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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 11-05-2009, 08:44 PM:

You gotta love it!

There's a joke Rick Pitino likes to trot out when describing the difference between coaching at Louisville and coaching at Kentucky.

When you're the coach at Kentucky, Pitino says, you're with 100 percent of your friends. When you're the coach at Louisville, you're with 52 percent of your friends and 48 percent of your enemies.

Cue the rimshot.

It gets a good laugh more often than not, regardless of the audience for the only coach to lead both schools to a Final Four.

Yet these days, Louisville's advantage in the state's largest city is more tenuous than ever, and the inroads the Cardinals have made in the Bluegrass during Pitino's watch are in danger of being erased.

Open a magazine. Turn on a television. Flip on the radio. Browse the Internet.

On the eve of the most anticipated season in one of the most basketball-crazed states in the country, it's hard to tell which school is coming off consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament regional finals and which school fired its coach after limping into the NIT.

"Kentucky is all you hear about,'' said Louisville guard Edgar Sosa. "I'm from New York, and all my people from back home, they just want to know about Kentucky, what's going on with Kentucky.''

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