[Hoot Gibson]

I will leave the rectum kissing to old hound since that would probably require getting on your knees. I guess the hypocrisy lives on for those who believe that shit about coach Rupp and even Happy Chandler, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Jesus.

You are absolutely right about Coach Rupp. Not only did Rupp pit his teams against talented teams that had black players featured prominently on their rosters across the nation, he also recruited black players unsuccessfully before finally persuading Tom Payne to join the program.

Rupp recruited Jim McDaniel, Wes Unseld, and Butch Beard, but convincing black high school players to accept UK scholarships and play conference games in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida in the 50s and 60s was an uphill battle. Kentucky began winning more recruiting battles after the Democrats' Jim Crow laws of the deep South were knocked down and schools were forced to desegregate.