What would it be?
Obvious one: Pitino puts someone on Grant Hill on the shot.
Obvious one: Pitino puts someone on Grant Hill on the shot.
OT: If you could erase one moment from Sports History
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I wouldn't have turned the tv off during the Mardi Gras Miracle.
My Runner Up: Bo Jackson misses the bus and does not play against the Bengals in the playoffs.
lol. I did the same thing when Jack Clark homered off of Tom Niedenfuer in 85. Stomped off and went outside to play wiffle ball after the 8th. Whoops!
This is a tough one. The two that IMMEDIATELY came to mind was obviously the one you referenced.
What else immediately came to my mind was Jack Clark dropping the foul ball that lead to Don Denkinger blowing the call that lead to the Cardinals blowing the 85 series. Just catch the damned foul ball Jack!
For me it's Wisconsin. The Duke loss was more heartbreaking but less regrettable, if that makes sense.
Or Pitino let's DA play in the Championship game against Arizona. Rick was a great coach, but those two decisions cost us two Championships
Marty Moore fumbling the ball running an interception out of the endzone against Clemson in the Peach Bowl was my first UK football game I watched in person. I remember being upset and my dad telling me I needed to toughen up if I was going to watch Kentucky football.
John Higgins being allowed to ref
For me:
UK related; it will always be Christian Laettner
Non UK related: Franco Harris making that darn catch against my Raiders
UK related; it will always be Christian Laettner
Non UK related: Franco Harris making that darn catch against my Raiders
UK vs UCLA NCAA championship game....1975
Non-UK: Gordon Hayward's shot against Duke lands.
UK: Allowing Oliver Simmons to transfer to FSU
Non UK: Erase the Cincinnati Reds after 1990
Non UK: Erase the Cincinnati Reds after 1990
1. 1992 Duke
2. 2015 Wisconsin
2. 2015 Wisconsin
1.) Laettner shot
2.) Nigel Hayes missed call/Sam Dekker go-ahead shot
3.) Logan Wilson phantom hold vs. Rams on third down
4.) Steve Bartman
5.) Montana-to-Taylor
2.) Nigel Hayes missed call/Sam Dekker go-ahead shot
3.) Logan Wilson phantom hold vs. Rams on third down
4.) Steve Bartman
5.) Montana-to-Taylor
Issel picking up 5th foul vs Jacksonville 1970 ncaa tournament
When schools started begging for money to finance their business like they were St Jude.
Pitino leaving for the Celtics. I’d erase that. We’d be ahead of UCLA right now.
2010: UK shooting better than 9% from three and beating West Virginia to advance to the Final Four. For most people, that team is one of their all time most enjoyable...imagine if they had won it all.
Billy Gillispie being hired as UK men's basketball head coach
Or any ref named Higgins
No offense to the Higginses out there, I’m an Ellen Calipari fan and she’s a Higgins
Although they aren’t related, Tim or John Higgins-officiated losses represent some of the most inexplicable, stinging losses we’ve ever had (complete lists of games are linked in their respective names). Look at the heartbreakers between these two!
Tim
1992 vs Duke
1995 vs UNCheats
1997 vs Arizona
John
2005 vs Michigan State
2011 vs U CON
2015 vs Wisconsin
2017 vs UNCheats
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I would erase that Celtics offer to Pitino in 97.
I still sometimes daydream about how the last three decades of UK hoops would’ve gone if that hadn’t happened.
I still sometimes daydream about how the last three decades of UK hoops would’ve gone if that hadn’t happened.
Huh? Jackie Smith was long since retired by 82.
The drop he’s known for was against the Steelers in the 70s.
1.Keith Bogans ankle injury. Sure Crean had Wade, but we were the superior team. Crean is still probably getting tv gigs because of that one game.
2. Dale Brown shoulder injury colliding with the scorers table against Michigan in the '93 Final Four. Downtown Dale Brown was more than a shooter. He was our best defensive player by far. Losing him and then Mash to foul trouble spelled doom for us.
2. Dale Brown shoulder injury colliding with the scorers table against Michigan in the '93 Final Four. Downtown Dale Brown was more than a shooter. He was our best defensive player by far. Losing him and then Mash to foul trouble spelled doom for us.
The Reds get sold to a competent ownership group that cares would be my biggest revisionist wish.
Bear Bryant stays at Kentucky.
Laettner misses the shot.
Carson Palmer doesn't get injured v Pittsburgh.
Bear Bryant stays at Kentucky.
Laettner misses the shot.
Carson Palmer doesn't get injured v Pittsburgh.
The 3-33 FGA in the 2nd half of the GTown game in the 1984 NCAAT. 
I waited too long to finally see this. You ask any sec sports historian/writer, and this would be near the TOP of any list.
How about:
Pitino doesn't go to the Celtics and stays at UK?
Pitino doesn't go to the Celtics and stays at UK?
That's a great question and there are sooooo many.
The 3 seconds in USA vs Soviet Union Olympic Gold medal game 1972
The charging call on Dan Issel vs Jacksonville in 1970
The shot clock violations vs Wisconsin in the 2015 final four
Bear Bryant
There are so many
The 3 seconds in USA vs Soviet Union Olympic Gold medal game 1972
The charging call on Dan Issel vs Jacksonville in 1970
The shot clock violations vs Wisconsin in the 2015 final four
Bear Bryant
There are so many
I actually wouldn’t put Laettner on this list. It was the “Rocky” moment for UK that made the Pitino run all the more epic.
It was the most painful game I’ve ever watched as a UK fan but it truly cemented my love for UK forever.
I’d add the 1986 Elite 8 loss to LSU to this list as Kenny Walker was my first UK hero and I can still see Ricky Blanton’s ugly *** face screaming as he ran down the floor once LSU had kind of sealed it.
It was the most painful game I’ve ever watched as a UK fan but it truly cemented my love for UK forever.
I’d add the 1986 Elite 8 loss to LSU to this list as Kenny Walker was my first UK hero and I can still see Ricky Blanton’s ugly *** face screaming as he ran down the floor once LSU had kind of sealed it.
Reverse the outcome of the 1966 Texas Western game.
Mike Casey car wreck does not happen and he plays in 1970.
Dale Earnhardt never gets turned into the wall...
Duke beats us and Plays Texas Western for the championship.
That game whoever played it was going to proclaimed racist. Even tho Rupp fought harder than anyone for integration, He is still labeled a racist. So was our program. I would have loved for Duke to carry that.
We were also the first to integrate SEC football. Didn’t matter. They had their villain.
That game whoever played it was going to proclaimed racist. Even tho Rupp fought harder than anyone for integration, He is still labeled a racist. So was our program. I would have loved for Duke to carry that.
We were also the first to integrate SEC football. Didn’t matter. They had their villain.
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