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re: Your Favorite College Gameday Moment

Posted by CoolCat316 on 5/23/12 at 7:27 pm to AUtigR24

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Would be funny as hell on Gameday. He was on the set one of the last times they did Auburn and he was not surprisingly very hungover.

Now with 100% more accuracy.

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re: What is your schools most revered landmark, that is not the stadium?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/30/12 at 4:36 pm to DayBowBow

POT is fricking awful. It's almost like it has been photoshopped in. It doesn't fit with any building around it.

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re: What is your schools most revered landmark, that is not the stadium?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/30/12 at 3:46 pm to CatFan81

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Rupp Arena?

Well, other than not being owned by the university or even being on campus, it's probably the most famous structure associated with UK.

The correct answer is probably Memorial Hall.

If you want to use an athletic facility, then go with Memorial Coliseum. It's on campus and the school owns it.

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re: Terrence Jones keeps promise to UL cheerleader

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/24/12 at 5:46 pm to beatbammer

Geraniums.

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re: How many of your respective coaches have attained 80% or better winning seasons?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/19/12 at 8:27 pm to Guchi

Adolph Rupp 876 - 190 82% (41 seasons)

Rick Pitino 219 - 50 81% (8 seasons)

John Calipari 102 - 14 88% (3 seasons)

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re: When was your school's last regular season SEC title in the big 3

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/18/12 at 11:39 pm to theGarnetWay

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basketball: 1996 or 1997.

It was 97. Swept Kentucky. 15-1. Clinched the title at Rupp on senior day. Pitino got ejected and it was his last game in Rupp as coach of the Cats. Followed it up by losing to 15 seed Coppin State in the first round of the NCAA's.

You're welcome.

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re: Let's talk College Basketball - 2012 - 2013 Season

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/13/12 at 5:30 pm to jsmoove

Tubby should take the job. The Big Ten is gonna be brutal and plus it's really damned cold in Minnesota. He won't get LSU much above bubble status, but he won't drive it over a cliff either. Decent hire, but not great by any means. He is just coasting for the most part at this point in his career.

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re: Petrino's other lady friend: former Miss Motorcycle Mania

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/12/12 at 2:22 pm to crimsonsaint

If you wouldn't nail Rich Brooks, you're a GD Communist bitch.

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re: Petrino's other lady friend: former Miss Motorcycle Mania

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/12/12 at 1:05 pm to Master of Sinanju

There will be naked pics of this chick leaked before the weekend is over. 100% lock she's sent pics of that rack to more than just Petrino and they then forwarded them to all their buddies. Some lucky perv is about to get paid.

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re: Petrino's other lady friend: former Miss Motorcycle Mania

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/12/12 at 12:56 pm to AUnite

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It's very apparent that CBMFP isn't the brightest crayon in the box I'm willing to bet he gave his number out to any girl willing to blow him

Nah. I think he'd totally blow off the ugly chicks and fat chicks. He's an a-hole like that. Probably gave them Arthur Blank's home number.

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re: Petrino's other lady friend: former Miss Motorcycle Mania

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/12/12 at 12:43 pm to AUnite

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Yeah, I meant more along the lines of an ugly mistress.

You're probably right, but I bet he didn't give them his cell phone number.

Busted Chick: I'm married, I'm sorry, I just can't risk giving out my number.

HPOA: Here's my number, send pics.

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re: Petrino's other lady friend: former Miss Motorcycle Mania

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/12/12 at 12:37 pm to AUnite

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There's got to be an ugly broad somewhere in this epic soap opera.

Yeah, his wife.

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re: The best thing about the Petrino Fiasco

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/9/12 at 3:44 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl

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I think that the best thing about it to all of us except Arky is that it isn't at our school.

False. I think it would be great if it were our coach. He's supposed to be nailing one of the local sports anchors anyway. We just aren't lucky enough for him to get caught.

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re: Kentucky basketball - what will the lineup look like next season?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 4/2/12 at 12:47 pm to Bobby Moore

Best Case:

Marquis Teague
Doron Lamb
Shabazz Muhammad
Alex Poythress
Nerlens Noel

Bench:

Archie Goodwin
Ryan Harrow
Kyle Wiltjer
Jon Hood

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re: Does anybody remember Kentucky's 86 points in the first half against LSU in '96?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 3/27/12 at 1:22 pm to busey

LSU wasn't the only SEC team to take a beating that year...

