For Those Too Young to Remember
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ganja, grass....my Dad is old school, WWII baby boomer. In high school he accused me of being at a party where he heard that "marijuana cigarettes" (ie joints, blunts, etc) were being passed around. When he used that phrasing I laughed so hard I had to walk out of the room. Each new generation thinks they are the hip crowd.
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Played overseas and in S. America for a while. Eventually had to become a regular 40 hr /week working stiff like most of us. A job or two, I think in the St Louis area perhaps. There was a good Indy Star article about his life after IU that I read yrs ago...it's still there on Google search but now the Star wants you to subscribe to gain access. Hard pass for me.
In Vegas it would be said Jay didn’t play his cards right. He should have patented his “rainbow jumper.”
not sure Jay would have ever stuck in the NBA. Not quick enough to play PG and a little undersized for an NBA 2 guard. But he didn't help his chances by leaving IU as a complete mess and quickly F'd up any chance he might have had. His knee injury, which he actually suffered while at IU, turned out to be worse than thought once he left.
Ah, yes, simply a mental glitch. The opposite of chronic might be “skunk?” There was a time (in a far off distant land known as Bloomington, IN) when seed-popping “homegrown” was apologized for as if “ditch weed.” Those days have changed with methodology supported by science.
Our 2002 team had Jeffries, but beyond that the talent level fell off considerably. They did play well together and had guys that could shoot, but they couldn’t compare to the teams Knight had ten years earlier. Many thought that Mike Davis’ coaching allowed them to play looser, so perhaps they overachieved. Knight did essentially put that roster together, though. And let’s not forget they lost Haston, too, who had a 5th year he decided not to take.
This whole conversation reminds me of the old Cheeh and Chong bit where Officer Stedenko lectures school kids about Marijuana. And the kids know more about it than he does.
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If Haston would've stayed that banner would be hanging at IU now. Jeffries,Newton and Haston,Moye,Coverdale and Fife a great nucleus.
Had Knight been coaching that team with or without Haston, that's one more banner.
Am I correct that May and Wilkerson didn't qualify academically to play in 73'?
74' they lost the conference champion tie breaker with Michigan and went on to blow everyone out in the CCA tournament. They only took the conference champion back then.
If #11 returns in 82 with Landon.
74' they lost the conference champion tie breaker with Michigan and went on to blow everyone out in the CCA tournament. They only took the conference champion back then.
If #11 returns in 82 with Landon.
My wife and I went to an IU Alumni gathering in Lexington (yes, they have one there) to hear Don Fischer speak. Don said his son told him that Jay Edwards was at every party he went to and that Lyndon Jones job was to keep Jay out of jail and get him home safe. Don said it meant two things. One was that Edwards went to too many parties, and the second was that so did his son.
Don went on to say it was a heavy burden on Lyndon to be in that position.
plus That new freshman named Damon Bailey... 90-91 would have been that much more dangerous.
Ifs and buts aren't always candy and nuts. I used to think the injury bug always hit IU harder than everyone else. Probably just a watched pot.
Really too bad things didn’t turn out differently. Out of all the players we’ve had he was the biggest talent that went unrealized. Bad place for him to be drafted with a powder problem.
Like Stanley Wilson before the Super Bowl-what could have been.
Like Stanley Wilson before the Super Bowl-what could have been.
Kirk Haston, a rare “pleasant surprise” player, was one of my favorites. It was thought his decision to leave early might have been influenced by his mother and her boyfriend being killed in a Tennessee tornado over the summer. Similarly, George McGinnis’s decision to declare early using the “hardship ruling” was a result of his father’s tragic fall in a downtown Indy high-rise construction accident during the summer months. Sadly, the Grim Reaper’s fickle finger of fate sometimes points in IU’s direction.
“Why do you think they call it “dope,” you dope?
“A party, a puff…a TRAGEDY!” ~ Reefer Madness, 1936
Little Johnny jumps off a ten-story building convinced he’s an English House sparrow.
Harry Anslinger, a name that lives in infamy.
Today, marijuana is viewed as just another mood elevator, much like morning coffee laced with caffeine, outdoors overzealous foreplay and other exercises, physical in nature.
College partying is a mating game in the maturation of life, higher educated. It’s when mankind is in its highest state of energized virility, putting into the braggadocio practice of seed dispersal before the true mating ritual, the transmission of DNA bundles coded for futuristic life forms adapting to the changing needs of its environment. Its through deep penetration, this globular mass of single-called mobility finds its way to acceptance by the awaiting egg, doodle having dipped, hopefully not until much later.
Food for thought dished out as a salad of mixed words. Think Kamala Harris with half a brain.
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