Schedule Indiana

[mapcatfan_rivals31344]

Why did it need to end? Not trying to flame. You have a great program, no one denies that. IU has been down for decades, but I can't believe you really relish a win against those teams more than IU. Curious what the ratings were for this game.

I stated my reasons above, and I have felt this way for several years now. IU fans have developed an unhealthy hatred for UK that has overtaken any rational reasoning.

If UK and Cal are the unscrupulous entity that you guys claim, why would you even WANT to play us?

 

[spotter34]

Why did it need to end? Not trying to flame. You have a great program, no one denies that. IU has been down for decades, but I can't believe you really relish a win against those teams more than IU. Curious what the ratings were for this game.

The only wins I "relish" in are when we beat dUKe, UNC, Kansas, UL, MSU, and UConn. Beating Indiana now is like beating Tennessee. We're always the favorite and it just means more to their fans and for their program.

I'm telling you, I lost what little respect I had for IU when they stormed the court on us for a game in December, including endangering a couple of our players. None of the other teams I mentioned above would do that, well maybe UConn. That's just not how you react when you know and expect to be elite.

 

[Bluest Member]

Funny how you never see an IU Fan for a couple Decades until they get a crappy win set up by CBS and the crooked Selection Committee,then they brush the dust off their Bobby Knight Sweaters and crawl out from under rocks and Meth Labs like Roaches,begging to schedule a series with them again,UK doesn't need IU,UK schedules Duke,UNC,Kansas,and others every season,no benefit from the classless pos

 

[12375CAT]

Would rather you schedule the

 

[dpoore]

To hell with IU and CBS,they just want to make big $$ off UK's Back and IU is a bunch of Classleass POS Fans,I hope CBS and their Biased POS Announcers go have an Orgy with their Lover Clappy the Clown,
CBS Should lose Tourney rights for having a monopoly on it,bunch of UK Haters,F em all

do you know how silly you sound right now? IU is regionally in the 2nd largest TV region in the country for college viewers...? IU does not NEED UK- but the game home and home would be great-

 

[akaukswoosh]

Ratings are due to Kentucky playing. Has little to do with IU.

Yep.

 

[akaukswoosh]

the silver lining is now they have to extend crean and lock in mediocrity [laughing]

Lifetime contract!

 

[artesiacat]

Absolutely not!! The last thing I want is dealing with those touchers every year. Their fans are pieces of ****.

 

[JohnBlue]

do you know how silly you sound right now? IU is regionally in the 2nd largest TV region in the country for college viewers...? IU does not NEED UK- but the game home and home would be great-

IU does need Kentucky to help make them relevant again. Since the series ended and outside of tonight's game we don't hear much about Indiana basketball anymore. I'm fine with the series not being played also, it was too lopsided and really hadn't been competitive in 20+ years. That's not good and certainly not a real rivalry.

It may start up again but it will do so under UK's terms, it is certainly not going to take anything away from the UK program if it doesn't. Kentucky plays big games every year, tonight was one of only two big games Indiana played all season out of conference.

 

[richbrookstomato]

If the series is so important, why do we only hear from the Hoosiers and NEVER UK on its vitality?

That's because IU has become an also-ran that needs the UK juggernaut to draw attention to their mediocre program.

 

[truckbrandon]

UK should never play in Assembly Hall ever again, after the way our fans were treated the last time we were there.

 

[Mike-D]

The fact that some of our fans think we should play them because they beat us is stupid. Wtf good does it do us?

 

[twenty02_rivals]

IU fan here.....

I always wanted the game to return to the old setup, and felt that way before the current breakdown. That only occurred because of 1 scheduling conflict in Louisville, I believe. We played Indy/Louisville for years.

It was a national game on CBS, every year, the half red/half blue fan base, right at center court. It was a spectacle that didn't exist anywhere else in college BB, and it still doesn't. I thought that made it unique, and it's what I've wanted. I realize a big part of this is on IU's shoulders, to give up the home/home demand. Most IU fans are fine with that, IMO.

