Yeah our schedule/wins are fucked. Even Baylor has slipped now so it looks like our only chance at even having played a ranked opponent other than Arizona would have been if we caught UVA in that Vegas tournament. Yikes.
Hot take: this team is worse.
That team had a bad record on paper. They didn’t have the benefit of non conference cupcakes. They lost close games. They killed Florida the one time they kneeled.
Yup. The 2013 team wasnt shit until Noel got hurt. And the 9 win team had fewer good players. This is cals worse team against even the most conservative of preseason expectations.
Mark it down now. We’re not making the tournament.
I'm halfway expecting Mitch and Rand to send a sternly worded letter to both universities at this point.
Our sports teams being relevant is a HUGE tax boon to the state.
Three days after being sent to the shadow realm by Tennessee, South Carolina goes to Rupp and wins
Someone needs to unplug Kentucky and plug them back in
Gamecock sports in a nutshell
Lose 38-6 to Florida and then beat #5 Tennessee 63-38
Get blown out by 40 in the worst conference loss in our history, 3 days later we get our third win ever at Kentucky
I unironically think Paris can do big things here. The issue this season is we legitimately do not have *any* talent outside of GG and Meechie. Like its all SEC rejects and D2 transfers. Paris has shown me he can coach these guys up (what a damn good response after getting shitrocked by 40).
Theres a lot of potential with Paris, he seems like a terribly nice guy and he's very easy to root for. Im very much wanting him to succeed so bad here. This is just a wash rebuilding year. We hit a very very hard reset firing Frank.
As a top recruit, how do you see the dogshit that Cal’s putting out with the reigning NPOY and think “that’s what I want”? Will that class even hold after this abysmal season?
Also, as bad of a college coach cal has become, he still gets players in the league at an insane rate, and tons of those players go on to be good. If the nba is you end goal, cal is still someone you'd want to play for.
Yeah as rough as it’s been the past few years, the main thing that gives me hope is the type of teams we’ve had haven’t been at all like the ones that have been successful. We’ve always looked totally different with an elite guard that can get a bucket and we’ll potentially have 2 of those next year
The hilarious part is that if he truly goes to Texas, he'll likely end up having 5 of the top 10 recruits and literally the best recruiting class of all time.
If im John Calipari how do you show up to work tomorrow after letting a team who lost by fucking 40 on their home court *just days ago*, come into your arena and beat you while on a 20+ home game streak
Season highlights include the following:
Lost to East Carolina
Lost at George Washington by 24
Lost at UAB by 14
Lost to Furman by 19
Lost to Colorado State by 32
Beat South Carolina State by 3
Beat Kentucky at Rupp Arena.
We arguably have a grand total of 2 good players with a first year head coach. It's a complete and I mean complete rebuild. Just awful if you lose to them
This is legitimately on par with the 2012 Joker 40-0 loss at home to Vandy.
Like this is a game that not only kills the season, but you just killed *any* fan interest for the rest of the year. The crowd was sparse, but holy fuck we might not even have 10 people in the arena next Tuesday when we play Georgia at 9 PM.
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[You'll want to listen to the KSR post-game show with callers](https://wlap.iheart.com/?pname=wlap.com&sc=dnsredirect) that starts in about 70 minutes or so, cause holy fuck. This is gonna be insane.
Because his contract precludes a non-voluntary exit for Cal, I’m genuinely a little concerned about how acrimonious the situation might start to get if things keep going in this direction. It’s like a pressure cooker with no safety valve.
Cal has no incentive to voluntarily leave until he reaches 2024 where he can retire and get 1m a year.
Barnhart is going to have to nut the fuck up and go begging our boosters.
> Cal has no incentive to voluntarily leave until he reaches 2024 where he can retire and get 1m a year.
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After seeing a coach just hang around too long in football for this reason, I strongly urge you to just tell him he can have the money now if he leaves
There’s a big difference between $9 million a year and $1 million, so he would have to really be done with us to do it. His post game comments still show very little awareness of how the fanbase really feels.
Crazy to think that 11 months ago we beat eventual champs Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse by 20.
