Thayer Evans (photo courtesy msn.foxsports.com)
By LARRY VAUGHT
Were you impressed by Kentucky’s grit at Mississippi State? Did the win only make you feel better about Kentucky’s chances to win a national title?
If you answered yes to both questions, let’s go to FoxSports.com’s Thayer Evans, a senior college football write who previously wrote for the New York Times and Houston Chronicle, to burst your bubble. He was in Starkville for the game and was not the least bit impressed with John Calipari or his team.
Here’s part of how he blistered Calipari’s Cats:
“They looked vulnerable for the first time since their lone loss at Indiana two months ago, a game in which they trailed by 10, their previous largest deficit this season. Yet for the favorite to win the national championship, Kentucky on Tuesday night looked a shadow of the super team many thought it was becoming. Instead, it actually looked like a classic Calipari team.
“The type that has more talent than anybody else in the country, but somehow fails to play to its sky-high potential. A team like the one Calipari had during the 2009-10 season, his first at Kentucky, which featured a record five NBA first-round draft selections, including the No. 1 pick in point guard John Wall, but lost in the NCAA tournament’s regional finals.
“This Kentucky squad isn’t as talented as that one, but has the same type of ingredients with sensational freshman forward Anthony Davis, a lock to be the first pick of June’s NBA draft, along with three other potential first-round selections in freshman forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, freshman point guard Marquis Teague and Jones. It also showed Tuesday night that it’s capable of the same lapses that cost Calipari’s teams dearly in the past.”
So just in case you were impressed by the Cats’ comeback, take it from Thayer. You should not be happy with the win. Then again, maybe he is a college football writer for a reason — he doesn’t understand the value of a dramatic comeback win on the road.
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This team is not as talented as the first? Who has been putting arsenic in his Wheaties?
This guy needs to take Basketball 101. What a freakin’ idiot.
Did he take into consideration the fight Ms. St. had in them last night?
Did he take into account the motivation and fire that Cal put in that team at half-time?
Did he think about the goofy t’s that were called? Is this jerk blind?
I think he needs to sit in a padded cell and listen to the UK Fight Song and My Old Kentucky Home for 48 hours non-stop.
Sure our guys were a little off the first half, but geez, did he really see that second half?
When I see his credentials, former NY Times writer currently with Fox Sports, I guess that says it all. Illiterate, low IQ, border line personality, prone to violence and still wears diapers and the only picture in his wallet is his mother.
Get em Linda.
the fool struck a nerve, you don’t want to struck one of my nerves! LOL
I agree with Linda on what she says but what we need to do is “BLAST” FoxSports with emails, letters and anything else with our anger about this FOOL and his article. A Football writer, he most likely doesn’t know the difference between a football and a basketball. SO BIG BLUE NATION, Let’s let Fox Sports Have Our Anger.
I think he needs to stick to his football knowledge and not worry about coach cal and the mighty cats!!!
Found this on the internet looking for his bio…HE IS A HACK, so says Auburn. Good laugh at Flamer Evans expense!
http://cateredcommentary.blogspot.com/2010/11/thayer-evans.html
You can’t find a bio on this unadulterated loser. KSR had a piece and did find some inaccuracies in what he has told people.
He has written with Pete Thamel on several articles, need we say more?
There are a lot of people that dislike this fake. The hair tells a lot about this ignoramus. Look at it, it doesn’t even want to sit on his head, it is trying to escape.
Eveidently Flamer Evans writes a lot of lies like Thamel. I bet they are very close friends in more ways then one. Looks like I am going to have to add a name to my Neuter Thamel t-shirt. I’m taking my Louavull Slugger with me to New Orleans and hope I run into the 2 jerks.
Here is something else about him from a Dallas Cowboy Fan.
http://www.cowboysrideforfree.com/2011/10/18/2498792/thayer-evans-buys-herpes-meds-under-the-false-name-of-ron-mexico
Does the dude even know that a basketball is round and a football is that other funny shaped ball that bounces funny ? what is this guys problem ? I have to feel sorry for a person like him who has so much hatred in them.
He’s a nobody looking for attention. He ain’t worth the time. The dude lost me when it said he was a “football” writer. He knows nothing about basketball and probably very little about football. He’s just one of those “journalists” that try to say something outrageous about the team in the news in an effort to get himself a little face time.
I agree with Rodney. This guy is a nut. Knows nothing about B-ball & probably little about football. Not worth the time but the comments make us angry enough to respond.
I sure wish I could find where he went to college, I have a feeling he went to puke! He looks like there has been a lot of inbreeding in his family or he is an alien. Look at the forehead and those little beady eyes. His ears don’t look right either.
I really don’t wanna be on LindaS’ bad side.
John, I’m really a sweet little old lady until someone messes with my boys! Larry will back me up on that! LOL
Arrggh!!! I just spent 10 minutes on a post and the board blew it out on me.
This moron doesn’t have a clue about basketball or any other sport. Did UK have a lapse in the first half? You bet. Did this moron have a lapse when he wrote this story. Let’s put it this way. If they had a National Bonehead Award for “sports analysts” this guy would win it by leaps and bounds. The Cats played like freshmen for a while. They are freshmen. But they are also 27-1. The real surprise is that any team dominated by freshmen could win like that.
