The House of Blue

Anyone who has said on here that Joker is done for because he is over his head; anyone who puts any kind of blame on Barnhart, has been called everything by these "sunshine pumpers" who are delusional. Every year it is the same thing from the same people about this football program. How many games are we going to win?

This is what happens. We get report after report about this and that player and the upcoming season. How he had developed into now a SEC quality player but was signed at UK as a "wish and a hope". The SSP then start the we will win games with these very good players. Predictions start from the UK low of 6 wins to the unblievable of 9 and even 10 wins. All this predictions are based on not play on the field but media reports from UK.

Now supporting UK is fashionable. The SSP try to say we are the better fan because we support the team and Joker. In reality you are the worst fan. You accept what is on the field and call it a football program. You take one good performance from Max Smith and he becomes UK's next AA. You make excuses for losing which is the worst trait of anyone who wants a football program at UK.

So to all the SSP's, I salute you.

+1 What burns me up more than anything is when these people put all the blame on Mitch.

Amen Sarge! It was a HUGE slap in the face to the other players. It was WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG in every way. And there were plenty of fans in my area grumbling about it! Don't think it didn't go unnoticed. And if fans noticed, you can bet it didn't set well with the players either.

Again, you do not know all of the facts and neither do I. You are condemning the kid with one known piece of information and you don't even know the details of what you do know. There are numerous scenarios I can think of in which a kid messes up and then is a captain two weeks later.

Going to let you in on a secret. A lot of players smoke weed. If every school kicked off the players who tested positive there would be teams who would have a hard k l playing a game.

So that makes it okay?!?! Really? We are going to "excuse it because a lot of players do it?!? I am not dumb enough to not know this already. But again, my point is a captian is leader, leads by example, sets the example to the rest of team. So ANYONE (don't care if its a starter or not) CAUGHT doing this stuff should NOT be named a team captian, two weeks after it all went down. If you, as a player, are going to go out and smoke weed, you don't care about yourself, your teammates, your coaches, your scholarship. So is this really the type of captain we should putting out there to represent our UK team? I think not and anyone with any common sense knows the right answer to this question. You all can spin it however you want or make light of it or excuse it if you so choose, but to me its a complete disgrace to our UK team.

And I didn't say kick him off. I said you surely do not make him a captain to represent your team, that's my point. I know the team policy and NCAA rules. Although I will say a players getting their 4th violation before they are removed from the team is way to lenient. Should it really take 4 chances to get it right and learn a lesson when you are 18+ years old?

Bottom line is this is a slap in the face to other players getting it right ON and OFF the field. I don't reward bad behaviour!!

The universities have their own policies when it comes to drug use. UK has one of the strictest.
On to your point about making him a captain. I can't make a judgement on that because A) I don't have a clue what's going on with the drug case and B) I'm not around the program everyday.

Fair enough. Trust me..........it's a disgrace to UK football and the players doing the right things. Enough said.

Well Sanders is another one of "Jokers Boys",just like Morgan Newton..That is one reason Mobley isnt playing more..This kind of favoritism has gone on since Joker has been here..

Could not agree more. In this situation the consequences have apparently been overlooked.

Yea, I've heard that from a few players also. Joker plays who he likes not who deserves to play. I've heard that from some of the players. They also said, if they got caught with drugs they would never see the field again because they aren't one of jokers guys.