Originally Posted by MrSplitshot
Look, I didn't care for the "This is our house" stuff either, but let's get real...these are kids, and they come from all kinds of backgrounds, they see pro athletes walking with a swagger, and are groomed to showboat when it gets right down to it. I feel quite certain if the tables were turned and we beat them at Rupp with a 3 at the buzzer that there would be similar celebration. I've got no beef with the Cards there.
There's this idea that Louisville is the big city school full of thug ball players from the hood....and Kentucky is the frontier outpost full of good old down home country boys....get real. Both are wrong. Sure, there are a lot of historical differences between the two schools, but in modern college ball there's a whole lot of parity. UK fans should embrace tradition and history, but that doesn't mean you should live in 1978. It's 2009, the game has changed, the environment has changed...Cats and Cards are bitter rivals, hopefully always will be...but as much as one side thinks they are better than the other, they are quite the same now. UK just happens to have a larger tradition of winning/championships in the past.
Holy crap. I think I just took up for the Cards.
By the way, I think you mean UCLA (11) having more titles than UK. The Runnin Rebs aint even close, as they've only got (1).
You can't state the facts any better than this post by Brian, it's spot on without debate. I to hate the screaming after a shot made, the jersey pulling, the chest thumping like Tarzan going down the court. But guess what guys, they all do it, every doggone team in America today at some point will show these traits on the floor. It's all part of this culture that has been made popular by the liberal media, music, and so on and we aren't gonna change it anytime soon. I'm old school, I like the old ways and I always will but I guess I'll just have to be tolerant of certain things. Does this make ALL of them punks and gangbangers, certainly not.
As the greatest basketball coach of all time, and one of the finest human being's to ever breath air has always said. '' When you do something great, act like you've been there before, humility is a virtue ". Said by coach John Wooden. I made a comment about coach Brooks and what he did in the Liberty Bowl. One of the things that I really like about this man is his consistant diligence to respect for the other team, and no trash talking, I really admire him for this. Fellas all teams do it, it's wrong and even the truely top shelf athletes do it sometimes. Edgar Sosa has the mentality and maturity of a 12 year old, that' why Pitino told him he would probably be better transfering to another school, so try and overlook him.
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