Down Goes Duke

How about the Lady Cats. They took down #5 puke 72-65 in front of a record crowd of 14,508 at Rupp. If you’re keeping track of the Lady Cats you know that’s two top 10 teams back to back. If you’re not keeping track of the Lady Cats you should. A’dia Mathies had 23 pts, Bria Goss had 19 pts and freshman Azia Bishop had 12 pts and 11 rebounds off the bench.

BBRules Week 1 SEC Rankings

Their has been enough play for me to see all the teams a few times. Here is week ones SEC Rankings.

1. Kentucky. No way the Cats drop from this spot all year.

2. Florida. Good guards but could use some depth around the rim.

3. Alabama. A tough, tough team that will be hard to beat at home.

4. Vanderbilt. Same old Vanderbilt. Looks to be a tad overrated.

5. Mississippi State. Their wheels are sure to fall off but for now might switch positions with Vandy soon.

6. Tennessee. If Pearl could only have gotten his teams to play this hard. Still not enough talent on the floor but it looks like Tenn got a good coach.

7. Mississippi. Not sure if they are better or just luckier than Georgia. One of those teams that will go up and down the bottom of the SEC rankings.

8. Georgia. They lost to much talent from last year. With Mark Fox as a coach expect them to improve but not win to much.

9. Arkansas. Lot of talent there but still looks like a Arkansas team.

10. Auburn. Might surprise some people when conference play starts.

11. LSU. Their offense smells like a fish market. Enough said.

12. South Carolina. Even beating Clemson can’t get them out of the cellar, only LSU can.

What A Great Day

I’m not sure its possible to have a better day, or a better couple of Sundays in a row. Talk about being wound to the max, that’s me. Beating Tennessee was down right awesome, then following it a week later with a beautiful, hard-fought, well coached win over a real good NC team is an unbeatable feeling. Thank you all you athletes who have given us a couple of Saturdays to remember for the rest of our lives.

To top this wonderful morning off, not one spammer tried to register last night. The fear of being blocked by Davis is working. He’s now our official spam blocker.

Is There A Curse?

Now that we are officially #1 we can turn our attention to other unimportant things till Wednesday.

We haven’t heard the name of former coach Tubby Smith here in a while. His best player Trevor Mbakwe is now out for the season or with luck might be back by the end of the year. It seems to be a annual thing up in gopher land since Tubby has been there. Every year the little gopher fans stick their heads up

and expect it to be the year Tubby takes them to the promised land. Every year something happens to them. A player is injured, kick off the team or thrown under the bus. Its a little early this year but the fans are checking their holes for a long winter.

Has Tubby been cursed to forever have problems? And better yet did the BBN do it? Naw Tubby did it himself.

The Streak Is Over

The streak is over. Did anyone besides me shedd a few tears? This has to be one of the better days in my life. Tennessee doesn’t go to a bowl, Dooley might get fired, Bray plays middle school football, Matt Roark becomes one of the most remembered Kentucky players ever, the defense plays the best game of the season and Tydlacka keeps Tenn pinned.

It was a total team effort from all the players, and they along with us will remember it all their lives.

The game revolved around Matt Roark and he played the game of his life. In the future when we talk about him he will be spoken about and remembered the same as Josh Harrellson.

It was a tough game to watch as the announcers seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how many of the Tenn players were going to be great down the line. As the game progressed you could see the Kentucky players start to sense they might win the game. The crowed was standing. Even the referees seemed to sense it.

It took the whole team to win the game but it took Matt Roark to dominate Tennessee. The team might have parted the sea but Matt led us across the sea bottom to victory.

Duke Finds Their ODU In Tennessee

Tennessee stayed right there with Puke till very near the end. Puke won by 10 I believe. The Blue Devils were susceptible to the dribble drive and Tennessee made it to the basket pretty much at will. Only thing is that Tennessee players, while very athletic, play like a bunch of street ballers. In other words, really sloppy stuff on their part. It was nip and tuck in the first half until two treys by Rivers and another by Curry put them up by 6 at the half. Tennessee came back a regained the lead briefly early in the second half and the score continued to flip flop by a point or two either direction till the last five minutes of the game or so. Duke went up by 8, then 10 pts. and it stayed that way the last couple of minutes as the game concluded.

No “real” Devils or Oranges were injured or put in any jeopardy during this contest.

