4) Skip Bayless was actually saying that Cal was going to be a game changer at UK immediately. Rob Parker was playing the antogonist in that debate for once.
I still get nervous this time of year waiting on these great recruits to chose schools,they need to watch this that’ll push them to wanna chose UK I know I want too
This needs to be put out on video for purchase KSR! WOW! I can truly see why players want to play for Calipari! What an inspiration and what a match made in heaven! John Calipari + UK Basketball = UNTSTOPABLE!
I still get chills whenever I watch footage of anything related to the national championship. Tears come to my eyes whenever I know that I got to be a part of that Tourney celebration my senior year at UK.
Wall, Cousins, Cal, Lebron, etc., etc., watching that video says that Josh Harrelson spiking the ball off of Sullinger’s chest was the point at which Kentucky basketball was all the way back . . . it just said don’t F with us, don’t ever F with us. I love it.
Oh people get over yourselves. With the exception of Bobby Knight those other guys had very good reason to believe that Calipari could have been a disaster of a hire for a program like UK. Mitch B. swung for the fences with this hire. Barnhart knew he was on the hotseat so he went all in on Cal. The hiring of Calipari would either have brought the program crumbling down with cheating and scandals or UK would once rise again to the top of the College Basketball Kingdom.
Great video. I didn’t appreciate them showing Tubby when they were talking about a program that wasn’t meant for everybody. He gave a great 10 years to our program, and even though it was with Pitinos team he still won us a national championship. I hope everyone appreciates what Tubby did for us.
28) What always bothered me the most about the hate for the program before Cal even came was the double standard.
a) We were idiots for running off Tubby, who was an elite and amazing coach, and we were spoiled by all the great basketball he gave us. He was as good as it gets and our expectations were just too high.
b) Kentucky isn’t elite any more. We didn’t strike fear into other teams. There just can’t be domination and elite teams any more. That era is over. Well, Duke and UNC and UCLA and MSU are the great teams now. UK just isn’t on their level. UK isn’t even on the level of Florida, the great program Billy D was creating. An elite coach wasn’t going to leave his program to come to an obsolete Kentucky program.
If they don’t think we can climb back to the mountaintop or be dominant every year, that’s fine, but don’t pretend that we hadn’t slipped years before we got rid of BCG. In the years since Cal came, he’s demonstrated the level of excellence you can achieve at an elite school (UNC, Kansas, even Duke). We expect to be top 10 every year and to contend for a title at least every 3 years. At an elite university, that’s sensible.
Much of the hate was illogical and didn’t make sense no matter how loudly they spat it.
30) Tubby won a title, and got to a few elite 8s, but he was never comfortable here. He didn’t want to recruit, and he couldn’t endlessly attract the kind of elite talent Kentucky should. Tubby as a coach was more suited to be a 30 year coach somewhere like Georgia or Minnesota. Occasionally have a great run with a special player (like a Dewayne Wade at Marquette), but generally be a middle dweller in his conference with as many bad years as great ones.
Watching that video made me realize two things, just how much I really love UK, crying to a video like this proves it, and the second point is just how much I sincerely hate Bob Knight and everything he stands for. Great video though.
Several of my out-of-state friends don’t understand the passion that is felt for this basketball program. I just know that I feel damned proud to be a part of the BEST college basketball program EVER.
Great, great video.
Matt has said he works to keep anything ‘STAR WARS’ off his site. He’s failed with this one, that is where the final music in the vid is from.
Great job putting this footage on here…the ending with the Championship put a tear in my eye again…Wow,how times have changed in a short period of time…Thank you Cal…GO CATS!!! 2012 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am “Airball89″ and was the one who created this video. I appreciate KSR putting it up as it took lots of time and effort to put together. I can’t begin to tell you how much i appreciate all positive comments from all of you, it makes everything worth it for me in the end
This year has been such a special year for BBN and to think it’s only the beginning. Bobby Knight and others can make the ignorant comments, those will never stop. Never forget…
I loved that video, it gave me chills and just think we might have 2 or three more title runs in the future. Once Cal is done at Kentucky the guy who made this video needs to do another one and we’ll all cry over that one too.
Incredible video! The Caits have come so far in such a small amount of time. They’re in the title hunt every year, grabbing seemingly every headline and putting a record amount of players into the NBA via the first round much less other paths. Even players that seldom played (Orton) or never played (Kanter) go in the 1st round. Amazing, just amazing. Thanks Coach Cal. Now lets get #9!! Go CATS!
August 14th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Is anyone else’s allergies bothering them this morning?
August 14th, 2012 at 9:54 am
EPIC!!!!
