Jimmy Dykes has become a tier one hater of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team. He consistently brags on and praises the other team more. He speaks about Kentucky in a spiteful and condescending tone paired with snide insults of the program and our fans. He is very vocal on questioning calls that go in favor of UK and calling out alleged missed calls that he believes should have been called against UK that would benefit the other team. When a blatant call is missed that would go in Kentucky's favor, he is silent.
Dykes was once an assistant coach at Kentucky and used to be one of the most positive commentators when covering the Cats. I am not sure what happened, but somewhere along the line that soured. He clearly hates Kentucky at this point. He is arrogant, condescending, and calls the game as if he knows it all and has the last word on everything. Yet Kentucky gets stuck with listening to him game after game.
Dykes previously coached the Arkansas women's basketball team from 2014-2017 before resigning. He only had one winning season, 4 games over .500 and won 1 tournament game. He had an abysmal overall record of 43-49, 15-33 in the SEC yet we are forced to listen to his "expertise" on college basketball.
If you're tired of listening to Jimmy Dykes call Kentucky games, please sign this petition to have him banned from calling Kentucky games in the future. It probably won't go anywhere or change anything, but maybe it can get back to him and he can at least feel the discomfort of BBN letting him know how we feel.
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He sucks and hates Kentucky due to he thought he should be coach when Eddie Sutton was fired!
Jimmy is so biased he is an insult to true commentary on the game of basketball. He is so negative towards UK and takes every opportunity to put the team, the coach as fans down.
Because he was a coach it could be he does not wwant to show favoritism, which is causing him to trend the opposite way to far. Regardless he does get in your crawl.
This guy has given me an aneurysm from the blatant bias, it's to the point where I turn the volume down on the TV so I can watch the game in peace
I agree 100%! He consistently extolls the virtues of whoever Kentucky’s playing, while finding fault with or making disparaging comments about Kentucky's program. Quite frankly, it makes me angry having to listen to him. He needs to go!
I agree
He absolutely hates Kentucky Basketball…next!!
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Jimmy Dykes has become a tier one hater of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team. He consistently brags on and praises the other team more. He speaks about Kentucky in a spiteful and condescending tone paired with snide insults of the program and our fans. He is very vocal on questioning calls that go in favor of UK and calling out alleged missed calls that he believes should have been called against UK that would benefit the other team. When a blatant call is missed that would go in Kentucky's favor, he is silent.
Dykes was once an assistant coach at Kentucky and used to be one of the most positive commentators when covering the Cats. I am not sure what happened, but somewhere along the line that soured. He clearly hates Kentucky at this point. He is arrogant, condescending, and calls the game as if he knows it all and has the last word on everything. Yet Kentucky gets stuck with listening to him game after game.
Dykes previously coached the Arkansas women's basketball team from 2014-2017 before resigning. He only had one winning season, 4 games over .500 and won 1 tournament game. He had an abysmal overall record of 43-49, 15-33 in the SEC yet we are forced to listen to his "expertise" on college basketball.
If you're tired of listening to Jimmy Dykes call Kentucky games, please sign this petition to have him banned from calling Kentucky games in the future. It probably won't go anywhere or change anything, but maybe it can get back to him and he can at least feel the discomfort of BBN letting him know how we feel.
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Three hours of recycled buzzwords — “violent cutting,” “it’s hard to beat relentless,” “right shot for the right moment”… we’ve heard it all a hundred times. There’s more slippage in his commentary than in the actual game. ESPN really thinks this is must-hear for every UK broadcast? Brutal.
He sucks and hates Kentucky due to he thought he should be coach when Eddie Sutton was fired!
Jimmy is so biased he is an insult to true commentary on the game of basketball. He is so negative towards UK and takes every opportunity to put the team, the coach as fans down.
Because he was a coach it could be he does not wwant to show favoritism, which is causing him to trend the opposite way to far. Regardless he does get in your crawl.
This guy has given me an aneurysm from the blatant bias, it's to the point where I turn the volume down on the TV so I can watch the game in peace
I agree 100%! He consistently extolls the virtues of whoever Kentucky’s playing, while finding fault with or making disparaging comments about Kentucky's program. Quite frankly, it makes me angry having to listen to him. He needs to go!
I agree
He absolutely hates Kentucky Basketball…next!!
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Three hours of recycled buzzwords — “violent cutting,” “it’s hard to beat relentless,” “right shot for the right moment”… we’ve heard it all a hundred times. There’s more slippage in his commentary than in the actual game. ESPN really thinks this is must-hear for every UK broadcast? Brutal.