Did we hate Louisville this much before Pitino went there. Before Pitino didn't we root for Louisville in the NCAA tournament?
Hating Louisville
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"We", as in me, hate Indiana and Tennessee more than Louisville. I can find a silver lining with Louisville being in the state quicker than I could with Indiana or Tenn. hell for that matter Kansas or any Carolina school too.
Still hate Louisville though.
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Still hate Louisville though.
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Nope have never and will never cheer for that sewer of a school!
Any UK fan worth a ish has hated Louisville his entire life.
I would say only in the early 80s around the time of the first dream game. That first Dream Game was an incredible event for this State back then. It was the most hyped game for Kentucky residents that I can remember in my lifetime. Those two days in between the Sweet Sixteen game and the matchup against UL was crazy. I can't imagine what it would be like if we had the internet or 24 hour sports talk radio back then. UL fans had an enormous little brother syndrome back then and whether UK fans cared to admit or not, they felt threatened. UL was a new power on the horizon.
After that first UL victory the next dream game at the beginning of next season was filled with hatred. I remember it was so big there would be pre-game coverage on TV lasting for hours. That was game that a UK fan threw a quarter at Denny Crum's head. UK was thirsty for revenge and they got it.
After the early 80s the intensity of the rivalry died down as UL started to become a non-factor. Even when UL would upset UK (ie 1997-98 season) it just didn't seem to matter as much. UL didn't have the prestige it once had. Of course, that all changed once Pitino became their coach.
After that first UL victory the next dream game at the beginning of next season was filled with hatred. I remember it was so big there would be pre-game coverage on TV lasting for hours. That was game that a UK fan threw a quarter at Denny Crum's head. UK was thirsty for revenge and they got it.
After the early 80s the intensity of the rivalry died down as UL started to become a non-factor. Even when UL would upset UK (ie 1997-98 season) it just didn't seem to matter as much. UL didn't have the prestige it once had. Of course, that all changed once Pitino became their coach.
A few years ago I started telling myself I hated UNC more, along with a few of the other usual suspects. Then I fould an old folder I drew all over in grade school with a wildcat clawing the cardinal and the 85-51 scoreboard. It reminded me that UL has always been and always will be at the center of my hate.
Living outside of Louisville from the 70's - mid/ late 90's not much hatred was poured into the Louisville rivalry. IU was the primary rivalry during this time. However, if you lived in Louisville I can see that the hatred was probably always there. I moved there in the late 90's and I could not believe the statements in regards to UK from Louisville fans. It was cult like obsession and it seemed they were consumed by UK. The majority of their fan base spent more time trashing UK than actually discussing/ enjoying their team. It was never like that in Lexington. UK fans rarely discussed UofL. At least not to the degree as the fan base up the road.
The hatred from UK's side (in relation to living outside of Louisville) definitely took off when Rick began coaching them.
The hatred from UK's side (in relation to living outside of Louisville) definitely took off when Rick began coaching them.
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I think more than a bit of the hatred is also spawned because of the two different cultures of the cities.
Honestly, Louisville is part of Kentucky. So naturally when I first started hanging around here after growing up around DC, Louisville seemed as fresh and wonderful to me as any other part of Kentucky. I guess I didn't know then that they kind of consider themselves Indiana. But even so. Louisville was the first big city I ever took a girlfriend to for a road trip. It was the first place I ever saw an ice sculpture. As far as basketball, I never wanted them to beat us. I never wanted them to win a title either, because I knew about the rivalry. But I kind of thought it was a rivalry all in good fun. You know, the way Coach Hall and Coach Crum were friends and did a show together? I always proudly rooted for them against any out of state school especially another rival. I had mixed feelings whenever they played an SEC school (except Vandy. Screw Vandy). But in general I was pretty charitable. Rick going there didn't even change anything for me. I loved Rick here, but even then I wasn't dumb enough to really trust him. He didn't do anything in going there that turned me bitter toward him or UL, or even surprised me.
For me it was Cal who made the difference. As soon as Cal came here, nearly every (not totally every, I don't like lumping good people in with bad people) NEARLY every Louisville fan forgot about considering anybody innocent until proven guilty. They were all willing to accept every single cockamamie rumor on the planet to be the gospel truth as long as it was about Cal and it was bad. They totally inversed their entire moral system FOR THE SAKE OF A GAME.
Once I learned that, I said F em.
