Kentucky Athletics sparring with themselves

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It's kind of a backhanded compliment to Stoops and the football program that Calipari feels threatened enough about his Alpha position in the pecking order he has to remind everyone KY is a basketball school.

If you were doing your job well, Calipari, you wouldn't need to mention it at all. Because, as you implied, the football team is at its absolute peak limit winning 10 games in a season. Your b-ball lads ought to be able to outperform that. If, you know, you were still a championship program.

Heh.
 
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Stoops has done probably as good as anyone can do at UK. He's annoying, but a pretty sound football coach. Just in the Stoops blood. But, UK is a basketball school. Unfortunately for Calipari, so is Tennessee.

UK has to also be divided on NIL. Stoops basically called it illegal and they won't be doing it (very dumb by the way) and you know darn good and well Calipari has to be all about NIL. He's cheated his whole career and paid kids illegally, so why not do it legally?

All in all, with UK having internal issues, this could be good for UT football and basketball. UT has already been the beneficiary of snagging the top football prospect from Kentucky this year......
 
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Yeah, it's funny how UK football and their fans always want to say they're going to beat us and it never ends up happening lol. You would imagine they'd get the picture and stop giving bulletin board material to our guys almost every single year!
 
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TennMan101 said:
Kentucky Dysfunction Opens the Door for Tennessee Laughs, Praise, and Unity | Rocky Top Insider

Gotta love it when UK is making headlines for arguing with themselves.
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I'm cynical, so I more or less automatically assume this whole "argument" was planned in advance to get more media spotlight on Kentucky going into the football season. It's Marketing 101. And I would think most coaches in the same athletic department structure would handle real grievances offline anyway.
 
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Voltopia said:
I'm cynical, so I more or less automatically assume this whole "argument" was planned in advance to get more media spotlight on Kentucky going into the football season. It's Marketing 101. And I would think most coaches in the same athletic department structure would handle real grievances offline anyway.
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One of their football players boasted about UK's basketball team getting beat by St Peters in the first round of the tournament last year. I wouldn't call that marketing 101, IMO.
 
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TennMan101 said:
One of their players boasted about UK's basketball team getting beat by St Peters in the first round of the tournament last year. I wouldn't call that marketing 101, IMO.
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Well that certainly changes the appearance, definitely. Can't say I've kept up with it, sounds like. It also sounds like their athletic director is going to have to earn his money this month. Goodness.
 
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I think an old-fashioned wrestling match is in order: ladder in the middle, big fat check suspended in air above it, first one up the ladder wins the $$$.

I’d pay to see it.

No, I wouldn’t….

Go Big Orange
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Tennessee is an EVERYTHING school! :)

Football, ladies' B-Ball, mens' B-Ball, Baseball, Track & Field, Tennis, Rugby, you name it!

Go Vols!
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Very true. When Tennessee's baseball team was ranked for most of last year at #1, they joined Texas as the only two schools to be nationally ranked as a consensus #1 at least once in all major men's and women's sports programs. This would be football, basketball (men and women), baseball, softball, track (men and women), swimming (men and women), tennis (men and women) and women's soccer. An impressive feat.
 
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Many years ago, I was in Kentucky on a work assignment. I stopped in a convenience store and they had UK athletics trading cards - both basketball and football. They were running a special where you could buy a pack of basketball cards and get a free pack of football cards! I thought that said it all about KY attitudes toward sports. Coaches at the time would have been Joe B. and whoever came before Bill Curry.
 
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