Get over it.

Exactly! They finally have a coach who isn't an alcoholic loser and this is what they're complaining about? This does nothing to counteract the stereotype about Kentucky fans not being highly enlightened.

At this point honestly. If Calipari leads Kentucky to the National title, im sure Fans wouldn't give a flying f*ck if he decided to supported Michael Vick.

Who gives a crap who he supports?  Why don't KU fans worry about the job Calipari does as head coach?

They ought to be mad being Ky fans

So, Obama calling the Steelers after the Superbowl was a left-wing conspiracy to privatize the NFL? Get over it!

why in the world does politics come into a sport? is it the media doing it ,to get a reaction  from the fans,or the real story so the media can slant the story whichever way they want their rag to look that day......i am sure that coach is sorry as hell for answering that question instead of pleading the fifth. so when is the other side of the coin gonna flip??????

I don't really get why a fan base would be upset about a press/photo OP with the PRESIDENT of the United States. Totally ridiculous!

I'm not a fan of Bush II, but I certainly wouldn't have begrudged a team doing a photo op with him. He was the dang President!

It's not so much whether or not Calipari supports Obama, I could care less on that issue.  If it was my college team, then I'd be upset over the simple fact that I would not want a university's jersey donated to Obama with his name on it. 

Who paid for this jersey, Calipari or the University?   

Listen to me. I am not a Obama supporter, I'm a moderate conservative, but I'll say this: LETS DEBATE SPORTS, NOT POLITICS!!! THIS IS A SPORTS SITE, NOT A POLITICAL SITE!!! THANK YOU, now that i've gotten that off my chest!.......Dadburn!.......

Wow. Yay my state! =).

The f, Kentucky fans.

You ought to be worried about what your team's doing for the upcoming year and what Calipari might be doing to get what your team's doing taken away.

What's the big deal about giving someone a jersey?  Why does that require an apology?  Who the hell cares?

Looks like Kentucky fans are just looking for something to whine about to kill the time until they can brag about their history before they promptly get blown away again, where they can then resume whining about coaching and other inane bs.

Stupidity works in mysterious ways.

Some Kentucky fans.*

hey,
at Least Calipari doesn;t drink his own urine!

It's funny to me how these "time honored traditions" of sending things to the President are now an issue.  Why can't this President get a jersey, Kentucky fans?

It is quite traditional for coaches to send things to presidents. I think a bunch of racist bigots need a life. Personally, I happen to like President Obama and I think he kowtows too much to people in his efforts to cooperate and just get along, but that's me. I think people are getting bent out of shape over a whole lot of issues that don't amount to anything. This was one example; the speech to school children was another. Based on the argument I heard for not letting children hear his speech, I have real reason for concern. When my son was a child, President Reagan spoke to the children. If Michelle Malkin is right and speaking to school children is merely an opportunity to brainwash children like North Korea or like Sadaam Hussein would have done, then we must have a generation of communists running around. In fact, Reagan was so effective that he wiped my son's brain clean. He doesn't even remember it. If these idiots would just keep their claptraps shut, our children probably wouldn't either.

Coach Cal is an ambassador for the university. It is appropriate and right that he reach out in the fashion that he did. He is going across our state and drawing huge excited crowds. The football team is off with a bang, the volleyball team is undefeated and UK Athletics is doing great. These whiners can just go sit in the corner and suck their thumbs as far as I'm concerned.

Bleeding UK Blue now and until I die
Kentucky Alum 75 and 2003
kygal2009

I'll bleed red until i die.

Er...cause KU fans are in Kansas. 

And as a UK fan it saddens me to think a coach cant send the president of the united states an honorary jersey.  Idiot hicks.

as the man said himself you can tell alot about me by thte people i surround myself with. a self proclaimed communist. but we are getting away from the true purpose of this site is to brag and talk about sports why cant we leave politics out in the real world and enjoy ourselves doing what we came hear to do and talk smack!!!!

Oh sh!t!?  This isnt the real world?  Son of a....?!   FINE.  See you fakers later. 

Well, Kentucky did vote for McCain 58% to 41% for Obama....  you'd think a slick operator like Cal would have known that and thus would have avoided jerseygate.

I beleive it was more than that bludevil but nonetheless you are right, you think he would of known. I myself wouldn't have sent him S***. Really it was a MTV popularity win but thats beside the point. The point of the matter is (which you out of staters don't understand) is that this is simply our community. If you are going to come here and try and lead our most traditioned and honored sport in our state than you better be aware of who you are representing. It is as simple as that. I do agree the politics should be left out of sports but this is something we kentuckians (the majority) feel strongly about, just as I'm sure yall from other states have your own things that the community agrees on.

I think that if he did it during the campaign, it would be something worth complaining about. But now that he has already been elected president, I think that it's not a big deal at all, and whether or not people like the president, they should stand behind him and support him, and there's nothing wrong with Calipari reaching out to him like that.

Thanks!

Great! Now, On! On! U of K! We are right for the fight today! Go Big Blue!

Yeah.... like in my state we are rational enough to believe that you don't win the presidency by such an overwhelming majority just because it was "a MTV popularity win". Way to continue to marginalize KY... this is why your state is still in the 1950s.

I'm not trying to impress anybody so go ahead and keep throwing remarks out there it really doesn't bother me. I was just giving yall the perspective from a kentuckian that understands. I myself would rather have old fashioned views than the way this modern day community is headed.

i thinks every angle about this subject has been covered by the great people of kentucky and elsewhere,now can we get back to the real reason we are in the site....SPORTS....

I must be confused. I thought this was a sports discussion site, not a political discussion site. If it is a site for discussing sports, I suggest we leave politics for CNN, MSNBC and FOX and go on with sports.

