Call it “The New Adventures of Old Kentucky”, with Randall Cobb cast in the starring role instead of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It’s the saga of young players with great aspirations and older fans with bad memories of days gone by.It came to head shortly after the dramatic 31-28 upset of 10th-ranked South Carolina when Cobb sent out some tweets in which he vented anger at fans who either didn’t show up, left early or lashed out at players with criticism when the Cats dug themselves into a 28-10 hole.If any player has the equity to have earned a Twitter mulligan, it’s Cobb, who has evolved into one of the most popular players ever with the Big Blue Nation. That’s why Cobb will probably get plenty of understanding from the fan base, but you can bet coach Joker Phillips will point out the downside to Cobb’s heat-of-the-moment reaction. Some of the positive buzz from Kentucky’s performance has been replaced with the discussion of Cobb’s tweets about fans. National media types have picked up on it and you can bet rival recruiters will, too.Thoughtful consideration of the impact of our comments is an old-school notion at a time when Twitter, Facebook updates, message-board posts and talk-show rants dominate the discussion. It turns out “counting to 10 before acting” might still be a good strategy.I thought Mark Story made a great point in his column in today’s Lexington Herald-Leader — this is a case of mutual misunderstanding.Players for whom the concept of “history” means yesterday do not fully appreciate how much heartache longtime Kentucky football fans have suffered through with little return on their investment until the last four years.But some fans also need to acknowledge that losses like the one to Auburn, with the opening marching down the field on a gut-wrenching drive to snatch away victory at the final horn, are no longer the norm for the Kentucky football program.It started with the Wildcats coming from behind twice in the fourth quarter to beat Georgia in 2006. In 2007, Kentucky trailed LSU by 13 before rallying for the upset. In 2008, the Cats were left for dead midway through the fourth quarter against Arkansas before wiping out a 20-7 lead in the final few minutes of the game. And later that year, the deficit was 16-3 at halftime in the Liberty Bowl before Big Blue rallied to defeat East Carolina. Last year, there were fourth-quarter comeback wins at Auburn and at Georgia.After one looks at that list, it’s easier to see why a player with Cobb’s heart would get frustrated when he perceives his own fans have thrown in the towel and failed to believe in his team from the start.There will undoubtedly be more games like this year’s Auburn loss, but recent history suggests there are more examples like the South Carolina win.If Kentucky does get to that long-discussed “next level” in the Southeastern Conference, the graph of the improvement will have not been a straight line. It never is. The hope as a team is you take two steps forward for every one step back.Kentucky lost a game it should have won at Ole Miss but now it won a game it could have lost against South Carolina. It leaves the Wildcats back in control of their own destiny when it comes to reaching that elusive bigger and better bowl south of the state of Tennessee’s southern border. And with a little help, UK could even still achieve what many surely felt was impossible — winning the SEC East.That’s where this team’s focus needs to be this week and you can bet Cobb will be working extra hard to keep it there.