Jerry Tipton is a legend. Whether it be gloriously or notoriously so, that is in the eye of the beholder, but no one can question his tremendous impact on Big Blue Nation over 41 years of reporting on Kentucky basketball. If you followed the ‘Cats in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, or 2010s, you most certainly read something Jerry Tipton wrote. At the very least, if you lived in a household with a Lexington Herald Leader subscription, at some point you probably used a Jerry Tipton newspaper article as a pee mat for your dog, inadvertently or not. Tipton retired from the Kentucky beat in 2022 and has …