Great post by Kurly but this blog is going to get all Talk
Show”ish” because a lot of what he said is wrong. Let’s start with what he got correct. Sports do need villains. Being a huge Duke fan I’m used to being one
and revel in knowing it. The idea that
if I can’t cheer for my team but I can cheer against somebody else is what
keeps people interested. I know if Duke
or Wisconsin weren’t in the final I’d probably be cheering for whichever team I
dislike least. I think it’s a way better
attitude to have 1 or 2 favorite teams and then dislike, but respect, the
rest. Nobody likes the people who always
change teams to cheer for a winner. Take
your team from the bottom to top and cheer against the rest.
Now, let’s get to what he got wrong. First let’s start with indentured
servitude. Completely inaccurate and
almost an insult to what a true indentured servant was. Everybody talks about the rules within
college basketball but nobody mentions that baseball and football have similar rules. The football rules are in place because the
game is so much different from college to the pros and “kids” need a couple
years to physically mature to be ready.
How is basketball different? The
NBA is not a ballet. It’s physical and
most kids aren’t ready to go straight there.
Do you wonder why “he’s got an NBA body” is spoken so loudly about some
kids? And what doesn’t get mentioned is
for every Al Jefferson, Kobe Bryant, or Kevin Garnett there are 10 Robert
Swifts, Korleone Young, or Sebastian Telfair’s.
Overall it’s a rule that benefit’s more than it hurts. By the way, I say all this and I am
completely against the rule. I think it’s
a sham to force kids to go to college.
Second, is this a failure for Kentucky? Your gall darn right it is. They openly wanted that undefeated season and
the came up short. By definition that is
a failure. Do I as a fan hate them
because they were brash? No. Do I love that they failed? Yes.
But not because I’m a poor excuse for a fan or human. I detest Calipari and all he stands for (more
on that later) and I love that the Harrison twins (the only Kentucky players I
don’t like) are falling by the way side.
They want history and they didn’t get it. Failure.
Third, and on to John Calipari. First thing about him is this whole one and
done bullsh!t that somehow came back this year.
That rule has been in effect for 10 years. This is not new and he didn’t invent
something that was revolutionary. For
some stupid reason ESPN decided to make it a story. Um, Anthony Davis, John Wall, and Derrick
Rose are all NBA veterans so let’s be done with the one and done talk. That’s not the reason to hate him. The reason to hate him is he is a dirty coach
who has been caught numerous times. Yes,
I know pretty much all coaches do it but he’s been caught and that makes a
difference. I hate Bruce Pearl too and
all these people who are cheering for him at Auburn out to be ashamed of
themselves. I hold no ill will towards
giving these coaches second (and third) chances but I reserve the right to
openly despise them. Some people may
hate Calipari for who he recruits or who he doesn’t graduate but it’s solely
his arrogance and unacceptance of his past sins that irritate me. “How can I be accountable for what 1 YMCA
coach did or who took Derek Rose’s ACT for him?” is what he says. Um, your program, you’re accountable. And I won’t even mention that the first thing
out of his mouth when his teams are taken to brink by Notre Dame that “his team
didn’t play well” instead of “Notre Dame played a heck of a game”. Whoops just did. He’s an arrogant prick and I don’t like him,
Bruce Pearl, or Rick Pitino for that matter.
Last, I want to hit on the “doing it the right way” or “celebrating
their demise”. This is where I shake my
head at Kurly. See, the only thing worse
than then ESPN’s talking heads are the knobs that pass as Sports Talk radio
hosts in this city. Homer, Gary
Ellerson, and Sparky are as clueless as my wall. I think half of them say stupid things to get
reactions and the other half actually believe the non-sense that comes out of
their mouths. Now, I said the only thing
worse than ESPN are these people but there’s another group that actually take
it to another level…it’s the people who call in, write to JSOnline, or comment
on twitter. These non-intellectual mouth
breathers ruin social media for people like me.
See, that’s the difference between Kurly and me. I don’t listen to them or read their articles. Why punish myself with the opinion of
un-educated people? It’s like listening
to Bob and Brian for their sports opinion.
It makes no sense. It’s why I
follow about 7 people on twitter and choose to watch Packer games with only 2-3
guys. I want to be surrounded by people
who “get” the sport on my level. The
rest don’t matter, however, I completely understand Kurly’s stance. I just don’t know why he continues to punish
himself and then pontificate that the masses all think this stupid way. True story…I watched the Packers lose to
Seattle in a BW3’s and as soon as the game was over I texted a couple of my
non-packer loving friends and told them a little piece of me was cheering for
them to lose because 90% of the people there were idiots.
As I stated to begin, it was a great post by Kurly but I can’t
agree with most of it. I felt a need to
post my “rebuttal” and I think there are a lot of people who share my
thoughts. My advice coming out though is
to stop listening to sports talk, stop reading Bill Simmons, and find the
handful of people who make sense and follow them. Start with Jay Bilas and move from there.
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