|
Author
|
Topic: Coach giving the fans a tongue lashing
|
m hamilton
Player
Member # 127
|
posted 09-06-2008 08:57 PM
Maybe not officially a tongue lashing, but he's scolding the fans for booing Hartline when he started teh second half. I guess I wasn't paying any attention to the fans when the second half started.
NO reason to boo, especially at teh players who are giving it their best on every play.
I'D LIKE TO SEE OUR FANS HAVE A LITTLE MORE CLASS THAN TO BOO OUR OWN PLAYERS!!!
--------------------
The potus is planning 1st major tax hike since '93 in next economic package!
I still can't believe some people believed that LIAR!!!
Your whole life is determined(by) 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you handle it!!!
Posts: 125321 | From: vevay, IN USA | Registered: Sep 1999
| IP: Logged
|
|
prophet
Player
Member # 2089
|
posted 09-06-2008 09:52 PM
Not that I approve of booing of the home team but -- as Coach alluded to at the end of his post-game comments -- I believe the boos were directed toward the coaching decision and not toward Hartline.
--------------------
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson
Posts: 7875 | From: Boquete, Panama | Registered: Sep 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
catmandoo
Player
Member # 1284
|
posted 09-07-2008 01:45 AM
I agree prophet most every Kentucky fan will never boo a player. I would hope that fans would also have the decency not to boo coachs ethier but past transgressions has ruined my hope..
--------------------
http://www.ukfightsong.com/
Posts: 186363 | From: st. augustine florida 32092 | Registered: Mar 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
boomdaddy
Player
Member # 2644
|
posted 09-07-2008 06:32 AM
You don't boo your home team. With that said, Uzelac, during the Curry era, was the eexception to the rule.
UK was beating an inferior team by a comfortable margin. That is exactly the time to switch players around. Fans are a trip.
Posts: 8791 | From: paris, ky | Registered: Mar 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Tiptree
Administrator
Member # 844
|
posted 09-07-2008 08:20 AM
I vaguely remember the shameful booing of Sharay Thomas a few years back when he entered a game. Of course, each and every person who booed claimed he was really booing Coach Smith.
After reading the dozens of posts decrying Thomas' abilities over the years, I had my doubts then, and I have my doubts now.
We must recognize that when the national media refers to Kentucky fans as 'over the top bumppkins', there are some fans that fit that description (the old "kernel of truth"). Those fans were undoubtedly booing the coaches decision because they didn't like Hartline.
Nuanced? Perhaps. But I doubt young Michael took it that way.
[ 09-07-2008, 08:21 AM: Message edited by: Tiptree ]
--------------------
Tiptree
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson
Posts: 13677 | From: Terre Haute, IN | Registered: Sep 2000
| IP: Logged
|
|
bayer
Administrator
Member # 462
|
posted 09-07-2008 12:15 PM
If the player (in this case Harline) is coming on the field, it's a lame excuse to say the fans are booing the coaching decision.
Coach Brooks is 100% right on this. The fans need to have more respect for their own team and cut that crap out. These coaches have worked too hard to get the quality of players we have now to give anyone fodder to use against us in recruiting.
--------------------
Kentucky Basketball - Once Again, A Way of Life in the Bluegrass State!
Posts: 17281 | From: the center of Big Blue Nation!!! | Registered: Mar 2000
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Brandon
Player
Member # 108
|
posted 09-08-2008 07:03 AM
I remember several years ago when the fans booed Pookie Jones when he was having a tough day on the field. I never felt so ashamed of the Kentucky fans as I did that day. I told one guy that was booing Pookie that if he was able to do a better job then he would be out thee instead of Pookie. Since he's not, I guess he couldn't do a better job so he should shut the F up.
He did.
The players don't recognize the difference between booing the coaches and booing them. And even if they could, do you think the players are going to feel inspired knowing that "at least they're not booing me."
My feeling is that if you feel like you have to boo the team, stay home and do it from there.
--------------------
Safety and peace be with you always.
Posts: 6632 | From: Earth...Thanks for visiting. | Registered: Sep 1999
| IP: Logged
|
|
m hamilton
Player
Member # 127
|
posted 09-08-2008 10:44 AM
I've never in all of my days as a fan of any sport ever boo'd a player or coach for anyreason.
The only time I've ever boo'd during a sporting event was when an official made, what was in my opinion, a bad call!! Then I've showed my displeasure.
Or maybe one time when I felt Spurrier was running the score up on somebody back when he was coaching at FL!
--------------------
The potus is planning 1st major tax hike since '93 in next economic package!
I still can't believe some people believed that LIAR!!!
Your whole life is determined(by) 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you handle it!!!
Posts: 125321 | From: vevay, IN USA | Registered: Sep 1999
| IP: Logged
|
|
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic