Sorry I don't have the link because the website is blocked in my office, but yesterday Paint Touches tweeted an article from when Buzz was 27 and an assistant at Navarro. Its pretty hilarious for many reasons: he has hair, his favorite band was Hal & Oats, his dream was to become a D1 coach and to be able to buy his own Harley, and his goal was to coach a team on ESPN one day.
If someone else could please post the article or link that'd be great. For those of you who haven't seen it you'll get a kick outta it.
http://marquetteu.tumblr.com/post/40203048923/thanks-to-robbie-kleinmuntz-for-unearthing-this
Awesome!!!
High and tight fade too!!!
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This is when he was at Northwestern State. I believe he was only there for a year, but I think they made the NCAA tournament just after he left.
Looks like we have to win the Big East Tourney this year. No guarantee we'll have any more conference championship winning opportunities on ESPN past this year.
The last line caught me -- graduating with high honors from Oklahoma City University. This is not one of those easy to get good grades schools. It's a private Baptist university with high standards and not inexpensive.
Quote from: TheTulsaWarrior on January 11, 2013, 08:59:47 AM
The last line caught me -- graduating with high honors from Oklahoma City University. This is not one of those easy to get good grades schools. It's a private Baptist university with high standards and not inexpensive.
Yeah...I think he plays dumb, because when I first saw that he graduated from there, I thought "that's not a bad school." I mean, it's not as difficult as Marquette to get into...but it's more difficult than a run of the mill state school.
And just a little nitpick, it's a Methodist school.
From the photos on its website it would appear the coeds favor chicken fried steak
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 09:18:14 AM
From the photos on its website it would appear the coeds favor chicken fried steak
BeeJay, is this you?
Favorite movie: Major League
Who are the current MU equivalents of the Cleveland Indians in ML?
Cerrano - Ox
Hayes - Blue
Vaughn - Mayo
Taylor - Cadougan
Harris - Otule
Lou Brown - Buzz
Dorn - ?
Doyle - Let's just keep Uecker since he's in town
The Hall & Oates thing is pretty disturbing, actually. Let's hope Buzz isn't pulling up to recruits' homes in a limo at midnight and as the young man settles into his seat Buzz slips in his Hall and Oates 8 Track and begins to give the lad his pitch...
Quote from: brewcity77 on January 11, 2013, 08:57:14 AM
Looks like we have to win the Big East Tourney this year. No guarantee we'll have any more conference championship winning opportunities on ESPN past this year.
it's destiny then. :)
Also interesting to see that after winning the conference tourney, he wants all his kids to go on and graduate with honors. Not many coaches would add that to their dream.
Quote from: Abode4life on January 11, 2013, 09:48:22 AM
Also interesting to see that after winning the conference tourney, he wants all his kids to go on and graduate with honors. Not many coaches would add that to their dream.
Actually I think most do
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 09:53:09 AM
Actually I think most do
Not only that, what parent wouldn't want that for their kids?
Get it done, Chief!
I would say Jamil Wilson as DORN only because at ime I truly question how hard he is playing - he needs to get to that part of the movie where he toughens up by fielding a bunch of grounders off his body. God I love that movie though ......
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 09:30:19 AM
The Hall & Oates thing is pretty disturbing, actually. Let's hope Buzz isn't pulling up to recruits' homes in a limo at midnight and as the young man settles into his seat Buzz slips in his Hall and Oates 8 Track and begins to give the lad his pitch...
Maneater?
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 09:30:19 AM
The Hall & Oates thing is pretty disturbing, actually. Let's hope Buzz isn't pulling up to recruits' homes in a limo at midnight and as the young man settles into his seat Buzz slips in his Hall and Oates 8 Track and begins to give the lad his pitch...
...one on one, I want you to play that game tonight (one....on one) ooooo, ooooo.." "Bill Raftery says your 'kiss' is on my list" "When you play for me, I'm never 'out of touch, out of time'."
Quote from: tower912 on January 11, 2013, 10:46:08 AM
...one on one, I want you to play that game tonight (one....on one) ooooo, ooooo.." "Bill Raftery says your 'kiss' is on my list" "When you play for me, I'm never 'out of touch, out of time'."
Absolutely hilarious
I can't believe Buzz listed those two as his favorite music. I mean, didn't he know they were a code word for something else?
They probably weren't in 1997
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 09:30:19 AM
The Hall & Oates thing is pretty disturbing, actually. Let's hope Buzz isn't pulling up to recruits' homes in a limo at midnight and as the young man settles into his seat Buzz slips in his Hall and Oates 8 Track and begins to give the lad his pitch...
