Kentucky Basketball Isn’t the Same Destination Anymore?! 🔥🏀

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:01]I want the smoke.

[00:00:03]I do.

[00:00:04]That's what I'm about. Let me take this off. I don't even need this.

[00:00:08]I want that smoke and I don't care what you say. I don't care what feedback you give me. None of that matters to me. It doesn't. I'm I'm not looking for your approval. I don't even care. But what I got to say, I got to get it off my chest. My wife has been telling me for years, "Say what's on your mind. Speak from your chest." And I'm going to say it.

[00:00:27]Kentucky basketball, let's let's just get right to it for a second, can we?

[00:00:31]This right here, let it go. Let this go.

[00:00:33]For me. Maybe I'm speaking to myself.

[00:00:36]And I appreciate what the history of Kentucky basketball is and what it was.

[00:00:41]But we're not this anymore.

[00:00:43]We're not a champion program anymore.

[00:00:44]Not right now we're not. You can say what you want to say, but until I let go of this mindset, I'm always going to be disappointed in what's happening at Kentucky cuz I don't see it. Not right now not my Kentucky Wildcats.

[00:00:59]I got to lower my expectations in 2026 of who Kentucky basketball is. It's no longer Kentucky.

[00:01:09]It's no longer Kentucky. It's no longer a a perennial program in college basketball. IT'S NO MORE. NOT RIGHT NOW it's not. I'm not saying that it won't change, but not today it's not.

[00:01:22]Y'all know people going to say, "Man, stop being so freaking negative." That's why I don't freaking care.

[00:01:27]I don't What do you want me to do?

[00:01:30]I'm on the other side of the world talking about Kentucky sports.

[00:01:34]I love my Kentucky Wildcats.

[00:01:39]But we're not so Kentucky these days.

[00:01:41]And look, I'm not living off panic.

[00:01:44]I'm living off reality just for a moment. And people can say what they want to say about me. I don't care. I really don't.

[00:01:51]I'm still going to smile.

[00:01:53]But it's hard for me to understand or to get a vision of where Kentucky basketball is going.

[00:02:01]Currently.

[00:02:02]It just is. Oh, don't panic. Don't be upset. We still got time. Let's trust in the coach. Let's see what Come on, man.

[00:02:11]Man, miss me with all that stuff right now.

[00:02:14]When I'm out walking, the frustration that I have in my 2 and 1/2 hours walking every night, the frustration that I have is one thing.

[00:02:26]What they at?

[00:02:28]See, the reality is everything in life now is changing and this is no exception. This is This is This is caught up in the wave of changing.

[00:02:39]It It just is. People People don't want to accept it. I get it.

[00:02:44]I understand people's been following Kentucky basketball for 40, 60, 70 years. I I did all of that and I respect that. And I'm and I love that we all have the memories of what they did back then.

[00:02:57]But forget about this right This right here. Forget about this right now.

[00:03:02]Because this is the new time for college basketball.

[00:03:06]And until we going to add another one of these, new things have got to happen at Kentucky.

[00:03:15]I'm not a D1 coach. I'm not trying to tell the coach how how he should recruit. I'm not even telling the coach how he how he should coach. I don't have any idea on it. But when I look at it as a common fan, come on.

[00:03:28]Come Come Somebody make it make sense to me, please.

[00:03:33]This is Control the beast, Big Mike. Control the beast.

[00:03:40]I can't.

[00:03:41]Because this is just nope.

[00:03:44]Forget it.

[00:03:46]I'm going to wake up tomorrow and I'm still going to be a Wildcat fan.

[00:03:51]But things have changed.

[00:03:53]And I don't know when we will ever see this team play like this at this level for a while.

[00:04:02]I'm not being negative.

[00:04:04]I'm not.

[00:04:05]But why come I can't just sit here and just simply say what's on my mind?

[00:04:12]Why do I got to be ridiculed just because of how I feel?

[00:04:16]You feel your way, right? I I don't tell you how to feel.

[00:04:22]I don't like where this is going.

