Glory Road
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Listen up maggots! And that's an order!
Fiyah said:
Coach Haskins, Pat "Slick" Riley and a good deal of the surviving players were technical advisors to the movie.
There was another thing I was watching related to this how Rupp unsuccessfully recruited Wes Unseld and some other cats before getting UK's first black basketball player.
I'm glad this movie is out. Did they have the scene when Riley got dunked on and the dude called him a h-----y???
Makaho 2.0
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I knew the late Bobby Joe Hill personally.
I met him years ago when I was stationed in El Paso. His daughter is a lawyer and a product of the Thurgood Marshall law school
That guy always opened up his home to US, because he knew that most of us were military and wanted to fellowship with each other.
One thing about the movie that I got upset that they left out was the speech that Adolph Rupp had with his players during halftime about them losing to a bunch of n**ggers, and they needed to play better.
Bobby Joe also told me that after the game Pat Riley was the only Kentucky player that came over and shook their hands.
I know you can only shove so much historical data into a two hour movie, but I thought those two tangents should have been included, because he told a bunch of us about that.
Also, their is another inaccuracy depicted int the line in the movie about Don Haskins starting a whole black line-up to make a statement to America, but in fact, he wanted to win. The black players were better....period!
RIP Bobby Joe!
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I met him years ago when I was stationed in El Paso. His daughter is a lawyer and a product of the Thurgood Marshall law school
That guy always opened up his home to US, because he knew that most of us were military and wanted to fellowship with each other.
One thing about the movie that I got upset that they left out was the speech that Adolph Rupp had with his players during halftime about them losing to a bunch of n**ggers, and they needed to play better.
Bobby Joe also told me that after the game Pat Riley was the only Kentucky player that came over and shook their hands.
I know you can only shove so much historical data into a two hour movie, but I thought those two tangents should have been included, because he told a bunch of us about that.
Also, their is another inaccuracy depicted int the line in the movie about Don Haskins starting a whole black line-up to make a statement to America, but in fact, he wanted to win. The black players were better....period!
RIP Bobby Joe!
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Excellent movie! I saw the actually game on ESPN Classics about year ago. Hopefully ESPN Classics will show the game in the near future.
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Race and Kentucky ||
Mark Story
A DYNASTY DERAILED?
By Mark StoryHERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
The UCLA basketball dynasty could have been stopped. Kentucky had it in its power to do so. If only …
Of all the historic what ifs that hang over Kentucky basketball — What if the point-shaving scandal had never happened? What if Mike Casey hadn’t had his car wreck? What if that Emery package hadn’t "popped open?" — none is more intriguing than this:
What if Kentucky had successfully integrated its basketball program in 1963 instead of 1969?
I think it is safe to say that UCLA would not have won 10 NCAA titles in 12 years (between 1964-75).
Because Kentucky would have cut down the nets some of those years.
Certainly, the racial legacy of Adolph Rupp — and UK — would carry a vastly different look.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldl...ckages/uk_a_century_of_basketball/4725929.htm
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Race and Kentucky ||
Mark Story
A DYNASTY DERAILED?
By Mark StoryHERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
The UCLA basketball dynasty could have been stopped. Kentucky had it in its power to do so. If only …
Of all the historic what ifs that hang over Kentucky basketball — What if the point-shaving scandal had never happened? What if Mike Casey hadn’t had his car wreck? What if that Emery package hadn’t "popped open?" — none is more intriguing than this:
What if Kentucky had successfully integrated its basketball program in 1963 instead of 1969?
I think it is safe to say that UCLA would not have won 10 NCAA titles in 12 years (between 1964-75).
Because Kentucky would have cut down the nets some of those years.
Certainly, the racial legacy of Adolph Rupp — and UK — would carry a vastly different look.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldl...ckages/uk_a_century_of_basketball/4725929.htm
MightyDog
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I haven't seen the movie, but I did listen to the Movie Critics and they also stated what Makaho is saying about Rupp. In fact, I saw the game on TV and lived through the history of Kentucky basketball. Although it may be a good movie and it may have many teaching points, American movie makers just cannot tell the whole truth. According to the movie critics they still wanted to show the positive side of the coaches to make them look like heroes, but there has to be some good in it for those who did not witness this period first hand. In fact, we celebrated after the great win.