Catlanta gets hit!

Atlanta was a blue place, but Catlanta will soon disperse, and the big blue machine will finish their drink , pack their bags and head home following the overtime victory of Georgia over Kentucky 60-56.

Big Foot Fool: I don’t know what to say about this game, except I love seeing the blue get on the highway and get out of town. In my hotel I heard Kentucky fans complaining on the elevator this morning about not getting to even see their team play, but It’s just deserts for them staying up all night doing their F*cking C-A-T-S cheer and keeping me awake.

JTExperience: Yeah, I almost feel bad for their fans, after having their game rescheduled after last night’s tornadoes, then not even being able to attend today, then losing in overtime...
Almost.
Heh. Suck it, Kentuck. C-A-T-S CATS CATS CATS!!!

Big Foot Fool: I’m sure the Kentucky players actually prefer to not have their fans at the game. It’s like basketball games with your drunk alcoholic father: you’d almost rather go it alone. Georgia’s players look at that ratty mob of drunken blueberry crazies and just laugh. “Thank God all my Georgia crazies just watch the football team!” they say. Plenty of open seats now.

JTExperience: At least Kentucky has found a kind of equilibrium among the branches of Men’s Athletics…they had a superlative basketball program for so long, complemented by a shitty football team. Now, football has gotten up to mediocre, and basketball met them halfway. They’ve turned into a mediocre, underachieving athletic program with unrealistic expectations, or, the University of Arkansas.

Big Foot Fool: Yeah, but at least they are getting all of the media love to propel them into the NCAA tournament. OH man do you hear that? The bitching about the sideline runner? “Swallowed the Whistle?” Tell you what, how about we decide the game on the floor.

JTExperience: It just gives the sportscasters a chance to swallow Gillespie’s little whistle: “It was a great coaching move; I don’t care that it’s not called often, it was a brilliant coaching move that the officials didn’t call.” [suck, suck, suck, swallow]

Big Foot Fool: Speaking of swallowing, what about all 12 inches that Billy Donovan gave to the worst performers of the SEC tournament, 2-year champion Florida Geightors? I barely had time to see any jorts running away from them ternaders with them getting punked in the first round by Bama.

JTExperience: ‘ey dog, ‘ey. I love jorts. They’re really comfortable, and stylish.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it must be great to be Mississippi State right now. Here guys, you get to play against a team who’s already played a game today. Seriously though, it’ll be pretty pathetic if Miss. State loses. If I know anything, it’s that the Bulldogs will come out on top.
Tee-hee.

Big Foot Fool: What are you on crack? No one comes out on top in this game… Basketball loses.
Score
F-2 Tornado 1Basketball 0
Okay so Tennessee will probably take down Arkansas in the game this afternoon, and Miss. St. can sleep through the game against UGA. I say Tennessee takes the tournament by 20 points over Miss. St.

JTExperience: Dude, whatever. Arkansas is SO going to win. We can’t be stopped. We’re unstoppable, if you will. We’ll run all over Tennessee this afternoon, then even though Jamont Gordon is stacked like a muh-effin’ Adonis (no homo), the Razorbacks will Michael Vick all over the bulldogs.

Big Foot Fool: Effin’ homer.

SEC Basketball Player Profile - Ramel Bradley

Ramel Bradley questions a call against Mississippit St. in last years SEC tournament where the bulldogs sent the blue clad fans home from Atlanta early.

Name: Ramel Bradley
Position: Guard
Class: Senior
Height: 6' 2"
Nickname: Ball Hog

Ramel Bradley likes it when the ball is in his hands. He is pretty much a ballhog and the Kentucky fans have been known to call him on his selfishness. In his junior season his assist numbers went way up under the final year being coached by Tubbie Smith.

In Wednesday Night's Coaches vs. Cancer game in Rupp Arena, Ramel led all scorers with 24 points on 4-11 shooting. The key is he got to the line. 14 times. That's a lot of free throws and he made every last one of them. And for being a ball hog he led his team in assists also with 3 of them. Ramel might be blossoming under Billy Gillespie, but 24 points in a losing effort is still a losing effort. Ramel's 4-11 from the field is a little better than the overall 22-62 for the whole wildcat team which only went 9 deep and had Ramel Bradley playing a full 40 minutes.

Once again, a team that you wouldn't think could beat Kentucky beats them, and the Wildcat faithful are left with tickets they can't use. Madison Square Garden looked to have been full of Blue with Memphis already punching their ticket and UConn a likely favorite to be there in the semifinals, but Kentucky couldn't cut it and now their fans will be sitting at home.

Ramel is a good player and looks to be one of the prominent scorers on this very talented Kentucky team. He should have a good season, but he doesn't seem like a good pro prospect with his limited shooting ability and only being 6'-2".

As for everyone not associated with the Kentucky basketball program? Everyone is excited, and a little afraid. We all know Kentucky has good talent and a talented coach, but we were all kinda hoping that they would think they could just coast on that for the season. Losing this game early will mean 1 of 2 things.

1. Kentucky is really bad. Gillespie doesn't know how to coach and his players were way overhyped. They will plummet to the bottom of the SEC and make a run in the NIT.

2. Kentucky is going to play the rest of the season all crazy-like. They are going to become aware that talent and reputation will get you 0 wins and they will be out to prove they are the best.

I think it's the latter and other teams that have Kentucky on the schedule might be saying "aww s--t" right now.

Ramel Bradley hopes so. He can score and can play ball, but he and his team will have to get better on defense and execute on the offensive side of the ball, or the Kentucky faithful will be saying "aww s--t" a lot this season.

SEC Basketball Top to Bottom

1. Tennessee
2. Arkansas
3. Mississippi St.
4. Florida
5. Vanderbilt
6. Kentucky
7. Ole Miss
8. Auburn
9. South Carolina
10. Alabama
11. LSU
12. Georgia
    
    Tennessee is the clear favorite to start the season.
    Arkansas easily returns the most non-Chris Lofton Talent with tons of good big men and Patrick Beverley
    Mississippi St. has an excellent back court with Jamont Gordon and Ben Hansbrough.
    Florida has had some of the best recruiting classes it's not a question of 'if' they'll be good, it's just when.
    Vanderbilt - two words - Shan Foster - My pick for SEC player of the year
    Kentucky has some good talent and a coach that has been able to do wonders turning teams around, imagine what he can do with 2-Pat and Ramel Bradley
    Ole Miss - Williams and Curtis are probably the 2nd best front-court in the SEC. Andy Kennedy will do good things.
    Auburn had some solid wins last season and are very experienced. Their lack of big men keeps them from the top.
    South Carolina lacks scorers. Dave Odom has been able to work magic in the past, but he can't get good players in Columbia.
    Alabama would be so much higher if Ronald Steele was playing, but he's not. It's all up to Gee and Hendrix, I just don't see good things for this team.
    LSU has slipped mightily since their Elite Eight run 2 years ago. Tasmin Mitchell is their only good player.
    Georgia only has Sundiata Gaines. It could be a long season for the bull dogs
    
    The west is pretty weak and the top 6 are really the only teams that will make any noise this year. All of the top 6 should get in the NCAA Tourney this year and Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi St. should be dancing for more than one weekend. Kentucky is WAY overrated this season.