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.
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As much as I liked Tubby, he is probably better w/out Kentucky, and vice versa. I hate that he is gone, but as an Xs and Os kinda person, something hasn't been clicking for the past 6 or 7 years (sans the 26 game winning streak).
Either he wasn't preparing the players and putting a good team on the floor, or the players just flat out didn't listen to him. I tend to think that the players just didn't respect him. It's hard to tell since none of us were at any of the practices.
That's true...
I just feel like (after reading sooooo many blogs about it) Tubby got a raw deal from the people who, if they were die-hard fans, wouldn't have behaved the way that they did... that's all. I know he probably wasn't what we needed, but there are some lunatics out there who were treating him like he had gonorrhea and was spreading it all over town. I gotta say, though, I think he'll be a great coach in the Big 10... more their speed.
I know absolutley nothing about coaching, but I liked Tubby. I'll miss him!
I like Tubby too. He is a class act. It sucks that he didn't win, but he doesn't deserved to be snubbed. My god, all Pitino did was win, and when he came back to UK as UL's coach, people actually booed him. He, too, was a decent guy. Something about KY fans feeling like coaches owe them their lives is a little insane. Instead of feeling bitter, we should feel blessed... that we got to have them and that we get to have someone else.
Nice to have you back, Ms. H. I've missed you!
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