Jimmy Dan Conner on Rupp
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Rupp being a Racist was one of the first narratives invented by the media to sell a story. Rupp was the first to speak out for integration. That Texas Western game was used to advance civil rights. Rupp was just the victim of the media. The old southern racist. History shows he was anything but.
Trumps best friend and bodyguard of 30 years is a black man , yet 90% of the country believes he is a racist because the media say he is.
Trumps best friend and bodyguard of 30 years is a black man , yet 90% of the country believes he is a racist because the media say he is.
Of course people think he is racist, his name is Adolph, that is how logic (or lack thereof) works for alot of people unfortunately. In alot of people's eyes just being a white male automatically makes you a racist so there is that as well.
Rupp had a black player who played for him in high school before he ever took the UK job. That sounds like a racist to me, but I don’t know the man personally to say one way or another.
The man who wanted to leave the SEC because the league wouldn’t allow him to recruit black players was racist… riiiigght.
One of the reasons I have no patience for former players like Brooks shooting his mouth off out of raging ignorance.
So would've Duke back in the day had they won that game and gone on to play TX Southern would their coach had been categorized as a racist?
UK beat Duke to advance to that Championship game. I often wonder what if Duke won. Would they have been portrayed as the old racist white school??? If you look at the rosters Duke is the school that seems to have all the highly ranked white players over their history.
Can you imagine coach K with a hitler mustache being placed on instagram for Brooks to suck in ??? It’s on the internet so it must be true.
I don't really get this storyline continuing. Does the man need a legion of defenders/accusers? He's dead, move on.
How does the northernmost school in the conference get the "racist" label???
That never left the union, was the first to integrate football, has had black coaches, etc.
I do agree that defending it at this point keeps it as alive as much as any accusers.
Jimmy Dan Connor a big part of the 1974-75 national runners- up team. My all time favorite UK team. A big physical team that wouldn't take any crap from anybody.
Coach Rupp was known to question the intelligence of the press and their understanding of basketball.
Other former players have had similar comments about Rupp. The knock on Rupp is that he was slow to integrate. He wanted a sure-fire, top prospect as the first black player at UK. Tried and failed to get Unseld and Jim McDaniels. Finally recruited Tom Payne in 1970.
SEC integration time-line:
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In another thread, it was pointed out that in 1970 Bird Averitt of Hopkinsville was the best high school player in Kentucky. He went on to play for the Colonels, and in the NBA after. But Ronnie Lyons of Mason County won Mr. Basketball and got the scholarship to UK (no offense to "Little Ronnie" because I enjoyed watching him play too). It wasn't so much that Rupp was racist as it was the whole system.
I don't think Trump is a racist, but the white supremacists think he's on their side. That's kind of the way it was with Rupp too.
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Yes, ironically it probably seemed like Payne was kind of a "safe" recruit at the time. He probably seemed like a decent young man from a military family. Turned out to be a serial rapist. But not until after UK, iirc. I wish someone who was around then could tell why Rupp didn't recruit Averitt in 1970? He ended up going to Pepperdine, which is a pretty freakin' nice place to go to college I imagine. I doubt it was grades if he got in out there.
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I've spoken out against ANYONE ANYWHERE ANYTIME since I was a little boy when I've heard or read Coach Rupp being thought of that way.
Pitiful shame. God rest his soul. I hope my poppa has a good seat next to him up above to watch Kentucky 🥹
Pitiful shame. God rest his soul. I hope my poppa has a good seat next to him up above to watch Kentucky 🥹
The only people I've read calling Rupp a racist are sportswriters and opposing fans. Never heard a former player of his say that. Now....the FAN BASE in his hey day may be different.
Not 90% but I get your point. Probably 20-30% do, but those people would drink their pee if the media told them to.
Great to hear Jimmy Dan and Mike Flynn tell stories. What a great team.
What do those two guys do? Would be nice if they were involved with the uk program in some way
More than you think believe it. I’m not talking about whether or not he can run the country, but even most white people have bought the narrative.
Just like they believe all these Super Bowl halftime polls really are about the entertainment. I’ve seen 50 today all over the internet. Those polls are designed to get the White/ Black. Young/ Old crowds arguing.
The political landscape wants us divided. They want to break us into smaller groups they can control better.
We could stamp most of this out if we as Americans would ban together and vote all incumbents out. 8 years max and gone from government.
Make no mistake, these are not the common man’s views. These narratives are about government control.
DID YOU KNOW:
Adolph Rupp coached basketball at Freeport High School in Freeport, Illinois from 1926–1930. (Rupp's team finished third in the 1929 state tournament.)
Coach Rupp started William "Mose" Mosely, who was the first African-American to play basketball at that school.
Adolph Rupp coached basketball at Freeport High School in Freeport, Illinois from 1926–1930. (Rupp's team finished third in the 1929 state tournament.)
Coach Rupp started William "Mose" Mosely, who was the first African-American to play basketball at that school.
You're absolutely right about that, Richie. Bowling Green was named as the Confederate capital of Kentucky in November of 1861. The Confederate Convention that named Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy was held in Russellville. Today, when you drive through almost any county-seat town west of I-65, if you go to the town square you'll find a monument to the Confederate war dead.
Because they integrated the conference. There are plenty of people in media that wanted the SEC to stay white for the narrative. The drama. The northern and western schools also didn't want to compete with the SEC for those recruits. Because of UK, they did.
We knew back in Illinois that Rupp wasn't racist. We knew his history there as coach at Freeport High. Just as many racists of every ethic group, if not more, in Illinois as there are here in KY. THEY ALL need someone else to point the finger at and UK & KY works well for them
Dude was born in 1901. Anyone born before 1955ish grew up being told that black folks were lesser human beings as just a fact of life. Even the people of that time who would be retroactively called “woke” by modern day racists, still casually referred to black people as “negroes” (i.e RFK Sr.). My parents were born in the 60s and absolutely had prejudices and straight up myths put into their heads that they were disabused of simply through personal experience.
You’re an idiot if you think Rupp wasn’t prejudiced against black people based on what society thought to be true, or rather forced to be “true”. So with all that considered, I’d have a really hard time calling him racist. You can see sh!t on this very forum on a random Tuesday worse than anything Rupp probably ever said in his life, but none of those jackasses have any excuse for it.
You’re an idiot if you think Rupp wasn’t prejudiced against black people based on what society thought to be true, or rather forced to be “true”. So with all that considered, I’d have a really hard time calling him racist. You can see sh!t on this very forum on a random Tuesday worse than anything Rupp probably ever said in his life, but none of those jackasses have any excuse for it.
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