[00:04:25]This right here doesn't look positive.

[00:04:28]Getting one of these right here is almost seeming impossible.

[00:04:35]That's our Wildcats in 2026.

[00:04:39]It's just like Walmart. It's just like the favorite places that you like to shop at and then one day you show up and you realize this ain't the same store I used to shop in. What happened? The prices went up.

[00:04:52]What happened? Management changed. What happened? Something's off about it. And then you just never feel good about that place anymore. Is this Is this Is this Is Is something off? You go there because that's where you're used to going or it's close to your house and it's convenient. So that's where you continue to go at.

[00:05:12]But you But you always notice that there's something off about it. And no matter what you do, you can't seem to identify the the exact problem of where it's at, but you just know something's off.

[00:05:25]Something's off with this.

[00:05:28]It is. And look, this is this is my opinion. You ain't going to agree with I'm not telling you to go out here and abandon Kentucky Wildcats. Oh, don't That's silly.

[00:05:40]But for me it was silly for me to continue to live in the past because I'm angry when I think about the past.

[00:05:52]I I got to stop saying I got to stop saying that this is not Kentucky basketball. You You freaking right it's not Kentucky basketball. It's not. And it might not be Kentucky basketball for a long time.

[00:06:03]So for me to cope with that, this is just my copingism. You know, this is just how I cope with it. I got to stop saying that this is not Kentucky basketball. I just do. I got to say that this is the new era of college basketball. This is the new era of Kentucky basketball. And unless I get on board with that and continue to hope for the best, but kind of stop comparing where we at now and and stop saying that well, this is not Kentucky basketball.

[00:06:34]What is Kentucky basketball in 2026? Is this it? Is this what we got to look forward to?

[00:06:40]Because if it is, I'll feel sad. I I I'll feel sad. And and don't write me and and then and then just tell me how negative I am.

[00:06:51]You'll see that I love my Wildcats.

[00:06:55]You'll see that.

[00:06:57]But I should be able to voice my opinion, too. I should be able to say what I feel. I don't criticize you when you feel the way you feel, do it. So don't criticize me because I feel this way. You vent in the comments.

[00:07:10]If you don't feel the same way I do, vent in the comments. If you feel the same way, vent in the comments. I'm not going to judge you.

[00:07:17]I just needed a way to vent. And since I have this platform, then why don't I go on here and just say exactly how I feel. Kentucky basketball is not Kentucky basketball anymore.

[00:07:29]It's a holding place.

[00:07:32]That's it.

[00:07:33]If you shop at a store and you realize that the prices over there are no good, you're going to go to somewhere else.

[00:07:39]If you're trying to get a job at at Amazon, but FedEx is paying more, you're going to FedEx.

[00:07:47]That's all this is anymore.

[00:07:49]That's it.

[00:07:51]Highest bidder. Period.

[00:07:53]This, I don't care about Kentucky.

[00:07:57]That That's what a lot of players are saying.

[00:07:59]Not all the players.

[00:08:01]A majority of the players are saying, "I don't really care about that. What you going to pay me?

[00:08:07]What you going to give me?

[00:08:09]What kind of car can I drive for being at your school? What kind of living accommodations can I have?"

[00:08:15]That's it.

[00:08:17]That And And that's the reality of the sport now. I'm not angry.

[00:08:21]I'm sad, but I'm not angry.

[00:08:24]Why should I get angry for? This ain't the system that I built. I just got to I just have to accept it.

[00:08:30]And Kentucky basketball, I can't say that that this is not playing Kentucky basketball anymore.

[00:08:36]I can just say that this is just a program that we're trying to hold on.

[00:08:42]As they say where I'm from, we're just trying to hold on to guys and changing hands for real. And look, I I don't know any other way to vent.

[00:08:53]And this is the only way that I had to vent. I don't I don't have anybody over here with me that that I can talk Kentucky with. I don't Nobody cares about Kentucky. Nobody but me. So who am I going to vent to? So this is my vent session. Talking to my free therapy, you guys. And I appreciate it. Go Cats.