Why Our Opponent Sucks: Kentucky

[615dawg]

Its time for our annual game against the University of Kentucky, and time once again for Why Our Opponent Sucks

Kentucky Isn't Southern. Its Midwestern.

If it weren't for great bourbon, Kentucky would be Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa or one of the Dakotas.

Kentucky has a long history of trying not to be Southern. The commonwealth was even neutral throughout the Civil War. Lexington is the epitome of a Midwestern city. Going to a football game on Kentucky's campus is like going to a football game in Iowa City, Champaign, East Lansing or West Lafayette, opposed to Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Athens or even Starkville. Lexington is nice and all, but its almost like they are trying not to be a Southern college town.

Their football support SUCKS!

This is a picture of Kroger Field at opening kickoff. If it isn't basketball, they do not care. Their team is 3-0 and hosting a Top 15 team and their fans are complaining about how expensive tickets are - and they are the cheapest in the SEC.

And their basketball team has been decent, but they are far from the national power they think they are. Like an Alabama football fan, you cannot tell this to a UK basketball fan. They think they are going to win the national title every year. But unlike an Alabama football fan, Kentucky fans pretty much ignore football. That's sad because they have a nice program.

Over the past 20 years:

Kentucky football has played in eight bowl games (including one New Year's Day bowl), winning three.
Kentucky football has had five All-American players
Kentucky football has had 26 first team all-SEC players (they had five prior to 1999)
Kentucky football has had the No. 1 draft pick in the NFL Draft (only four other SEC schools have had this in the past 20 years)
Kentucky baseball has won the overall SEC championship

But its basketball only in the Bluegrass.

This Nasty Woman.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Are those football stats from the past ten years you said? If so, they’re not all correct. Who are the 5 All-Americans?

ETA: maybe I’m not understanding this thread, I dunno.

 

[RocketDawg]

Not Southern? Have you ever heard those people talk?? **

 

[Crazy Cotton]

That ain't southern, that Appalachian English. Whole different animal (I live in East TN, believe me I know). Some of it is opposite of southern. For example, at least old southern dialect is non-rhotic (dropped r). So you don't say 'water", you say "wata" "dear" is "dee-a" etc. These freaks add post-vocalic r on every damn thing - "yeller, feller, potater", etc. They will stick "r" all over the place like the empathetic "r" that changes "wash" to "warsh". The one that really freaked me out was the "h" where it doesn't belong - "it" becomes "hit", "ain't" becomes "hain't" etc. And then they do the opposite of southerns, who like to make diphthongs out of everything, by shortening and hardening vowels all over the place.

 

[MarkDallas]

Their basketball team is far from a national power? Are you on drugs?

 

[SirBarksalot]

You might want to re-work this.

​And their basketball team has been decent, but they are far from the national power they think they are. Like an Alabama football fan, you cannot tell this to a UK basketball fan.

 

[mount lefroy]

Its time for our annual game against the University of Kentucky, and time once again for Why Our Opponent Sucks

Kentucky Isn't Southern. Its Midwestern.

If it weren't for great bourbon, Kentucky would be Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa or one of the Dakotas.

Kentucky has a long history of trying not to be Southern. The commonwealth was even neutral throughout the Civil War. Lexington is the epitome of a Midwestern city. Going to a football game on Kentucky's campus is like going to a football game in Iowa City, Champaign, East Lansing or West Lafayette, opposed to Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, Athens or even Starkville. Lexington is nice and all, but its almost like they are trying not to be a Southern college town.

Their football support SUCKS!

This is a picture of Kroger Field at opening kickoff. If it isn't basketball, they do not care. Their team is 3-0 and hosting a Top 15 team and their fans are complaining about how expensive tickets are - and they are the cheapest in the SEC.

And their basketball team has been decent, but they are far from the national power they think they are. Like an Alabama football fan, you cannot tell this to a UK basketball fan. They think they are going to win the national title every year. But unlike an Alabama football fan, Kentucky fans pretty much ignore football. That's sad because they have a nice program.

Over the past 20 years:

Kentucky football has played in eight bowl games (including one New Year's Day bowl), winning three.
Kentucky football has had five All-American players
Kentucky football has had 26 first team all-SEC players (they had five prior to 1999)
Kentucky football has had the No. 1 draft pick in the NFL Draft (only four other SEC schools have had this in the past 20 years)
Kentucky baseball has won the overall SEC championship

But its basketball only in the Bluegrass.

This Nasty Woman.

After the whole screed about Msu/Starkville and magazine rankings, you actually managed to lower the bar.

Perhaps posing isn’t your forte.

 

[tenureplan]

I need to see a full Sps magazine article on this. Amazing!

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Yall ease up on 615. I like this weekly feature, but Kentucky football is a tough target to hurl feces at. But his take on their fans is spot on. They are a sneaky evil bunch, especially on a full moon night during basketball season.

