We're all about thinking outside the box on business models in Kentucky. For example, they're considering new ways of getting to work from Louisville to Winchester and of having fun in Harlan. Meanwhile, I'm probably most intrigued by the new way of making cheese in Peasticks. And, of course, ... Smart Grid!
Of course, we're remembering some old biz boxes, too. A tragic 1977 fire did in the downtown Columbia hotel, for example. Per request, a former employee of WGRB in Cane Valley remembers the old days (some good, some "hairy" of Night Talk, et al. And here's a terrific look back at the face of commerce in Covington, circa 1975.
By the way, I'm starting to love the Kenton County Public Library as much as I love ColumbiaMagazine.com.
The Courier-Journal's Rick Bozich sketches the decision trees that UK's Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones are mulling.
It's a good day that one gets to start by watching dawn simultaneously over both Lake Peewee in Madisonville and Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville.
The Lord is risen.
The Kentucky State Parks' banana pudding is astoundingly great.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost always surprised by the moment that finally gets a group of people to, by and large, decide they are no longer going to regard somebody as a hero. I'll be interested to see if Coach Hall has much to say about Bobby Knight today.
ReplyDeleteLove stumbling across the names of Kentucky towns I did not know. To wit: Howardstown! I learned yesterday that there is a Frakes.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Knight say?
ReplyDeleteWell, clearly Bozich is doing his part to persuade Knight and Jones to leave early. Once again, I am stunned by how much the Kentucky media hates UK and its fans.
ReplyDeleteI was doing OK with this Knight/Jones to the NBA saga. Now I'm going to be mad all day, just thinking about how happy it will make Bozich if they leave.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the rest of those clowns: Pat Forde, Jerry Tipton, Mark Story, and the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteI thought Rick Bozich's column was good and balanced. Even Coach Calipari called it a no-brainer that those two declare and at least test waters.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to be mad at somebody today, GoHeath, join the rest of us in Kentucky in being angry with Bobby Knight.
ReplyDeleteCan someone supply a good link to why we should be angry with Bobby Knight. Sorry I don't feel like digging for this story.
ReplyDeleteFrom The Courier-Journal's coverage today: "'Kentucky, year before last, started five players in the NCAA Tournament games that had not been to class that semester,' Knight said during the video, from a speech he gave at the Honeywell Center. 'And that's that one-and-done philosophy that we have now.'"
ReplyDeleteI am mad at Bobby Knight. But I did not think Bozich's column was balanced. The whole point of his column was to urge Knight and Jones to go pro and take advantage of the fact that so many other guys are coming back to school.
ReplyDeleteEverywhere else, the local columnists are happy when players return to school. Only in Kentucky do the local columnists urge players to leave.
But, of course, Bozich is an IU fan. Having him write columns about UK makes about as much sense as it would be for the News and Observer to hire me to write columns about Duke and UNC.
And Oscar Combs would agree with me.
ReplyDeleteWell, I disagree. I thought it was a good column spelling out the different factors, and I think it's pretty much in line with everything that Coach Calipari has been saying about those two, as well. In fact, he alluded to the same thing about other freshmen coming back actually strengthening the argument for Jones and Knight to leave. Coach Calipari's thing has always been that if you project to the lottery to go. According to Rick Bozich's column, they're both on the fringe of projecting as lottery picks.
ReplyDeleteCalipari has to choose his words a lot more carefully than Bozich, because he would look like a bad guy if he seems to be trying to hard to get his kids to stay. But there's no reason that a local columnist couldn't write a column urging Jones and Knight to stay.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I can't see any motive for this column other than animus toward UK. Why not write about the Bobby Knight controversy, or the fact that other schools somehow persuade guys to come back year after year, while we lose everyone to the pros? Or the Reds? Or the NBA playoffs?
Bozich knew this column would drive people like me nuts -- and that's why he wrote it.
And Oscar Combs would agree with me.
ReplyDeleteAs would Joe B. Hall.
And Tom Leach.
Well, I disagree with you. I thought it was a good, interesting and balanced column, and I'm definitely more interested in the decision that Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones face than I am about the Reds or the NBA playoffs.
ReplyDeleteBut I would be more than happy to read the column clobbering Bobby Knight.
I love canoeing, and I just don't do it enough.
ReplyDeleteThe last caller to The Joe B and Denny Show today is a U.S. Mail carrier for northern Cumberland County. Coach Hall went into a story about how he would sometimes shuttle a friend of his who was a mail carrier who didn't like to drive in the snow.
ReplyDelete"Appreciate those mail men, I'll tell you what," Coach Hall said. "They have to get out in all kinds of weather. Sometimes we don't appreciate them enough."
Then there was a commercial break, and the caller never got the chance to state his comment or ask his question.