Like this:

This article was a little more relevant a few days ago, but the analogy with Jennifer Anniston is hilarious.

Mark Story at the Lexington-Herald Leader writes:

Some Kentucky basketball backers are calling for a boycott of potential UK games in the NIT. Others want the school to refuse to play in the second-tier tournament at all

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Kentucky is 20-13 this season. It is a loser of 26 games in the past two seasons. It is a loser of 51 games in the past four seasons. Right now, UK basketball is an NIT-level program. So those elements of the Kentucky fan base who are acting like the NIT is somehow beneath UK basketball are deluding themselves.

Kentucky should accept an NIT bid and make a good-faith effort to win the tournament. Alabama football does not turn down the Independence Bowl because in the past it has played in many Sugar Bowls. Jennifer Aniston went out with Vince Vaughn after she lost Brad Pitt. UK fans may as well make the best from this.

It’s official now that UK has had to settle for the NIT tournament.  Some people see UK missing “the Big Dance” as the equivalent of Coach Gillispie smacking their wife, and they want him to pay for his awful actions.  Some people need only to look at a box score to  evaluate a player’s human dignity.  I am trying to remind myself that win or lose, it’s only a game.

While I have found myself often (very often) disappointed and frustrated with this season’s team, they have not failed me.  They don’t owe me anything.  These young men are people who just happen to play basketball, and I know that they are more frustrated with this season than I am.  They are sons, brothers, students, and friends to other real people.

I think that for many people (myself included), this has been a “check-your-god season. “  For non-UK fans, hopefully you don’t get revved up by seeing other people fail.  For the UK fans,  hopefully, your world hasn’t collapsed.  For all, hopefully your primary source of joy is the immutable and faithful God.  He will never disappoint.  He will always be the victor.

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