For me it was Cal who made the difference. As soon as Cal came here, nearly every (not totally every, I don't like lumping good people in with bad people) NEARLY every Louisville fan forgot about considering anybody innocent until proven guilty. They were all willing to accept every single cockamamie rumor on the planet to be the gospel truth as long as it was about Cal and it was bad. They totally inversed their entire moral system FOR THE SAKE OF A GAME.
Once I learned that, I said F em.
They totally inversed their entire moral system FOR THE SAKE OF A GAME. Awesome observation ....................................Blue
Eddie Sutton named them Little Brother fits to a T..They will wear that title til SEXtino has rotted away from the gift Sypher left him..[winking][winking][winking][eyeroll][eyeroll][eyeroll][eyeroll]
no, don't hate uofl** a bit
just hope they lose every single game by double digits, never make the tourney again, have everything from them stripped from them during the pitino era and are utterly humiliated and never recover
that's not hate, right?
just hope they lose every single game by double digits, never make the tourney again, have everything from them stripped from them during the pitino era and are utterly humiliated and never recover
that's not hate, right?
That is simply stupid. I was a UK fan for probably 6 years before I met my first UL fan. When you leave the 50 mile radius around Jefferson Co., before Pitino you didn't see many UL fans. They were Lil' Brother.
I get where you are at. As I've grown up, and moved around, my hatred has changed. As a young UK fan (12-20) in order I hated UT & IU the most. Then in college I first met UL fans, and my list changed to IU, UL, UNC, Duke, UT. After college I moved out of KY and no longer see UL fans (maybe 1 every 5 years), and so my list is now UNC, Duke, UL, IU. But Pitino is probably the reason they are hated ahead of IU presently by me.
I'm 37, with no ties to the Louisville area and was taught by my father to hate Louisville for as long as I can remember.
I'm not saying you shouldn't hate UL. I'm saying it was stupid to say that others must hate UL their entire UK-fandom-life. Not everyone's dad instilled that in them. I remember in 86 (as a teen) wanting UL to win, I didn't know what it was yet but there was something about that Duke coach I didn't like (pretty perceptive), and at least UL was in state.
Living on the Tennessee Kentucky line will keep them high on your list I promise
I'll never root for a Tennessee team or an Indiana team in anything. Colts Titans Irish Pacers Grizzlies doesn't matter
We could label that as gargantuan extreme dislike to be fair. It works for me.
Hating Louisville as a city was and probably still is a practice of many rural Kentuckians. It was a cultural issue that obviously attached itself to all things passionate, with basketball being the greatest source of passion from Paducah to Ashland. Many rural Kentuckians felt as though Jefferson County residents looked down their noses at the Hillbilly and did not want to be associated with the rest of the state socially, culturally or politically. Pitino rekindled a fire that had smoldered.
To be honest, it's actually got a little better the past couple of years. 90% of the fans I know have pretty much admitted that they run a morally deplorable athletic department. I don't hear much about probation or "Cal's a scumbag" talk anymore. They know the ammunition I have and my willingness to use it that they don't bring anything up anymore. I think it helps me that most that I know are Catholic so if they would say Cal was a scumbag I just started talking about abortion. Petrino coming back pretty much put a complete stop to it because I just reminded them of everything they said about him from the time he left to the time he came back.
Never been a UL fan, but living in EKY I don't run across many of their fans to argue with. Although it was a stupid move, when Pitino went to UL I tried to be a fan except when they played us. Couldn't pull it off. So, screw 'em
Before the Dream game, I don't remember really caring about Louiville that much. Of course after the Dream game my hatred really started to develop and when that clown Pitino went there I really hated them. Having said that, I was reminded in 2011 that I hate Indiana the most!
It's not hate until you want all of their adult fans donkey punched. Which is what I prefer.
I was born in 1978, so I was too young to experience UofL's 80's run.
I've always disliked them. I think "hate" for most fans has come during the message board and now social media era. It is now that you can see how ridiculously stupid (and jealous) their fan base is. I was never exposed to that in rural Kentucky (maybe 1 person from my school like Louisville) so not until I went to UK in the 90's and after have I really learned to hate the Dirty Birds.
I've always disliked them. I think "hate" for most fans has come during the message board and now social media era. It is now that you can see how ridiculously stupid (and jealous) their fan base is. I was never exposed to that in rural Kentucky (maybe 1 person from my school like Louisville) so not until I went to UK in the 90's and after have I really learned to hate the Dirty Birds.
The game that Denny Crum got hit in the head with a quarter was the sweet 16 game later that season. The quarter came flying out of the seats after a hard foul on UK'S Dicky Beal. I'm sure the quarter wasn't aimed at Crum. No one can throw a flat object that straight.