Wash your fuckin' mouth out with soap. Hall and Oates combine smooth melodies, rock and roll, jazz beats, and song writing you would think would come from the pen of Jesus Christ himself.
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Quote from: tower912 on January 11, 2013, 10:50:53 AM
They probably weren't in 1997
Looks like he wasn't kidding about being a Maneater...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/hall-and-oates-biting-assault-687451
Quote from: reinko on January 11, 2013, 10:51:06 AM
Wash your frackin' mouth out with soap. Hall and Oates combine smooth melodies, rock and roll, jazz beats, and song writing you would think would come from the pen of Jesus Christ himself.
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They are the frackin' kings of Blue Eyed Soul, for frack's sake!
Quote from: RushmoreAcademy on January 11, 2013, 09:27:02 AM
Favorite movie: Major League
Who are the current MU equivalents of the Cleveland Indians in ML?
A bit of trivia...Major League was filmed at County Stadium. There were many of us as Freshmen that were extras in the movie as they shot it over several weekends when the Brewers were not playing and bussed in MU students to be the fans in the stands.
At the G'town game on Saturday wasn't one of the trivia questions who is Buzz's favorite musical artist (now) and the answer was Kenny Chessney. Which makes total sense
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:21:14 AM
A bit of trivia...Major League was filmed at County Stadium. There were many of us as Freshmen that were extras in the movie as they shot it over several weekends when the Brewers were not playing and bussed in MU students to be the fans in the stands.
I thought that was common knowledge
Quote from: hairyworthen on January 11, 2013, 11:25:32 AM
I thought that was common knowledge
For us older folks, yeah. ;) I was at a conference this week and they had a game for 750 of us to play at our chairs, kind of a team building exercise. Every person there is given a remote buzzer and it logs your answers, person with the most correct questions goes on stage, yada yada. So the game was based on the $100,000 Pyramid and they showed a few clips with Dick Clark running the game just so people could see how it works.
When the host asked how many people had never heard or seen the game, more than half of the 750 raised their hand. That was a "oh Crap" moment for me....I'm getting old and people in this industry are really young. I thought it was "common knowledge".
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:21:14 AM
A bit of trivia...Major League was filmed at County Stadium. There were many of us as Freshmen that were extras in the movie as they shot it over several weekends when the Brewers were not playing and bussed in MU students to be the fans in the stands.
Then in like 2007 or something, there was a bad snowstorm in Cleveland and the Indians played a home series in Milwaukee (albeit Miller Park and not County Stadium). I was at that game and there were a bunch of Major League references (played Wild Thing on the PA, soundbytes, etc). It was pretty fun. Tickets were like $7. I forget who the Indians played.
Quote from: hairyworthen on January 11, 2013, 11:25:32 AM
I thought that was common knowledge
'06 grad here and I did not know that. Glad I do now.
they played the Angels I believe and then the Cubs also played the Astros in Miller Park during that Hurricane the next year, Zambrano's no hitter was that series
Quote from: cbowe3 on January 11, 2013, 11:41:13 AM
they played the Angels I believe and then the Cubs also played the Astros in Miller Park during that Hurricane the next year, Zambrano's no hitter was that series
I was also at that game.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:33:21 AM
For us older folks, yeah. ;) I was at a conference this week and they had a game for 750 of us to play at our chairs, kind of a team building exercise. Every person there is given a remote buzzer and it logs your answers, person with the most correct questions goes on stage, yada yada. So the game was based on the $100,000 Pyramid and they showed a few clips with Dick Clark running the game just so people could see how it works.
When the host asked how many people had never heard or seen the game, more than half of the 750 raised their hand. That was a "oh Crap" moment for me....I'm getting old and people in this industry are really young. I thought it was "common knowledge".
I guess you are right I am an old fart, or so my kids told me when I explained to them what "Pong" and space invaders were.
dibs
Quote from: hairyworthen on January 11, 2013, 11:47:24 AM
I guess you are right I am an old fart, or so my kids told me when I explained to them what "Pong" and space invaders were.
We had that conversation recently. I showed them a youtube clip of Pong and they looked at me like I had a 3rd eyeball. "You guys played THAT...for hours? Days?"
"Yes kids, and we had 3 VHF channels and a few UHF channels on tv and PONG. We did this thing called going outside, playing tag, hide and go seek, war, baseball, three flies up, smear the queer, burned ants with magnifying glasses, shot hoops, shot b.b. guns, played at the park with equipment you don't see anymore today because of litigation". Good times. A simpler world.