The only thing is, is playing in Louisville even an option now?

 

[trinity45_rivals378029]

Can we please schedule these fools again. home/home neutral site doesnt matter. especially next year.

The media has already stated Cal is willing to play them every year in Lucas oil but Crean refuses. He wants us to play in Bloomington the worse place in America to play, because he know it gives him an advantage he needs to win a game or two.

 

[tenstar]

I di not like the the way the media has slanted the statements they make when reporting about reviving this game. They don't say Cal is willing on a neutral site and/or why. For that reason alone, don't schedule them.

 

[mdlUK.1]

Long time fan, long time iu hater. Have no desire to renew the series. UK gains nothing from playing them. Would much rather have a series with dUKe. At least our fans that travel to the games would be safe.

 

[JohnBlue]

IU fan here.....

I always wanted the game to return to the old setup, and felt that way before the current breakdown. That only occurred because of 1 scheduling conflict in Louisville, I believe. We played Indy/Louisville for years.

It was a national game on CBS, every year, the half red/half blue fan base, right at center court. It was a spectacle that didn't exist anywhere else in college BB, and it still doesn't. I thought that made it unique, and it's what I've wanted. I realize a big part of this is on IU's shoulders, to give up the home/home demand. Most IU fans are fine with that, IMO.

The only thing is, is playing in Louisville even an option now?

I'm not sure there is a venue in Louisville, I doubt they could get the yum and we haven't played a game in freedom hall in four years.

 

[mapcatfan_rivals31344]

Cal restated his position yet again last night in his post game remarks. He is willing to resume the series in Indy.

I hope he stands his ground. And if IU doesn't want to agree to that, all the better imo. I have already stated my thoughts about the series in this thread.

 

[ShingShing]

please note that IU is 2-1 against UK and Cal in the last three. Not bad for ole' Clappy the Clown.....How could a joker of a coach do that?

LMAO @ the selective time frame.

 

[420grover]

This is what I think you guys should do. Schedule MSU, Kansas, UNC, and Duke. Ask them for a round robin for your entire Non Conference. Such a rich rivalry you have with Miami, SMH.

I am old enough to understand this rivalry was intense and meaningful, regardless of who won. I respect UK and their program. 8 NC, many FF's, unbelievable tradition. IU has fallen, we have struggled without a doubt over the past 25 years. With that said please don't dismiss the tradition and the 5 NC. This fan base has become so completely arrogant and spoiled that you no longer understand what it means.

Please understand Cal will not be around forever and when you take a look at the younger crop of coaches coming up please give me two coaches that would have success under this fan base? Brad Stevens is the only one and guess what school who would pick and it isn't UK.

No, I don't want to every schedule UK again. If IU grabs #6, oh boy..... But for such a horrible program that IU is, please note that IU is 2-1 against UK and Cal in the last three. Not bad for ole' Clappy the Clown.....How could a joker of a coach do that?

It's not just Cal. Rick and Tubby owned you too. Billy was 1-1.

 

[rnbsn83]

I absolutely do not want to ever restart the IU/Ky series, we have nothing to gain and I hate their POS program.

 

[Rockford]

They need us more than we need them.
Schedule on our terms or not at all.

 

[Rick Honcho]

IndBreds refuse to play at Lucas Oil in Indianapolis and we're not stepping foot back in their den of asswipes.

Rupp and his four national championships weren't afraid to play on campus at Indiana. Neither was Hall, Sutton, Pitino or the Tubs. Even Gillispie wasn't scared to play in Assembly Hall. So why do so many give Calipari a pass for ending the long-standing rivalry with Indiana simply because he was called bad names on the way out of the building? Honestly, I thought guys from the east coast are supposed to be tougher than that.

Calipari is nothing more than a steward of the UK basketball program. The Kentucky-indiana basketball rivalry was here long before Calipari took up residence in Lexington, and it should be put back on the annual schedule.

