Bluegrass...blues...The Daily Helmsman

[Rockober]

http://thedailyhelmsman.com/
No doubt, everyone in Lexington, Ky., seemed to be glad that Tubby Smith left for Minnesota after last season and that "Gillespie" broke his commitment to coach Texas A&M to come and save the winningest college basketball program from another year in NCAA tournament obscurity.

Ever since Rick Pitino left Kentucky 10 years ago for the NBA, Kentucky fans have been looking for the next great white hope to bring the team their next championship. Never mind that Smith, the program's first black coach, won them a national championship in 1998. Most Wildcat fans were disgruntled during the majority of Tubby's tenure because he was not able to reach another Final Four during the last nine years he was head coach.

"I've been waiting for this for about 10 years," one fan said at the practice. "There's one banner up there won with Pitino's players."

Quotes like these make me more disgusted with Kentucky fans than I've been with any other fans since I began following sports. Those ungrateful fans show more allegiance to a man that left their team only to fail in the NBA and return to coach state rival Louisville, than to the man that picked up the pieces and helped to put the program back together again after scandal and violations put Kentucky in the NCAA doghouse in the mid-1980s.

[TransientAlum]

No comment.

[kateyes]

Dude, Pitino picked up the pieces after scandal and violations not Tubby. And most of us don't respect RP anymore because he became a traitor when he took the job at Louisville. Many of us call him "the coach formerly employed by UK."

[Sticeman]

Honestly. Can we stop bringing up Tubby he is gone, never coming back, yesterday's news. He has nothing to due with the loss the other night regardless if this is what he left behind or not. Just get over it, quit analyzing it and move on. We lost even our coach blames himself, can we just quit with all the blame game stuff and vocus on our next game and the rest of the year Jeeezzzz

[Stucat]

Honestly. Can we stop bringing up Tubby he is gone, never coming back, yesterday's news. He has nothing to due with the loss the other night regardless if this is what he left behind or not. Just get over it, quit analyzing it and move on. We lost even our coach blames himself, can we just quit with all the blame game stuff and vocus on our next game and the rest of the year Jeeezzzz


Actually when an article makes a misquote in such a proportion as the guy quoted in the article it is hard to let such a huge mistake be left out there for the truth for hundreds of Big Ten readers. Tubby Smith never had to "pick up the pieces" at Kentucky. Tubby had a class A NCAA team left for him to work with by Rick Pitino. Rick Pitino was the man who had to pick up the pieces of the probation and a very poor excuse for a team in 1989-90 but we still went 14-14 during that terrible year. I don't mind giving Tubby Smith his props when he deserves them and over the years he actually did and one year made the "coach of the year." Yet Coach Smith never had to pick up the pieces for anybody while he was coach at UK. I think articles like that need to get their facts straight and not lead many people especially younger people thinking Tubby Smith was our saviour when in fact he inherited a very good team in the 1997-98 year.

[Rockober]

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/sports/harris/642623,6_2_NA09_B10BK_S1.article
No doubt, everyone in Lexington, Ky., seemed to be glad that Tubby Smith left for Minnesota after last season and that "Gillespie" broke his commitment to coach Texas A&M to come and save the winningest college basketball program from another year in NCAA tournament obscurity.

Ever since Rick Pitino left Kentucky 10 years ago for the NBA, Kentucky fans have been looking for the next great white hope to bring the team their next championship. Never mind that Smith, the program's first black coach, won them a national championship in 1998. Most Wildcat fans were disgruntled during the majority of Tubby's tenure because he was not able to reach another Final Four during the last nine years he was head coach.

"I've been waiting for this for about 10 years," one fan said at the practice. "There's one banner up there won with Pitino's players."

Quotes like these make me more disgusted with Kentucky fans than I've been with any other fans since I began following sports. Those ungrateful fans show more allegiance to a man that left their team only to fail in the NBA and return to coach state rival Louisville, than to the man that picked up the pieces and helped to put the program back together again after scandal and violations put Kentucky in the NCAA doghouse in the mid-1980s.

I pasted wrong site. Sorry about that. Everything is in the article http://thedailyhelmsman.com/

As far as Sticeman, friendly advice, don't read it!! I skip over things all the time if I am not interested in the particular subject. I am always interested in what people are saying about Kentucky and their fans.

[Rockober]

http://thedailyhelmsman.com/
No doubt, everyone in Lexington, Ky., seemed to be glad that Tubby Smith left for Minnesota after last season and that "Gillespie" broke his commitment to coach Texas A&M to come and save the winningest college basketball program from another year in NCAA tournament obscurity.

Ever since Rick Pitino left Kentucky 10 years ago for the NBA, Kentucky fans have been looking for the next great white hope to bring the team their next championship. Never mind that Smith, the program's first black coach, won them a national championship in 1998. Most Wildcat fans were disgruntled during the majority of Tubby's tenure because he was not able to reach another Final Four during the last nine years he was head coach.

"I've been waiting for this for about 10 years," one fan said at the practice. "There's one banner up there won with Pitino's players."

Quotes like these make me more disgusted with Kentucky fans than I've been with any other fans since I began following sports. Those ungrateful fans show more allegiance to a man that left their team only to fail in the NBA and return to coach state rival Louisville, than to the man that picked up the pieces and helped to put the program back together again after scandal and violations put Kentucky in the NCAA doghouse in the mid-1980s.

This is just an article. These are all in the article and not my thoughts as some have tried to attribute to me.

[BigblueDrew]

What a bunch of horse apples that article is.

[TransientAlum]

What school is that anyways?

[Rockober]

What school is that anyways?

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[Gunsmoke]

Just exactly what is "The Daily Helmsman" anyway?? It sounds like the guy should be wearing a pink sweater draped around his neck while staring out over the wheel of his rich parent's yaht. However this was too much of a mean-spirited generalized piece of garbage with the naturally obligatory racial undertones, all the while lumping all UK fans into one stereotypical fanbase than even the dude described above would muse.:thumbdn:

[MsWildcat]

You'd think that the displeasure we show our new coach would PROVE that Ky fans don't care what color our coach is. We just want our boys to play hard and be proud that they have Kentucky on their jersey. You know..it's a different time now and I'm sick of everyone acting like it's the 1950's. No one cares what color someone is anymore....seriously, this is the part that's getting old. And if you are someone like that...than you need to crawl out from under your rock and learn to love everyone.

[TransientAlum]

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It is the University of Memphis student newspaper.

[Rockober]

It is the University of Memphis student newspaper.

You are correct for $1000. The article made it to ESPN related links to UK Wildcats. Probably the first and lsst time it does.

[Mark Blueblood]

You'd think that the displeasure we show our new coach would PROVE that Ky fans don't care what color our coach is. We just want our boys to play hard and be proud that they have Kentucky on their jersey. You know..it's a different time now and I'm sick of everyone acting like it's the 1950's. No one cares what color someone is anymore....seriously, this is the part that's getting old. And if you are someone like that...than you need to crawl out from under your rock and learn to love everyone.

There are certainly inconsistencies in the article, but I did not see where Tubby's "color" was ever mentioned.

However, as a proud Kentucky fan, I do wish he'd left the quote from the idiot making the statement about "winning with Pitino's players" out.

I make no bones about the fact I supported Tubby when he was here and believe he's a fine man and a darn good coach. On the other hand, I also feel it was time for a change for both him and the program.

Billy Gillespie is the coach now and he needs our support. And I agree, it's way past time to move on.