My cousin is a 5th grade teacher and he brought in an old rotary dial phone and said he'd give a prize to anyone who could dial it. He said the kids were just pushing the numbers liek they were buttons. Not one kid knew how to operate.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:52:31 AM
We had that conversation recently. I showed them a youtube clip of Pong and they looked at me like I had a 3rd eyeball. "You guys played THAT...for hours? Days?"
"Yes kids, and we had 3 VHF channels and a few UHF channels on tv and PONG. We did this thing called going outside, playing tag, hide and go seek, war, baseball, three flies up, smear the queer, burned ants with magnifying glasses, shot hoops, shot b.b. guns, played at the park with equipment you don't see anymore today because of litigation". Good times. A simpler world.
+1 to all of that
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:52:31 AM
We did this thing called going outside, playing tag, hide and go seek, war, baseball, three flies up, smear the queer, burned ants with magnifying glasses, shot hoops, shot b.b. guns, played at the park with equipment you don't see anymore today because of litigation". Good times. A simpler world.
cue sepia tones and Ken Burns narration.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on January 11, 2013, 11:55:24 AM
My cousin is a 5th grade teacher and he brought in an old rotary dial phone and said he'd give a prize to anyone who could dial it. He said the kids were just pushing the numbers liek they were buttons. Not one kid knew how to operate.
To be fair...I helped my grandpa set up his new iPhone at Christmas. The experience was pretty similar.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:52:31 AM
burned ants with magnifying glasses. Good times. A simpler world.
A more cruel world. PETA has been notified
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on January 11, 2013, 11:55:24 AM
My cousin is a 5th grade teacher and he brought in an old rotary dial phone and said he'd give a prize to anyone who could dial it. He said the kids were just pushing the numbers liek they were buttons. Not one kid knew how to operate.
Why would an 11 year old in 2013 know how to use something that was phased out of society in the early 1980's?
we'd get the chemistry set and try to burn the grasshoppers and ants with a mixture of chemicals, like it'd be some cool new invention.
Of course then I thought I swallowed some and was on my death bed, it was probably just vinegar with baking soda.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:33:21 AM
For us older folks, yeah. ;) I was at a conference this week and they had a game for 750 of us to play at our chairs, kind of a team building exercise. Every person there is given a remote buzzer and it logs your answers, person with the most correct questions goes on stage, yada yada. So the game was based on the $100,000 Pyramid and they showed a few clips with Dick Clark running the game just so people could see how it works.
When the host asked how many people had never heard or seen the game, more than half of the 750 raised their hand. That was a "oh Crap" moment for me....I'm getting old and people in this industry are really young. I thought it was "common knowledge".
I think people my age have to be right on the edge of that. I remember pyramid being on TV (not repeats) when I was pretty young. Hell, I remember a whole bunch of game shows being on TV... and not the new style ones.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:52:31 AM
We had that conversation recently. I showed them a youtube clip of Pong and they looked at me like I had a 3rd eyeball. "You guys played THAT...for hours? Days?"
"Yes kids, and we had 3 VHF channels and a few UHF channels on tv and PONG. We did this thing called going outside, playing tag, hide and go seek, war, baseball, three flies up, smear the queer, burned ants with magnifying glasses, shot hoops, shot b.b. guns, played at the park with equipment you don't see anymore today because of litigation". Good times. A simpler world.
There is a storefront in Las Vegas called the Pinball Hall of Fame. It's run by a guy who likes to restore old pinball machines and video games and to finance his hobby, he lets people play them for whatever it originally cost - if it was a nickel machine back in the day, it's a nickel now. It's got an original arcade-style Pong game, the old mechanical baseball games, air hockey, Bally pinball machines from the '50's, an old-school "Sex Tester", you name it.
My kids absolutely love that place. The older the game, the better.
Quote from: warriorchick on January 11, 2013, 12:10:21 PM
There is a storefront in Las Vegas called the Pinball Hall of Fame. It's run by a guy who likes to restore old pinball machines and video games and to finance his hobby, he lets people play them for whatever it originally cost - if it was a nickel machine back in the day, it's a nickel now. It's got an original arcade-style Pong game, the old mechanical baseball games, air hockey, Bally pinball machines from the '50's, an old-school "Sex Tester", you name it.
My kids absolutely love that place. The older the game, the better.