 

[thekimmer]

They suck because they are the hardwood equivalent of bama football. Other than that not too many complaints as they have been a pretty reliable W for us in football and not too difficult in baseball & WBB.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

That ain't southern, that Appalachian English. Whole different animal (I live in East TN, believe me I know). Some of it is opposite of southern. For example, at least old southern dialect is non-rhotic (dropped r). So you don't say 'water", you say "wata" "dear" is "dee-a" etc. These freaks add post-vocalic r on every damn thing - "yeller, feller, potater", etc. They will stick "r" all over the place like the empathetic "r" that changes "wash" to "warsh". The one that really freaked me out was the "h" where it doesn't belong - "it" becomes "hit", "ain't" becomes "hain't" etc. And then they do the opposite of southerns, who like to make diphthongs out of everything, by shortening and hardening vowels all over the place.

Best post of your career*

 

[cowbell88]

They are just one letter away from having it in their name. Kensucky.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Uhh

The commonwealth was even neutral throughout the Civil War.

Their ancestors didn't join ours in the fight to preserve slavery. Don't think this makes them less "southern" or is a particularly compelling reason to hate them.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

Honestly, if you want to know how terrible/white trash their fans are just look at the video of them tearing up the nicest car on their campus, which was a 2014ish looking Volvo.

 

[vhdawg]

If I may add....

I have extensive experience from my seven trips to Commonwealth Stadium in dealing with the exotic creature known as the Kentucky Football Fan. I will cite character traits of the Kentucky Football Fan, alongside examples of such behavior.

The Kentucky Football Fan is capable of both extreme overconfidence and zero confidence at all at the same time. This is understandable given as an example the time Kentucky defeated #1 ranked eventual national champion LSU at home in triple overtime in 2007, and then lost to unranked Mississippi State, also at home, two weeks later.

The Kentucky Football Fan knows little about what happens outside the confines of Commonwealth Stadium Kroger Field but will not let that stop him from attempting to run smack about Kentucky's superiority against Mississippi State football. In 2007, a Kentucky Football Fan sitting in the club level above the MSU visiting section repeatedly berated visiting Mississippi State fans by yelling "SIX AND TWO VERSUS TWO AND SIX!! SIX AND TWO VERSUS TWO AND SIX!!" Mississippi State's record entering the game was 4-4.

The Kentucky Football Fan has no context for the history of the series, either recent or long term. Following the 2012 edition of Mississippi State/Kentucky, a Kentucky Football Fan standing in line at The Little Dooey told us "Well, I guess after this year we won't play you guys for a while." Mississippi State and Kentucky have played each other every single year since 1990, and continue to do so to this day.

The Kentucky Football Fan does not have a detailed understanding of the rules of NCAA football. He is the sort who will wildly cheer any penalty call that is in favor of the Kentucky Wildcats, and will boo any penalty call that goes against the Kentucky Wildcats, regardless of the legitimacy of said call. Going back again to the 2007 game in Lexington, you may remember a play where Derek Pegues was chasing down Kentucky QB Andre Woodson, and pushed Woodson out of bounds. At the time Pegues pushed Woodson, he was at least two steps in-bounds. A penalty flag came out for late hit out of bounds. It was one of the rare times Sylvester Croom ever lost his temper at a referee. The replay showed Woodson was clearly in-bounds. The MSU radio said he was in-bounds. The Three Daves on JP Sports said he was in-bounds. It was clearly a Bad Call. Kentucky Football Fans all around Commonwealth Stadium cheered with delirium.

Now, not to say that Kentucky Football Fans are all bad. They are capable of occasional humor. In 2003, while roaming around the outskirts of the area around Commonwealth Stadium, I spoke to a Kentucky Football Fan who brought up that former Louisville Cardinals head coach Ron Cooper had at that time become employed as Mississippi State's defensive coordinator. He pointed to a nearby road sign and said that Kentucky fans liked Ron Cooper so much when he was Louisville head coach that they named a street next to the stadium after him, Cooper Drive. (Of course, further research shows Ron Cooper's Louisville teams were 2-1 against Kentucky, so again, chalk this up to the Kentucky Football Fan's lack of any sort of historical context for anything.)

And finally, there once was a Kentucky Football Fan, low in the north side upper deck, who, during the pregame singing of My Old Kentucky Home, sang along in a deep baritone which carried throughout the northwest side of the stadium, and in my many many road games, ranks as one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. My hope is that he is still there, and the beauty of his singing will touch the hearts of those in the area this weekend, prior to the Bulldogs beating the absolute pants off of Kentucky.

 

[Lucky Dawg]

In 2007, a Kentucky Football Fan sitting in the club level above the MSU visiting section repeatedly berated visiting Mississippi State fans by yelling "SIX AND TWO VERSUS TWO AND SIX!! SIX AND TWO VERSUS TWO AND SIX!!" Mississippi State's record entering the game was 4-4.

This sparked a thought, so I had to look it up. Going into that week, 2007 Ole Miss was 2-6. /facepalm

 

[PineGroveBully]

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[msu86]

It took Kentucky 31 years to beat Florida...Croom beat them the 1st time he was the head coach against them at Scott Field....SYLVESTER

 

[RPOdawg]

Kentucky is hot garbage and the game won’t be close.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Their women don't age well.