I'm starting to get urked by all of ESPNs writers anymore...

[skyknight1000]

First paragraph reads:

Thursday afternoon in the Big Blue Panic Room was one for the ages. And for the anguished.
"I just screamed at my wife and spit at my dog."
"I've lost my girlfriend, failed two tests … and not slept this week, for this?"
"The tradition is over."
Those were some of the thread headlines on the Catspause.com's free public message board. The forum is officially called "Rupp Rafters," but the Panic Room was the more appropriate title today.
Kentucky fans had gathered there to spew grief, outrage, shock and venom over the news that Billy Donovan wasn't coming to the bluegrass after all. At one point, more than 16,000 bilious people had piled onto the site -- as someone wryly observed, that's 4,000 more than the listed capacity of Donovan's arena at Florida, the O'Connell Center.

Read the rest here, it gets better (not really).
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2827370&sportCat=ncb

[Wildcatstyle]

I think John Mayer (singer) said it best in the song "waiting on the world to change"...when you trust your television
what you get is what you got
cause when they own the information, oh
they can bend it all they want...gee, sounds like what Forde did with everyones statements today.

[BlueHeart]

I have no problem with the Forde article.

[matt57]

skyknight1000 wrote: First paragraph reads:

Thursday afternoon in the Big Blue Panic Room was one for the ages. And for the anguished.
"I just screamed at my wife and spit at my dog."
"I've lost my girlfriend, failed two tests … and not slept this week, for this?"
"The tradition is over."
Those were some of the thread headlines on the Catspause.com's free public message board. The forum is officially called "Rupp Rafters," but the Panic Room was the more appropriate title today.
Kentucky fans had gathered there to spew grief, outrage, shock and venom over the news that Billy Donovan wasn't coming to the bluegrass after all. At one point, more than 16,000 bilious people had piled onto the site -- as someone wryly observed, that's 4,000 more than the listed capacity of Donovan's arena at Florida, the O'Connell Center.

Read the rest here, it gets better (not really).
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2827370&sportCat=ncb


i can for the life of me figure out why so many uk fans are bashing the media. they are the ones that have been correct the most. vitale and katz both say there is no way donovan leaves for UK. they both get bashed relentlessly......well they were right!!!!! our fan base is full of morons who post and say all kinds of ignorant crap. forde's artic;e is a PERFECT example. the funny thing is not that forde wrote the article but that ALL of it is true. our fan base can be our worst enemy and that is the case today. we look like the crazy, redneck, retard fans that the media makes us out to be. my parents always taught me that if you didn't like the way you were portrayed or the way people thought about you that it was YOUR job to correct it. we are proving the media correct with every single on of these goofy rumor threads.

[cnice11]

I think he wrote the article just right. It didnt seem like he downed Kentucky at all. I kind of thought the same thing, "If we didnt get Billy D., I thought it was a big waste of time making coaching changes,considering the rest on UKs list dont appeal to me that much, except for maybe Gillespie. And if UK was going to do that, I just as soon have Travis Ford or Pelphrey. Gillespie is just now proving himself, at least Travis has had a few good seasons, and he has turned around programs wherever he's been. Just dont see why people think he's too young.

[ukfanman]

The media has pretty much been right like it or not. Even as much as I hate to say it, Dookie Vitale hit the nail on the head.

It's about 75% of UK "fans" who have been wrong and are the ones all bent out of shape.