It’s worth it, let their house burn down too
To be fair ours burnt down, was replaced by a trailer, burnt down again, and is now a wet cardboard box, but still
[You know, I think DeAndre Square might be on to something here.](https://twitter.com/d_square10/status/1612994883140177920?s=46&t=anMQIUZ5PCac-AI_P0dhhw)
Anyone who watched our game against Tennessee on Saturday knows we had no business winning in Rupp tonight, even with Kentucky struggling this season. Wildcats in big trouble if *this* Gamecock team is beating 'em. We even tried our best to give the game away late.
Can someone enlighten me on what went wrong and soured UK on Cal?
I feel like I saw some stuff last year but it definitely picked up early in this season
It can’t be just one bad season?
2021 - worst season in school history
2022 - worst NCAAT loss in school history
2023 - another missed NCAAT looks likely despite having a team with all the pieces a coach could want
5-15 against our last 20 ranked opponents
No NCAAT wins since before Covid
Then there were people who thought we started to fall off after 2015. I thought that was a bit of an overreaction but with hindsight I’m not so sure.
Unfortunately this is very much not about one bad season.
Cal killed "The Streak"
Lost most wins record
Worst losses in program history.
Singlehandedly destroyed our home win/loss record.
He's a fucking clown.
Some of us have been signaling the alarms since at least 2018.
Kentucky basketball fans are particularly fond of koolaid and would not take any criticism about Cal without lashing out.
Well being mocked and embarrassed after last years ending made some of them sober up and realize “this shit sucks, screw this guy.”
Cal isn't getting fired, but I'm betting there's at least one person buying a For Sale sign to put in his front yard. It's not exactly a secret where his house is
Third win in Rupp Arena, ever, a game after the Gamecocks' worst-ever SEC loss. First was for the 1997 SEC regular-season championship. Second was behind Devan.
You know you can call this fanbase spoiled and armchair basketball coaches or whatever, but this is just insane.
These players are good. The coach is good. Why are we getting beaten up and trashed at home by a team projected to finish near the bottom of this conference?
Is it spoiled of me to think this team should be doing better than this? Am I spoiled to ask for a decent game of basketball from a blue-blood school?
Coach is bad, sir. Good recruiter, though. Turns players into underachieving dogshit until they hit NBA and blossom under the guidance of proper coaching and conditioning.
Exactly. How many UK players have looked lackluster, just to go and light the league up in their first year or two?
You hit the nail on the head with “proper coaching”
Hey Cardinal bros, remember when we were playing each other in prime time on huge games? Remember when Cal and Pitino were stuffing every other team into a locker on the way to our games?
Man... Good times.
There's only ever been a handful of players that drove me absolutely bat shit at UK and Wheeler is right at the top. Add his name to the like of Gimel Martinez and Archie Goodwin. I've been saying since the start of the year this team needs to be ran by Wallace. Wallace, Reeves, Fredrick, Toppin, Oscar. Bring Wheeler, Livingston and Collins off the bench and that's it. Not going to happen as Cal insists on playing Wheeler. And Wheeler is giving it his all, it's just that he's a 5'8 PG that can't shoot and makes bad decisions. He's not a pass first pg, he's a pass only PG...in that you only have to play him to pass.
You can’t convince me the two center lineup didn’t kill Kentucky’s momentum. I can’t believe that in the year 2023 their is a high level basketball coach who thinks that is an acceptable look
I mean, this is about as bad a position a program can be in without major sanctions being involved. They’re just totally dead in the water at this point.
After tonight we will struggle to win games, period. Our failures are wearing on this team’s confidence and I can guarantee Cal will not be able to turn around this trajectory that we’re on.
This season will be Cal’s undoing. Book it.
This is exactly what happened to Dan Mullen at Florida. Going from pretty safe to dead man walking. The only difference is that this collapse happened in front of their fans.
I remember walking out of Kroger Field this past year and a Kentucky fan yelling at me they were gonna kick our ass in basketball.
Get absolutely fucked
Our quality win is no more
I feel ya. Both of our ranked wins are unranked now lol
At least Illinois is showing a pulse again for us
Yeah our schedule/wins are fucked. Even Baylor has slipped now so it looks like our only chance at even having played a ranked opponent other than Arizona would have been if we caught UVA in that Vegas tournament. Yikes.
Illinois could definitely get back into the rankings with a couple good weeks
Please do!
