Dear Bill
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BTW: Those Kentucky fans eat nasty gravy every single day but don’t realize they are supposed to learn a lesson from it. Kind of like Alabama football fans.
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@KUSTEVE said:
I wasn’t surprised we won- I expected it.
Not sure if this is rational at all but it’s pretty cool that you can be blindly optimistic about KU bball and generally be correct.
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@BShark Right!?
Im also guilty in said doubting.
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@brooksmd gimme deep fried! I might live in the North East but I still love me some fried food! PS. theres a crap load of crows here in Vermont.
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Four observations by NBC Sports.
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@wrwlumpy Self is a freekin genius and our boys are so much tougher than I thought they were. BUT they have to keep on keepin on! They have to maintain that level of toughness ALL SEASON
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If eating crow isn’t enough… you can always try Jake’s approach -
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@BShark we had, by far, the best coach
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@Lulufulu Like I mentioned, they say the cajuns have some great recipes for nutria. They say it’s not as dry as crow.
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@brooksmd OMG!
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@BShark Seriously, did you think two freshmen guards were going to dominate our guards? I would argue the blindness you speak of was the hype surrounding Ky that so many of our fan base ate up with a spoon. The Media has done such an excellent job of building up Ky that everyone is acting like this was an upset. Matt Norlander at CBS SPORTS called it an “upset”…lol. The 2nd ranked team in the country beating the 4th ranked team is an “upset”.
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I’ve seen any big with a pulse do quite well against us. Finally bit us against WVU, because they got whatever they wanted at the rim. Self pulled out the big guns for this game though, with junk defenses. Should have done it more against WVU too, but Huggins is a much better coach than Cal tbf.
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I agree, KU gets little respect from the media. Vegas opened at 5-1/2 and was up to 7 for UK and considering all the bad publicity and the shortness of our bench due to Bragg’s suspension, it was perhaps warranted.
Now here is the kicker…Pomeroy has UK ranked #3 and KU #7 after last night’s game. Considering that UK, prior to the game had lost to #39 Tennessee and is now 17-4 while KU had lost to #5 West Virginia and is now 19-2, both according to Pomeroy himself, and then UK lost to KU…at home…it does not make any sense for UK to be ranked ahead of KU, particularly when you consider that KU plays in the highest ranked conference.
After the West Virginia game many of us saw it as a minor and anticipated set back which to me shows respect for the players and coaches and trust on the team but others did not see it the same way. When KU gets trashed by its own fans how can we expect people that are not as familiar with the program to show respect? Any sports writer reading our own forum prior to the Kentucky game would have seen comments like… this teams is soft, has no heart, cannot play defense, will lose in the first round, would be lucky to get a 3 or 4 seed and so on.
It would appear that for some fans their preferred form of exercise is jumping on and off the band wagon. I know there is a lot of crow eating today but it should not get to this point and it shoul not be this way. Just my personal opinion.
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I only worry about a loss when KU is playing a as well as they can and the other team is still close on the scoreboard. You know eventually KU will begin to play to their average. So if KU comes out slow and stay in the game I expect a win, but when KU is hot and the other team is still in it I expect a hard fought game that the outcome is in doubt.
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@JayHawkFanToo Kenpom only measures efficiency. In that two game stretch against the Frogs and the Grapes, he moved us from 10th in defensive efficiency to the 30s, which moved us way down on his list.
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Yep. KU has been a little unlucky this year in terms of opp shooting %. Guarded %s have been higher than unguarded. Basketball is funny sometimes.
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@BShark Yes…I was worried about their front line doing all the damage…as has happened a lot this year.
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Humble pie was great this morning. When it was 23 11 or whatever it looked over.
Couldn’t be happier with the last 30 minutes of the game. Huge momentum going into Wednesday
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This was the biggest win of the season, and until we start winning NCAA tourney games, it will remain that way. Winning at Rupp vs. a top 5 team is more impressive than anything else we can accomplish prior to the NCAA tourney.
Also, I know we all struggle with the lack of media coverage for KU, but this has to take the cake.
#2 beats #4, and ESPN’s front page talks about the Sooner’s conference trophy getting broken, some concern by the Bucks about a player traveling, and the NBA skills contest. Last night, after the game, zero on the ESPN front page.
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@HighEliteMajor ESPN didn’t carry the KU player intros- only Ky’s. JJ played circles around their vaunted freshmen. This was a “in your face” moment for all the flapping gums that had put Ky on the mountain top, much the same way they did w Dook preseason. ESPN is rotten to the core, so I wouldn’t expect anywhere near fair coverage. here is another punk who has proclaimed the number 2 team beating the number 4 team is an “upset”: http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/short-handed-kansas-plays-like-a-no-1-seed-in-big-road-victory-vs-kentucky/
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So, instead of celebrating KU’s amazing victory, the Mildcats 2nd consecutive loss has spun the CBS sports writers into a complete tizzy. Their cherished little hedge hogs got their ass beat again, and now CBS is practically apoplectic:
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I recall over the last few years, when Kansas becomes #1 many of the national outlets don’t even post our scores.
Imagine that? The college basketball section of a news or sports news outlet EXCLUDING coverage of the #1 team in America?
This is where our AD needs to activate and make a statement about this to chastise these dicks. That is unbelievable and we need to challenge the east coast bias.
We could go underground… all register at these sites over and over again and then blast their comments sections… basically destroying them.
Or we could do this the right way and have the representatives of our school/team start DEFENDING us publicly!
I’m willing to go either way…
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@drgnslayr our ad?
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Cals response when coach went to the zone.
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Don’t worry, our AD is so upset with the coverage that he is going to black out a few more games so the press knows he can do the “no coverage” thing better than they can…I wish it would be fiction…
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@kraken hey, Im watching Pirates of the Carribean, Dead mans chest
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Yeah… me, too.
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@HighEliteMajor typically media bias. They would rather talk about Puke scraping by against a mediocre Wake Forest team than a big showdown between two top five teams. Embarrassing for them.
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High highs and low lows. You’re so up and down Gyp - I mean Bshark.
