ESPN Chalk: Casinos Hoping UK Is Not Undefeated

[JokersWild24]

Vegas casino hoping Kentucky Wildcats do not go undefeated - ESPN

[JokersWild24]

Article is a little dated now, but gives you an idea about how the odds have shifted and how people are playing.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Which Wildcat do you think they'll approach to try and throw a game?

[The Professor]

Which Wildcat do you think they'll approach to try and throw a game?

 

Whew! Don't even joke about that. Old timers from the 1950s still grieve over the point shaving scandal of the early '50s. Probably cost UK a national championship.

 

And on another note, the '54 team was undefeated but chose not to play in the NCAA tournament because the NCAA wouldn't allow their students in graduate school to play, which is permitted today. The team that won the title that year, LaSalle, had lost by about 20 in the regular season to Kentucky. Under today's regulations UK would have had another national title.

 

I know a lot of these things because I sometimes attend UK games with the mayor of Booneville. He's 95 years old and has had UK season tickets since 1950. He has a friend who is 91 that has gone to the games with him since the 1970s. They sometimes talks about those dark days as we ride the hour and half trip to the games.

 

They also talk about the 1951 Sugar Bowl win over undefeated number 1 Oklahoma. In their opinions Kentucky won the football national championship that year and they're ticked that the national media don't recognize it as such.

[TheDeuce]

Which Wildcat do you think they'll approach to try and throw a game?

 

They'd have to pay them quite a bit of money to out-do their salaries...

[MJAlltheWay24]

They'd have to pay them quite a bit of money to out-do their salaries...

 

I knew I'd be setting someone up. I almost made the joke myself haha!

[jericho]

Which Wildcat do you think they'll approach to try and throw a game?

 

You mean which ref will be paid off or what game does the ncaa tell the refs to take it from UK.

[TheDeuce]

You mean which ref will be paid off or what game does the ncaa tell the refs to take it from UK.

 

There it is... Poor little UK being picked on. :lol2:

[JDEaston]

Of course the casinos don't want UK to go undefeated, they don't like to lose. Fortunately for Kentucky fans, Cal doesn't like to lose either.

[JDEaston]

 

There it is... Poor little UK being picked on. :lol2:

 

It's ironic you chose to throw "little" in there as part of your jab lol. I think everyone has established that this team is anything but little, lol.

[BOKC Wildcat]

Which Wildcat do you think they'll approach to try and throw a game?

 

The NCAA will mysteriously assign NBA game-throwing specialist Joey Crawford to a UK game if they remain unbeaten much longer. lol!

[UKfan1977]

They'd have to pay them quite a bit of money to out-do their salaries...

 

 

 

Jurich needs to increase the payroll for Ricky P

[jericho]

There it is... Poor little UK being picked on. :lol2:

 

This same little team that has beat little brother so many times. What a little world ul fans live in. Maybe one day you can be a big boy like UK

[AverageJoesGym]

This same little team that has beat little brother so many times. What a little world ul fans live in. Maybe one day you can be a big boy like UK

 

I think they were a big boy when they won the 2013 National Championship. I know Cal has owned UL since he took over the UK job but he's won exactly the same amount of National Titles as UL in that timeframe. And before you throw in UK's finish in the tourney I've heard from fellow UK fans time and time again that UK ONLY counts national championships.

[jericho]

I think they were a big boy when they won the 2013 National Championship. I know Cal has owned UL since he took over the UK job but he's won exactly the same amount of National Titles as UL in that timeframe. And before you throw in UK's finish in the tourney I've heard from fellow UK fans time and time again that UK ONLY counts national championships.

 

9 times Nat Champ.

What's little brother got