It hasn't always been like this in Kentucky. In other words,the hate pre-dates the red vs. blue political phenomena.
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I never heard an ill word toward the City of Louisville until this interloper from California came in here and refused to accept the status quo. He dared to call his mixed-raced freshman class as good as the all-white SuperKittens and all heck broke loose. I remember it well, as I was among those taking umbrage at his comments at the time. The city's reputation started to be equated with the BB team out in the sticks.
Fortunately, I became educated. Farm raised, I live in a thriving suburban area with many amenities, but I frequently visit Louisville for entertainment. OTOH Lexington has a gun shop and little else I can't find locally.
He didn’t state those as facts he said that’s how people view ANY big city not just Louisville.
As much as I like hammering slapd!cks, I have nothing against the good people in the State of KY. I used to feel like many in this thread--nothing good lies outside Jefferson County.
The issue NOW is that many people in Kentucky outside of Jefferson County support U of L, and in increasing numbers. You can't broadly say what you used to say accurately.
Let's confine our disdain more appropriately to slappies inside or outside of Jefferson County. For one thing, they're easier to recognize...
The issue NOW is that many people in Kentucky outside of Jefferson County support U of L, and in increasing numbers. You can't broadly say what you used to say accurately.
Let's confine our disdain more appropriately to slappies inside or outside of Jefferson County. For one thing, they're easier to recognize...
A bit of a stretch to insinuate that the card fan numbers are swelling in other parts of the state. I mean, maybe a little I guess. I’m sure you have some charts and graphs all ready to go so go ahead and post it.As much as I like hammering slapd!cks, I have nothing against the good people in the State of KY. I used to feel like many in this thread--nothing good lies outside Jefferson County.
The issue NOW is that many people in Kentucky outside of Jefferson County support U of L, and in increasing numbers. You can't broadly say what you used to say accurately.
Let's confine our disdain more appropriately to slappies inside or outside of Jefferson County. For one thing, they're easier to recognize...
Dang it’s obvious if you just get out of your hillbilly mentality. I moved back to KY in 2014 and live just outside of Frankfort. I see a lot of cars everyday with U of L stuff and I even know of at least 6 neighbors who are Card fans. I was even in Jackson, KY yesterday and pulled up next to a truck with a cardinal license plate.
On the other side of the coin there are more cat fans in Louisville than ever before. Stop with the hillbilly stuff you don’t know me
Etown and Bowling Green both still have town squares and are considered bigger than Hoptown. And just because there are 3 schools in the entire county instead of 1 doesn’t make it a big town. I remember when the first deployments were made and the city’s population dropped by 25-40%
The New York Times does... LINK
I always enjoy looking at this graphic, and I've done a little analysis behind it. For example, in the yellow and white Kentucky zip codes surrounding Louisville, there's around 600 thousand U of L fans.
That doesn't include the Indiana counties and the light blue Kentucky counties. There are many U of L fans south of Louisville, thru Bowling Green, all the way thru the center of the State until Tennessee picks up the difference. In our lifetimes, you may see WKU, Louisville and Tennessee effectively bisect the State.
And that's too many U of L fans for me to say everyone outside of Louisville sucks...
Your perception of things in the Ville are incorrect. There has never been a bigger discrepancy of Blue vs. Red in my lifetime than now. Michael Foxx says welcome back to the 60's.
And I have nothing against those folks as well,but let's remind ourselves of what came first...the chicken or the egg.
One lesson I learned a long time ago is that when someone decides they want to be on your team and they're genuine, you need to let them...
It looks about how I’d expect it to. Pretty neat graphic actually. Interesting. I’m not sure it flows along with the tv ratings for the games. There have been cases this season of UK games drawing higher ratings in Louisville than that of the Louisville game on the same day at the same time. At the end of the day we are probably just chasing our tails. Thanks again for the cool graphic.
Agreed. I believe any of the 3 could score 40 if that's what their offense was based around. Trinity is actually good without DJ. They didn't make it all about him scoring wise. That's why Allen's team went 10-18 this year since he got hurt. He was their only hope. I think Allen is a good player, but he's ranked 3rd in the state behind DJ and Tandy. When you have 2 other D1 players in the state, it's pretty wrong to just blatantly ignore them. Level of competition, quality of team as a whole, and overall skillset were not taken into account with this voting.
If it's really about best player then Damien Harris should've won it his senior year, but instead he only played 3 games and the people that vote said it wasn't enough. But here we are bending the rules yet again. Allen played 13 games.
We all know Wandale committed to Uk for the award. The sad thing is that he had to do that even though he's the best player in the state this year regardless.
Who cares where the kid goes, just give him what he deserves. Snider won it because the talent level across the state wasn't great his year. Went from Top 40 to Top 150. Thus, no one was looked at by Uk.
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Nothing would separate the Kentucky and Louisville fans out in the state of Kentucky like a NY times article. Great find zip. I’m sure they poured a lot of resources into deciding where the Louisville fans are in the state
Didn't Zipp's article cover fans of all teams around the country? And not just UofL/UK? I didn't get a chance to get the link and review.
He really projects well as a college player. Really long guard that can play and guard multiple positions. Has a diverse skill set on offense...driving, shooting, & passing.
I've watched him a bit over 2 years, really strong prospect.
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