The House of Blue

Obviously, I'd much prefer a "W" over the 'Tards, but as long as our guys "show up" and actually put forth a good effort, I can live with a loss. I won't like it worth a damn, but if they give a great effort and fall short, it's okay.
We can't win them all. I just want us to start winning the ones we SHOULD win. So far, especially the last 2 seasons, we've fallen remarkably short on that count, and by a lot.
I am happy that we beat Tennessee.......... finally..........but due to circumstances we had to go at them with an off-beat idea and strategy that barely worked. Yeah, we won, and in the end that's all that matters, but I am not happy with a 10-7 score, especially after all of these years.
I'm just at a point right now where I am really not as enthused or enamored with football as I used to be, and I guess that happened when I went to Gainesville in 2008 and watched our team get absolutely dismantled by an obviously much better team(a national championship team to boot!)because the coaches didn't do their jobs and the players wanted to be anywhere but there that day(I was there for the Cat Walk and saw the blank looks on their faces when they got off the busses, and I knew right then we were going to get hammered........ and then that ST's(Ortmayer) coach we had LET Florida have 2 TD's within the first 4 minutes of the game because he couldn't make an in-game adjustment on punt coverages!). There was little good effort made that day, and since then I've just not been as happy about watching Kentucky football as I had been previously. And it sucks, but when you have players who won't do what they've been coached to do, we get what we get.
That's kind of where I'm at with all of this right now. Yeah, I still love my team, but I guess I've come to realize that they're just not going to fight as well as they should on any given Saturday and most likely going to let the fans down again, like they usually do.

That's not how it works. If Joe Craft wants his name on a basketball practice facility and thus earmarks a substantial gift for that project, that's where it's going. Same thing for the Wildcat Coal Lodge. Now, if a donor comes along and wants to be 'Sammy Smith's Recruiting Room' or 'Jimmy Joseph's Club Suites' then it'll be the exact same as for basketball. Or if Joe Blanton wants to donate significant amount money toward a new baseball stadium then it's darn well going to a baseball stadium. The fact of the matter is the major donors, at this point, want to donate to basketball if they're doing a substantial gift. Until someone steps forward and wants to do the same for football it's going to be difficult for them to fund a major renovation/building of Commonwealth Stadium, etc.

Very well put sir. Couldn't agree with u more.

I think the only thing that would make big donors want to step up for the football program and do something is if we hired a BIG TIME coach. If things don't work out with Joker, Barnhart better have his eye on a big name.

That just isn't true. As things improved under Brooks we secured funds to re-do the practice fields, entire practice facility, get new ribbon boards and new jumbo-trons and a good friend of mine, mr. Wells from east ky put up the 1,000,000 to re-do the commonwealth stadium locker room.

The bottom line is this.
NONE of the programs in the sec have done their major expansions with private funds only. In fact they have been done with bonding. Yes some of it is done with boosters finds but most is off of revenue generated with higher ticket prices from expanded stadiums. Those stadium expansions are financed through bonding. Mitch can't bond like the rest of the
Sec athletic
Directors.

Please learn the facts before you post this stuff.

And Lucy is really is going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time......

I know the facts, it just sucks that none of the BB boosters will step up and help the fb team. Those guys should help FB too, having a good FB program would help us in all sport including BB...

Add up the $$$ spent on basketball in the last decade and on football. The #'s are a lot closer than you think. Football did it with no bonding while a portion of the b-ball facility was bonded.

Thats so true and I think most everyone wants that coach to be Joker but somewhere the rubber meets the road and you have to win games. If Joker gets 2 more years thats fine by most people but then all the excuses have to stop if the best these new recruits and Joker can do is win 6 games. Expectations builds a program but if 6 wins is the nirvana at UK no coach will ever last.

This statement is just beyond stupid.
Expectations build programs?
HAHAHAHAHAHA....really? HAHAHAHA.

So all we need is expectations huh?....stupid.
So all Northwestern needs is stronger expectations and they are gonna win a BCS ship. Hmmm...and all this time i thought it was strong recruiting, solid coaching staff, game planning and preparation....above all else...
I thought PLAYERS on the field, not fans in the stands won games and build programs.

Appreciate you clearing that up.