Reply #37: Kentucky basketball has been one of the most criminal of Division I programs for the last 60 years [View All]

[FredScuttle]

You brought up the laughable point that "no one accused UK of racism" when, in fact, the program has a long and proud history (centered in their deity Rupp) of racism and bigotry. Rupp refused to recruit black players until he was dragged kicking and screaming to do it when the University realized that coddling their legendary coach's racism was being outweighed by the titanic ass-kickings that were looming on the horizon to the integrated teams of the late 60s

Now, I can go into chapter and verse about what a corrupt and venal program Kentucky has been....from the point-shaving scandal from 1951 to the "hundred-dollar handshakes" under Eddie Sutton to the ACT scandal of 1988 to their long-overdue NCAA sanctions in the Chris Mills scandal, Kentucky is as crooked a college program as there has ever been....their saving grace has been the NCAA's utter refusal until 1989 to discipline the school or its coaches in any meaningful way.