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Yes, yes it is. by usaf_irish
And nobody of any seriousness argues that he wasn’t a dyed in the wool racist during the vast majority of his time there.
As far as the “neural court” stuff, keep in mind that the majority of the arenas in the SEC were, at best, a really bad joke in from the 50s to the mid 70s. LSU put down a wood floor over dirt in their Ag Arena (the aptly named “Cow Palace). Other arenas were little more than glorified high school gyms. Some even still had stages on one end.
Were they a sleazy program? Without a doubt. Three players were caught taking bribes from gamblers during the NIT and all three were essentially banned for life from basketball for it. But it’s hard to single them out among all the other gambling scandals of the era.