Corbin, Kentucky is a town dear to the hearts of many thousands of University of Kentucky basketball and football fans – primarily due to the Bird family, which sent four all-star athletes to Lexington and another (Billy Bird) to Eastern Kentucky U.
But one Redhound basketball player, Frank Selvy, was overlooked because as a high school junior he was 6’0” and a bit scrawny.
Recruiters, including Adolph Rupp of Kentucky, were fighting to get Corbin’s 6-6 Jerry Bird, “but Coach Rupp told me when I was a junior I was too undersized to play for him,” Selvy said in a recent phone interview from his home in Simpsonville, S.