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You can spit that hate all you want and it aint going to tear me up.
I picked up a liking to the Zags a long time ago because my favorite player went to school there and I will root for them until the end of time.
Much like the Bungles and Reds fans on here that get no love from their performance in the post season.

But that is neither here nor there.
Calipari was fine with signing up IU to play home-and-away when he thought he would roll through them in Bloomington.
That is all I'm saying and no one will change my mind on that.

It aint because of people storming the court.
It aint for the fans not playing nice.
And it sure as heck aint to get them ready for the postseason.
He doesn't want to play IU up at Bloomington because they left with a Big L the last time they went and he don't wanna play em at UK because it'll stop his little win streak.

It would be nice for Calipari to protect the streak, but at the end of the day he's about championships, which again I can tell you have trouble understanding being a Gonzaga fan.

We play Florida, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, and every other year teams like Arkansas (will be tough with Anderson coaching), and now Missouri. Yeah, they are conference games, but since UK has to play those teams at home do you really think he would fear Indiana, or any other ranked team? That home streak will be tough to defend whether we play Indiana or not so it's not like he would be weaseling out of anything. This past year Kentucky played UNC at home. UNC was loaded. Do you really think he was afraid to play them and lose his home winning streak? His team sure didn't reflect that. Calipari would trade a home loss for a national title any day of the week.

Indiana returns a lot from a team that greatly, greatly overachieved. I really doubt that Calipari fears playing a team that is going to be tough for anyone, but probably not at the #1 ranking that everybody thinks they will be. Indiana will be good for years to come with Tom Crean at the helm. They are a good team that will be highly ranked throughout the course of the season and could make a deep run, but it's not like UK would have been playing the Boston Celtics or Miami Heat. It's not like Calipari didn't want to play them at all. And the same goes with IU, they wanted to play us as well. The terms of the game just didn't work out. This has happened with quite a few teams in the past. I guess because of the title this one is publicized a lot more.