I’ve seen lots of good teams have lapses. I saw MJ and the Bulls lose playoff finals games. Yes you get 7 shots at winning in the NBA. They usually won in the end but they didn’t sweep everyone. I saw the Celtics with Bill Russell have lapses. I saw the Celtics with Bird, Parish and the Chief lose to the Lakers. I saw the Lakers with Magic and Kareem lose to the Celtics. The list of lapses is endless. Let’s talk Villanova and G’town. How about NC St. and Houston (a clearly better team). How about UCLA and Houston? UCLA and Notre Dame? UK and Texas Western? Indiana and UK in 1975? And my top lapse of all time – Chris Webber calling timeout with 19 seconds left after he rebounded a ball with Michigan down by two to UNC. They were out of timeouts though. UNC wins on a gimme. I could go on all night. I saw UNC come back from being down 8 with 17 seconds to play back against Duke when Bobby Jones went wild stealing every inbounds pass and shooting it right up and scoring. This was in 1974 too and the 3 point shot was still an ABA thing. Walter Davis did make the last shot on a 25 foot bank shot after they went the length of the floor with 3 seconds left. I wonder why they never show that shot? It was much more dramatic than Duke winning in 1992. And Duke certainly had a lapse in that game. I could be here for hours going on about games like this.
We’re human. Well most of us are. Some, like Thayer Evans, try very hard to be sub-human.
Linda back when he was writing about Auburn and Newton I did a search. I think he played round ball for a while at Oklahoma Wesleyan a NAIA school and then transferred somewhere else.
#2syracuse 56 v. south fla. 48.. 8 point victory. #4 kansas 66 v. texas a&m 58.. 8 point victory. #6 mich st. 66 v. minnesota 61.. 5 point victory. and mizzou fell yesterday.
So i wonder if their will be similar write ups tomorrow for these other possible 1 seeds, since 2 of them only won by 8 and mich st. only won by 5.
Guys guys calm down. We all know this is a classic side effect of UK jealousy. Clearly this writer has no clue. Don’t waste your time on a piece of garbage and biased journalism.
Agreed, Andy, by getting worked up over an article like this, you are giving credence to an idiot.
Thats what I’m saying. He’s just bitter, probably doesn’t like Cal, and writes an article to try and justify the hate. He knows nothing. If he did he wouldn’t wear his hair like that….haha. But he really isn’t worth the time or worth getting our blood pressure up over. We got the best team in CBB this year. Set back and enjoy it.
He is entitled to his own (regardless of how out of touch with reality it may be) opinion. My gut feeling is that he only continues to write because his articles generate so much feedback. I would bet if no one commented on any of his articles for a while, the editors of any paper/magazine would send this guy packing.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Oh crap, stop! Stop! I can’t breathe! You’re killing me! Ahhhh….that’s a good one Thayer!
Wait. What? You’re serious?
Douche.
Breaking down his innacuracies and relatively lack of knowledge on the actual basis of basketball is beyond amusing.. I will leave it at that.
Hey Gang,
I’m going to the SEC tourney with Linda. You can bet I’ll be watching my Ps & Qs. and staying clear of her Louavull Slugger
SuzieCat2, we are counting on you to keep Linda in line — and it won’t be easy
Larry! I know how to behave myself, well, sometimes. Remember it is the evil twin sister, she is the one who got me all the press at Cal’s camp 2 years ago.
Suziecat2 You know me better then that….well, sorta!
Slim, you have it covered…one, Evans is entitled to his opinion…and two, he is just doing that style of writing to get feedback…and sell more papers. But, he definitely isn’t worth raising your blood pressure over. Success is the best revenge, so let all the haters rant and rave all they want to while this team runs the table to New Orleans and all of us cool, calm, and collected UK fans with our high basketball IQ’s weep openly when they raise banner number 8 in Rupp to the tune of “My Old Kentucky Home” and we sit back afterwards and say “we told you we were that good!!”.
“Look at me! Please, look at me!! Seriously, someone look at me!”
He is trying to get some publicity by attacking high-profile programs. Apparently, this is not his first attempt. However, it is a failed attempt, he clearly knows nothing about basketball.
What an idiot.
Just look at his hair, that’s all you need to know about his character.
Yeah the term “electric shock treatments” comes to mind and seems to fit really well.
Down at the bottom of the Fox Sports web page there is a “contact us” link.
I did and actually got a response. An automated response to be sure but a response none the less.
Voiced my displeasure with something called a “Thayer” (who in the h++l names their kid Thayer) and made the usual threats like boycotts, etc., etc.
Point is that it seems that Fox Sports may care about their presentation and it may be worth the time for a few nmotes from the Bluegrass.
Don’t have a lot of respect for someone who doesn’t say what he thinks. Why not just come out and say “I don’t like Calipari, his methods, his teams, his hair…” Evan’s conclusions are all based on his hope that Kentucky/Calipari will falter. BTW, 8th grade called and wants your hair style back.
Thupid Thayer thought thumpthin thupid.
Thupid Thayer thaid thumpthin thupid.
I got this in may email today. Parrish saw the same game, read what a REAL basketball journalist thinks!
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/17378598/with-big-comeback-loaded-kentucky-team-shows-it-has-resiliency-too
I’ve downloaded Thayer’s pic, taking it with me to New Orleans, pasted on my Louavull Slugger!
My comment is getting stale…just like this guy! “You can’t fix stupid!”
This guy looks pretty smart after UK going cold against Vandy…ranked #1 in the nation but couldn’t even win their conference championship.