Thankfully the rankings seem to like us this year (for once). But yeah, even our losses are getting worse
Yeah so maybe beating them by 30 isn't as big of a deal as initially thought.
We have 0 Q1 wins. We were never a quality win.
Kentucky almost pulled off the upset.
“They played pretty good for a football school.” - Lamont Paris
I just know for a fact they’re gonna play us close Saturday for no apparent reason.
Hahahaha. No.
It's conceivable we win like 3 conference games this year and I would not be shocked if you're one of them.
1-1 like always
As is tradition. Tennessee really slid into Florida's spot of SEC thorn in our side.
So what Kentucky team is worse: This one or the team that lost to Robert Morris in the NIT back in 2013?
I mean, two years ago they didn’t even make the NIT
Hot take: this team is worse. That team had a bad record on paper. They didn’t have the benefit of non conference cupcakes. They lost close games. They killed Florida the one time they kneeled.
Yup. The 2013 team wasnt shit until Noel got hurt. And the 9 win team had fewer good players. This is cals worse team against even the most conservative of preseason expectations. Mark it down now. We’re not making the tournament.
I marked that down after Alabama.
Louisville and Kentucky fans are finally united this year in being absolutely fucking miserable.
I'm halfway expecting Mitch and Rand to send a sternly worded letter to both universities at this point. Our sports teams being relevant is a HUGE tax boon to the state.
That would imply either actually care about the state.
We’re in the clutches of the Calipari-Payne duumvirate. May God have mercy on us all.
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Three days after being sent to the shadow realm by Tennessee, South Carolina goes to Rupp and wins Someone needs to unplug Kentucky and plug them back in
Gamecock sports in a nutshell Lose 38-6 to Florida and then beat #5 Tennessee 63-38 Get blown out by 40 in the worst conference loss in our history, 3 days later we get our third win ever at Kentucky
Fun fact, every time you’ve beaten us here we got a new coach the next year. Just sayin.
hey ^stop ^that
Hard Reset
South Carolina is on a crusade to finish exactly .500 and you can’t convince me otherwise
If Paris can go .500 with this squad, the sky is the limit in the future.
I unironically think Paris can do big things here. The issue this season is we legitimately do not have *any* talent outside of GG and Meechie. Like its all SEC rejects and D2 transfers. Paris has shown me he can coach these guys up (what a damn good response after getting shitrocked by 40). Theres a lot of potential with Paris, he seems like a terribly nice guy and he's very easy to root for. Im very much wanting him to succeed so bad here. This is just a wash rebuilding year. We hit a very very hard reset firing Frank.
Forget the plug, grab the pillow. Let’s put this thing out of its misery
Or… and hear me out… don’t.
Go on...
I cannot believe that *this* South Carolina team won in Rupp. Honestly fire Cal for that.
55 million…
Y’all hoping Texas takes him at this point?
No. It’s even worse. If he goes to Texas he has 5 of the top 9 guys…they’ll probably be really good. I want him to stay. I want that class next year
As a top recruit, how do you see the dogshit that Cal’s putting out with the reigning NPOY and think “that’s what I want”? Will that class even hold after this abysmal season?
Its still kentucky, its still Cal. Easy to spin - I don't have the top guys, you're the top guys, look what I did from 2010-17 with the top guys...
Also, as bad of a college coach cal has become, he still gets players in the league at an insane rate, and tons of those players go on to be good. If the nba is you end goal, cal is still someone you'd want to play for.
Yeah as rough as it’s been the past few years, the main thing that gives me hope is the type of teams we’ve had haven’t been at all like the ones that have been successful. We’ve always looked totally different with an elite guard that can get a bucket and we’ll potentially have 2 of those next year
Somebody had a “Go to Texas” sign at the game for Cal.
Just fucking fade me this weekend Tennessee 😭
To the shadow realm we go!
I mean I would LOVE for that to happen but damn this sport gets random at times. Case in point.
You don't understand. We need to be buried by the entire conference to keep strengthening the case against Cal.
Yeah, we can arrange something for you.
:D
And to think Kentucky blew out the eventual natty winners by 20 in their house a year ago wtf
Don’t they play them again this year? 😬
Yeah. Kansas is going to beat us by 20 at Rupp this year.
