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Old 01-20-2006, 08:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Kentucky fans have mixed feelings about the movie. Have any of you seen it?

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Kentucky fans have mixed feelings about the movie. Have any of you seen it?

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Saw it. I enjoyed it. I'm a huge Don Haskins fan, so it was nice to see the most underrated coach in basketball history get his due. Some artistic license was taken with the facts, but nothing was done that distorted the essential story. I'm not surprised by Riley's quotes. He has always been effusive in his praise for his former coach. The Rupp legacy could have a worse spokesman than Pat Riley.
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Old 01-20-2006, 10:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 01-25-2006, 04:12 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I am no Kentucky fan--they are probably the team I dislike the most in the conference--and the game was before my time, but it seems to me like Rupp=Racist is a little to simplistic to be accurate. The South in general and the SEC in particular was not a beacon of race relations at the time, with Ga Tech even leaving the conference because of integration issues. It is a little unfair to tag the guy as racist for doing what everyone else was doing just because he was the most successful.
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