August 14th, 2012 at 9:54 am
^^^ Mine started acting up at the one minute mark.
August 14th, 2012 at 9:55 am
Now, that video gave me freakin’ chills!!! Wow, how stupid does Rob Parker, Skip Bayless, and Hubert Davis sound now?
August 14th, 2012 at 9:57 am
Thanks god for Calipari. Go to hell: Bobby Knight, Forde, Pitino, Vitale.
August 14th, 2012 at 9:57 am
chills…erection
August 14th, 2012 at 9:58 am
Brilliant. #9 awaits.
August 14th, 2012 at 9:58 am
I could watch that all day.
August 14th, 2012 at 9:59 am
Great video
August 14th, 2012 at 9:59 am
Kiss my arse Bobby Knight
August 14th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Excuse me, I got something in my eye. Be right back.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Love the video, but a little less Bobby Knight and a little more MKG wouldn’t hurt.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:01 am
4) Skip Bayless was actually saying that Cal was going to be a game changer at UK immediately. Rob Parker was playing the antogonist in that debate for once.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Wow!
August 14th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Unreal
August 14th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Mitch made a mistake with Gillespie but has there ever been a better, or bigger, correction made in history?
August 14th, 2012 at 10:04 am
I’m trying to figure out what the UK equivalent of yelling “America!” is, because that’s what I want to do after watching that video
August 14th, 2012 at 10:08 am
I still get nervous this time of year waiting on these great recruits to chose schools,they need to watch this that’ll push them to wanna chose UK I know I want too
August 14th, 2012 at 10:09 am
“to catch ucla” i like the way Cal thinks. just hope he can getter done in my lifetime
August 14th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Simply Awesome!
August 14th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Beautiful. Wouldn’t that be perfect to show at Big Blue Madness…
August 14th, 2012 at 10:21 am
This needs to be put out on video for purchase KSR! WOW! I can truly see why players want to play for Calipari! What an inspiration and what a match made in heaven! John Calipari + UK Basketball = UNTSTOPABLE!
August 14th, 2012 at 10:23 am
A copy of this video needs to be sent certified mail to Rick Pitino, Tony Kornheiser, Rob Parker, Hubert Davis, and Bobby Knight.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:33 am
That is an awesome video. Well done. Well done.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:36 am
I still get chills whenever I watch footage of anything related to the national championship. Tears come to my eyes whenever I know that I got to be a part of that Tourney celebration my senior year at UK.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:37 am
I agree with Toby, I would buy this video! Great history of our struggles and triumphs! Thanks KSR for making my day!!
August 14th, 2012 at 10:37 am
Wall, Cousins, Cal, Lebron, etc., etc., watching that video says that Josh Harrelson spiking the ball off of Sullinger’s chest was the point at which Kentucky basketball was all the way back . . . it just said don’t F with us, don’t ever F with us. I love it.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:39 am
Oh people get over yourselves. With the exception of Bobby Knight those other guys had very good reason to believe that Calipari could have been a disaster of a hire for a program like UK. Mitch B. swung for the fences with this hire. Barnhart knew he was on the hotseat so he went all in on Cal. The hiring of Calipari would either have brought the program crumbling down with cheating and scandals or UK would once rise again to the top of the College Basketball Kingdom.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Just changed my mind, BBN here I come.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Great video. I didn’t appreciate them showing Tubby when they were talking about a program that wasn’t meant for everybody. He gave a great 10 years to our program, and even though it was with Pitinos team he still won us a national championship. I hope everyone appreciates what Tubby did for us.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:03 am
28) What always bothered me the most about the hate for the program before Cal even came was the double standard.
a) We were idiots for running off Tubby, who was an elite and amazing coach, and we were spoiled by all the great basketball he gave us. He was as good as it gets and our expectations were just too high.
b) Kentucky isn’t elite any more. We didn’t strike fear into other teams. There just can’t be domination and elite teams any more. That era is over. Well, Duke and UNC and UCLA and MSU are the great teams now. UK just isn’t on their level. UK isn’t even on the level of Florida, the great program Billy D was creating. An elite coach wasn’t going to leave his program to come to an obsolete Kentucky program.
If they don’t think we can climb back to the mountaintop or be dominant every year, that’s fine, but don’t pretend that we hadn’t slipped years before we got rid of BCG. In the years since Cal came, he’s demonstrated the level of excellence you can achieve at an elite school (UNC, Kansas, even Duke). We expect to be top 10 every year and to contend for a title at least every 3 years. At an elite university, that’s sensible.
Much of the hate was illogical and didn’t make sense no matter how loudly they spat it.
