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Sanders' restaurant was in Corbin, KY, where the "original recipe" was developed. The first franchised out original recipe chicken restaurant was in Utah though, and they came up with the name Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Yes he's the problem, offense is 2 decades outdated and has no spacing, bad shot selection, and in no way fits the current personnel (or even the last several years' players). Every college basketball writer and NBA scout rips his offensive system endlessly. And he won't adjust. He's lost this team as far as having positive relationships with the players it seems. Uncharacteristically, he's got a bad defense this year, and refuses to alter his strategy to shore any of that up. Maybe go to a zone? Never, ever. A report today seems to have confirmed: he doesn't have his staff do in depth scouting. It looks like when we play a game the other team has a strategy and a plan to exploit our weaknesses, while we just keep going out and doing the same stuff that doesn't work over and over. And worst for us, he's lost the fans. He doesn't seem to like us anymore, and we are pretty much tired of him. There's not really anything inherent about the program other than Cal that could be the problem. Facilities? Passionate fans? Top 15 at least talent this year? NIL money? Check, check, check, check.

LOL Kentucky basketball is not John Calipari. We've have 5 coaches who have won championships, which is 2 more than any other program. We can attract any number of coaches that can bring energy and a modern offensive philosophy and be better. We've NEVER had a situation, outside of being on probation for 2 years in the late 80s, where we've missed 2 out of 3 NCAA Tournaments. So yes, Kentucky can do a lot better than that.

Levis not great. 18/24 2TDs and 9.4 YPA isn’t a bad stat line, but certainly not excellent. And obviously a safety and 2 crunch time fumbles were absolutely awful. He gets the draft hype not for winning games or being impressive against good teams though, but because he can make throws and has a strong arm. I guess.

Truly bizarre article, comparing beating Florida to beating Georgia Tech, writing it off as a “gift.” And LOL at complaining about schedule construction, the majority of SEC teams have 3 cupcakes on the slate. Just a joke of an article.

Or maybe, just maybe, Kentucky’s defense is a lot better than Tennessee’s defense. Comparing Kentucky’s win at Florida to Ole Miss’s win at GT is absolutely laughable, as is writing off the result as a “gift.” Kentucky whipped a legit top 25 team.

Citrus gets first pick after the NY6. Reliaquest (Outback) is then a sort of first among equals with Gator, Music City, Texas, Liberty, and depending on the year Belk or Vegas.

Kentucky's gameplan was clearly to stop Richardson from running. He had a spy on him every play, every read option the ends were trained on him and not the RB, and most pass defenses called were zone schemes so that our LBs and DBs were looking at him. He had 6 rush attempts with a long of 4 yards...he's very athletic but he's not as big as Cam/Tebow/Young or as fast as Lamar/Vick to consistently beat a very good and experienced LB group that was waiting on him every play. Utah on the other hand was breaking in an all new LB group and had a gameplan that Richardson could fully exploit (man pass defenses, no spies). Kentucky gave Florida 2 things: second level gaps in the zone pass defense, and a small window for the RBs to beat pursuit on option plays. Kentucky's defense was good enough to not let anything else work.

Its pretty funny that there's a 12 year old Louisville fan who is trolled enough by UK being good that he takes the time to create a Bama profile on an SEC site and spend his whole day commenting on UK articles. Your teachers would like you to pay attention in school my man.

This guy had us in the Birmingham bowl until like week 5 last year

"Kentucky fans will be excited to see that one of their own, Oscar Tshiebwe, not only made the cut, but was the No. 2 vote getter" that's a bizarre thing to say. Nope, we're a little irked that the reigning national player of the year isn't regarded as the best player in the country.

The talent gap is more likely to be solved by expansion than leaving everything as is. Top recruits want to go to the playoff, and the list of programs that can regularly make the current playoff is short. With a bigger playoff more programs have a shot, and those programs can sell that to top recruits. Every SEC program except Vandy has a shot if finishing the season in the top 12. That's huge.

Well last year Kentucky racked up 612 yards of offense, doubled Tennessee’s first downs, and tripled their TOP, but still lost 45-42. So it’s happened before.

lulz you're wrong every year Pig

The consensus from all the media around the program is Rodriguez will be suspended 1 or 2 games if at all, and it seems almost certain he will be back for the Ole Miss game week 5. So you can probably make your prediction based on a 50/50 chance he will play at Florida week 2 (Kentucky has cupcakes weeks 1, 3, and 4).

Thank you

The Kentucky that was just picked 2nd in the East and finished #18 last year?

Oh big time, the tradition of college football is to try to hold on to tradition for as long as you can, until the money is undeniable. The first big moves after 84 still took a while to manifest: 1990 Penn State decides it can make more money in the Big 10 rather than staying independent; 91 South Carolina and Florida State leave the Metro, Arkansas leaves the SWC to make more money; 96 the Big 8 and 4 SWC schools combine to make more money; 04 the decade long death of the Big East begins as Miami and Va Tech can get more money and exposure in the ACC; etc. etc.

