Since Louisville is facing NC I have had to do some soul searching. TN was easy. I could be for them because they were in the SEC. I knew it was illegal in most places but I could justify it. But Carolina has forced me to face my demons or I should say DEMON. I had, years ago, buried the emotional hatchet with UL and began rooting for them in football and basketball UNTIL Pitino began coaching there. My wife says I feel towards him like a teenage boy jilted by a girl and to get over it.

 

So help me. Louisville is in Ky and is not NC. I should be for them. I want to REALLY be for them. But remember, it is not the school it is the coach. The same coach who said one year "beating Ky is like any other game" and the next year said beating Ky was "the greatest game of his life." I wondered if it was better than the 96 title or the final fours etc,. Do I miss the great years we did not have without him? It may be like Coach Petrino and Arkansas v UL in a football game one day.

 

Someone give me a real solution. Show me how to be for UL when they play everyone but Ky. Show me how to root for them against NC. I believe I have made the first step because I want to. So be gentle.

Ihave no clue how to either i am in the same boat i watch the UofL games and want to cheer for them then in the middle of the game i catch myself cheering fo the other team but when the play UNC. Ill be cheering for the cards.. Man it stinks saying that.. I hate it.. But i have to cheer for a instate team and since UK and WKU are out U of L it is.:irked:

As long as the Vols are done, I can pull for either one. (Not that I would pull for the Vols over anyone, just wanted to see that they were done in print one more time.)I do feel an allegience pulling me toward pulling for the Cards, though. I guess I'd rather see the title come to KY anyway it can, if it is to be, and not to NC. Guess I'll know when the ball tips.....

I have Louisville in a pool for $160 bucks and I still hope they lose.

I root for UK but I think we should all be for the Kentucky team otherwise.

Since Louisville is facing NC I have had to do some soul searching. TN was easy. I could be for them because they were in the SEC. I knew it was illegal in most places but I could justify it. But Carolina has forced me to face my demons or I should say DEMON. I had, years ago, buried the emotional hatchet with UL and began rooting for them in football and basketball UNTIL Pitino began coaching there. My wife says I feel towards him like a teenage boy jilted by a girl and to get over it.

 

So help me. Louisville is in Ky and is not NC. I should be for them. I want to REALLY be for them. But remember, it is not the school it is the coach. The same coach who said one year "beating Ky is like any other game" and the next year said beating Ky was "the greatest game of his life." I wondered if it was better than the 96 title or the final fours etc,. Do I miss the great years we did not have without him? It may be like Coach Petrino and Arkansas v UL in a football game one day.

 

Someone give me a real solution. Show me how to be for UL when they play everyone but Ky. Show me how to root for them against NC. I believe I have made the first step because I want to. So be gentle.

 

 

I will give you a good reason...support our local boy of Winchester Ky...Preston Knowles. You know I would be supporting anyone from Lee Co...:thumb:

I know it is the right thing to do; it is doing it that is hard. I am going to try by focusing on NC and the negative feeling I have toward our closest competitor in wins.

I will give you a good reason...support our local boy of Winchester Ky...Preston Knowles. You know I would be supporting anyone from Lee Co...:thumb:

 

BINGO. You are right and I can do it without focusing just on the opponent's negative. Plus, knowing you are for UL, with your husband and I having been similarly situated geographically, shows me it can be done.

BINGO. You are right and I can do it without focusing just on the opponent's negative. Plus, knowing you are for UL, with your husband and I having been similarly situated geographically, shows me it can be done.

 

 

Hey, he is for UofL too....but he still bleeds blue... Yes it can be done.:thumb:

I used to root for UL every game except the UK game, it wasn't until I joined BGP that I started to have a hard time with it...

Since Louisville is facing NC I have had to do some soul searching. TN was easy. I could be for them because they were in the SEC. I knew it was illegal in most places but I could justify it. But Carolina has forced me to face my demons or I should say DEMON. I had, years ago, buried the emotional hatchet with UL and began rooting for them in football and basketball UNTIL Pitino began coaching there. My wife says I feel towards him like a teenage boy jilted by a girl and to get over it.

 

So help me. Louisville is in Ky and is not NC. I should be for them. I want to REALLY be for them. But remember, it is not the school it is the coach. The same coach who said one year "beating Ky is like any other game" and the next year said beating Ky was "the greatest game of his life." I wondered if it was better than the 96 title or the final fours etc,. Do I miss the great years we did not have without him? It may be like Coach Petrino and Arkansas v UL in a football game one day.

 

Someone give me a real solution. Show me how to be for UL when they play everyone but Ky. Show me how to root for them against NC. I believe I have made the first step because I want to. So be gentle.

 

Listen to your wife, she sounds like a smart woman! And while you're at it, cheer with her for the UL women who also play North Carolina on Saturday!

Listen to your wife, she sounds like a smart woman! And while you're at it, cheer with her for the UL women who also play North Carolina on Saturday!

 

I think I'm having a relapse.

I used to root for UL every game except the UK game, it wasn't until I joined BGP that I started to have a hard time with it...

 

:thumb:Me too. I once had no problem rooting for UL, but since getting to know their BGP fans, I actually rooted for UT over them and sadly, I will pull for UNC over Louisville.

Go Cards.

Root for UL so that UNC doesn't get one game closer to UK for the all-time wins.

 

You can always find solace in the fact that UL is still a pretender to the true cream of college basketball history like UK and UCLA has.