[whackem'n'stackem']

Reading many of the threads here that quickly devolve into "you recruit", "you're a private school", "you run up the score (though the first team is pulled in the second quarter)", blah blah blah as well as all of the nasty things that get posted in the comments after articles in the Enquirer, Ky Post, Lexington Herald Leader, and more rarely the Courier-Journal; I do think the team is hated and is not respected by a significant vocal group.

I end up feeling slightly paranoid in that whenever I have replied, in a civilized fashion without name calling and pointing out facts, to the posts for the newspaper websites, my posts are always deleted but the original, usually nasty post, remains. It is as if the papers take sides as well both in this aspect as well as their coverage.

I have seen a trend in the media as well with the announcing. They can't even hide the probable fact that they want to see the Birds fall flat on their faces. I remember after the Elder game, Cincinnati stations posted the score but then proceeded to show the lone highlights of the losing squad, Elder. Guess that comes with the territory.