{"id":111,"date":"2006-03-05T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:37:03","slug":"from-excellence-to-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"From Excellence to Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Florida 79  Kentucky 64<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/uploaded_images\/KYER10203051807_sp-777043.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/uploaded_images\/KYER10203051807_sp-771233.jpeg\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/uploaded_images\/KYER10203051807_sp-777043.jpeg\"><\/a><br \/>Florida has now beaten KY four times in a row!.  And this is basketball we are talking about, NOT football.  For all those who were hoping for a &#8220;recovery&#8221; based on the LSU and Tennessee games, welcome back to Tubby Ball.  I maintain what I had said in my post after the Vandy sweep.  Tubbys era has been a journey downhill.  From excellence to mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>People say the expectations of KY fans are too high.  But I think they should be.  This is KY basketball.  And YES, anything short of a championship is a disappointment.  So a 19-11 season and the middle rung of the SEC is definitely NOT acceptable to me, nor should it be for any KY fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida 79 Kentucky 64Florida has now beaten KY four times in a row!. And this is basketball we are talking about, NOT football. For all those who were hoping for a &#8220;recovery&#8221; based on the LSU and Tennessee games, welcome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}