Background: Before the Kentucky Wildcats' 2009 season I wrote a little piece looking at the coming season in the most favorable light possible, rooted in pure irrational fandom.
The annually ritual continued under the Irrational Exuberance banner, but was in peril of being discontinued for the 2013 season. During the 2012 year, we found out the fairly tale story of a local talent reaching coaching heights was being written by the Brothers Grimm, not Mother Goose.
During that season, I gave Mitch Barnhart an ultimatum - "It's either Joker or Irrational Exuberance, one won't be around next year.