You are a year behind my younger brother. I remember listening to that championship game with my mom on the radio.
Kentucky is an NIT team.
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You are a year behind my younger brother. I remember listening to that championship game with my mom on the radio.
I was friends with several of the guys on the 84 team. I was right behind the basket when Paul H missed the shot with only seconds left. Dean Tolbert was on my FOP little league team. Tough loss, I was pulling heavily for the Alices that day.
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dad was chasing the career. Lafayette area was ok, but had to deal with the nonstop anti-RMK propaganda. The Lincoln-Floyd semi championship game was great. Still remember watching Larry Schellenberg play for FC...tough dude. Those were great games to watch.
42 years ago last week.
I was a kid when that tragedy happened. It was the first year I went to UE games with my grandpa. The new coach Bobby Watson and family moved in just down the street. I befriended the daughter. As you stated, it had a huge impact on me... and still does.
kkot, thank you. I am going to download the book and read it. There was also an E'ville production company that did a documentary. I would like to watch, but have not seen availability of the full length anywhere. Here is the teaser:
http://courtstreetproductions.com/sample-page/
That is correct. I was able to find a couple of old newspaper articles on it. Truly heartbreaking.
What happened to Wall2Boogie? He was all over this forum last year but seems to have gone M.I.A. Just thought this would be the perfect thread for him lol.
I didn’t know any of them but had been a student there the year before then transferred To IU. My father was a junior achievement mentor to one of players when he was in high school and my mother’s boss was the father of another so I felt some connection. It was very sad.
Absurd, Cal will get them playing come March and you know it. I wish we had a coach like that, we used to in RMK, where we could drop one to a lowly team early season, then break out. He does that, I wouldn't crap on him for that. People call him a slimeball etc. for his days at UMASS, and one specific player … Camby. That's a long time ago, and by all indications he's been as clean as anyone else since. C'mon, nobody is winning NC's without talent, he gets a lot of it because he's a great recruiter and a good coach that has an excellent record of getting guys to the NBA. Give credit where credit is due, your attitude as if we should just inherit Rose Hulman's roster and beat UK once to show them up is absurd, you do need talent to win NC's
Jerry Sloan, who played at UE, had taken the UE head coaching job at the end of the ‘76-‘77 season, but then changed his mind. He would’ve been on that ill fated flight.
Don't compare Cal to RMK. They are polar opposites from a philosophical and priorities standpoint.
His name is Derrick Rose. Saw him at Janko’s on his official visit to IU. His brother Reggie engineered the miraculous ACT improvement.
yeah, there are quite a few mentions of Jerry Sloan in the book including his accepting and then rejecting the UE coaching job. I finished the book and enjoyed the 2nd half about the rebuild more than the first part I think. Again, not a great book, but definitely worth a read, especially over the holiday for any IN college bball fan.
