[Van Hagar]

Ok. I’m a racist. I raised a mixed race kid. He was a hell of an athlete. I heard him called the n word as early as nine years old by adults when he was better than their kids he was competing against. And this was in another of the so-called nice, beautiful, well-to-do thriving towns in Ky. You’re living in a fantasy world if you think it’s any different in Pikeville. And the Tubby only won with Pitino’s players things is ignorant, always makes me go AHHHHH! That’s like saying we would have won the title that year with me,
you, or OSH coaching. It’s belittling. He outcoached Coach K head to head in the tournament that year. And Tubby would have won another had Keith Bogans not rolled his ankle before the Marquette game in 2003. Boy, that would have changed the narrative. He did have to go, I’m not disputing that, the way he wanted to play at the end didn’t fit UK and he obviously had lost interest in recruiting. And Cal probably needs to move on too, 10-plus years at this job would kill most anyone. But don’t ever act like there isn’t a racial element that still exists with the ‘older” shall we say part of the UK fan base. It’s not political, it’s just the way it is. Hopefully my younger son’s generation is on the way to turning that around.