TheWatShot

It wasn't because he was so valuable or irreplaceable. It was that firing an assistant coach in the first week of the season is usually a sign of dysfunction within the program. Something we came to expect with a program led by Mike Woodson.

Our pitching staff is 13th in the conference in ERA. Our lineup is second in home runs, batting average, walks, on-base percentage and slugging percentage and #1 in RBI's and OPS.

Curtis not being heavily recruited here is mind-boggling to me. I can't understand how DeVries recruits him to West Virginia but isn't pursuing him now with our lack of size, or why Curtis isn't more interested given that IU and DeVries/WVU were his second and third options after ASU.

Blaming fans is a hallmark of a toxic program culture. Our program's culture has sucked for the better part of a decade and it desperately needs to change. That isn't happening with guys like Leal and Goode around.

Imagine going through Senior Night twice and still trying to get a waiver to keep playing. Won't be a popular opinion, but I hope it gets denied. Not interested in players who blame fans and can't handle criticism.

Not sure I've seen a player go from hero to zero as fast as Gary Trent Jr. did tonight. Four 3's in the fourth quarter, four more in OT and then two turnovers in the last 30 seconds to blow the game.

The average UK fan probably thinks LLC means "Living Like Champions."

I'd like to have someone on the staff, whether it's the head coach or someone else, that's well-versed in social media and can get these guys to understand how to pick their battles. I'd rather not have guys tweeting and arguing with fans after losses. TJD and Race did that a lot.

Good stuff. I had a UK fan tell me the other day that he was proud to root for a program full of guys who play for the name on the front of their jersey, and that Wilkerson wouldn't have been a good fit there.

Man, I don't know about this. Imagine how toxic this place will be if we're looking at 3 straight years of no tournament.

I hope they play an SEC team so we can watch Smith and Loyer get abused again.

The only way Dakich will ever get his wish is if social media disappears. And I doubt he would want that, because then people would forget he even exists.

UK fans are embarrassed that we got a guy they wanted and are royally pissed off by his "just another guy" comments. Hopefully he shows up when we play them in December and doesn't have a Romeo Langford at Purdue performance.

I always thought he was unhinged.

I thought he picked us over Syracuse.