Mark Coury, a former UK player is now playing at Cornell, an Ivy League school in Ithaca, NY. You might be wondering why is this newsworthy? What's the big deal?
The big deal is that the Cornell Big Red will now take the court Thursday night in Syracuse to play the Kentucky Wildcats, the No. 1 seed of the East Region. The No. 12 seed Cornell comes into this "Sweet 16" game after pumbling No. 5 seed Temple and No. 4 seed Wisconsin. Coury is a reserve for Cornell averaging 2.5 pts and 2.4 rebounds a game this season. But he is the "talk of the town" at the moment; one might note during Billy Gillispie's first year at the program he started 29 games! It even causes one to say, "This guy started at Kentucky and can't at Cornell?"
Truth be told, Coury had no business starting at UK and might be the worst starting player talent wise, to ever play for the Cats. Say what you will, Coury can still say he was a starter at the UK. He worked hard in practice and done everything he could on the court, and as a UK fan I commend him for that.
What I can't figure out is, why is this frowned upon? Coury left school to take a 4.0 GPA to a place with a great business school. Good for him, but it seems to me like its one of those things critics say and then turn and laugh. Almost writing stories just for sarcasm. Look Coury came in as a walk-on, started 29 games (like I said before) but only averaged between 10-15 minutes a game. Is this what Cornell wants to be represented by? A smart guy, who played on a sub-par UK team, who only played 10 minutes a game.
I kind of like the sarcasm, it means UK basketball is back on top, and the media will spare no punch when it comes to crawling under Kentucky fans skin. A wise man once said, "if your on top, they'll do anything to knock you down." Some columnists' might say there just trying to do a human interest story here, but that's bologna! They know the difference in tradition when it comes to the Cats and the Big Red.
All the luck in the world to Coury and the Big Red, but I just can't wait till this game is over so I don't have to hear about how he used to start at Kentucky. By the way, thanks Billy Clyde!
Eat it up now, because gameday is approaching; CBS will get a nice shot of Coury shaking all his old buddies hands, thing is he only played with 3 out of the 12 that now make up the 2010 UK basketball team. By the way, don't forget to slow-mo the block when he comes inside on Cousins, maybe Patterson, or heck maybe even his pal Perry Stevenson. Maybe they can show that on replay and gives writers another ridiculous article to write.
Until Next Time, Adios!
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Good job guys... I enjoy the posts!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ginto! Plenty more to come, you know me, too opinionated haha
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ReplyDeleteFrom what i've read, Coury gets about as much playing time at Cornell as he did for BCG.
ReplyDeleteMark "Everyday Is Senior Day" Coury would see the court the first 5 minutes of the game, and that was it, I love how these writers from the Northeast make it seem as though Coury was a key player.
ReplyDeleteHe barely played for UK, and he barely plays for Cornell. The media really will try to turn anything into a story.
ReplyDeleteHow much did we hear about playing Derrick Jasper's UNLV in the NIT last year?