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

IU fan here.....

I always wanted the game to return to the old setup, and felt that way before the current breakdown. That only occurred because of 1 scheduling conflict in Louisville, I believe. We played Indy/Louisville for years.

It was a national game on CBS, every year, the half red/half blue fan base, right at center court. It was a spectacle that didn't exist anywhere else in college BB, and it still doesn't. I thought that made it unique, and it's what I've wanted. I realize a big part of this is on IU's shoulders, to give up the home/home demand. Most IU fans are fine with that, IMO.

The only thing is, is playing in Louisville even an option now?

Nope, Loservile has a say in the games that go on there and have made it clear they
don't want UK there unless it's UK vs. Loservile

The place is nice but is going bankrupt from the slanted u of lol lease terms.

That's why UK proposed a series of games at Lucas Oil...every fan on both side gets in - why would you refuse?

 

[Chuckinden]

If the Hoosier fans knew how to act, we would resume the series home and home. However, that is impossible because they never know how to act in a mannerly fashion.

You Hoosier fans screwed the pooch by being so...Hoosier redneck like. I hope we never step foot back in AH again.

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

Here's why there will never be a home/home IndBreds - this was just the tip of the iceberg.
There was far worse than this 1987 lovers

 

[akaukswoosh]

Here's why there will never be a home/home IndBreds - this was just the tip of the iceberg.
There was far worse than this 1987 lovers

Far worse indeed. IU fans spent a week before the 2011 game proudly spouting some of the most vile garbage I've ever seen on Cal's social media pages. That is an angry, miserable bunch but they've got themselves the perfect leader in Clappy, and I hope it stays that way.

 

[mdlUK.1]

Here's why there will never be a home/home IndBreds - this was just the tip of the iceberg.
There was far worse than this 1987 lovers

Why wouldn't we want to go and sit through that? We must be crazy.

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

Why wouldn't we want to go and sit through that? We must be crazy.

I've been a season ticket holder for 12 years and I can honestly say I've never witnessed anything even closely
resembling that IndBred circus at any game at Rupp. Must be something in the water retarding those people
and the lack of control by the university speaks volumes.

 

[MEMEBLUE]

Absolutely don't schedule IU. They need us more than we need them, hence the NCAA scheduled this game.Anyone remember Louisville and how they attempted to get us together, until it happened. This tournament is to pick a national champion, can you imagine the sh@t storm that would take place if this was the football playoffs and they pulled this crap. F@@K the NCAA, I dream of a day when this corrupt organization is no longer!

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

Why were UK fans sitting in the student section?

I'm not saying that was classy behavior, but understand that the IU student base has been massively infiltrated by east coast kids over the last decade or so. And they bring their east coast behavior with them.

That doesn't look like any student section to me...I see adults in red everywhere.

An ******* is an ******* and I see several hundred with mouths agape just in this cameras lens.

That crap would not happen in Lucas Oil because there would be 30-35K UK fans in attendance.

 

[Rick Honcho]

There weren't uncontrollable ******** chanting F Kentucky for an hour before the game, spitting on people and getting
into elderly peoples faces. That kind of crap doesn't happen at Rupp or even in Loserville.

Hall, Sutton, Pitino and Tubby ALL played Indiana on neutral courts, so you're either ignorant or a liar.

It's Lucas Oil or nothing - you know, how it was for 3 decades before they moved it to Rupp/*** hall, a neutral court.
The ONLY reason you won't agree to it is you know we will dominate the series in a neutral setting, even if every game
were in Indiana.

1987 - you're mental because of it - enjoy you loss next weekend and Crean's extension - oh and congrats on your 1,000 loss, quite a feat!

My apologies. Please allow me to clear this up.

Hall's UK teams played indiana every single season, and the Cats played in Bloomington in 74, 76, 78, 80 and 82.

Sutton's UK team played indiana every single season, and the Cats played in Bloomington in 86.

