January 10, 201412 yr I think we're to the point in the season where it's fair to question just how good this team is. They've played 3 legit tournament caliber teams thus far, and have come away empty. Absolutely. And they aren't very good right now.
January 10, 201412 yr Nice classy fans at Louisville, surely they didnt bash on Memphis academics, especially after teh Ville just had Ware and Behan get in trouble. What are you talking about? Do you even know?
January 10, 201412 yr Let me tell you, Pastner isn't big and doesn't give any indication that he'd be the least bit interested in an altercation. He was either so blitzed with euphoria that he was delirious, or, the guy in the crowd was just that bad. Or both. Which is why his outburst was so surprising to me. According to Matt Jones, the fan was supposedly calling the Memphis players a bunch of thugs. Pastner apparently responded that they have a perfect APR. :lol2: Not sure I buy any of that, but it would be hilarious if true.
January 10, 201412 yr Oh, I didn't know he came to UofL games. Which is why I said I don't buy it. I rarely put any stock into anything he says.
January 10, 201412 yr the fan was supposedly calling the Memphis players a bunch of thugs. There is no term in today's lexicon that more aggravates me than that one. It has become the white way of referring to a black athlete in a way that doesn't get their teeth kicked in, but in nearly every case, they are meaning THE term when they use it. It is lazy, racist, and WAY overused. Every time I hear a white fan say it, and I used to hear it all of the time when I sat between fans and the court, it goes through me like a hot knife through butter. Racial labeling and stereotyping is so out of control and it is a huge pet peeve of mine. Please, help your brethren, start a mission to eradicate the usage of the word "Thugs".
January 10, 201412 yr http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140110/SPORTS02/140110011/Memphis-coach-Josh-Pastner-explains-mixing-up-Louisville-basketball-fans
January 10, 201412 yr There is no term in today's lexicon that more aggravates me than that one. It has become the white way of referring to a black athlete in a way that doesn't get their teeth kicked in, but in nearly every case, they are meaning THE term when they use it. It is lazy, racist, and WAY overused. Every time I hear a white fan say it, and I used to hear it all of the time when I sat between fans and the court, it goes through me like a hot knife through butter. Racial labeling and stereotyping is so out of control and it is a huge pet peeve of mine. Please, help your brethren, start a mission to eradicate the usage of the word "Thugs". What abut referring to white athletes as thugs? Is that okay in your book?
January 10, 201412 yr http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140110/SPORTS02/140110011/Memphis-coach-Josh-Pastner-explains-mixing-up-Louisville-basketball-fans :lol: Sorry, the irony in there makes me laugh.
January 10, 201412 yr Anyone else catch the blatant hypocrisy of Dick Vitale when he started discussing Petrino?
January 10, 201412 yr What abut referring to white athletes as thugs? Is that okay in your book? *leafing through my book* Don't hear it much, aside from maybe Marshall Henderson, but I think while it is still lazy and trite, it carries less racial undertones. Listen, there are people of all colors that are truly the textbook definition of thugs, but sadly, it has become the go-to term for white fans to refer to aggressive and physical black athletes. Drives me nuts. Fans, in general, should occasionally have to say some of their arena-seat rants to someone's face -- that would solve a lot of the alcohol induced nonsense that is yelled. Just once, have to walk up to someone on Memphis' team, one-on-one, and look him in the eye, and call him a thug. Yeah...that probably wouldn't happen. I'm very soapboxy today....sorry. I just hate the use of the word thug that is everywhere these days.
January 10, 201412 yr *leafing through my book* Don't hear it much, aside from maybe Marshall Henderson, but I think while it is still lazy and trite, it carries less racial undertones. Listen, there are people of all colors that are truly the textbook definition of thugs, but sadly, it has become the go-to term for white fans to refer to aggressive and physical black athletes. Drives me nuts. Fans, in general, should occasionally have to say some of their arena-seat rants to someone's face -- that would solve a lot of the alcohol induced nonsense that is yelled. Just once, have to walk up to someone on Memphis' team, one-on-one, and look him in the eye, and call him a thug. Yeah...that probably wouldn't happen. I'm very soapboxy today....sorry. I just hate the use of the word thug that is everywhere these days. Funny you mention Henderson, because I was actually about to put him in my post as an example. Either way, I agree that 95% of the time it's used, it's simply a veiled way of taking a racial shot at a black athlete.
January 10, 201412 yr Anyone else catch the blatant hypocrisy of Dick Vitale when he started discussing Petrino? Missed it. What did he say?
January 10, 201412 yr Missed it. What did he say? Basically he was criticizing UofL for hiring Petrino because of his past, yet he's a firm supporter of Bruce Pearl getting a coaching job again.
January 10, 201412 yr I was watching the game and immediately after the horn fans started booing. What was that about? And they kept it up.
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