We don't deserve to win. Fan base.

[bigpigpimpin]

We literally have nobody there to support our guys. It's a home game for kentucky.

[NuttinItUp]

Ok, Debbie Downer.

[Razorback Mac]

We literally have nobody there to support our guys. It's a home game for kentucky.

where are you?

[Woopig69]

We literally have nobody there to support our guys. It's a home game for kentucky.

are you there?

[Dr. Starcs]

where are you?

are you there?

Exactly

[Hollywood870]

A Sweet Sixteen this year would help rejuvenate the fan base.

[3kgthog]

UK fans have nothing else to live for. Why wouldn't they show up?

[Knot2brite]

So because a bunch of people didn't take off work because they can't afford to go a tournament in this economy then we deserve to lose? Horse Piss

[PorkRinds]

We literally have nobody there to support our guys. It's a home game for kentucky.

What a dumbass thing to say. These players have fought to be there. They deserve to win every game.

[IronMountainHog]

Kentucky fans have a short drive and are stupid enough to pay $80-120 a head to get in. We play better away from Fayetteville anyway.

[JenksHawg]

yeah that first crowd shot to open up was pretty depressing.  Only thought was - that's the difference in 15 years of winning and 15 years of losing.  Long ways from Barnhill South!

[Pig Worshipper]

The "fan base" has nothing to do with whether this team deserves to win. If they play hard and well, they'll deserve to win.

[HawgHeadCheese]

A Sweet Sixteen this year would help rejuvenate the fan base.

It shouldn't take a sweet 16 to rejuvenate. We're 25-8 in the SEC championship game.

[RME]

Didn't say the team didn't deserve to win.

As others have said --- what seat are you in?

[Dr. Starcs]

are you there?

Dodged that one didn't he.

[Boardon Hamsay]

Fact of the matter is, we as a fan base still expect to lose a game like this. We hope to win but expect to lose. That's based on performance inconsistency at times. When we play more consistently in a season, we start expecting to win more as a fan base which allows more folks to feel more confident that making a trip like this will be worth the money via winning. UK fans expect to win and they therefore travel.

[Pig Worshipper]

Didn't say the team didn't deserve to win.

"We" includes to team, pal.

[Mr. Porkleone]

We literally have nobody there to support our guys. It's a home game for kentucky.

What a LOSER you are. Where you sitting in your chair bossing your wife around and coming on HG to moan about lack of fans. What's a shill

[Dirty]

As others have said --- what seat are you in?

There are six open seats around me.none of you are invited to my house.

[LZH]

yeah that first crowd shot to open up was pretty depressing.  Only thought was - that's the difference in 15 years of winning and 15 years of losing.  Long ways from Barnhill South!

This will be ignored by many, but it's the truth.  Lots of people have lost interest....gotta win to fill those seats.  If we hang tough today and win a couple games in the tourney, folks will take notice and hopefully next year BWA won't look like a cave on gameday.

[IronMountainHog]

The SEC football, baseball, and basketball tournaments for some reason do not believe in rotation of locale. Baseball is permanently in Hoover, Alabama. Football is permanently in Atlanta, and basketball is in Nashville, Atlanta, and Memphis. Move these damn things around so some of the teams in the west or north can afford to travel easier. The damn BIG 10 tournament is in Washington DC and the ACC is in Brooklyn this year.

[NuttinItUp]

The SEC football, baseball, and basketball tournaments for some reason do not believe in rotation of locale. Baseball is permanently in Hoover, Alabama. Football is permanently in Atlanta, and basketball is in Nashville, Atlanta, and Memphis. Move these damn things around so some of the teams in the west or north can afford to travel easier. The damn BIG 10 tournament is in Washington DC and the ACC is in Brooklyn this year.

Basketball is in St. Louis next year.

[LZH]

Basketball is in St. Louis next year.

Now that's alright.  I hadn't read that.

[IronMountainHog]

Basketball is in St. Louis next year.

Thats a nice start and great to hear, but basketball is the only one doing it. Football and Baseball will never move.

[Hogs958]

wow...great fan you are. I'm assuming you are there.

[Bogghawg]

Kentucky fans have a decades long tradition of camping outside the arena and buying up all the tickets as the other teams lose.  So many can never see games in Lexington because they are all sold out that they wait all year and head to the SEC Tourney.  There are literally no tickets to be had for our fans.  This is EXACTLY what we accomplished all those years of the SWC Tourney.  This is called the Kentucky Invitational just like ours was Barnhill South.  This won't change just because we have had a couple of successful years.  It is in no way an indictment of our fans.  It is what it is.  As long as they keep winning in this tournament there will be very little tickets to be had.

[heatmiser]

Usually can't win when you pass the ball directly to the better team.

[userpick]

Us being down 12 at Half has nothing to do with the fan base.

[Bogghawg]

Basketball is in St. Louis next year.

Lexington to Nashville - 234 miles
Lexington to St Louis - 338 miles

It will be exactly the same as long as they are playing.

[Vantage 8 dude]

The SEC football, baseball, and basketball tournaments for some reason do not believe in rotation of locale. Baseball is permanently in Hoover, Alabama. Football is permanently in Atlanta, and basketball is in Nashville, Atlanta, and Memphis. Move these damn things around so some of the teams in the west or north can afford to travel easier. The damn BIG 10 tournament is in Washington DC and the ACC is in Brooklyn this year.

Totally concur. Ridiculous that the tournaments/championships in sports such as football and baseball aren't rotated every few years. The league apparently believes that at least with those two sports there are no other venues capable or willing to host the games. Ludicrous for a league that's supposedly so far-sighted and elite.

[DeltaBoy]

The economy still tight on many of us so we can't go over the place to see them play.

[goodguytex]

We just have to keep improving as a program. We keep doing that, the fans will come. That was proven in the 90s when we were winning and our fans were packing Atlanta when we played in the SEC tournament.