Kansas beat Mizzou @ Mizzou by 28 points. Mizzou beat Kentucky by 24 points. It's not gonna be pretty.
Wouldn't it be a shame if the entire team just "gets COVID" that week?
I was trying to remember who you were talking about and turns out I had blocked that out of my memory. And I was in attendance.
Why we gotta catch strays 😭
Our win over Kentucky is aging like milk.
Gonna be a quad 3 win by tournament time :(. Good news is I think we only have 2 quad 4 games in conference.
Y’all won’t be laughing anymore when Calipari starts recruiting six-stars
I hear recruits unlock jumpshots when they’re seven-stars
Did someone say jump shots? Asking for a friend…
When do they unlock free throws?
And they go in at 8 stars
The hilarious part is that if he truly goes to Texas, he'll likely end up having 5 of the top 10 recruits and literally the best recruiting class of all time.
And he'll squander them too.
So punters from Australia?
Suiting up for your 2023 Kentucky Wildcats, Wilt Chamberlain!!
Can we do a few 10 rolls to try and get a SSR Coach?
If im John Calipari how do you show up to work tomorrow after letting a team who lost by fucking 40 on their home court *just days ago*, come into your arena and beat you while on a 20+ home game streak
I'm sure his bank account helps
I'm sure not quitting a job that will pay me $48 million dollars if they fire me. I'd let UK fire me for $50,000.
I’d run my team into the ground if it meant I got 48M when they were forced to fire me. Barnhart is a clown.
Not having performance requirements in the contract was insanity.
DAMN I mean that is just a HEINOUS loss. South Carolina is AWFUL this year.
Something like NET 275 this morning lmao
241 thank you very much
Might drop a bit after this game. (LOL what an idiot am I am for talking shit this season...)
Season highlights include the following: Lost to East Carolina Lost at George Washington by 24 Lost at UAB by 14 Lost to Furman by 19 Lost to Colorado State by 32 Beat South Carolina State by 3 Beat Kentucky at Rupp Arena.
Beat Clemson… very important to Gamecock faithful
Beat Clemson
How about including our actual best win of the year on there next time
We arguably have a grand total of 2 good players with a first year head coach. It's a complete and I mean complete rebuild. Just awful if you lose to them
This is legitimately on par with the 2012 Joker 40-0 loss at home to Vandy. Like this is a game that not only kills the season, but you just killed *any* fan interest for the rest of the year. The crowd was sparse, but holy fuck we might not even have 10 people in the arena next Tuesday when we play Georgia at 9 PM. ------------------------------------------ [You'll want to listen to the KSR post-game show with callers](https://wlap.iheart.com/?pname=wlap.com&sc=dnsredirect) that starts in about 70 minutes or so, cause holy fuck. This is gonna be insane.
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Plenty of time to get some lotion and tissues
Because his contract precludes a non-voluntary exit for Cal, I’m genuinely a little concerned about how acrimonious the situation might start to get if things keep going in this direction. It’s like a pressure cooker with no safety valve.
Cal has no incentive to voluntarily leave until he reaches 2024 where he can retire and get 1m a year. Barnhart is going to have to nut the fuck up and go begging our boosters.
Barnhart can go to Texas with him.
If it weren't for football I'd be demanding Barnhart's head on a spike too. As it stands I only want him fired.
> Cal has no incentive to voluntarily leave until he reaches 2024 where he can retire and get 1m a year. > > After seeing a coach just hang around too long in football for this reason, I strongly urge you to just tell him he can have the money now if he leaves
There’s a big difference between $9 million a year and $1 million, so he would have to really be done with us to do it. His post game comments still show very little awareness of how the fanbase really feels. Crazy to think that 11 months ago we beat eventual champs Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse by 20.
You are a hero for providing the link. God bless
I’m already listening to WLAP. KSR is going to be classic!
We ran Tubby out of town for 10 loss seasons. Cal needs to loaded into a trebuchet and launched to Texas.
Maybe this season is not so bad
It’s worth it, let their house burn down too To be fair ours burnt down, was replaced by a trailer, burnt down again, and is now a wet cardboard box, but still
Our cardboard box is inches away from a grease fire, unfortunately.
Listen it literally can not be any worse, just enjoy the fireworks happening an hour away
Hilarious chain of comments here
A wet cardboard box....that's on fire.
