[More Cowbell]

Are you stoned? This schedule is awful, UK isnt supposed to play teams like they have on this schedule. Of course they will win about 25 games, if they are lucky, with a schedule like this. Most of those teams are mid majors at best, and others are teams that some high school teams could probably beat. I mean who the **** is Longwood and where are they even located, and Lamar has never been that good from my knowledge. I thought last years schedule was bad, this one is worse I believe. But then again, its a chance for one of these no name teams that are mediocre at best to beat UK like Gardner Webb, San Diego, and Houston did last year. Good scheduling job coach numbnuts!

Sometimes I think that if some guy from UK developed a cure for cancer, that you would find some way to be critical of him. But I digress...

As for the schedule, of course there are so-called "fluff" teams on there. All the big teams do it, just go check out their schedules. Like another poster said, no team goes out and plays top competition every night. That's a one-way ticket to the NIT, or worse.

And you say UK isn't supposed to play teams like that? Please show me a season in the last 20 years where UK hasn't played some lesser teams in their non-conference schedule. They always play about 5-7 good teams, with the rest added in as filler. They did it when Tubby was here, they did it when Rick was here, and they'll do it after Gillespie is gone.

As for Longwood, UK didn't actually schedule that one. That game, as well as the one right before it, was set up by the Las Vegas committee as part of their tournament.