Ole Miss @ UK 90-60

South Carolina @ UK 89-57

UK @ Vandy 120-81

UK @ Tennessee 90-50

UK @ Florida 94-63

Vandy @ UK 101-63

There were tons more that were 20+, but I just pulled 30+ or more. Georgia was the only team to play the 96 Cats within single digits in the SEC until MSU beat them at the SEC Tournament.

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re: Hey UK

Posted by CoolCat316 on 3/23/12 at 12:45 am to bigDgator

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Well Louisville only lost to UK by 7 at Rupp. They have won 7 in a row including the Big East tourney since their last loss to Syracuse on March 3. Not too bad.

They made two garbage three's in the last 30 seconds. It wasn't nearly that close.

Louisville has also only broken the 70 point barrier once in the last 30 days and that was against Marquette. They're due for a 2-19 performance from deep.

I'd rather us not have to play either of you, but I would prefer them because of their offensive struggles. However, the reason we beat you all is because of our length on the perimeter, not our front court depth. Our guys can close out on your shooters and not give them good looks because they're so much longer and taller than your guys. We're just a really shitty matchup for you.

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re: Western Kentucky Vs Kentucky

Posted by CoolCat316 on 3/14/12 at 12:10 am to Bho

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If this was football we would be playing Syracuse in a couple of weeks for the title

Works for me.

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re: Just learned of the worst SEC rule yet...

Posted by CoolCat316 on 3/14/12 at 12:04 am to deltaland

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Just wear jeans and boots and stick a plastic fifth of whiskey in your boot.. works for me everytime.

Exactly what I do every game. Never had my boot flask taken.

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re: The SEC Road Warrior - how many stadiums have you been to?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 3/13/12 at 11:44 pm to RebelNutt48

Commonwealth Stadium

Bryant-Denny

Razorback Stadium

Tiger Stadium

Williams-Brice

Neyland

Vaught-Hemingway

Vanderbilt Stadium

Non-SEC:

Papa-Johns Cardinals Stadium

Notre Dame Stadium

NFL:

Texas Stadium

Riverfront Stadium

Paul Brown Stadium

LP Field

Favorite SEC road trip was to Baton Rouge, but I was 25 at the time and partied my arse off the entire weekend. We got crushed though, 49-0.

Also been to a few domes for basketball events that I didn't list.

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re: Sidney might be grinding on some Big Macs instead of court. Cats favored by 10.

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/20/12 at 3:04 pm to MaroonandWhite11

I think we'll win, but I would be pretty damned surprised if we covered -10.

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re: Lunardi's Latest Bracketology

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/20/12 at 11:14 am to 1991UW

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...maybe even further than Kentucky.

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re: Lunardi's Latest Bracketology

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/20/12 at 9:44 am to TT9

The SEC could very well get five teams. There are now 37 at large teams as opposed to the 34 there were in past seasons. That means three more "bubble" teams will make it this year.

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re: Vandy fans aren't as dumb as we thought, but just as whiny.

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/11/12 at 6:10 pm to CoolCat316

Since it is the day of the game, I thought I'd bump this thread back up and actually offer my opinion on the whole GameDay controversy. (I'm sure everyone was waiting with bated breath) I think "occupy Memorial" is obnoxious and beneath Kentucky fans. The whole idea of organizing and planning an "attack" on Vanderbilt's GameDay just doesn't seem Kentucky like. It feels forced and artificial like the Duke student section. I'm fine with Kentucky fans showing up to it and chanting, but it should have been a natural thing and not something that's forced. It would have been a million times more badass had it just happened naturally and not been the product of an actual effort to organize it. Just feels lame as hell, like a flash mob or something, as opposed to the natural passion of the fanbase being on display through a spontaneous showing of hundreds or thousands of our fans.

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re: Vandy fans aren't as dumb as we thought, but just as whiny.

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/10/12 at 12:49 pm to TenTex

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For some reason you can get the best recruits out of high school to come to play for Coach Cal. We know how that turned out at Memphis and many wonder if the same thing will happen at UK...time will tell.

