I have one fact for all of you UK Haters.....UK WON!!!

Sure your opinion counts. My opinion is that UK fans are putting way to much stock in one win. Does my opinion count, or is it less valid then yours because we disagree?

 

Its hard not to put a lot of stock in beating a top 10 team. That being said, UK has not started conference play yet, and every game is huge for UK. Except for maybe Florida Atlantic UK has no easy win teams on the schedule.

Sure your opinion counts. My opinion is that UK fans are putting way to much stock in one win. Does my opinion count, or is it less valid then yours because we disagree?

 

See, this is what gets me about this logic. UL apologists have been proclaiming that they are one of the top schools to contend with with in college football (and maybe they are, that is another debate). Thus, UK or any other team with relatively little success should be excited to beat one of the tops in college football, should they not? If you want to be a big boy of college football, be prepared to take the shots that come back when losing, especially to a non-traditional football school. If you are not prepared for the shots and feel people are putting "too much stock in one win," then maybe UL football (as a power) has not yet fully arrived.

Its hard not to put a lot of stock in beating a top 10 team. That being said, UK has not started conference play yet, and every game is huge for UK. Except for maybe Florida Atlantic UK has no easy win teams on the schedule.

We are thinking of UK as the UK of the past. That is, a team in which its fans expect something bad to happen. A fan base that is happy when they are competative against good teams. This is a different football team. They are not good for a UK team, they are just plain good. I fully expect them to win every regular season game save two. I know that is a high expectation, but like I said, I think this is a legitimately good football team.

I can't believe this debate is still going on. Coach Brooks and Mitch Barnhart absolutely did what they thought was in the best interest of the program and it has worked out very well. Interest among fans actually reached a higher level during the first two weeks, they have recieved more favorable mention by more media outlets in the past week than I have ever seen, and most importantly, they won the game. Spin it anyway you want, they got what they wanted and it worked out very, very well. Oh, and ESPN has picked up their game for this Saturday (an actual college football day). Even more exposure.

I'm coping just fine thank you. What I'm having problems with is the UK fans that are suddenly football experts based on one win.

 

Wow. Some UK fan must have stolen your bicycle when you were a kid. You really don't like them and do tend to lump all UK fans together.

Apparently it's just the fact that UK fans can't be experts...

 

Or, maybe our team just hasn't won enough games for our fans to be allowed to be experts...

 

I'm not sure how that works.

 

:lol: :lol:

See, this is what gets me about this logic. UL apologists have been proclaiming that they are one of the top schools to contend with with in college football (and maybe they are, that is another debate). Thus, UK or any other team with relatively little success should be excited to beat one of the tops in college football, should they not? If you want to be a big boy of college football, be prepared to take the shots that come back when losing, especially to a non-traditional football school. If you are not prepared for the shots and feel people are putting "too much stock in one win," then maybe UL football (as a power) has not yet fully arrived.

 

 

That's my thoughts as well....Just not nearly as articulate.:thumb:

See, this is what gets me about this logic. UL apologists have been proclaiming that they are one of the top schools to contend with with in college football (and maybe they are, that is another debate). Thus, UK or any other team with relatively little success should be excited to beat one of the tops in college football, should they not? If you want to be a big boy of college football, be prepared to take the shots that come back when losing, especially to a non-traditional football school. If you are not prepared for the shots and feel people are putting "too much stock in one win," then maybe UL football (as a power) has not yet fully arrived.

:thumb: :thumb: You nailed it again bugatti.

U.L. proclaimd to be among the nations elite and cleary they are not.

Wow. Some UK fan must have stolen your bicycle when you were a kid. You really don't like them and do tend to lump all UK fans together.

:thumb: Still some Wildcat "tracks" across the front lawn I believe. :lol:

I don't think that any of UofL's levelheaded fans thought they they were one of the elite this year after the first two games and the UK game did nothing to change my personal perception of the team. The win for UK was HUGE and there is no disputing that no matter who you are. As to the date of the game, it obviously didn't hurt them at all and together they broke the ESPN Classic record which is awesome but really doesn't mean anything compared to your average numbers for big games. The fact is that UK had to go out and win the game to reap the benefits and they did but the benefits would have been much more plentiful if it hadn't been moved to the third week and there is no disputing that.

but the benefits would have been much more plentiful if it hadn't been moved to the third week and there is no disputing that.

 

Have you been to some alternate universe where the game was played week 1? I'm assuming not, so you have NO IDEA what would have happened.

 

The UofL argument was that UK was scared and moved the game to "hide" it from the national audience by moving it to a date when they wouldn't get picked up on national TV.

 

Well the game DID get televised nationally, and UK didn't look so scared to me.

 

I love it. You guys are grasping for anything to say UK screwed up in moving the game.

Have you been to some alternate universe where the game was played week 1? I'm assuming not, so you have NO IDEA what would have happened.

 

The UofL argument was that UK was scared and moved the game to "hide" it from the national audience by moving it to a date when they wouldn't get picked up on national TV.

 

Well the game DID get televised nationally, and UK didn't look so scared to me.

 

I love it. You guys are grasping for anything to say UK screwed up in moving the game.

How can you possibly dispute the fact that it would have been a bigger win for UK if they had beat UofL in the first week with a ridiculously higher amount of viewers? You can't. I'm not saying that they would or wouldn't have won the game but a win for UK in week 1 would have been bigger than week 2. I'm not grasping for anything, I'm enjoying the fact that it was moved because less people saw UofL get upset. And none of those arguments were anything I ever said so get off my back because you can't deny any points I've made and I've said nothing to attack UK so take a breather, you all won the game.

UK won, I dont really care about the ratings because they won and I am happy.

The ONE Fact that cannot be disputed no matter what ratings, what week or whatever else that someone wants to come up with is that The Kentucky Wildcats Won the Football Game. That cannot be denied or have any type of Spin"put on it.