Harrison's POOR choice of words.......Oh MY

[GeoFisher]

Funny - I stood in my seat in Indy screaming that same thing. It was a coaching fail at the worst possible time. Players can get out played and coaches can get out coached. Cal got out coached.

Why we took the air out of the ball and held our testicles through 4 shot clocks is beyond my comprehension. Should have fed Karl...and we would have been playing Duke tonight. No question.

It wasn't the officiating. That has equally sucked for everyone here lately.

Oh well...

And yet he won COY honors........I honestly don't know how that happened........Lots of coaches infinitely better than him, including the coach that beat him.

[MrSplitshot]

And yet he won COY honors........I honestly don't know how that happened........Lots of coaches infinitely better than him, including the coach that beat him.

C'mon man...he took a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, taught them how to play together, selflessly, with limited minutes...wire to wire regular season AP #1...SEC regular season and tourney champs...went 38-0 with them before losing in the National Semi-Finals to a Wisconsin team that was **** good. Final Four in 4 out of the last 5 seasons. May put 5 kids in the NBA Draft this year.

As for the X's and O's lapse during the Wisconsin game when he should have called a timeout...even Michael Jordan missed a jump shot now and then...didn't mean he wasn't all-world at the game of basketball. Calipari deserved Coach of the Year. There were others deserving, but there can only be one.

[GeoFisher]

C'mon man...he took a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, taught them how to play together, selflessly, with limited minutes...wire to wire regular season AP #1...SEC regular season and tourney champs...went 38-0 with them before losing in the National Semi-Finals to a Wisconsin team that was **** good. Final Four in 4 out of the last 5 seasons. May put 5 kids in the NBA Draft this year.

As for the X's and O's lapse during the Wisconsin game when he should have called a timeout...even Michael Jordan missed a jump shot now and then...didn't mean he wasn't all-world at the game of basketball. Calipari deserved Coach of the Year. There were others deserving, but there can only be one.

OK....

Bo Ryan took a bunch of kids who were not heavily recruited by anyone. And their "superstar" didn't even start and rarely played the first 2 years at Wisconsin......Yet they beat a bunch of future NBA players, many of whom were touted the BEST in the country........

Yea, you tell me who is COY......

I'm just saying.

[Shellkat]

I'm a Ky fan . The words and no handshakes were not cool, but this day and time there is 2 sets of rules. Not going to say anything else but it is what it is and its getting worse

[MrSplitshot]

OK....

Bo Ryan took a bunch of kids who were not heavily recruited by anyone. And their "superstar" didn't even start and rarely played the first 2 years at Wisconsin......Yet they beat a bunch of future NBA players, many of whom were touted the BEST in the country........

Yea, you tell me who is COY......

I'm just saying.

Bo is deserving...I like the guy...but if you want to play that game, those same Badgers also lost to Rutgers, Maryland, and Duke twice. Kentucky lost to no one, from last year's title game until this year's Wisconsin. The win against UK was epic, but one big win doesn't make you a shoe in for COY. The Badgers didn't set a new record for most consecutive wins in a single season. Kentucky's run was historic and they didn't do it beating patsies either...they beat ranked tourney teams...all while carrying a huge target on their backs.

Cal earned it.

[sweetwater]

Here is my problem with what he said. I nor any other white guy can say that without SERIOUS issues afterwards. If one of those pasty white boys on Wisconsin would have said that MY GOD the world would have stopped turning but a black kid can do it and we get a so what attitude.

I don't have a problem with blacks using the n-word and whites not being able to and here's why. In my college days all of my sorority sisters and I used to refer to each other by the word b!tch. Just between us it was a term of endearment and not an insult. To this day and if it's not said in an angry way I do not get upset if another female calls me that name. If a guy says that to me in any shape, fashion or form I will consider it an insult and I will deal with it immediately. I know guys amongst friends say similar things to each other and would be insulted if called the same thing by an outsider so just how can that be any different than black folks using the n-word to each other without there being a double standard involved? Yeah, I know the Wisconsin player was white and Andrew used poor judgment with a live mic around. He'll make a good politician one of these days huh? Lol.

