Despite big win, poll voters disrespect Cats
Chris DeLotell
Issue date: 9/20/07 Section: Sports
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Wayne Phillips is smokin' something.
Smokin' ignorance, that is.
If you don't know who Wayne Phillips is, that's OK - I don't either. All I know is that Phillips, who writes about college football in some capacity for the Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun, left UK off his ballot for this week's Associated Press Top 25 poll.
Phillips apparently didn't heed UK coach Rich Brooks' proclamation that any voter who left the Cats off his ballot was "smokin' something."
That crime wouldn't be so egregious (very few voters have been able to get used to penciling the word "Kentucky" on their ballots in the past two decades) if not for one small fact:
Phillips ranked Louisville No. 16.
And unless the city of Louisville, Colo., has begun fielding a college football team, Phillips must mean the same Louisville that UK beat five days ago. He must mean the same Louisville that has a 2-1 record. He must mean the same Louisville that has a stop-nobody defense, an overmatched head coach and a classless student newspaper.
Side note: If you didn't read the garbage piece of hack journalism about UK fans in last week's edition of the Louisville Cardinal, be sure to look it up on the Web. What an embarrassment for that publication and the student who wrote the piece. Trevor Joelson, you should be ashamed.
Back now to our friend Wayne Phillips. And, before we go farther, let's point out that Phillips isn't alone in his idiocy. Enough voters placed U of L ahead of UK that the Cards are ranked ahead of the Cats in the both the AP and Coaches polls.
Perhaps Wayne Phillips has calibrated an elaborate set of equations to help him determine where to slot teams in his weekly ballot. Maybe he's a math whiz who has concocted a system that shows U of L to be better than UK.
Or maybe he's just an out-of-touch dunce.
I don't know, and it doesn't matter. What I do know is that, like Doubting Thomas, I see better than I hear. And what I saw on Saturday allows me to make the unequivocal determination that right now, at this very moment in time, the football team at UK is better than the football team at U of L.
Smokin' ignorance, that is.
If you don't know who Wayne Phillips is, that's OK - I don't either. All I know is that Phillips, who writes about college football in some capacity for the Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun, left UK off his ballot for this week's Associated Press Top 25 poll.
Phillips apparently didn't heed UK coach Rich Brooks' proclamation that any voter who left the Cats off his ballot was "smokin' something."
That crime wouldn't be so egregious (very few voters have been able to get used to penciling the word "Kentucky" on their ballots in the past two decades) if not for one small fact:
Phillips ranked Louisville No. 16.
And unless the city of Louisville, Colo., has begun fielding a college football team, Phillips must mean the same Louisville that UK beat five days ago. He must mean the same Louisville that has a 2-1 record. He must mean the same Louisville that has a stop-nobody defense, an overmatched head coach and a classless student newspaper.
Side note: If you didn't read the garbage piece of hack journalism about UK fans in last week's edition of the Louisville Cardinal, be sure to look it up on the Web. What an embarrassment for that publication and the student who wrote the piece. Trevor Joelson, you should be ashamed.
Back now to our friend Wayne Phillips. And, before we go farther, let's point out that Phillips isn't alone in his idiocy. Enough voters placed U of L ahead of UK that the Cards are ranked ahead of the Cats in the both the AP and Coaches polls.
Perhaps Wayne Phillips has calibrated an elaborate set of equations to help him determine where to slot teams in his weekly ballot. Maybe he's a math whiz who has concocted a system that shows U of L to be better than UK.
Or maybe he's just an out-of-touch dunce.
I don't know, and it doesn't matter. What I do know is that, like Doubting Thomas, I see better than I hear. And what I saw on Saturday allows me to make the unequivocal determination that right now, at this very moment in time, the football team at UK is better than the football team at U of L.
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Terry
posted 9/20/07 @ 6:18 AM EST
What else could you expect from the Volenteer State ? I can say this, any team in America that takes the Wildcats light, will find themselves on the losing end of the stick. (Continued…)
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Terry
posted 9/20/07 @ 6:30 AM EST
What else could you expect from the Volonteer State ? I can say this, any team in America that takes the Wildcats light, will end up on the losing end of the stick. (Continued…)
Brian Piccolo
posted 9/20/07 @ 8:46 AM EST
I hate to break it to you fans who think KY should be higher in the polls than they are. They are right where they should be considering the schedule we have played thus far. (Continued…)
DA
posted 9/20/07 @ 1:15 PM EST
When we beat someone other than a pair of girlie teams, and maybe the most overrated team in the nation. Then you will have a valid point until then, you're just blowing smoke. (Continued…)
KA
posted 9/21/07 @ 10:14 AM EST
So, I saw the so called "article" in the Louisville Cardinal website. And you're right. That guy SHOULD be ashamed. Responsible journalism? Hardly. And an intelligent way to present his argument? I don't think he has the brain power. (Continued…)
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