The House of Blue

I think calapari will do what is best for UK. Change can be a good thing.

We should add Madison Square Garden every year.

I been saying it,

I want basket-bowl back. Much more tourney like (FF). I am much for what Cal is doing. I don't get people who is complaining, his job should be based off whether he is winning title or not. That's it. Everything else is side notes. If what Cal is doing is leading us to championship, i don't think we can really complain. Even if we have the WEAKEST schedule in the whole college, yet he wins a NT...i would not care. (of course that's not going to happen..)

People are making bigger deal out of it than they should.

All I'll say is ticket prices should be adjusted accordingly then. $1800 a year for tickets at the top of Rupp for cupcakes is just not worth it anymore.

I'm not crying and I am giving them up and I'm sure a lot of others are too. Attendance against non "UNC, UL IU" types is around 22,900 (most of those are because people pay the $1800 per year for games like UNC / UL & IU) while attendance with those teams coming in is around 24,400. I live outside Lexington and have to watch games on a tape delay when they don't sell out. Which most especially the ones through the week against sub 65 RPI teams don't sell out.

I'm just saying, if they don't lower prices then Rupp will keep getting lower and lower in attendance and fall behind Syracuse and UL. Don't try and give me the crap that people will buy my tickets and on and on because people that had a chance to go to a game in Freedom Hall and buy tickets without a guarantee to see other great games didn't show. The attendance at Freedom Hall for that game was 14,000 this year. Results will be similar at Rupp with no "BIG" games year in and year out. Not to mention I couldn't even give my tickets away to games if I had to go out of town for any of the games I talked about above.

Just my two cents...

Results won't be similar to that game in Freedom Hall and people will buy those tickets.

Yikes.

YOur two cents are dead wrong.

Every season ticket uk sells has been sold out For years. The only games the general public can get tickets to are the holiday games when students are gone and they don't use their allotment. Not having Unc or iu on the schedule won't effect ticket sales a bit as long as uk is a top 10-20
Program. The bottom line is that the only marquee non conference game on the schedule two years ago was a bad iu team. People forget that. Two years ago out non-conference home
Schedule was awful (what you said was coming) and every game sold out with a team with 9 losses.

Your take is miserably wrong.

Every game at UK was a sell out when Billy G was here. How bad would you think UK would have to be to not be a sell out. ?????? Nothing against ya bro but you could be more wrong!!!
UK has a fan base like no other.

After pondering both Coach Cal's and AD Barnhart's reasoning and also reading some of the "board's" comments here is my take. On the one hand no one can complain about the results of Cal's coaching/recruiting the last the 3 years. And yes the landscape of college basketball has changed over the last several years. On the other hand I personally believe some of the reasons for not going with home and away do not hold water. Every time there is a game scheduled (especially teams that have been on our schedule for a long time with some great history) with one of our "historical" opponents I will be much more excited about a home and away rather than a "dome" game. There is nothing like a crazy home crowd when the Cats take the floor at Rupp against the likes of IU or NC or UL. When IU was in the tank (and even NC for a few years) they didn't try to get out of the games with us. They played us with who they had and took their lumps. I still believe our reasoning makes UK looks weak, somewhat arrogant, and fearful of playing teams that are on the mend. I say whether we have freshmen or seniors we take the court and play our best at Rupp or the opponents facility. And the elephant in the room that UK still is passive about is the almighty $. I suppose our next move is to drop UL. I hope we can get either IU or NC (perhaps both) back on the schedule for home and away games. I know there are other views on the issue and I respect much of what I have read. I still would have loved to see IU come into Rupp next year. Go Blue!

Shauner17 You have made yourself look silly. UK is coming off a National Championship and you are belly aching over the schedule. Rupp has and will always be sold out, so do the dumb thing and give up your season tickets. Let someone who will enjoy the games have them.