The House of Blue

I'm with ya 100%. Get ready to get blitzed. No one likes positive anymore unless you talk about them.

You're tired of it because you're one of the fans that doesn't get behind the team. You have to see wins first which really isn't what being a fan is about. Its about every year getting pumped and behind the team for a new season. I'm not saying blindly follow but outwardly show support. The guys need that support regardless of what you say. Its very easy to be a fan to begin with. All we have to do is use a little sense on message boards, watch games, or scream and yell for the home team at games. Pretty easy. We don't have to sweat or get up @5am in the morning. We don't have to push our bodies past the point of exhaustion. The players just want support for all the hard they put in to bring us a product on the field. Yell at the coaches all you want. But don't do it to players especially not at the college level.

Oh Really? You know me so well do you? If I “had to have wins” before I was a fan, I probably wouldn’t have been cheering for UK football for the past 30+ years, or had season tickets for the last 10. You do realize they haven’t exactly had too many winning seasons in my lifetime don’t you? I don’t know how old you are, but some of us have gone through heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak for our entire lives watching UK football. Believe it or not, most of us get tired of seeing the same old results after a while. To me, someone who gets overly excited and continues to buy into pre-season hype every season regardlessof the results, doesn’t make them a good fan. It makes them a sap.

Now, if being a “fan” means ignoring the bad, holding hands and singing kumbaya, crossing your fingers and hoping really, really, hard that UK is good, you’re right about me . By that definition, I guess I‘m not a fan. Personally though, I choose to dwell in a land called reality, even if that reality sucks, rather than exist in a fantasy land.

Now from your definition, it might not take much effort to be a fan, other than having message board pep rallies, but what I do as a fan takes a little more energy/effort. I get nervous the night before gameday, pace around the room screaming at the t.v during away games, jump up and down and give high fives to those that sit by me in the stands when something good happens, scream and cuss at the top of my lungs when something bad happens. And when things are not right, I point them out and talk about them, rather than ignore the elephant in the room. What I don’t do is continuously make excuses for poor results like many of you on here.

You see, the thing is, what happens when you ignore the bad and “pump sunshine” for a lack of a better phrase, you set up a false sense of hope/security, and a distorted view of reality, which actually leads to an even greater amount of heartbreak when success is not reached. You also allow for things to continue going as they are, because you are refusing to identify the problem, and problems cannot be resolved until you admit you have one. It’s simple math.

That’s ok though T whit. You go on telling yourself that everyone who doesn’t think and act just like you really isn’t a UK fan. I just hope for your sake, the program finally does turn around, otherwise overly optimistic people like you, will have your hopes dashed so many times, that you’ll start changing your tune, and end up sounding like your hated “LOD” For me, I just want, for ther first time in my life, to believe the program I have spent my life cheering for, is actually making the appropriate effort to be competitive. Personally, as a true lifelong fan, I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

I can't read all that. I was just going by what you've posted in the past. I don't know you at all.

I love UK Football, always have and I always will. Joker is one us as well but he actually played for the Cats. It kills me to see so many "fans" jumping on this bandwagon against Joker before waiting to see how the season plays out.

I Bleed Blue and if you can't or don't understand what that means I don't know what to tell ya? SSP4L

So your post reflected what you think you remember that I've posted in the past, rather than adressing the actual post you quoted? My guess is, you are recalling Hoptown's accusations against me, more than you are recalling muy actual post.

Whatever the case, If you are going to call me out, know what you are talking about. Otherwise, STFU, and I mean that as politely as it can be taken. All you "sunshine pumpers," or whatever you want to call yourselves, can kiss my butt. I'm as big of a UK fan as there has ever been, so screw off!

Preach on catmando preach on. I'm in the same boat as you. Big UK fan and I support the players. Just not pleased with the direction it looks like we're heading. Hoping Joker proves me wrong this year.

I think the above is part of the reason fans differ on this. By your quotes, you don't think fans can help the players win games, but you feel it's up to fans to "identify the problem" and resolve them. Probably half the fans will agree with you and half will disagree.

I for one don't think it's my job as a fan to solve any problem...there are people who get paid to do that, and my job is to support my team the best I can. I hope that everyone can agree that a loud home crowd is CERTAINLY a big advantage in football (if anyone disagrees with this I honestly don't know what to tell you). I hope we can all, for the love of The University of Kentucky that we ALL have, support this team to start the season.

I think this team has a ton a talent and will surprise a lot of people this year. Let's just go into this year giving THE PLAYERS our full support-anything else is not acceptable IMO.

Actually, I’ve been a member of this board since before it was Cats pause, always spoke my mind, and I never had anyone accuse me of being LOD until recently. Everyone didn’t always agree with me, but we had heated, yet civil, conversations about the state of UK football.

Then, because some posters who were here just to stir trouble started being beyond negative, the LOD and sunshine pumpers were born. Still, it wasn’t until about 2 months ago, that Hoptown decided he would point a finger and title me LOD, and from that point on, he and all of his cronies have followed me around and accused me of being LOD, anytime I say anything they don’t happen to like. Then, others who see my name being associated as LOD just assume things about me without really knowing.

What’s strange to me, is that the mods never do anything to stop the behavior of people like Hoptown, who stalks posters, and attacks/ provokes others he doesn’t agree with. I imagine it must be because he’s a paying member, and I’m just a member of the free board, but it’s people like that who have really ruined a good thing, and continue to do so to this day. You guys may not like my opinions, but I have never once attacked any of you in any way, unless it was defending myself against your accusations, while many of you have attacked me on many occasions.

Trust me I didn't want to bring LOD into this. I can't stand the term and it always derails threads into idiotic banter. We just completely disagree on what it means to be a fan. And TRUST you won't change my mind no matter how many paper you write in this thread.

I didn't trash you in any sense of the imagination.

You said it pisses you off that people blame fans for losing and that you were tired of it. I tried to offer an explanation as to why you might feel that way. If I was wrong on that then so be it. And you were right its not on the fans to win. Its on the fans to support the team.

Geez.... what a pleasant surprise. I've never seen a thread discussion quite like this one on the HOB.