Lexington is a shit hole The Ky campus is a shit hole.
I am hearing some rumblings on other social media sights, dare I more than hope that
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All valid points, especially the last one. In the Spring of opportunity its cruise ‘n time again, the Third St-Indiana Ave-7th St-Jordan…excuse me, Eagleson Ave, dirty old man’s eye-candy circuit. Ain’t nobody gets hurt just wish ‘n for a taste of ‘dat sweet treat with her pink meat.
The campus is not very impressive. Lexington has actually become a decent place over the years.
Comical NCAA is still calling these kids college athletes/ academics. Good for the kids , bad for college athletics.
It is beyond laughable they even mention those two words anymore. Academics haven't been a thing in 15 years and now they are also paid pros. I bet there wasn't one kid in all of d1 basketball academically ineligible last year. It's amazing how smart these kids got in the last 20 years. Lol.
I have no dog in this fight, but my daughter and I visited both IU and Kentucky campuses this past year while evaluating her college choices. My daughter called Kentucky an updated IU campus. You can say whatever you want about Lexington, but the Kentucky campus is beautiful. Dorms, top of the line. This is what I am hearing from my daughter and her high school friends.
your crazy, heading there tomm, great downtown, Keeneland, great restaurant's, will never out recruit them if the deciding factor is livability, as an example jeff Rubys or that shithole Zagreb's or whatever it's called
Lexington and Btown are very different places. Btown is a big small town with a huge B10 school. I'm guessing Lexington has close to a population of 400k. To your point, many more options than Btown.
I'm not upset with it. We are NOT UK, Duke or FL anymore and academics don't matter (we are not top there anymore either). Agree completely and if someone is lukewarm, move on and don't burn a ton of time and resources because our value proposition isn't great. We arguably can't even get the best coach anymore.
Oh fun, a pi$$ing match between Bloomington and Lexington. If you aren’t a fat a$$ you can walk anywhere you need to be in btown in about 20 minutes. In Lexington it might take your fat a$$ 20 minutes to get through the mall to Rupp.
someone called Lexington a shithole, I hate UK, but that's just not close to being accurate. If the location of the campus was the deciding factor for a recruit. Bloomington loses 98 percent of the time
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in btown if you walk 20 minutes you will probably be looking at the same thing as when you started your journey. I get the nostalgia for one's school. but most basketball players aren't selecting backwoods Bloomington over a decent city.
Such an unbiased take. Bloomington is nice. No doubt about that. But it’s really not that much better, if at all, than many campuses.
Well rest assured Kurt, these student athletes aren’t real concerned about the location of the campus. If it was remotely even a factor Purdue would finish dead last every year.
I agree when you say basketball players and the city. For students, I'm sure I am biased but but IUs campus (outside the city and maybe state). I've not been to Madison in the legacy B1G schools but have lived or visited frequently most of the rest of them. Architecture and setting blows away most of the 1960s brick cookie cutter buildings you see at most of the B1G.
What makes Bloomington better? What are the factors? Are we talking power conferences only? Is it the bar scene? Is is the actual physical campus beauty? Buildings? Weather? Setting, ie urban, residential, etc?
Here are a few.
UNC Chapel Hill
UVA
Miami of Ohio
CU - Boulder
Tennessee Knoxville
Clemson
UGA
University of Florida
University of Wisconsin
Arizona
UCLA
USC
These are just the one’s I have been too off the top of my head. Again, a bit subjective. No doubt. IU Bloomington is nice. But to put it on the pedestal through crimson glasses is a bit biased.
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List the campuses, college towns, cities you’ve seen and we’ll go from there. I’m not working backwards for you.
So, you’re advocating for regional chains over the local hole-in-the wall place? I don’t think that’s what most people prefer. For instance, if I want good fried chicken, I’m going to drive to Stone’s over in Milhousen or to the Chicken House down by Sellersburg not to The Eagle up in Indy, or over in Cincinnati, or down in Louisville. It just doesn’t compare. People want unique experiences not homogenized ones.
Those are all garbage. Better now? lol.
If location had a factor, Boulder and Pepperdine would rule the world.
Wisconsin wouldn’t get a recruit because of weather.
UCLA is a tourist trap.
USC. Ugh.
the reason we aren’t winning isn’t because our money, our location, our weather or Bloomington it’s because we’ve been atrocious at hiring basketball coaches the last 20 yrs.
Are you all still confident for Wilkerson. Kentucky is starting to fell more confident they can land him
You have to look at the bigger picture-the whole state is a shithole.
Miami, TN, Clemson, UGA, AZ, Gainsville...not close Boulder has great views.
Madison is nice but a distant second in the BIG
I hear West Laffy finnally got a Taco Bell. That will replace the shiveldogger at Speedway Gas on State St as the best restaurant in town. If you switch your NIL from Speedway shiveldogger gift cards to Taco Bell gift cards...look out!
When you get outside lexington, the horse country is beautiful and some of the farms themselves are fantastic.
Anyone saying Lexington is a shithole has never been to opening day for the spring meet at Keeneland. You want to talk about scenery. Makes a middle-aged man like me blush (and feel really old). Wowzers.
I wouldn't go out of my way for any fried chicken, if you think the chicken house is fine dining, enjoy. actually, not a big fan of Rubys, Tonys is much better in lex. that Zagreb's does suck though
I’ve been to Tony’s in Indy and it’s good, but once again, you can find them all over. I enjoyed Zagreb the last time I went but it’s been awhile.
Bloomington is the best but I am biased as I am a 1994 graduate of Kelly and I love all Brown County has to offer. I just love Bloomington. That being said Michigan and Wisconsin are pretty nice as well as Georgia/Athens and Alabama/Tuscaloosa. Purdue has got to be the ugliest campus in the US and is a complete hole.
just IMHO...I don't think most of these guys give two shits about how pretty a campus is. They are jumping from team to team each year. Some only have 1 yr left. They will only be on campus 8-9 months max, probably doing most of their ...eh hmm...school work, online from their $2,000/month apartment. The NIL bag, the coach, role on the team, enhancing their chances for pro ball, maybe the quality of the athletic facilities....that's what sells. I don't think any of them care about host town's beauty, the oak tree-lined streets on campus, or 'modern dorms'. No chance in hell any 7 digit NIL mercenary is living in Briscoe Hall next fall.
again, IMHO. I'm old, so what do I know?
again, IMHO. I'm old, so what do I know?