Pinball is still my favorite game in the world to play. Despite being in the 'tech-addled' young folks crowd, I will still routinely drop $5-10 dollars playing X-Files or Sopranos pinball in bars. A nickel machine sounds like a dream.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on January 11, 2013, 11:55:24 AM
My cousin is a 5th grade teacher and he brought in an old rotary dial phone and said he'd give a prize to anyone who could dial it. He said the kids were just pushing the numbers liek they were buttons. Not one kid knew how to operate.
A couple years back we were clearing out the house I grew up in to move my mom closer. I came across a rotary phone and showed my youngest daughter. She made me bring it back with us because she thought it might be fun to play with.
Also reminds me of about 5-7 years ago when I was driving a carload of my oldest daughter's friends to a birthday party. One of the girls had never seen a manual crank car window. She was mesmerized.
Quote from: Stone Cold on January 11, 2013, 12:03:05 PM
we'd get the chemistry set and try to burn the grasshoppers and ants with a mixture of chemicals, like it'd be some cool new invention.
Of course then I thought I swallowed some and was on my death bed, it was probably just vinegar with baking soda.
That explains alot
Quote from: warriorchick on January 11, 2013, 12:10:21 PM
There is a storefront in Las Vegas called the Pinball Hall of Fame. It's run by a guy who likes to restore old pinball machines and video games and to finance his hobby, he lets people play them for whatever it originally cost - if it was a nickel machine back in the day, it's a nickel now. It's got an original arcade-style Pong game, the old mechanical baseball games, air hockey, Bally pinball machines from the '50's, an old-school "Sex Tester", you name it.
My kids absolutely love that place. The older the game, the better.
I live in Vegas. That place is on Tropicana might be closed now. It opened a few years ago but the lot is cyclone fenced off. Never went there but then I also never went to the Liberace Museum or the Barry Manilow Store.
Who's Dick Clark?
Hearing about the Pyramid really just reminds of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_K8evSd1N4
And for you kids out there, this is when Dr. Dre wasn't just a fat dude that made obnoxious looking headphones.
A few years back I found an old Electric Football game and put it under the tree for my son at Christmas (he was probably 12 or so at the time). He could not believe we regularly played such a horrible game. (Neither can I. It takes forever to set up every play).
Had better luck in other years getting him Battling Tops, Strat-O-Matic baseball and a Ping Pong table, which we still use regularly.
Reminds me of sailing stories from the old salts at the yacht Club. Back in the day sailing across lake Michigan was based on celestial navigation and the big development in the 70's was a radio beacon finder, it would tell direction and strength of a radio signal form a radio tower and then you would use your map to approximate where you were in relation to the tower. GP is a tad more accurate.
Quote from: CTWarrior on January 11, 2013, 12:24:55 PM
A few years back I found an old Electric Football game and put it under the tree for my son at Christmas (he was probably 12 or so at the time). He could not believe we regularly played such a horrible game. (Neither can I. It takes forever to set up every play).
Had better luck in other years getting him Battling Tops, Strat-O-Matic baseball and a Ping Pong table, which we still use regularly.
Strat-O-Matic! Now that was a game. We had a league in McCormick. A lot more fun than studying Organic Chemistry.
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 12:31:39 PM
Strat-O-Matic! Now that was a game. We had a league in McCormick. A lot more fun than studying Organic Chemistry.
What isn't more fun than studying Organic Chemistry? I'd rather watch a replay of Bucky's 2000 Final Four run...Nevermind. I just answered my own question.
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 12:17:50 PM
I live in Vegas. That place is on Tropicana might be closed now. It opened a few years ago but the lot is cyclone fenced off. Never went there but then I also never went to the Liberace Museum or the Barry Manilow Store.
Nope, just moved down the street - east of Maryland Parkway.
Quote from: keefe on January 11, 2013, 12:31:39 PM
Strat-O-Matic! Now that was a game. We had a league in McCormick. A lot more fun than studying Organic Chemistry.
We had an Atari 2600 at McCormick. Even though Colecovision, Intellivision, SEGA had come out, one of the guys had the Atari 2600 and there were some epic games played on the 8 bit monster. Wow, painful to think about.
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Quote from: MerrittsMustache on January 11, 2013, 12:36:13 PM
What isn't more fun than studying Organic Chemistry? I'd rather watch a replay of Bucky's 2000 Final Four run...Nevermind. I just answered my own question.
Dr. Haworth...I think that was his name. Those were the days
Quote from: warriorchick on January 11, 2013, 12:45:05 PM
Nope, just moved down the street - east of Maryland Parkway.
I see. That cyclone fence has been up a while and is a real eye sore. Unlike the rest of Vegas which has a casual yet elegant ambiance.
