NOTE: This does not represent the views or opinions of the company, just mine….

The University of Kentucky has one of the most loyal, enthusiastic, and fanatical fan bases of any college around. I should know—I’m one of them.

The devotion of UK fans has made its impact on the online world as well. We’re notorious for causing sites like Rivals.com, Scout.com, Kentuckysportsradio.com, and many other blogs, forums, and chat rooms all sorts of technical difficulties whenever a big newsworthy UK sports story is breaking. It’s not uncommon for 20,000 UK fans to hit a chat room whenever a story goes down. It could be a new recruit signing on to play for the Cats or word that one of our starters is staying with the team for another year. Regardless, whenever these news items start to pop, the traffic UK fans generate to all these sites overloads them to the point where they all crash.

Even our coaching staff is connected. Coach Calipari has a very popular Twitter account. In fact, it’s so popular that it had over 20,000 followers within the first three weeks after it went active. And it didn’t stop there. He has over 100,000 followers now.

Coach Cal keeps the UK fan base up to date on what he is doing and what’s new with the b-ball program. He also provides recommendations for books to read and offers up some life advice as well.

UK’s football coach, Rich Brooks, also has a Twitter account but it isn’t quite the same as Calipari’s. Coach Brooks has tweeted about what he’s growing in his garden and which of his garden’s vegetable crop are his favorites. But he is older than Coach Cal and might not be getting the hang of all this newfangled technology yet.

When it comes to social media, the Internet, and frankly, everything else, nothing can top the Big Blue Nation.