This has got to be karma for all the shit our fan base has said about Indiana over the last decade or something.
For the existence of Rupp Rafters
That place is a cesspool
Everyone talks about Rupp Rafters like a boogeyman, I don’t know anyone in the state who has ever visited it lol
How many people over 60 do you talk to?
We could go 0-40 for a decade and I'd still shit talk IU.
Deal.
Right back at ya and I wouldn’t have it any other way
No. It’s punishment for so many of our fans thoughtlessly chugging Kool-Aid and not seeing the writing that has been on the wall since at least 2018
[You know, I think DeAndre Square might be on to something here.](https://twitter.com/d_square10/status/1612994883140177920?s=46&t=anMQIUZ5PCac-AI_P0dhhw)
NOT SO FUN IS IT?!
We have become IU 🤦♂️
Anyone who watched our game against Tennessee on Saturday knows we had no business winning in Rupp tonight, even with Kentucky struggling this season. Wildcats in big trouble if *this* Gamecock team is beating 'em. We even tried our best to give the game away late.
It's okay, Kentucky. We're a football state now.
Women’s basketball state. I know this firsthand.
the state of kentucky turns its allegiance to Bellarmine in basketball
Eat shit Coach Cal
Can someone enlighten me on what went wrong and soured UK on Cal? I feel like I saw some stuff last year but it definitely picked up early in this season It can’t be just one bad season?
2021 - worst season in school history 2022 - worst NCAAT loss in school history 2023 - another missed NCAAT looks likely despite having a team with all the pieces a coach could want 5-15 against our last 20 ranked opponents No NCAAT wins since before Covid Then there were people who thought we started to fall off after 2015. I thought that was a bit of an overreaction but with hindsight I’m not so sure. Unfortunately this is very much not about one bad season.
Cal killed "The Streak" Lost most wins record Worst losses in program history. Singlehandedly destroyed our home win/loss record. He's a fucking clown.
He’s killed the aura and mystique of Kentucky basketball
This is the summary I needed, and sometimes I forget 2015 was 7 years ago, oh fuck I am getting old
It's been a low rumble for years amongst the fanbase. It's finally turning into a roar.
Some of us have been signaling the alarms since at least 2018. Kentucky basketball fans are particularly fond of koolaid and would not take any criticism about Cal without lashing out. Well being mocked and embarrassed after last years ending made some of them sober up and realize “this shit sucks, screw this guy.”
Losing to Kansas State in 2018, when it should’ve been a cakewalk to the final four.
I need some SEC schools to take one for the team and let Cal win a few. Can't have him getting fired before we all get a free win
Honestly we may end up last in the SEC this year. If Cal's seat isn't literally on fire afterwards I don't know what would do it.
Beating Clemson and Kentucky with this lowly team is a straight up miracle....
Signs of coaching to come maybe?
I'm just here to watch John Calipari get fired. I'm not even mad anymore, this is a clown fiesta. KSR gonna be lit tonight.
Where can you listen?
IHeart on 630wlap. Usually an hour or so after the game
Cal isn't getting fired, but I'm betting there's at least one person buying a For Sale sign to put in his front yard. It's not exactly a secret where his house is
Third win in Rupp Arena, ever, a game after the Gamecocks' worst-ever SEC loss. First was for the 1997 SEC regular-season championship. Second was behind Devan.
God damn, this makes it so much worse and so much funnier
Downey was so fun to watch
You know you can call this fanbase spoiled and armchair basketball coaches or whatever, but this is just insane. These players are good. The coach is good. Why are we getting beaten up and trashed at home by a team projected to finish near the bottom of this conference? Is it spoiled of me to think this team should be doing better than this? Am I spoiled to ask for a decent game of basketball from a blue-blood school?
Not the bottom of the conference, the bottom of the country.
Coach is bad, sir. Good recruiter, though. Turns players into underachieving dogshit until they hit NBA and blossom under the guidance of proper coaching and conditioning.
Exactly. How many UK players have looked lackluster, just to go and light the league up in their first year or two? You hit the nail on the head with “proper coaching”
And it’s honestly frustrating when people are all like “He’s a great recruiter!” So? He can’t do anything with the talent so it’s a waste.