Furthermore, once you get away from the coastline, I don't think North Carolina is all that progressive either.  North Carolina has its share of problems. I don't see that Kentucky is marginalized any more than other southern states so I don't quite get the comment and I don't think we are quite stuck in the 50s. That is coming from someone who did not contribute to McCain's majority win here.

Easy now- you rake on him for maginalizing Kentucky- AND THEN YOU DO IT YOURSELF!! lol...I understand you blasting his rediculous comment about Obama's MTV popularity win, but c'mon, we don't need your added stereotypes in the mix.  Sure there are bigots in Kentucky-just like North Carolina.  Don't come off so self-righteous.  You're bette than that Bludevil.

First, I'm not in North Carolina. I also don't think North Carolina is as progressive as it could be, but I do feel it is a lot more progressive than KY. Just my opinion, and I'm a moron, so don't put too much stock in it.

Second, I'd be glad to discuss sports. But whoever posted this article, by definition, made it political in nature when it was pointed out that KY was upset because Cal sent a jersey to Obama. I don't think you can really separate the too at that point.

Yeah, you're right. In retrospect I shouldn't have said that. I was mad, I apologize. Just like the guy who yelled out "Liar!" or whatever during the Prez's speech the other night. I lost my head for a sec.

Well, that person wasn't I. Sorry, I assumed you were from North Carolina. The BluDevil threw me. I was assuming you were a Duke fan, but you don't have to live in North Carolina to be a Duke fan. Some of Kentucky's strongest alumni groups are out of state.

Cool video. Youtube has a lot of cool Kentucky Wildcat videos. This is one ukcat8fan's videos. This guy ALWAYS makes great videos. Some of the others are awesome, too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTrtsv5pDAE&feature=related

Here's the link to another one of his videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o2KPLaMPQM&feature=player_embedded

Post some new stories. I am tired of reading comments by the birthers, the deathers, and the tenthers. They aren't credible anyway. I am ready to get back to basketball!

For conservatives, supporting democrats is worse than supporting animal rights abusers.

It's not about supporting Democrats or Republicans and that is something conservatives fail to understand. Calipari may have even voted for McCain for all you know. He was merely doing his job as an ambassador for the university and he would have given a jersey to the sitting president regardless of who he was. If it had been McCain or Nader, the gesture would have been the same.

I think, based on the type of signs I have seen at the tea parties and the type of challenges made to Obama's legitimacy to the presidency, what many people are upset about even more so than the issues is the fact that Obama is not 100% white.  You can get mad as hops if you want to for me saying that, but the types of protests have not been about a lot of true issues. The Nazi signs, the clown face signs, the "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" signs, "I came unarmed this time" along with the birther, deather, tenther stuff that is going on reveal the hearts of the people doing this.These are not real issues. This is dumb, ignorant, stuff that anybody with any common sense the size of their little fingernail could see through. So, don't talk to me about supporting Democrats being worse than supporting animal rights abusers, because there was never a Republican president that I ever heard tell of that cared a hoot for animal rights or environmental rights (except Teddy Roosevelt and you guys would crucify him today as being too liberal) or any other group in this vein. You will holler about abortion rights for instance and there is nothing wrong with that, not at all. However, the Republican candidates hypocrisy shows through, because once the children are born, they don't care at all. They vote against everything that will help children and families. So, don't preach your high and mighty holier than thou crap to me. Your so called family values senators and governors are being caught out one right after another in bathroom stalls playing footsie with other men, having affairs while preaching the Holy Bible and even running off to Argentina abandoning the job he was elected to. Democrats politicians get caught out in this, too and when they do, I am through with them especially if they like John Edwards presented themselve as golden boys, loving family men. Talk about hypocrisy. If you want to support these Republicans who carry on like this thinking they have the answers for America, that is your business, but don't rag a man for doing his job and that is all Calipari was doing. If you don't like it, for my part, you can either lump it or support another team.  If you didn't want the man to be an ambasador for the university, that's too bad. You didn't write his job description. You didn't hire him and it is not up you to fire him. It isn't up to me, either. I just wouldn't have given it a second thought if McCain or Nader had been in office and he had made the same gesture. You people need a life and something really important to whine about.

Where did tkmay1 come from? I am kyga2009 and I made that comment, not my husband. He doesn't even watch sports and this was madefrom my email adddress when I was reading my email. I don't know how in the world you got Tony's email in there. I would never have published his email address publicly anyway.

I don't know how this got my husband's name on it since he doesn't watch sports and doesn't get on the Internet unless he is reading email or looking up farm stuff or information related to the United Methodist Church. I am writing from my email account and it is posting under his name. I am kygal2009. Another thing, my husband is a Republican and he wouldn't post this even if he were posting for sports. I don't know how posting from my email notifications is coming up under his name. He never even heard of Fan IQ.
kygal2009

Wait, I was'nt arguing in favor of the conservatives.

For conservatives, supporting democrats is worse than supporting animal rights abusers.

This is the comment I was responding to. It sounds like a defensive comment to me and that is what prompted the response that ended up under my husband's name. It certainly sounds like it was in favor of conservatives to me.  When it comes to sports, I don't care who is conservative, liberal,  Democrat or Republican. When I watch a ballgame, I am interested in watching athletes and teams that give their all for the team and are all trying to do their very best. That's another reason why I don't care one way or the other who is in the White House, if a coach wants to give the President a jersey, big deal. If Calipari gave jerseys to the two U.S. Senators who happen to be Republican in Kentucky, it also wouldn't matter what their ideaology was. It is simply PR. Now, can we talk about the Alabama game?

Bleeding Kentucky Blue until I die!
kygal2009

I only watch Kentucky games for when they show Ashley Judd 417 times during the game.