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Walter’s Wildcat Dispatch — September 24, 2026
Former Cat Rodrick Rhodes feels at home coaching in tiny Cordia, Kentucky
Rodrick Rhodes grew up on an asphalt prairie in Jersey City, N.J. So when the former Kentucky Wildcats and NBA forward shocked the commonwealth’s basketball community last summer by taking a high school head-coaching job at tiny Cordia in Knott County, he was confounded by the twisting roads that wind up and down the Eastern…