Blog Post #2, Rupp Arena.

                                  Rupp Arena

Article #1: http://www.rupparena.com/arena-information/history
Article #2: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/15/2110899/lesser-known-facts-about-an-impressive.html
                                  Now                                                     Then
                  

So for my second blog post I was going to report about Adolph Rupp. I couldn't find very much on the internet about him so I decided that I would research one of Kentucky's most prized possessions, Rupp Arena. For me Rupp Arena is a great sports facility where thousands of Kentucky basketball fans have fond memories of wins and losses. As you see I picked two articles to pull information from. The first article is from the actual Rupp Arena website. The other is a news article from the Kentucky newspaper stating facts about Rupp Arena itself. I found both sites quiet interesting.

Article #1:
This article talks about the history of Rupp Arena, no not sports statistics but about the actual building itself. The project had actually been talked about since the 1920's. Nothing was really done until the April of 1971. At that time the Tourism Commission was created and building Rupp was one of their first focuses. Rupp began construction in 1974 and was finish ahead of time in 1976. Rupp was and still is the pride of Lexington. thousands lined up to take a tour of the new facility.

Article #2:
This article was actually written in 2012, which when I had first opened it surprised me seeing as I had searched "Rupp Arena in the news in 1976" hoping to find one of the first articles posted after it had opened. In this article it is mainly facts that people may or may not have known. One of the facts that had caught my attention was that they had buried time capsule at Rupp in July of 1976. It is to be opened 100 years later on the 4th of July. Another thing that had suprised me when I read this article was that famous coach Rupp was not the head coach of the UK basketball team when Rupp Arena had opened. In fact Joe B. Hall was the head coach when it had opened. Another fact that they had in this article was Rupp Arena was dedicated on Dec. 11, 1976. Author Herald Leader Staff Leader.

Questions that these articles had raised for me were...

Why were the seats a different color to begin with?
How much would it have cost today to have built Rupp Arena?
Was Rupp the best facility at the time it had been built?
Why did they dedicate it to Adolph Rupp?