[psprowler]

I don't have a problem with blacks using the n-word and whites not being able to and here's why. In my college days all of my sorority sisters and I used to refer to each other by the word b!tch. Just between us it was a term of endearment and not an insult. To this day and if it's not said in an angry way I do not get upset if another female calls me that name. If a guy says that to me in any shape, fashion or form I will consider it an insult and I will deal with it immediately. I know guys amongst friends say similar things to each other and would be insulted if called the same thing by an outsider so just how can that be any different than black folks using the n-word to each other without there being a double standard involved? Yeah, I know the Wisconsin player was white and Andrew used poor judgment with a live mic around. He'll make a good politician one of these days huh? Lol.

I get what you're saying here but the problem is every time the dreaded "n" word and it's "a" or "er" variations are used you have to play the "context game". With the racial wedge that's currently being driven into this country it only worsens the situation. Only the person that utters the phrase knows what's in his/her heart at the time. In this day and age people hold down the turbo button when judging others. Half the people immediately start in with the "if a white person said that" rhetoric while the other half fall into the "aww no big deal term of endearment" camp. Why is all that even necessary? Why can't we come up with a slang phrase of endearment that doesn't require an "a" or "er" decoder ring? With social media this should be easily obtainable. As long as we continue on using the phrases we continue to earn the present day situation we have.

[GeoFisher]

I get what you're saying here but the problem is every time the dreaded "n" word and it's "a" or "er" variations are used you have to play the "context game". With the racial wedge that's currently being driven into this country it only worsens the situation. Only the person that utters the phrase knows what's in his/her heart at the time. In this day and age people hold down the turbo button when judging others. Half the people immediately start in with the "if a white person said that" rhetoric while the other half fall into the "aww no big deal term of endearment" camp. Why is all that even necessary? Why can't we come up with a slang phrase of endearment that doesn't require an "a" or "er" decoder ring? With social media this should be easily obtainable. As long as we continue on using the phrases we continue to earn the present day situation we have.

BINGO........

It means what it means......and will ALWAYS mean that. If you don't like it. Stop USING it. Simple.

What thoroughly disgusts me is the wanna be thugs using it. And then the wanna be white thugs using it. I can only imagine the beat down I'd get if I went up to a wanna be on the waterfront and said what up my n***a......

Yea, stop using it.....period. Let the word die.

Later,

Geo

[DJD]

BINGO........

It means what it means......and will ALWAYS mean that. If you don't like it. Stop USING it. Simple.

What thoroughly disgusts me is the wanna be thugs using it. And then the wanna be white thugs using it. I can only imagine the beat down I'd get if I went up to a wanna be on the waterfront and said what up my n***a......

Yea, stop using it.....period. Let the word die.

Later,

Geo

Reality is it will never die away. Hollywwod, rap thugs, gangs, wanna be tough guys all use the word or words. Sad.

[roadrunner]

It's funny how we view the calls from the refs. Personally, I thought the game was called (for the most part) in favor of Kentucky. I was rooting for Wisconsin,thus my bias.

Yes, that late 2 pointer for Wisconsin was a second after the possession clock expired. I thought that was a good make up for the terrible call for a charge when a 3 pointer was voided for Wisconsin.

We all have our personal bias when viewing a game.

I agree with the charge call and no flagrant foul with the slap to the face. I used to coach girls softball and I told my girls that we will get some bad calls probably every game but bad calls only beat you if you let them. When you get a bad call I don't won't anyone complaining, whining,or moping around. just **** it up and play harder I will deal with the umpires between innings in a quite manner.
If it gets real bad a coach will take a technical top draw attention to the refs and to spark a team that is down.These are college players and should be able to adapt to bad calls they see them all the time.

[roadrunner]

I agree with the charge call and no flagrant foul with the slap to the face. I used to coach girls softball and I told my girls that we will get some bad calls probably every game but bad calls only beat you if you let them. When you get a bad call I don't won't anyone complaining, whining,or moping around. just **** it up and play harder I will deal with the umpires between innings in a quite manner.
If it gets real bad a coach will take a technical top draw attention to the refs and to spark a team that is down.These are college players and should be able to adapt to bad calls they see them all the time.

It won't let me say s-u-c-k it up LOL

[DJD]

I'm numb to the double standard of what Black people get away with compared to any other color. The game was like most games I have ever watched in my life.....good and bad calls. Wisconsin played with passion and they seemed a step ahead of UK for a lot of the game.
Uk got beat and all the other stuff is just noise. Jmo.