No more Rupp Arena?

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"The Adolph Rupp name has come to stand for racism and exclusion in UK athletics and alienates Black students, fans, and attendees," the letter read. "The rebuilding of the arena and the convention center offer an opportunity to change the name to a far more inclusive one, such as Wildcat Arena. In addition, the University should survey all campus buildings and remove all names of enslavers, Confederate sympathizers (such as William C.P. Breckinridge), and other white supremacists."
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Requests included in the letter also ask UK to require a course on race and inequality for all undergraduates, to increase Black representation among faculty to 15 percent, appoint more Black faculty and staff to leadership positions, increase support for Black students, establish a system or systems of accountability for individuals who commit racist and other acts of discrimination on campus, and fund the new Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies.
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RoaminVol said:
Im sure he wouldnt mind having slaves 😂
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Answer the question. If I’m not mistaken he signed one of the first blacks to play in the SEC.

Is the hate because he was a successful basketball coach of predominantly white teams during the civil rights era?
 
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Dudleys87 said:
I get that things aren’t perfect and nothing is but can someone please tell me where it stops?
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The football stadium at the University of Tennessee, Neyland Stadium, is named for a former coach who refused to compete against college teams with Black players. Robert Neyland, who was Tennessee’s football coach and an administrator until 1962, also “verbally abused” a Black student for attempting to try out for the basketball team, the project report said.
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Project Identifies Athletic Facilities Named After Figures With Racist Pasts | Inside Higher Ed
I sent Greta an email asking for the source of her information regarding Coach Neyland. I never got a response. Her email is greta.anderson@insidehighered.com I hope someone else has better luck as I think she needs to state her source.
 
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Kamara4sixGBO said:
Project Identifies Athletic Facilities Named After Figures With Racist Pasts | Inside Higher Ed
I sent Greta an email asking for the source of her information regarding Coach Neyland. I never got a response. Her email is greta.anderson@insidehighered.com I hope someone else has better luck as I think she needs to state her source.
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A link to the paper is in the article. The paper provides a reference for the following comments (see bolded reference and footnote citation):

As was the case at Georgia Tech, former University of Tennessee football coach and administrator Robert Neyland faced a similar situation. In 1961, Neyland canceled a track meet because an opponent was going to let a Black student-athlete compete (Epling, 1994). His decision to cancel the event eventually led to him stepping down from his position in 1962. In addition, Neyland was also involved in an altercation with a Black student, Avon Rollins, in which he verbally abused the student for his inquiry into trying out for the basketball team at Tennessee (Epling, 1994). In recognition of his 36 years of service, Tennessee named their football stadium, Neyland Stadium, posthumously after Robert.
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Epling, R.T. (1994). Seasons of change: Football desegregation and the University of Tennessee and the transformation of the Southeastern Conference, 1963–1967 (Dissertation). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

And here is a link to the dissertation on UT's very own website:

https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3667&context=utk_graddiss
 
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Pacer92 said:
Answer the question. If I’m not mistaken he signed one of the first blacks to play in the SEC.

Is the hate because he was a successful basketball coach of predominantly white teams during the civil rights era?
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I have no clue I'm not a Kentucky fan but im tired of Folks b****** cause they are changing team names and arenas. America shouldnt honor any leader or memorial that hate a specific group of ppl that live in this country.
 
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RoaminVol said:
I have no clue I'm not a Kentucky fan but im tired of Folks b****** cause they are changing team names and arenas. America shouldnt honor any leader or memorial that hate a specific group of ppl that live in this country.
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I’m tired of people jumping on the Marxist train that have no idea what they are talking about...
 
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RoaminVol said:
Who doesn’t know what they are talking about? All I said is ppl mad about something that doesnt even pertain to their own team.
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Cuz we’re next...or a few down the line.
 
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95 Vol Alum said:
A link to the paper is in the article. The paper provides a reference for the following comments (see bolded reference and footnote citation):



Epling, R.T. (1994). Seasons of change: Football desegregation and the University of Tennessee and the transformation of the Southeastern Conference, 1963–1967 (Dissertation). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

And here is a link to the dissertation on UT's very own website:

https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3667&context=utk_graddiss
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Thanks! I wonder if that was added on, I might have just missed it.
 
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