UK Basketball notes: Ramsey returns as Coppin gets a big payday

Former Kentucky football All-American Derrick Ramsey returned to Lexington Tuesday night as Coppin State's athletics director. Seldom has the visiting A.D. shook so many hands and fielded so many well wishes.

"This is home for me," said Ramsey, who became A.D. at Coppin State in 2008. "I'm just on a sabbatical."

Ramsey, who starred for UK in the 1970s, said he had kept his home in the Lexington area.

The game came about after UK Coach John Calipari spoke with Coppin State Coach Ron "Fang" Mitchell. Ramsey tried to help things along by speaking with his UK counterpart, Mitch Barnhart.

"I have my challenges," Ramsey said. "At a small institution, money is always an issue."

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