Unrest

Rich Brooks has taken to making remarks about Kentucky Football fans, seemingly at every opportunity. From this weekend's complaints about booing Hartline (justified, in my opinion) to jabs about picking his starting running back based on the call-in show callers. Rich may want to keep a couple things in mind.
One, the fact that his program is engendering this much discussion is a great thing. It is because he has done a good job. People care. That is what pays his salary, gets him the recruiting budget he wants, etc. There is a flip side to people caring, though. When people care about something, they tend to have an opinion about it. He can ask anyone who has ever coached basketball here about that. Do I know more about the football team than Rich Brooks? Of course not. But that doesn't mean I don't have the right to voice my opinion about it. Do the people calling in to the talk shows really think he cares what they think? I hope not, and I hope that he doesn't. But to make fun of these people is to ignore a second, more important, truth.
While this may sound harsh, here it is; without the Kentucky football program, even diehard morons like me will move on, spend more time with our families, work harder, start collecting coins, go to petting zoos, something. The converse is not true. Because without the fans, there is no program.