[Old School Hound]

^^^The first explanation that comes to mind is he was on the bench for all but 4 minutes

Yep. I mean, why was he on the bench for all but 4 minutes?  To be fair, he didn't play well in the first half and had the worst plus/minus of anyone that played yesterday. His defense was horrible, as usual, but so was everyone's.  All that said, he's still a guy that can go off and score 20 points in 10 minutes.

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Our remaining schedule—Ole Miss, Arkansas, Vandy and Alabama at home. Auburn, LSU, Tennessee, Miss. St. on the road.  Other than Vandy at home, are you confident in any of those games? Best case scenario we go 6-2, finish 22-9, plus a loss in SEC tournament, so ten losses heading into tournament. Worst case we go something like 3-5, plus an SEC tournament loss. That gets us to 13 losses. We ain’t even getting in if that happens. Most likely scenario I think is 5-3, plus 1-1 in SEC tourney. That’s 22-11. We slide in, but as maybe a nine, or maybe in the first four. Dayton is lovely in early March I hear.

Remember when Tubby Smith got the nickname "Ten Loss Tubby" and everybody began to hate him and he finally got ran out of town? Good times.

The Ten Loss Tubby moniker coincided with the moment in time when a lot of fans realized the REAL reason they hated Tubby... and it had nothing to do with ten losses.  But it is very much a Kentucky Thang.

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With the exception of Billy Clyde, Kentucky has had some tremendously successful head coaches. I think at 10-12 years,  coach-fan relationships become like a lot of marriages after that amount of time---worn and frazzled. I think KY needs to make a run in the tournament to at least an Elite Eight, or else this relationship will reach a level of rancid toxicity that will make a continuation of the relationship nearly impossible. If UK bows out the first weekend,  I wouldn't be surprised to see some fans breaching the gates at Cal's mansion and putting FOR SALE signs on his lawn.

You have advanced bain dramage. What color do you think 90% of the players are that this fan base cheers like crazy for and pays a fortune to watch in person?

I talked to one of the fan base here in Corbin(he's a well -liked guy here in town) about three weeks ago. Went to look at a car he had for sale , sitting out in his yard.  We talked for a few minutes, and the conversation drifted into Kentucky basketball. Wasn't five minutes until he started using the N-word to describe a some of the black players .  Said he bet some of them couldn't spell their own names. Then he chuckled.  Sure, that element of the fan base cheers as long as these players are entertaining them or shining their shoes, otherwise it gets ugly.