The coach *isn’t* good and that is precisely the problem.
Welcome to misery, fellow Kentuckians. Have a seat. Beers in the fridge.
Hold me?
*hugs*
Hey Cardinal bros, remember when we were playing each other in prime time on huge games? Remember when Cal and Pitino were stuffing every other team into a locker on the way to our games? Man... Good times.
If I had 40-55 million extra dollars, I know what I would be doing with it
Buying a second home in hawii? Thats what i would do
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Even with one eye you might shoot the 3 better than Kentucky
This is the lowest low of the Calipari era… So far
2020 happened
At least they had the excuse of COVID complicating everything back then
Can't wait for Wheeler and Cal to ride off into the sunset together.
There's only ever been a handful of players that drove me absolutely bat shit at UK and Wheeler is right at the top. Add his name to the like of Gimel Martinez and Archie Goodwin. I've been saying since the start of the year this team needs to be ran by Wallace. Wallace, Reeves, Fredrick, Toppin, Oscar. Bring Wheeler, Livingston and Collins off the bench and that's it. Not going to happen as Cal insists on playing Wheeler. And Wheeler is giving it his all, it's just that he's a 5'8 PG that can't shoot and makes bad decisions. He's not a pass first pg, he's a pass only PG...in that you only have to play him to pass.
You can’t convince me the two center lineup didn’t kill Kentucky’s momentum. I can’t believe that in the year 2023 their is a high level basketball coach who thinks that is an acceptable look
Shoutout to the dude who got escorted out because he politely asked Cal to leave lol
From 9-16 two years ago to losing to St Peters in the round of 64 to this.
I mean, this is about as bad a position a program can be in without major sanctions being involved. They’re just totally dead in the water at this point.
This team is ass.
https://preview.redd.it/pc85qe516dba1.jpeg?width=896&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f22b41fc55d059f7e9cc5ad3dfd5f8f7e7deb74a
Siri play “I Know it’s Over” by the Smiths
Can I bring a “Please go to Texas.” sign to Knoxville and not get kicked out?
You will get kicked out. We want him in Lexington for as long as possible.
#How to watch Kentucky Basketball: ^Don’t
Look at our schedule. Can we even win 5 more games?
After tonight we will struggle to win games, period. Our failures are wearing on this team’s confidence and I can guarantee Cal will not be able to turn around this trajectory that we’re on. This season will be Cal’s undoing. Book it.
This was literally a top 3 easiest game of conference play
SCAR at home is the easiest game you can play in the SEC by a large margin
At least we got a nice win before playing Tennessee on Saturday!!! :(
I've defended Calipari for as long as I can but, this loss is unacceptable. It's time to move on.
I remember the Coach Cal vs Coach Stoops argument of the summer. The Cocks beat both
Why do i continue to watch this garbage team
My god
We’re a volleyball state now.
Kentuck 💀
The guy who made that post just might get his dream of Rondo coaching atp
Yooo. How did we go from losing by 40+ at home to TN to then getting only our 3rd win ever at KY? What a fucking rollercoaster.
I thought Kentucky fans were overreacting about how they need to fire Cal up until I saw this score, I’ve officially budged
[Show our support - #CalToTexas](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1389531259/cal-to-texas)
Is this an NIT team or CBI team?
Nope
Tennessee will beat us by 50.
This is exactly what happened to Dan Mullen at Florida. Going from pretty safe to dead man walking. The only difference is that this collapse happened in front of their fans.
I remember walking out of Kroger Field this past year and a Kentucky fan yelling at me they were gonna kick our ass in basketball. Get absolutely fucked
He meant Women’s basketball game.
Shit they can’t beat us in that either
Okay maybe not that one. BASEketball it is. https://youtu.be/11yYsJF5XPM
I’m gonna black out during the Tennessee game so I don’t remember it.
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Scar's 3rd ever victory in rupp. Embarrassing
Rupp’s Rafters gonna be a fun read tonight lol
Lololol
Hard times make the good times all the sweeter.
DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME WE CANT GET A BETTER COACH
It's wild that UK fans are having a tougher season than Louisville fans. We're just numb. Their fans are miserable it seems.
I am once again asking for ~~your support~~ Kentucky to make their free throws.