[Old School Hound]

Tennessee fans are gonna be brutal on Saurday in Knoxville. Like sharks circling.

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I'm not sure that I agree with this guy, but he has the right to hold that sign IMO.
Isn't that freedom of speech?

There isn't FOS.  From what I was told anti - NFL and anti-Goodell signs were also confiscated in Cincinnati at the Bengals-Ravens game. Is there true FOS on message boards like this one?  Thoughts and words are censored everywhere. Now, the degree to which that is a good or bad thing is might be a good topic for another thread. But the short answer is "no," there isn't free speech. Not really. Not without consequences, at least.

Apples to oranges. Rupp Arena is a publicly owned facility and the University of Kentucky is a public university. I may be mistaken, but I don't see any reason that fans attending games at Rupp Arena have to check their First Amendment rights at the front door.

Does anyone know if there are restrictions on fan signage at Rupp? Are signs allowed? If so, what size?  Seems like it would quite distracting to have 23,000 signs  in the house like the one the guy brought in.  Are we okay with signs saying absolutely anything the fan wants to say?

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Can’t stand the fact buddy got tossed cause he wouldn’t let them throw the sign away. I don’t like the sign but it didn’t bother me thst much. Fans are mad

Yeah, seemed pretty authoritarian by the blue coats.

Are we okay with any message a fan wants to display? I mean, if you allow one opinion, don't you have to allow them all?


Would you all be okay with:

" CAL IS A MAGA SPY AND OWNS 7 JEWISH LASERS."

How about?

"CAL MADE $23,287.67 TODAY AND URINATED ON 3 HOOKERS AT COWBOYS SHOWGIRLS IN LEXINGTON"

There it is sports fans! Deranged brainwashed dude can't talk about UK sports without liberal gibberish spewing out. So predictable, never fails. Maybe the only human left that still believes the Russian collusion hoax. So sad. Needs to run antivirus software through his brain.

Let's go Brandon!

As Reagan famously said to Mondale, "There you go again!"  lol    My dear friend, outside of maybe an internet forum,  I can't fathom that you actually talk like this to people out in the world you disagree with .  It's really just a perpetual stream of insults, bullying, and personal attacks. And I'm someone you claim to like.  One can only imagine the verbiage you use to put down those that you dislike. In almost every post if someone doesn't see the world through your lens, you respond with personal insults. I've just come to understand that it's your style and just to look over it. Just Jet being Jet is kinda how I have viewed it.

One of the wisest people I ever met in my more than six decades of life told me something I've never forgotten. She said, " anytime someone puts someone else down in the presence of others is a huge marker and says much about their character, values, morals, integrity, dignity, and human decency." I personally think it goes even deeper than that. I think it exposes a deep insecurity in the person who publicly victimizes others with their words. Deep insecurities about their own beliefs and deep insecurities about their own character and personal human frailities. It's really just a terrible look.

I used to go back and forth with you and Hoot a lot , saying things just to get a rise out of you guys. We call it "Baker Reasoring" here in Corbin because there was a fella by the name of Baker Reasor who was well known here in town who like to do just that---say things just to watch people get riled up or mad at each other.  I have apologized for doing some of that on here myself in the past. It was kinda fun for awhile but then it wasn't and just created bad energy. Our country is in trouble, very polarized, and seemingly in self -destruct mode.  We simply don't talk to one another in a civil manner anymore, not at local school board meetings, not on network television,  not at Congressional hearings, not on internet message boards.  Look at the video titles on You Tube "Rand Paul SHREDS Pelosi" or  "Cheney DESTROYS Trump." 

Why do we have to shred or destroy one another with our words?  Why can't reasonable people with two totally different views of the world just respect each other's differences without engaging in personal insults or demeaning language?  I know I will probably receive more insults as a result of saying this but I hope we can just agree to disagree and allow one another to state his views without coming under personal attack.  I hope you will view these words as they are meant to be taken--- words of wisdom which were passed on to me that I now pay foward from one friend to another. It's not a rebuke but a gift.  Not only you and I, but let's all make a pact on here to not say demeaning or hateful words to one another. We should be able to give our opinions without being demeaning or hateful to one another. Btw, I have no issue with a person being passionate about their beliefs or even salty with their language towards celebrities or politicians. I just think we shouldn't personally demean each other on here.  Just my thoughts. 





Now back to Coach Cal and the sad state of UK bball.   

What I hope is that Cal stays on through next year. According to the so-called experts, he has the best recruiting class in the country coming in, including the "can't miss" #1 dude that Cal took away from Louisville. If Cal goes, then that class of athletes is likely gone also and we are in for big time struggle next season as well. Cal is not a great X's and O's coach. He just isn't. But he's a Hall of Famer for a reason. There are some aspects of the coaching profession that he does very well. I think he misses Robic a lot .  Robic was a very good X's and O's man who helped out Cal a lot. Kenny Payne was also a significant loss.  Cal needs an offensive coodinator, someone to change up this stagnant, antiquated offense. I also think, maybe, Cal has gotten a litle lazy the past couple or three years, since he signed his current contract. I say give him next year and expect a Final Four. If it doesn't happen, then reexamine the situation at the end of next season.  I'm mean, what's the alternative--- buy out Cal or hope he goes to Texas and then hire Scott Drew and hope that Laurel County's Golden Child will lead us to the Promised Land. No thanks!!!!