Rupp coached at Freeport High School (Illinois) and was hired as HC at Kentucky

His record at Freeport from 1926-1930 was 66-21 and he was coming off a third place finish at the state tournament when UK made the call to bring him to Lexington. Let's look at how that hire of an "unproven" coach turned out! Mark Pope's college experience beats Rupp's by a mile.