No offense, but shit like that is exactly why you are our Louisville to your Alabama. "Chris Mack or Rick Pitino beat Kentucky.....extend him a ****ing decade." I know you're saying you don't agree with it so dont take this as me taking it out on you. I'm saying your fans are dumb for saying one random win here and there is good enough.
That's ****ing dumb. We're ****ing Kentucky. And Alabama is ****ing Alabama. Louisville basketball and Auburn football are excellent, proud, storied traditions that in 99% of the country are above and beyond what their normal expectations for their local program are. But you're not us. And I don't say that as or to be an arrogant d-bag. I mean it as a statement of fact because both of your programs are generally regarded as amongst the worst cheaters in the NCAA and I believe its because of the boosters' notion that they have to "keep up with the proverbial Jones' "
Come on now y’all literally hired billy Gillespie bc he beat us in the tourney in a game in rupp. Surely you don’t believe y’all would have still hired him, or even had him on the list had he not beat us when acie law went nuts, and out dueled a freshmen sosa. (Which was somehow the best game he ever played in 4 years). Well he had one great shot as well.
And Louisville has been regarded as the worst cheaters..........since 2015 when the stripper scandal news broke and then of course the fbi stuff. Which in reality was kinda like throwing darts at a map to see who they were gonna go after. Did they investigate any program and find that they weren’t guilty of anything? I know we always hear about the ones that got caught, especially the bigger programs, but we’re there any Adidas schools that they investigated and decided everything was good here. Or Nike school for that matter, I know all the $$$nike$$$ eybl/grassroot$ stuff was thrown out in court with not much of a rea$on why. If U really think the fbi probe caught all the teams that had players getting paid, then we will just have to agree to disagree bc there’s no way anyone could convince me they got everyone. Eap when the fbi admitted they targeted certain programs by saying stuff like we wanted a big fish. We wanted pitino.
Or when there is the text message to Kenny payne where the Nike exec told him he had to pay players/families on 38/40 Nike aau teams small ransoms just to keep them on the Nike aau circuit. But they wouldn’t do the same to get a kid to a Nike college lol. Like aau ball recoups any money. And I’m not taking a shot at uk, it just happened to be Kenny. Payne he texted. I’m just saying that’s 38 kids that should have had to forfeit their amateur status, and I’d bet most went to Nike schools. And if Nike was willing to pay to keep kids on a summer league aau team, I just can’t believe they wouldn’t do the same to get a kid to a Nike college, esp when a former Nike exec was caught in the wire saying this is how Nike does it as well (Paraphrasing I know)
If Nike wasn’t doing the same exact thing as Adidas, (enter merl code quote here) then the few Adidas teams (compared to the number of Nike teams) would have been out recruiting everyone by miles. Money talks and not too many people are gonna turn down free $$$, especially not life changing money.
Plus OT but how the eff is javonte smart still playing When it’s common knowledge he got a strong ass offer to go to LSU. are u and afamu the only posters on the board who still think zion turned down6 figures from Kansas to go to duke for free? (Or same for cam and auburn and miss st) And his family’s ridiculous rent increase when moving to Durham as well as 3 different luxury suvs is all above board as well.
But before that, UK was absolutely nationally known as one of the worst cheaters in the ncaa. Wayyyyyyyyyyy more so than Louisville. I mean didn’t y’all get a death penalty at one point. Wasn’t that what the infamous SI Kentucky’s shame cover was about? Or tark (a known cheater who didn’t even really try to hide it) talking about recruiting Sam Bowie and when he got to his house he saw the brand new caddy Bowie got from “somewhere” and then just got back in his car and left bc he knew he was wasting his time.
Your post is showing some real recency bias imo. Which I get, it’s natural to focus on the present and recent past. Plus I guess it ain’t cheating unless you get caught.
