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On this episode of Sports Buzz TV: The Super Bowl matchup, UK Bama recap, Lamb off the bench, Marquis Teague the game manager, Who does UK NOT want to see in March and Louisville shouldn't throw a party after beating a terrible Pitt team.

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Keep in mind the TV cameras add 10-15 pounds.

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The above picture paints a thousand words about what Roy Williams did after a 33 point loss to an 11-5 Florida State team. Lets start from the beginning.

Under 2 minutes to go in the game, North Carolina had all of its reserves in the game and the starters were on the bench. Picture proof of Tyler Zeller consoling his nose under a towel here:


After some sloppy play and a few late deadballs, Roy looked at the crowd and noticed they were getting "rowdy". With about 25 seconds remaining, Roy talks to a referee and tells him the plan to pull the guys off the bench and take them to the lockerroom if there is another deadball. True to form with 14 seconds left, there was another out of bounds situation. Roy then half hesitantly walked towards Leonard Hamilton who was standing straight as an arrow just waiting for the game to be over. Roy basically asked for approval to leave early to which Hamilton obliged.

Then it got interesting. Roy then looks at his bench, makes a wave gesture as to say "come on" and walks straight to the locker room. Hamilton then stopped him to tell him his players didn't know to follow. Roy almost walked off to the locker room by himself alah Daniel Orton.

At that same moment, a UNC player on the court approaches Roy to ask what is going on, Roy completely ignores him and walks back to the Tar Heel bench to wave yet once again for his "star" players to "come on". Then Roy shook hands with the FSU coaches and bench and proceeded to the locker room. This time his team followed behind.

The player who Roy ignored then ran to join his team as they were leaving thinking he was supposed to leave as well. The assistants then informed him he was staying with the other 4 players on the court. As he was turned away he asked "what do we do?". The assistant probably said get off the court as soon as the game's over, then he said ok.

This is a fairly wuss thing to do even for Roy. I have never, EVER seen a coach tell his team to go to the locker room prior to the game being over. This tells me a couple of things about Roy.

1. He didn't care about safety as much as he wanted to get out of there. He wanted to leave so badly he didn't even care if his team was behind him. Its a bad loss, soak it in. Have your players try to learn how this feels, so they never want to feel it again.

2. let's say he DID care about the safety of his players. Why leave with the stars and leave the walk-ons with some assistants? Its the head coach's job to ensure the safety of ALL the players. I was in charge of a youth group on a ski trip once. One kid didn't make it back with the rest of his friends and no one knew where he was. i freaked out, dropped everything and frantically searched for him. Nothing at that moment was more important than the safety of that kid. I couldn't imagine telling a parent their kid was hurt on my watch, especially if i wasn't even in the vicinity.

3. This wasn't Leonard Hamilton's decision or suggestion. Roy proposed and Leonard accepted. Straight from Roy Williams' mouth: "I went and talked to Leonard and I had already talked to one of the referees that was over there and it was almost Leonard’s suggestion. He’s a quality person." Full quotes here

The captain goes down with the ship unless you're on Ol' Roy Cruise Lines then its every man for himself.

Here's the link to the entire game. Fast forward to the the 2:01:00 mark for all the fun.
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I didn't know this, but apparently i was at the UK UNC game and I was an usher with a mustache.

And for the record, I haven't sucked donkey balls in years.

You too can see if you were at the game and if you do or do not suck donkey balls here: http://www.ukathletics.com/fancam/?s...538-share-view

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I started a bit of a twitter firestorm yesterday. It was after the Mississippi State LSU game. I saw a Miss St. team that tallied under 200 total yards of offense and benched their starting quarterback of 17 years in the 4th quarter. Your thinking "Yeah but it was probably a blowout, right?". You would be wrong. At its absolute worse it was a 2 possession game. Had the bulldogs broke one for a td, and recovered an onsides kick, they would have won. Dan Mullen felt his team was playing so badly a change was needed and Relf was benched.

After witnessing the Miss St. offense i stated on twitter "As bad as UK football sucks, there's no way they will perform as badly against LSU as Miss St. did tonight". First off i state that UK football isnt great. So it is known i am not a blind stupid person. Secondly i state that UK would gain more than 200 yards offense against this LSU team. Am I out of line on either account?

IF UK starts from its own 20 and drive down to score just twice, they will have gained more than 200 yards of offense. I realize that UK didn't exactly light the word on fire against WKU in the first game, but it was the first game. It cant be used as a measuring stick until the end of time.

For instance, the UK basketball team 2 years ago went toe to toe against Miami (Ohio). In fact it took a last second shot by John Wall to win the game. Did that mean that Miami, OH was just as good as UK? No, it was early in the season, the team was still finding its identity and chemistry.

By no means am I saying UK will lead the nation in offense. I am saying that with the offensive line getting more and more healthy, Newton getting settled in and receivers catching a few more freaking balls, this UK team can put some points on the board. Will they score more than 6 points against LSU. Hell yes. Will they gain more than 200 yards against Louisville Saturday? They better, otherwise UK does in fact suck as bad as people think.

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