Tubby Smith has left the UK Basketball program and you'd think the diversity-centric are poppin' a coronary gasket. How dare UK fans expect to support a program that is above the rest of the nation? UK fans are a joke in their expectations they say. Unrealistic. The mantra goes something like this:
Get real. It's, like, 2008 and everything. There just isn't going to be a dominant program anymore. Parity. Yeah, that's it. There's parity now. Everybody else has gotten really, really good. Anyone can win and we like it that way. Rednecks and hillbillies shouldn't have anything to be proud of, because they aren't as smart as the rest of the country who lives in the East or the North or California. They don't even wear much Abercrombie - how can their colloge basketball team ever be good?
Yeah that's a bit satirical, but it pretty much sums up the fit the local media is throwing. They LIKE to see UK lose. They LOVE mediocrity. I think it's an "I suck. You Suck. We all Suck so I feel better about the fact I was never able to ______" mentality.
Fuck 'em. The expectation and pursuit of excellence is it's own reward, as we shall soon see. Right Coach Donovan?