30) Tubby won a title, and got to a few elite 8s, but he was never comfortable here. He didn’t want to recruit, and he couldn’t endlessly attract the kind of elite talent Kentucky should. Tubby as a coach was more suited to be a 30 year coach somewhere like Georgia or Minnesota. Occasionally have a great run with a special player (like a Dewayne Wade at Marquette), but generally be a middle dweller in his conference with as many bad years as great ones.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:03 am
Watching that video made me realize two things, just how much I really love UK, crying to a video like this proves it, and the second point is just how much I sincerely hate Bob Knight and everything he stands for. Great video though.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Several of my out-of-state friends don’t understand the passion that is felt for this basketball program. I just know that I feel damned proud to be a part of the BEST college basketball program EVER.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:14 am
What a great video. Truly Kentucky’s sport. Cal brings gr8ness wherever he goes hope he stays here a while.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Gave me cold chills, and i mite have teared up just a little!!
August 14th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Loved the quick Shabazz and “not made for UK” dig.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Just beautiful
August 14th, 2012 at 11:23 am
That was an awesome use of 10 minutes of a mid-August day. I think I’ll make it 20. Very good.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:27 am
Gr8 video,Curious if KSR put this together or is their someone else to give a shout out too?
August 14th, 2012 at 11:36 am
Wow!! I’m ready to play!
August 14th, 2012 at 11:40 am
I didnt cry this much when my children were born!
August 14th, 2012 at 11:44 am
Great, great video.
Matt has said he works to keep anything ‘STAR WARS’ off his site. He’s failed with this one, that is where the final music in the vid is from.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:56 am
How long before the cold chills go away?
August 14th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
My nipples are peeking at me through my blouse! Burrrr its cold!
August 14th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Contact lens acting up again.
August 14th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
When Boogie did that “call me”. at MS State… I knew right then and there that everyone else in college basketball was goin’ to be our bitch!
August 14th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Great job putting this footage on here…the ending with the Championship put a tear in my eye again…Wow,how times have changed in a short period of time…Thank you Cal…GO CATS!!! 2012 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
August 14th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Fantastic Video!
Goes from extremely sad times to jubilation!!!
GO BIG BLUE!
August 14th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am “Airball89″ and was the one who created this video. I appreciate KSR putting it up as it took lots of time and effort to put together. I can’t begin to tell you how much i appreciate all positive comments from all of you, it makes everything worth it for me in the end
August 14th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
That is probably the best 9 minutes and 32 seconds I have had this week!
August 14th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
I told myself I wouldn’t cry….hey Knight go fuck yourself! BBN
August 14th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
CHILLS!!
August 14th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
49) Bravo, sir! That video made me all verklempt…
August 14th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Wow!! Best Video on The Cats i have seen!!!!!
August 14th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
49 – Really wonderful to say the least….Thanks for the hard work that I know it takes to create this video!
AND……..YES, there does seem to be something in the air that keeps getting in my eyes too.
August 14th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Beauty! Great job. Bob Knight can blow me though.
August 14th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
This year has been such a special year for BBN and to think it’s only the beginning. Bobby Knight and others can make the ignorant comments, those will never stop. Never forget…
“DON’T LET ANYONE STEAL OUR JOY”
August 14th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Great video. Love that Drew Franklin made the video
August 14th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Bobby Knight can go blow a goat! Same for all the HATERS! IN CAL WE TRUST!! GO CATS!!
August 14th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
tears man! love my cats, great video, loved all the hate speak from all the back bitin experts! awesome
August 14th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
I loved that video, it gave me chills and just think we might have 2 or three more title runs in the future. Once Cal is done at Kentucky the guy who made this video needs to do another one and we’ll all cry over that one too.
August 14th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
I like the other “the john calipari era” better…minus the championship part
August 14th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Love the dig at shabazz at the end
August 14th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Incredible. Yea I cried.
August 14th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Watched the video twice….brought me to tears – both times. Proud to be a Big Blue Fan!
August 14th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Incredible video! The Caits have come so far in such a small amount of time. They’re in the title hunt every year, grabbing seemingly every headline and putting a record amount of players into the NBA via the first round much less other paths. Even players that seldom played (Orton) or never played (Kanter) go in the 1st round. Amazing, just amazing. Thanks Coach Cal. Now lets get #9!! Go CATS!
August 14th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Yep. Cried — Thank You!! Go Cats!!
August 14th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
The UK and Coach Cal run has just began!
August 14th, 2012 at 9:30 pm
proud of this BBN im in!! LOVE IT!!! #cried
August 14th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
WOW!!!!!!!
August 14th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
all choked up. GO CATS!!!
August 16th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
GAve me cold chills!!!Go Cats!