64/60 Sports

The first edition of the BBS is going to take a look at The Kentucky Season opening exhibition against Transylvania. Transy. No, not trannies.

It's fitting that on the same weekend Halloween falls, we open the season against a team called Transylvania. The Black-Out football game wasn't much of a success, but rest assured, this will not disappoint.

Trust me with our team this season, ain't gonna be no VMI or Gardner Webb.

But, don't worry, a legion of the undead, nor a team blood thirsty horde led by Vlad Dracula is going to descend on Lexington. No creatures from any lagoons, either.

Just Pioneers who are already here.

Transylvania shares downtown Lexington with the Empire, and you have probably passed it's campus several times in the nights spent in Lex-Vegas in your youth. You've rolled by it's buildings on those wild nights jumping from house party to party, in search of that 8-Ball, or that girl rolling on that X. Not paying it too much attention, and taking for granted it was just some more UK stuff. Easy to do.

If you played basketball back in those days though, you were familiar enough with the school due to the Don Lane basketball camps, and those trendy camp shirts people wore, you know, to make it look like they were actually good and not just money spenders. For a time , The school was known as 'Kentucky University', but after the Kentucky A&M school grew to be known as the present day 'University of Kentucky', the school elected to return to it's original name of Transylvania.

But the school is creepy. The private school, which privates schools notoriously attract creepy, over privileged kids, houses a tomb of a former professor on campus. Every Halloween, they celebrate the holiday with events on campus, tying into the Bram Stoker-esque name of the school, and students participate in lottery to sleep in the fallen professors tomb on that night.

The celebration takes its name after the dead guy on campus, and 'Rafinesque Week' is actually a good time.

CM Newton coached the Pioneers to the 1963 NAIA National Tournament.

The school is also a locale in the novel 'All The King's Men' .

The school boast several famous alumni, of which include 'Stone Cold' Stephen F. Austin, Happy Chandler, Jefferson Davis, John C. Breckinridge, and current Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo.

One of my niece's also had an ex-boyfriend who played ball there, but he transferred to UK this year and missed out on the only game he would have ever taken part in that would have mattered in his life. He decided to leave before it was announced that Transy would be getting their ass handed to them by Dr. Jones and the Cats.

Serves the douche bag right. Never trust a dude who uses two initials as his first name.