Joe B. Hall was one of the last holdouts opposing a Kentucky-Louisville basketball series. His was a lonely voice of opposition to the seemingly inevitable at a Board of Trustees meeting that had UK-U of L on the agenda.
So when the schools formally agreed 35 years ago to begin an annual series, Hall was not a happy UK coach. At such times when the walls of frustration seemed to be closing in, he would retreat to the great outdoors. He would either go fishing or hunting.
“We went rabbit hunting the next morning,” said Terry McBrayer, a Lexington lawyer and longtime friend of Hall.