Maybe hire Calipari too
I hope they don't make fun of the Kansas guy too much
Too funny. Cal seems like he might be itching to hit the road yet again.
If it all came together, they wouldn't have much of a choice but to razz the Kansas guy, at least a little. It's an ancient, blood rivalry that once in the blood, is in the blood for good.
I go back a ways. I'm originally a good old boy from Kentucky.
One of the first things that got me started me on the road to being a life-long Cs fan was that they started another good old Kentucky boy, the great Frank Ramsay, on those 50s-early-60s championship teams. Frank was from nearby Madisonville, a short hop from my home town of Bowling Green and is, of course, both a UK and Celtic legend. He won a college crown at UK before winning multiple titles with Cousy, Tommy, Russ, Sharman, Sam, K.C. and Hondo, among other legends. Along with Red, his coach on the Cs, Frank is known for pioneering the role of the Sixth Man. He was said to be Red's choice to succeed him as coach but decided to return home to Madisonville, enter business and start making some real money which you couldn't do in pro sports back then save for the handful of superstars in their respective sports.
One of the saddest nights of my life was when the legendary Rupp's Runts lost the the national championship to Don "The Bear" Haskins' Texas Western Miner team [cum Texas-El Paso] with David "Big D" Lattin, Willie Cager, Willie Worsley, Nevil Shed and Bobby Joe Hill, the first all-black squad to start in a NCAA final.
Coached by basketball god Adolph Rupp, the Baron of the Bluegrass, the all-white Wildcats didn't start anyone over 6-5. The first unit consisted of Louie Dampier, Larry Conley, Tommy Kron, Thad Jaracz, who at 6-5 was the center, and a 6-4, white leaper from Schenectady, New York, who I would grow to loathe due to his long-time association with the evil LA Lakers, one Pat Riley.
Excluding several iterations of the Celts over the years, the Runts were my all-time favorite team. They played a similar, fast-breaking style as the old Celtics and, in many respects because of their lack of height, the same brand of "positionless" ball as the current iteration does now.
I'm still not sure I'm over their loss to the Miners that night which, of course, amounted to one of the epochal games in basketball and sports history, for obvious reasons. When I got a little older and understood its full significance, I didn't feel quite so bad about the Cats losing.
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