This is Kentucky, not Memphis. If there were some smoking gun out there involving improper benefits to a player or academic fraud, it would take it about ten seconds to leak. There's a line of reporters that would absolutely love to be the one that brings down Calipari and Kentucky. Pat Forde went knocking on doors in Birmingham, Alabama, trying to uncover academic fraud on the part of Eric Bledsoe. If there's a scandal to be broken, it will quickly become the biggest story in college basketball. It's not like everyone is looking the other way when it comes to Kentucky basketball.

As far as the "some reason" that the best recruits come to play for Calipari, well he is the best recruiter in college basketball. Calipari understands that most of the best recruits' primary objective is to play in the NBA as quickly as possible. So that's his sales pitch to kids. He also has a track record of producing star players and sending them to the NBA in short order to back up said sales pitch. Other top tier coaches are slow to embrace this methodology. Does anyone think Roy Williams or Tom Izzo go into a kid's home and make the primary selling point how fast the kid can potentially be a lottery pick? No.

When you add that approach to the fact that Kentucky plays on national television every week, plays in front of sold out crowds everywhere they go, has the best practice facility in college basketball and turns star players into household names it's quite a dynamic. Kentucky made John Wall millions. Look at the difference in Wall & Rose coming out of college. Rose was a very highly regarded prospect and a great talent. Wall was all of those things as well, but he was also a national celebrity. His image and notoriety helped him sign a ridiculous shoe contract with Reebok before he stepped foot on an NBA court. Same kind of player. Same coach. Different school. North Carolina or maybe Duke are the only two schools in the country that can come close to competing with that and their coaches aren't exactly embracing the same recruiting philosophy as Calipari.

In short, if you're a top high school prospect, from a strictly business perspective, it absolutely makes perfect sense to play for John Calipari at the University of Kentucky. Why even bother risking paying some kid $200k to come here when you can point to the tens of millions of dollars of free exposure that you receive just by playing for Cal at Kentucky? Kentucky basketball is more about marketing and business strategy for recruits at this point than it is history and tradition.

As a fan, I'm fine with that, because I want to win. That's the point of the game. It's why they keep score. For the most part, the kids have held up their end of the deal as well. They finish out their semesters at Kentucky, speak highly of the school and haven't caused serious problems on/off the court. Daniel Orton is the only guy who left early and didn't finish out his semester. He was also recruited and signed by Billy Gillispie and not John Calipari. Calipari did convince him to keep his commitment and honored his scholarship though.

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re: Just realized Alabama no longer has a winning record against every SEC school..

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/8/12 at 5:12 pm to taylormade

We're doing our part. Still have a winning record over all of the other schools in basketball. 4-0 against Missouri.

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re: UF @ UK prediction thread

Posted by CoolCat316 on 2/5/12 at 3:50 pm to austingator

The Cats are a terrible matchup for the Gators because of the perimeter size. They can also play right up in the jerseys of the Florida shooters because if they get beat on a drive, Davis is back there to protect the rim. Think the Cats sweep Florida this year and win rather easily in Rupp.

Cats 77

Gators 61

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re: The best 3 teams from each major sport since expansion?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 12/6/11 at 3:10 pm to CoolCat316

Someone should compile the total number of national championships, college WS appearances, Final Four appearances, and BCS bowl bids since expansion for the entire conference. I'm guessing it would be an absolute embarrassment of riches. Hell, basketball is the weakest major sport for this conference and the SEC has won five national titles and sent five different teams to the Final Four since expansion.

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re: The best 3 teams from each major sport since expansion?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 12/6/11 at 3:07 pm to hogminer

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That's downright nasty

I'd take our current team over all of those except 1996.

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re: The best 3 teams from each major sport since expansion?

Posted by CoolCat316 on 12/6/11 at 2:59 pm to Tigah32

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Basketball:
-UF
-UK
-Arky (this one is shaky maybe someone else)

No way Kentucky isn't #1 in basketball since expansion.

SEC Tournament Champions:

1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011

SEC East Champions:

1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010

SEC Champions:

1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010

Elite Eight:

1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011

Final Four:

1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2011

NCAA Champions:

1996, 1998

No way in hell Florida's resume is better than that.

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