He may not have won a championship every year and he may have produced some of the most gut wrenching games I've seen in the last few years, but he didn't deserve the crap that he got from some so-called "UK Fans." Kentucky basketball fans, nay, Kentucky basketball boosters should be ashamed of themselves. They should be forced to watch every basketball game across the country... I mean Tivo the shit and make them watch EVERY game in college basketball from the crap games in pre-season all the way through the NCAA tourney and tell me how they can expect any one team to have a better than 75% win average over the course of the last ten years. Make them listen to the talk and watch all the other major and mid-major programs lose "top" players every year to the NBA and then, and only then, ask them to think and react to a 75% win average... bastards.
Tubby Smith was a class act and I'm glad he was smart enough to know that UK basketball is not worth it... I'm ashamed of this town... I'm ashamed of the people who took out newspaper ads looking for a replacement. I'm ashamed to call myself a Kentuckian right now.
Yeah, I love UK basketball... I love it when we win... but I don't start criticizing when we are losing... I figure there is no way in hell I could get out there and do better and I damn sure know that the folks who are giving Tubby the hardest time are too stupid to do any better too.
Goodbye Tubby.... we'll always have the corner of Euclid and Woodland.
