re: CM Newton, Wimp, and Dale Brown.

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He had to notice the great Cincinnati teams led by Oscar Robertson and later Paul Hogue. I mean if George Smith and Ed Jucker saw the ability of black athletes, surely Rupp could.

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He did.

Again, how old are you?

I was in Cincinnati back then and it was better but it was not without incidents either.


#1 Rupp would fail in modern recruiting. He had tryouts and sent letters for kids not in the area. If a kid did not respond to the letter Rupp dropped them. He did not travel to recruit. If you played for him you showed up or were not on the team.

#2 "Glory Road" was made for modern revisionist history. Nobody at that game saw it as "black" vs "white" as players, staff, or fans. The bigger irony is had the Duke player not been sick, they would have won and faced Texas Western, not UK

#3 The gold lighter was a gimmick for Bear to recruit in KY (and elsewhere). He and Rupp were close long after he left UK.

#4 Most of the revised history was penned in the 1980's by a guy (like a click baiter today) who made a career making stuff up and was not even around when Rupp was.

#5 Both the North and South there were places black folks just did not go. It is one thing to have a black kid on a team but entirely different to protect them traveling. Kids today have no clue what it was really like back then.