Vanderbilt coach unhappy with UK’s SEC schedule

January 18, 2012 | Filed under: Columns,Kentucky Basketball,Sports | Posted by:

For the second year in a row, UK doesn’t have to play a Thursday-Saturday game combination in SEC play.

Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings isn’t too happy about that.

Stallings said it’s “not right,” according to The Tennessean.

Compounding UK’s lack of playing two games in the three days is that they play four opponents who will be on the tail end of a Thursday-Saturday combo.

“Go figure that one out for me, would you?” Stallings said. “We all agreed to do it, so if you have one like we have one, I’m not going to complain with the one that we have. To not have any and to be able to play four teams that have to do it to play you … I don’t think it’s right for somebody not to have any and to play four different times when their opponents have to play them on short order. That’s not fair and it’s not equitable, and something needs to be done about that.”

UK has played one Thursday-Saturday combination when it played St. John’s on a Thursday and North Carolina two days later. The closest the Wildcats come to replicating that in SEC play is a Thursday-Sunday combination to close the season.

UK and Vanderbilt meet on Feb. 11.


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4 Responses to Vanderbilt coach unhappy with UK’s SEC schedule

  1. kevin fields January 18, 2012 - 4:16 pm

    i live in the nashville area, and kevin stallings is one big cry baby he would complain if he played the opposite!

  2. David Ball January 18, 2012 - 10:47 pm

    I agree…it seems unfair…but then again, maybe Stallings should petition the NCAA and their officiating crews and explain to them what a charge/block foul is…

  3. ali guest January 18, 2012 - 11:58 pm

    Stallings has always been a cry baby. He needs to grow up and move on!!If he is so unhappy, fall out of the SEC!!!

  4. Kas January 22, 2012 - 12:08 pm

    Kevin stallings must need a hanky for his tears