In unrelated news, I fell asleep on the couch awaiting the next game from Maui and dreamed I came home and found a naked dwarf in my living room. I tried everything, including “caining” him with a pool cue to get him to leave but he wouldn’t go away. I finally had to call the police but woke up before they got there. It appears that watching two teams you hate play one another does strange thinks to the mind; especially having to root for Tennessee.

A better sports story than Tipton could write. The human interest factor was far more interesting too.

I’m sure if Freud were still alive he’d say, subconsciously, that naked dwarf was Coach K.

I borrowed and combined this from alpha and Boondog and jdog in the forums since I found it much more truthfull than what you could find on ESPN.

The LHL Goes Even Further (Revised)

After following up on some complaints I’m sure they received the LHL did the respectful thing about the post we talked about yesterday. They deleted the comments complaining about it and left the post up. I’d have to guess that it was a mistake but with all the negative and semi-negative things they have allowed Tipton to get away with who knows. Could it be possible as others have posted that it was really Jerry Tipton who posted it looking for nibbles to use in a story. Naw just kidding Jerry.

There must have been a glitch somewhere as the comments are back up. Sorry LHL. I was really beginning to enjoy myself at your expense.

The LHL Has Gone To Far

This was posted on the LHL board last Friday and is still up there over two days later. Allowing it to stay up shows that the LHL has crossed the line in their attempts to burn our program. Using the excuse that they didn’t post it is not an excuse for allowing people to attempt to harm a persons reputation.

Contact coach Cal at his website and ask him to take action. Also send it to anyone you can at the school and anything else you can think of to do.

This was posted by a user named catblackfever

Calipari touched a kid earlier this year by rubbing his hand, the NCAA had a problem with it… I wonder with all the child molesation stuff going on at Penn State and now at Syracuse I wonder if Calipari will be exposed… did Calipari rub anything else… wow… what a weird world this has turned out to be recently….

A Response To Tipton

Jerry Tipton here after known by the wordpress tag dickhead is at it again. In an article in todays LHL he tries to prove to the BBN, in their own seat of power no less that they aren’t the greatest empire ever. The world just wouldn’t feel right if he wasn’t trying to PO BBN fans.

Lets look objectively at basketball and world history to judge what makes an empire.

Duke is up there because of one emperor and one emperor only, old rat face himself. In real life history Alexander the Great won half the world but after his death Macedonia U faded into obscurity. Does Vegas think that after the emperor is gone the empire will survive. This empire subject doesn’t think there is a coach out there who could keep Duke at the level they are now.

UCLA under John Wooden plundered the basketball world and the dynasty faded only to burst briefly on the stage before again fading into history. Genghis Kahn did the same thing but you notice that Mongol U isn’t a player now and Kubla Kahns pleasure dome will never be as great as our pleasure dome.

NC is the one program besides Kentucky that could really be considered a viable empire. Since the empire was founded there have been three emperors and two of them have won a national championship. I forgot about Frank McGuire so add him to the emperor list. Again though is there a replacement emperor out there today besides coach Cal and maybe Bill Self who could well enough to keep the ACC barbarians from storming the gates.

Any of the above are welcome to the title as far as I’m concerned. After all if we want the title we own it. I consider us the Roman Republic of basketball not the Roman Empire of basketball. From leaders like Rupp, Hall, Pitino, Smith and Calipari who won national championships to orator’s like Cawood Ledford who wove spell binding words the whole state followed, rich citizens who control the senate, and citizens like Bill Kightly who supported the republic wholeheartedly we have everything the history of the Roman Republic had. Our castle is the greatest, our citizens the strongest, and our tradition spans 7 decades and is still going strong.

OK the history lesson is done now and we are the greatest empire in basketball history. Hows that sound dickhead.

Joker Under Paid?

Just kidding. This is old news but sometimes you need to turn up the heat when cooking up a pot of football. How anyone can ask or expect a top name coach to come to Kentucky when we pay our head coach the least money of any school in the SEC is beyond any rational explanation. Vandy is a private school and doesn’t release their coaches pay but what ever they are paying their coach they are getting their moneys worth and will probably give him a contract extension and a pay raise after this season. Apparently we to are getting our moneys worth since Bottom Pay=Bottom Coach=Bottom dweller according to my football 101 class.

Heck even renown coach Pete Carroll mentions it in his football primer in chapter two, The Administration Doesn’t Care.

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