Check out this what this d bag @schoonerwest had to say about Rupp on the rivals main college basketball board:
I've shared this story on here before but it's been awhile and I felt that people needed to hear it again. My good buddy is a big time donor and has a lot of ins with the KU AD so he's been getting inside info for like 15 years now. I've mentioned his before as well. For you KU people, he's the guy that hangs out in the AD part of campus a few times a month just bs'ing with coaches and administrators. He always wears a visor, flip flops and Hawaiian shirts while he walks around with a red plastic cup filled up with god knows what. His name is Ward. Anyways, he knows the Allen family personally and per them this is pretty much how it went down.
Adolf's ties to the mob started when he was at KU playing under Phog Allen. Kansas City used to be one of main destinations to meet at for crime families across the country. Rupp was eager to make a name for himself and he thought that playing for the top coach and the top program would be enough for him to be able to make a deal with them to do some dirty work. The families blew him off for the most part because he was a redneck but he did catch the eye of one of the sons in the organization and they kept in touch throughout the years while Rupp was trying to make a name for himself. Once the 1940's rolled around and Rupp was proving himself, the now boss of the family decided it was time to let Rupp in on the action. His first action was to move Rupp to Youngstown State to coach because it is the exact halfway point between New York City and Chicago and a lot of business goes down there within the organization. He had the pull to get Rupp in but nothing ever materialized. Rumor has it that Rupp would only agree to become the coach if a hit was put out on the current coach(stole a couple of Rupp's recruits) but he was denied. The family decided not to take Rupp out for his arrogance because they knew he was gonna be a cash cow. They funded all of the illegal recruiting tactics used in order for Kentucky to get players and instructed Rupp of exactly how many points to shave and of who to play. Everything went as planned until they got caught and Rupp, being the snake he is, denied being apart of it until the day he died.
At KU, Phog saw a confused but bright young man in Rupp and that's why he signed him to KU and continued a relationship with him afterwards. He wanted to bring some attention to Rupp when he started coaching but Rupp always declined because he knew that Phog would kick his ass. Sometime in 1946, Phog became aware of Rupp's relationship with the crime families and wrote him a handwritten letter about how disappointed he was in the man and how he now wished that he never got into coaching because if he had not then Rupp would never have been able to dirty up the sport. Rupp responded by constantly calling and trying to schedule Kansas because of some sickly desire of beating his mentor while making himself and criminals money. Then the Olympic committee decided to have Kentucky play in the 1948 games instead of Kansas and the man who got the game to be included there in the first place. It was one of the lowest moments of Phog's career and the knife is still in his grandkids backs. There was some satisfaction in seeing Rupp be exposed as the devil he was but the remorse he must have felt for knowing that the devil was only able to become that because ofhim.
You can go to the thread here and let him know what's up.
https://forums.rivals.com/threads/true-story-about-phog-allen-and-adolph-rupp.415438/unread
I've shared this story on here before but it's been awhile and I felt that people needed to hear it again. My good buddy is a big time donor and has a lot of ins with the KU AD so he's been getting inside info for like 15 years now. I've mentioned his before as well. For you KU people, he's the guy that hangs out in the AD part of campus a few times a month just bs'ing with coaches and administrators. He always wears a visor, flip flops and Hawaiian shirts while he walks around with a red plastic cup filled up with god knows what. His name is Ward. Anyways, he knows the Allen family personally and per them this is pretty much how it went down.
Adolf's ties to the mob started when he was at KU playing under Phog Allen. Kansas City used to be one of main destinations to meet at for crime families across the country. Rupp was eager to make a name for himself and he thought that playing for the top coach and the top program would be enough for him to be able to make a deal with them to do some dirty work. The families blew him off for the most part because he was a redneck but he did catch the eye of one of the sons in the organization and they kept in touch throughout the years while Rupp was trying to make a name for himself. Once the 1940's rolled around and Rupp was proving himself, the now boss of the family decided it was time to let Rupp in on the action. His first action was to move Rupp to Youngstown State to coach because it is the exact halfway point between New York City and Chicago and a lot of business goes down there within the organization. He had the pull to get Rupp in but nothing ever materialized. Rumor has it that Rupp would only agree to become the coach if a hit was put out on the current coach(stole a couple of Rupp's recruits) but he was denied. The family decided not to take Rupp out for his arrogance because they knew he was gonna be a cash cow. They funded all of the illegal recruiting tactics used in order for Kentucky to get players and instructed Rupp of exactly how many points to shave and of who to play. Everything went as planned until they got caught and Rupp, being the snake he is, denied being apart of it until the day he died.
At KU, Phog saw a confused but bright young man in Rupp and that's why he signed him to KU and continued a relationship with him afterwards. He wanted to bring some attention to Rupp when he started coaching but Rupp always declined because he knew that Phog would kick his ass. Sometime in 1946, Phog became aware of Rupp's relationship with the crime families and wrote him a handwritten letter about how disappointed he was in the man and how he now wished that he never got into coaching because if he had not then Rupp would never have been able to dirty up the sport. Rupp responded by constantly calling and trying to schedule Kansas because of some sickly desire of beating his mentor while making himself and criminals money. Then the Olympic committee decided to have Kentucky play in the 1948 games instead of Kansas and the man who got the game to be included there in the first place. It was one of the lowest moments of Phog's career and the knife is still in his grandkids backs. There was some satisfaction in seeing Rupp be exposed as the devil he was but the remorse he must have felt for knowing that the devil was only able to become that because ofhim.
You can go to the thread here and let him know what's up.
https://forums.rivals.com/threads/true-story-about-phog-allen-and-adolph-rupp.415438/unread