The conference alignment and postseason changes have been inevitable since the Supreme Court removed control of TV rights from the NCAA in 1984. Its just a slow process in finding the most profitable arrangements for the biggest schools.

That's not what he is saying. His whole interview was directed at UK donors and boosters who until very recently have not been communicated to clearly, if at all, about NIL due to our AD being a stick in the mud and not liking it. He's telling them the that's its all cleared up now and that the football team needs a collective with money set up in it in order to compete with recruiting. Our '22 class was ranked 14th but currently our '23 class is 50th because these NIL funds were not set up like at most other schools. Most of our basketball NIL money come from other entities. Shoe companies and such willing to pay future NBA players.

You referenced the JP Sports days, which I remember well, and there was ESPN and Fox then, and games to watch from noon to prime time. Before that, the NCAA controlled TV rights and there were fewer channels, but there were still nationally televised games. You’re missing my point anyways. I’m not saying fandom didn’t have a regional feel, I’m saying the article makes college football out to be historically a quaint little sport only cared about in certain places when it says stuff about ‘pockets of passion.’ It’s disingenuous to refer to the sport as anything but massively important and nationally relevant for 100 years, it just organizationally was relatively slow to move beyond segmentation of that interest. Pro leagues play national schedules and have playoffs, and even college basketball has had the NCAA tournament for over 80 years, while CFB and it’s bowl system left a lot of potential on the table. The NCAA lost its control over media rights in football, and everything that’s happened since then is a direct result of that. A slew of independents - South Carolina, Florida State, Penn State, etc. - realized the money would be better in a conference where they could sign a TV deal. The Big 8 and upper half of the SWC realized they were better off together than separate, and on it goes. The nationalization of the game revolving around TV money was inevitable for such a massively popular sport. There’s a reason why 8 of the 10 largest stadiums in the whole world are college football stadiums.

It was national, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and later ESPN showed a day’s worth of football just like they did the NFL. To catch all second tier games, yes, that was regional and often local radio and tape delays. But the interest and fan support overall has always been among the biggest sports in the country. It may have been segmented and LSU fans may not have known a lot about what Washington was doing, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that there were/are a TON of LSU and Washington fans. More than Pelicans and Sonics fans, and, if you go back far enough, more than Saints and Seahawks fans.

It’s completely false that college football was a ‘regional sport.’ It has been at least a top 4 sport in the country in terms of popularity, attention, viewer/listenership since it’s inception. Pre World War II it was baseball, boxing, and college football, followed closely by horse racing. It wasn’t until several decades later in the 70s/80s that the NFL and NBA began catching up, while boxing and horse racing fell off. Now baseball has fallen off as well and the NBA hasn’t caught college football. College football is weird, quirky, and unique. But it has never been a marginal sport. Alluding it as such is either lying or ignorance.

I like NIL, and I like the transfer portal. The huge numbers bubble, especially for recruiting, will bust and things will feel more acceptable. I like the playoff expansion. I think 12 teams is perfect. The only thing I DON'T like is this most recent conference realignment. I think the B1G, ACC, and Pac 12 should've eaten up the Big 12 while they had the chance last year. But they didn't, potentially leading to the demise of the ACC and Pac 12, and to the super-conferencing of the SEC and B1G. Four 16-team conferences made so much sense. They would still be largely regional, and small enough to feel like a conference not an entire league. But we may be heading towards 20 or 24 team conferences. I can stomach it but I don't like it.

I am coming around on the idea of adding 8, and this is basically my list. When ND inevitably turns the SEC down I'd like to add Kansas. Give Mizzou someone to finally relate to (and Oklahoma), good academics, and solidify yourself as a ridiculously good basketball conference with UK, KU, UNC, and Duke as anchors.

Yep they rejected them, and then like a year later realized that they needed to drop those standards or get left behind and added Louisville, a worse academic school

Big12 has weaker brand power still than the leftover Pac 12. There’s 8 solid brands plus WSU and OSU, while the new Big 12 has more of a little brother crowd outside of Kansas basketball. I would predict the other way around (Pac 10 picking up 6 of the new Big 12) rather than the other way around. The ACC meanwhile makes a hard push to bring ND all the way in, plus another (WVU probably).

I just want to put out there that the SEC *could* do 8 games and 3 permanent rivals (even though its not one of the two seemingly final options). The rotating games don't have to be perfectly divisible into the rotating teams - just look at what the SEC did at 12 teams. There were 5 extra teams in the other division from you that rotated through 2 games. So if they really wanted to compromise just do 8 games, 3 rivals. The remaining 12 teams rotate through the remaining 5 games in a staggered way. You still get to play everyone very often, just not perfectly biennially.

This is a teaser showing a lot of different jerseys the team will never wear or else have already had before as their jerseys. It's saying we will have new uniforms (home, away, and likely 1 alternate) revealed this fall.