Spotlight on Kentucky Basketball
Pat Forde's article on race and Kentucky basketball tradition is an excellent story of the progress and sometimes the lack thereof of racial views in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As somone who's parents and grandfather went to the three schools in Kentucky known for their basketball tradition, UK, WKU, and U of L, this article is especially interesting. It's good to see a black coach at UK after not even allowing a black scholarship player on the basketball team until 1970. That doesn't mean I think Tubby Smith is actually a good coach though! The man cannot recruit!
posted by Lighthorse Harry at 1:08 PM
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I can't believe that this post has been up since May, and I am the first person to comment on it--which, granted, it probably doesn't deserve my time.
UK was recruiting black players for basketball starting with Wes Unseld, which I believe was around 1965, give or take a year. It took them a long time to actually sign a black player, but they actively recruited well before 1970. I also believe that UK was one of the first two or three SEC football teams to have a black player.
And for someone to be all holier-than-thou talking about the lack of racial progress in Kentucky that is from VIRGINIA...well, that is just stupid.
I also think it is comical that fans from the U. of Virginia actually thought that Tubby Smith would even consider coming to that garbage program.
Long story short--get over yourself. And have a nice day.
1:21 PM
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