kentucky holds about five percent. We hold about 90 and Western Kentucky has five."

Before Ashley swallows her pom pom, Coach Cardinal was kidding. Kidding in your house, 'Cats.

Insiders say Gillispie wouldn't turn down an offer after three seasons at A&M. How could he, if he wants to keep his career on the rise? But Kentucky basketball is a bit like Alabama football at the moment. Top-five job on paper, but, oh, the baggage.

Kentucky fans seemingly have never taken to Tubby, despite a national championship nine years ago. In the eight years since, all he has done is take the 'Cats to three Elite Eights and two Sweet 16s.

Horrible, right?

"Tubby won with Rick Pitino's players," said a fan at Rupp who would only identify himself as Joey. "You have to be in the Final Four basically here (every year)."

Billy Long, Kentucky class of '87, said Lexington is divided 50-50 on the Tubby issue.

"He brought it on himself with recruiting," Long said.

Long's young son Jacob weighed in with a T-shirt that read, "You Can't Spell Pitino Without N-I-T."

That was last year for the Cardinals. This year Louisville (23-9) closed fast in the Big East and got a No. 6 seed. That's the first time since 1983 the Cardinals have been seeded higher than the 'Cats when both were in the tournament.

Need a Band-Aid, Tubby? That will leave a mark.

Most coaches who win a national championship also win a lifetime pass. Smith has earned increasing disdain. They harp on an allegedly declining talent level. They agonize over coaching decisions like they were loose threads on a cardigan.

"Tubby is a unique individual," Pitino said. "He handles it with class. He takes it. He's able to turn the other cheek. That would not have been me. You'd have to fight me a little bit on that one. If I had Tubby's record it would be a different response. He handles it with dignity."

If both interlopers win their opening-round games, Kentucky's former coach and perhaps future coach would heighten the tension among Wildcats everywhere. Louisville would meet Texas A&M in a second-round game on Saturday.

Pitino has won his national championship. Can Gillispie do it at tradition-poor Texas A&M?

"Why not?" he asked.

A Wildcat Nation gently weeps.

[slickhead slayer]

I can't believe that none of you have called out Kyhunter for being so off on his predictions. Remember he said that the Big east would get 8 teams, and the SEC 4?
Looks like the Big East got 6 and the SEC 5. Since the SEC only has 12 teams, and the Big East has 16 teams, looks like a bigger percentage of SEC teams are going dancing than the Big Least teams.
Looks like those rose colored glasses got you again.:D

[KYhunter79]

Somebody had to get cut the way things played out.

"Some thought the Big East might get eight bids. The way things played out, there was no chance. When schools such as Butler and Nevada lost in their conference tournaments, some of those precious 34 at-large bids that could have helped schools such as Syracuse slipped away."

Also, Syracuse was robbed. WVU could have been in as well, but I could kind of understand leaving them out. There is no reason to leave Syracuse out. They have some pretty good wins. I think the SEC will have 3 teams perform well. UF, Tenn, and Vandy will all do well. UK and Arkansas are both first round exits.

It's already been touched on, slickhead. The big east should have gotten 7 for sure, and maybe 8. Arkansas wouldn't have been in if not for the SEC tourney. The ACC got 7 in, they had to dig pretty deep in the conference to put Duke in.;)

[slickhead slayer]

It's already been touched on, slickhead. The big east should have gotten 7 for sure, and maybe 8. Arkansas wouldn't have been in if not for the SEC tourney. .;)

Even after the pics have been made your still hanging on to the should haves and what if's.:rolleyes:
The big east should have got 6, and thats what they got. Your opinion is somehow better than the panel of experts???:rolleyes: I should have known.
Sometimes its better to just admit your wrong than try and say that it was a panel of experts that were wrong.;)

[KYhunter79]

Even after the pics have been made your still hanging on to the should haves and what if's.:rolleyes:
The big east should have got 6, and thats what they got. Your opinion is somehow better than the panel of experts???:rolleyes: I should have known.
Sometimes its better to just admit your wrong than try and say that it was a panel of experts that were wrong.;)

I shouldn't have to admit that I was wrong. Everyone already knows it...It is pretty much consensus that Syracuse was robbed however. The SEC should have gotten 3 and they got 5.

[Multidigits]

I shouldn't have to admit that I was wrong. Everyone already knows it...It is pretty much consensus that Syracuse was robbed however. The SEC should have gotten 3 and they got 5.


Tradition....you know, the ole Big brother, little brother thing again.

[maxcam]

Didnt someone say something about Gillispie would be a perfect candidate for UofK to go after? :rolleyes:

[MsgMills]

The coach UK needs will never come....The General Robert Montgomery Knight would straighten out that program for sure.......:D