I have a serious question to ask and don't know who to ask.  Since Randall Cobb rightly, in my opinion, called out UK fans to be loud and set a intimidating tone in Commonwealth Stadium last week, maybe he and/or Coach Phillips can get me the answer!  DO FANS HAVE TO SIT DOWN in Commonwealth Stadium when asked by those behind them to do so?

Let me explain my question.  I spent several hours Friday preparing for my trip from Northern Kentucky to my alma mater for the October 23, 2010 UK-Georgia game.  I had purchased tickets for me and my three kids (at $51each plus fees) in Section 204, which I knew has a LOT of student seating, well in advance of game day.  I had arranged to purchase, upon my arrival in Lexington, a Blue Lot parking pass (another $75) for tailgating.  I had loaded the car with necessary supplies to make sure my three young kids would have a blast.  I went to the grocery to buy food, etc.   We left N. Ky early Saturday and, after a couple of preplanned stops, arrived at Commonwealth Stadium around 1:30 pm.   We toured campus, I showed the kids my old dorm, went to some of the classroom buildings, etc.  Around 3 pm we set up our tail gate area and ate, played, etc.  We had a GREAT TIME.  We went to the Cat Walk and screamed as the players walked in, we went to the band's pep rally on the steps by the Nutter Center, we made all the requisite stops.  We were "Butts in Seats" at 7pm.  Watched all the pregame activities, sang "My Old Kentucky Home" and the National Anthem.  We were loud and standing up when the players entered the stadium.  We were pumped after our entire day leading up to this moment.  As I have heard Kentucky's Football staff say before...we were early, blue, standing, and loud.

About 2 or 3 minutes into the game, I was sitting down helping my 6 year old, and I heard some commotion behind me.  A large man had come down from his seat multiple rows up, and was telling people in the row behind me (Row 7) to sit down (at that particular moment they were the first row standing..so he went right to the source of the problem) so other people didn't have to stand up.   Had I been standing, and had he addressed me I would have quoted that I would "rather be in trouble with him than with Randall Cobb!!" and ignored him.  Since I was sitting right next to the entrance, I was pretty sure he wouldn't be stupid enough to do something right in front of stadium security...which did embolden me a little.  Another student came down later and was asking the same thing from a little different perspective...because he was evidently sitting right in front of this guy, so he was getting all his wrath...which is a much more uncomfortable situation I am sure.

Now let me say this.  I am not particularly worried about the damage some drunk guy would be able to inflict before someone pulls him off my butt.  However,  if I am going to take that beating for you Randall and Joker...I want to know that I am in the right.  If you, and more importantly, stadium/university athletics policy says that fans...especially those in student populated sections...can/are encouraged to stand during the football games, then I will take the hit...but I am not going to take that hit, only to have a security person throw me out/dress me out for standing against the wishes of my neighbors. 

Tell me Randall/Joker...what is the answer to my dilemma....Stand or Sit?

By: Gree Nyedmonster & Ima N. Veous

According to reports from unnamed sources from a prominent and timely New York newspaper and The Onion, the NCAA will begin an immediate investigation into the role University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari may have had in the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, as well as the assassination of noted civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   The sources quote Ivan Taclue of the NCAA's "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire" Division who states the NCAA's suspicions of impropriety were heightened when Coach Calipari's last three college jobs were revealed to them by an unnamed assistant coach from the Southeastern Conference.  

Calipari, the only NCAA Division I coach to have two Final Four appearances vacated, is reported to have coached at the University of Massachusetts, the home of John F. Kennedy; in Memphis, Tennessee, the site of the King assassination; and now coaches at the University of Kentucky, just a short walk from Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln's home in Lexington, Ky.  The official also noted that President Lincoln was not only from Kentucky, but had also visited the young Miss Todd's home in downtown Lexington on several occasions.   According to the official, the probability of these three events coinciding with Coach Calipari's job locations was just too great to be a coincidence.  The NCAA's investigation will center around what Coach Calipari knew about the antenatal assassination of President Lincoln, and when he knew it.   According to Mr. Taclue, President Lincoln was  assassinated just 94 years before Calipari was born and only 144 years before he became the coach at the University of Kentucky.  The NCAA has not determined if the 6'4" Lincoln's undocumented grades, earned while he studied by candlelight in an Illinois cabin, precluded him from eligibility as a student athlete through the NCAA Clearinghouse.

It is not inherently clear why participating in the assassination of an American President 94 years before your birth would create a recruiting advantage, but according to a coach at a major NCAA Division I basketball powerhouse, who asked to remain anonymous, the assassinations are just "another indication of how Calipari pushes that ethical line in the win-at-all-costs environment of college basketball recruiting".