Pitino's UK team played indiana every single season, and the Cats played in Bloomington in 90.

You are correct - Smith's UK team played indiana every single season, but the Tubster's teams always played indiana at neutral sites [home and away] except for the Dec. 2006 game, which was played in Lexington. And as you will also recall, Tubby's program had already contacted to play indiana in Assembly Hall in December 2007 prior to the point in time the Tubs got canned in the spring of 2006.

Gillispie's UK team played indiana in Bloomington in December 2007.

As far as the hillbillies in the videos dressed in red yelling "F*** Kentucky" during the game in Bloomington, so what? Isn't that part of a deep-seeded rivalry, sort of like the UK-loserville games and the chants aimed at the loserville bench? My experience has been that the players luv playing in this kind of atmosphere, and most opposing fans laugh like heck when being able to be inside a venue like that. But maybe some on this board have thinner skins and higher noses than others?

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

My apologies. Please allow me to clear this up.

Hall's UK teams played indiana every single season, and the Cats played in Bloomington in 74, 76, 78, 80 and 82.

Sutton's UK team played indiana every single season, and the Cats played in Bloomington in 86.

Pitino's UK team played indiana every single season, and the Cats played in Bloomington in 90.

You are correct - Smith's UK team played indiana every single season, but the Tubster's teams always played indiana at neutral sites [home and away] except for the Dec. 2006 game, which was played in Lexington. And as you will also recall, Tubby's program had already to play indiana in Assembly Hall in December 2007 before the Tubs got canned in the spring of 2006.

Gillispie's UK team played in Bloomington in December 2007.

I see you didn't clear up the fact you're afraid of going 2-8 in a ten game contract at Lucas Oil. What's a matter, afraid of a level playing surface?

 

[Chuckinden]

Most of the vile, redneck hatred was perpetrated my Crean himself.

 

[ShingShing]

People still say Tubby was canned? Good god...

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

That was definitely the student section. I know exactly that section of the arena. All those people behind them were student age, and considering tickets to that game were $300+ for nosebleeds, I'm quite sure that many young people weren't affording that.

I'm sure some students sold tickets as they were going for such a premium that year. And again, those kids reeked of the east coasters that make up a huge portion of the student base now.

And your administration reeks of lack of control...no respectable institution would tolerate that type of behavior from any fan, student or otherwise.
The UK fans were doing nothing but standing there minding their own business. What if he's there with his friend who has tickets or bought them off StubHub?
I guess he should just leave and stand in the concourse.

Spitting on people, getting in peoples faces two to three times their age trying to instigate fights, screaming in elderly peoples faces!

Your school is a cesspool - this is just one of hundreds of incidents that occurred.

I wonder how many of these asswipes run their mouths when there are 2,000 UK fans around instead of 2.

 

[Rick Honcho]

I see you didn't clear up the fact you're afraid of going 2-8 in a ten game contract at Lucas Oil. What's a matter, afraid of a level playing surface?

Lil' Dummy, I will use smaller words this time so you can keep up: I have been a UK basketball fan since the tail end of the Rupp era. The annual Kentucky-indiana game was part of the UK lore and tradition. And I am one of those who was happy to see the NCAA selection committee fix [albeit for only one season] what Calipari unwisely broke.

 

[Glenn's Take]

From everything I have heard about 2012, including from someone that actually travels with the team and how he was treated behind the scenes I would feel safer walking through Harlem waving a Confederate flag blaring Sweet Home Alabama and chanting "Up with Trump" than I would stepping foot in Assembly Hall as a UK fan.

 

[KnowsAllTellsAll]

Saw this posted on another site. CaneinItaly and STL_Cat calling the 2011 Indiana upset over Kentucky.

 

[rbky53]

Let me put it simple. it is lucas oil or no games. Are iu fans so poor they can't make the trip. Crean said so. why are you afraid of a neutral site? it is in your home state. you want us so bad you know where to find us.