Quote from: MarsupialMadness on January 11, 2013, 11:37:54 AM
Then in like 2007 or something, there was a bad snowstorm in Cleveland and the Indians played a home series in Milwaukee (albeit Miller Park and not County Stadium). I was at that game and there were a bunch of Major League references (played Wild Thing on the PA, soundbytes, etc). It was pretty fun. Tickets were like $7. I forget who the Indians played.
I was at the second game of that series against the Angels. For some more fun anecdotes: That day, April 11, 2007 the Marlins hosted the Brewers. The game drew 11,379 fans on a perfect weather evening. Back in Milwaukee, the Indians played the Angels at Miller Park because of weather issues in Cleveland. Milwaukee got a solid 6-8 inches of snow that day, and those of us attending the game literally had to wait for a snow plow to clear a parking space to be able to park. Yet in a snowstorm and without the home team even playing the game drew 16,375, or 5k more than the home team in perfect weather in Florida. The day before the Marlins drew 10,883 and without a snowstorm Milwaukee drew 19,031 to see the Angels and Indians.
Quote from: Stone Cold on January 11, 2013, 11:47:48 AM
dibs
Don't know if anyone else has acknowledged, so let me just say, well done.
Feed Him: I expected Sweet Tea as an answer.
Quote from: sailwi on January 11, 2013, 12:26:35 PM
Reminds me of sailing stories from the old salts at the yacht Club. Back in the day sailing across lake Michigan was based on celestial navigation and the big development in the 70's was a radio beacon finder, it would tell direction and strength of a radio signal form a radio tower and then you would use your map to approximate where you were in relation to the tower. GP is a tad more accurate.
Used lots of Loran to go from Port Washington to Ludington, Mackinac,etc. Also Fort Meyers to Key West. Reasonably accurate.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 01:14:12 PM
Dr. Haworth...I think that was his name. Those were the days
I graduated in 2009 and had him for chemistry! That guy has been around forever
Haworth died a few years ago.
(http://www.marquette.edu/chem/images/haworth_180.jpg)
Quote from: TallTitan34 on January 11, 2013, 10:48:49 PM
Haworth died a few years ago.
(http://www.marquette.edu/chem/images/haworth_180.jpg)
Way to be a downer, TT
Quote from: TallTitan34 on January 11, 2013, 10:48:49 PM
Haworth died a few years ago.
(http://www.marquette.edu/chem/images/haworth_180.jpg)
Where is the Hulk Haworth pic?
The man invented latex paint dammit.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 11, 2013, 11:33:21 AM
For us older folks, yeah. ;) I was at a conference this week and they had a game for 750 of us to play at our chairs, kind of a team building exercise. Every person there is given a remote buzzer and it logs your answers, person with the most correct questions goes on stage, yada yada. So the game was based on the $100,000 Pyramid and they showed a few clips with Dick Clark running the game just so people could see how it works.
When the host asked how many people had never heard or seen the game, more than half of the 750 raised their hand. That was a "oh Crap" moment for me....I'm getting old and people in this industry are really young. I thought it was "common knowledge".
I was 16 and in my advanced calculus class when John Kennedy was assassinated. Where were you?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on January 12, 2013, 06:54:24 AM
I was 16 and in my advanced calculus class when John Kennedy was assassinated. Where were you?
Not even a glint in my dad's eye yet. I made it to this world prior to Armstrong on the moon, but not by much.
27 year old Buzz's dream can become reality on Saturday: the game is on ESPN. Hopefully a lot of players' families are in the stands and a bunch of them are set to graduate with honors!
Nice reminder champman!
"As a Division I head coach, my team wins the conference championship in a game televised by ESPN with all of the players' families in the stands. Each player goes on to graduate with honors."
Quote from: chapman on March 07, 2013, 10:51:39 AM
27 year old Buzz's dream can become reality on Saturday: the game is on ESPN. Hopefully a lot of players' families are in the stands and a bunch of them are set to graduate with honors!
At least the first couple of parts can come true on Saturday...the boys need to continue to hit the books for the rest of it...
Quote from: chapman on March 07, 2013, 10:51:39 AM
27 year old Buzz's dream can become reality on Saturday: the game is on ESPN. Hopefully a lot of players' families are in the stands and a bunch of them are set to graduate with honors!
Wow... great pick up from this reprint of an old article.
Saturday could be a very special day for many of us... It's amazing what happens when you write down your goals (or if someone else writes them down for you).
"Everyone knows what it takes... but are you willing to do what it takes? And even more importantly, are you willing to do what it takes on a day to day basis?" - Buzz Williams