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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: DienerTime34 on October 05, 2016, 02:27:09 PM
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Trying to kill the last 48 hours before we have real Marquette basketball to talk about.
What's your favorite Marquette story that never got picked up or confirmed through any "official" sources?
My all-time favorite is Diener punching the tackling dummy. Still enjoy any tackling dummy references I see here.
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Glow blocking a shot by Doc Rivers while playing pickup ball in the Rec Center with Marc Marotta and him.
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Anything with Fr. Naus, honestly.
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Trying to kill the last 48 hours before we have real Marquette basketball to talk about.
What's your favorite Marquette story that never got picked up or confirmed through any "official" sources?
My all-time favorite is Diener punching the tackling dummy. Still enjoy any tackling dummy references I see here.
Haven't heard that one. Wouldn't surprise me. Fiery competitor.
I saw a picture of Marquette Madness of Wade in (what I would guess was) the dunk contest wearing a #25 jersey, I believe going into his redshirt year (the caption said "Marquette fans were introduced to Dwyane Wade at Marquette Madness in 2000, and I think 00-01 was his redshirt year, with 01-02 his first year playing). Was anyone there that night? I've heard stories of there being whispers during his redshirt year that he was the best player on the team by far then, but was it evident that night?
Heck, I went to some of the Midnight Madnesses at the Cell (where the picture was taken), so I may have been there and just don't remember it. I would've been 11 then and probably wouldn't have realized who Dwyane Wade was/how good he was until at least a year and a few months later.
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I've heard stories of there being whispers during his redshirt year that he was the best player on the team by far then
Every year there are whispers of the redshirt being the best player on the team.
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Haven't heard that one. Wouldn't surprise me. Fiery competitor.
I saw a picture of Marquette Madness of Wade in (what I would guess was) the dunk contest wearing a #25 jersey, I believe going into his redshirt year (the caption said "Marquette fans were introduced to Dwyane Wade at Marquette Madness in 2000, and I think 00-01 was his redshirt year, with 01-02 his first year playing). Was anyone there that night? I've heard stories of there being whispers during his redshirt year that he was the best player on the team by far then, but was it evident that night?
Heck, I went to some of the Midnight Madnesses at the Cell (where the picture was taken), so I may have been there and just don't remember it. I would've been 11 then and probably wouldn't have realized who Dwyane Wade was/how good he was until at least a year and a few months later.
I was at Madness in 2000 and can tell you without a doubt, I was sh!tf@ced drunk! Hope this helps.
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Every year there are whispers of the redshirt being the best player on the team.
FACT: Redshirting improves a player's ability by at least ten fold.
Case in point, Dwyane Wade was hailed as "the next Bart Miller" prior to redshirting.
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Haven't heard that one. Wouldn't surprise me. Fiery competitor.
I saw a picture of Marquette Madness of Wade in (what I would guess was) the dunk contest wearing a #25 jersey, I believe going into his redshirt year (the caption said "Marquette fans were introduced to Dwyane Wade at Marquette Madness in 2000, and I think 00-01 was his redshirt year, with 01-02 his first year playing). Was anyone there that night? I've heard stories of there being whispers during his redshirt year that he was the best player on the team by far then, but was it evident that night?
Heck, I went to some of the Midnight Madnesses at the Cell (where the picture was taken), so I may have been there and just don't remember it. I would've been 11 then and probably wouldn't have realized who Dwyane Wade was/how good he was until at least a year and a few months later.
I was at that Madness for sure and I went to it right after the Navy Ball so I was hammered and have no recollection of Wade having a #25 on....or any clothes at all, it's all a blur really.
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Every year there are whispers of the redshirt being the best player on the team.
With Wade however, the whispers were coming from the Bucks players after they played pickup with Marquette players.
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He was definitely #25 his freshman year.
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Any Mike Deane story.
Manger flushes.
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My favorite that I personally witnessed was Dwyane Wade asking if Olouma Nnamaka's parents drove all the way from Sweden to see him play on senior night.
I think the statute of limitations has expired to let that one out of the bag :)
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I've heard stories of there being whispers during his redshirt year that he was the best player on the team by far then.
Only after his triple double in the closed door scrimmage.
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I think our freshman team '69-'70 beat our varsity team in the annual freshman vs. varsity game. Jim Chones was on the frosh team that year.
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Manger flushes.
The Nazareth's had modern plumbing? Truly a miracle.
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Any Mike Deane story.
Manger flushes.
Wally Szczerbiak's dad was a college teammate of Mike Deane. He wanted Wally to play for him. Deane took John Polonowski instead........
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- Slimmest Sweater Vester
- More Beer per Possession than any Lower Boweler
- Free Throws Matter: One shot per FTM
- Dunked over Sam the Sham
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Sugar and #20 were on my bowlin' team while classmates in Individual and Dual Sports class, hey?
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Wally Szczerbiak's dad was a college teammate of Mike Deane. He wanted Wally to play for him. Deane took John Polonowski instead........
Wally's dad played at GW and was in the ABA before Deane even got to SUNY-Potsdamn...
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My favorite that I personally witnessed was Dwyane Wade asking if Olouma Nnamaka's parents drove all the way from Sweden to see him play on senior night.
I think the statute of limitations has expired to let that one out of the bag :)
I know the story is real but I've heard it was someone else who asked that. It was in the locker room before the finale against DePaul. Were you a manager?
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Matt Mortensen using steroids and Ryan Amoroso spending his nights at the Potawatomi poker room.
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Trying to kill the last 48 hours before we have real Marquette basketball to talk about.
What's your favorite Marquette story that never got picked up or confirmed through any "official" sources?
My all-time favorite is Diener punching the tackling dummy. Still enjoy any tackling dummy references I see here.
I heard it was diener confusing the wall for the tan man over a friendly discussion about whether lite beer tastes great or is less filling
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I know the story is real but I've heard it was someone else who asked that. It was in the locker room before the finale against DePaul. Were you a manager?
Nope, it happened in an elevator in Humprey with me, my two roommates, Dwyane, Olouma, and Jon Harris in the elevator.....I thought Jon Harris was going to die he was laughing so hard.
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One other story I forgot about until talking to a buddy last night
Freshmen year (99) we were at a party in someone's packed dank basement off campus. Typical $5 gets you a cup and access to a barrel or two of Ice House. Anyway, half the basketball team shows up including Brian Wardle. We're fanboying out a little bit between we knew who they were but apparently most of the party didn't, sad times for the program.
So me and my friends are kind of moving our conversation close to the team so we can maybe meet them (we were idiots and should have just said hi). As we're standing there, we're close enough to hear Wardle trying to talk to this admittedly very attractive girl and over hear the tail end of the conversation:
"No, but do you know who I am? {awkward silence} I'M BRIAN WARDLE"
It was in that moment we all realized we had as much game with attractive members of the opposite gender as future number 3 all-time leading score for Marquette.
Good times.
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I think our freshman team '69-'70 beat our varsity team in the annual freshman vs. varsity game. Jim Chones was on the frosh team that year.
i remember that team and earlier Freshman teams playing games before the varsity. There were some great games for that 69-70 freshmen including Illinois with two outstanding players. We won. A lot of folks would come early for those games.
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Watching a freshman bb player needing to be shown how to change batteries in his Walkman.
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Sugar and #20 were on my bowlin' team while classmates in Individual and Duel Sports class, hey?
Was anyone hurt in the "duel sports" class? That would be a story.
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i remember that team and earlier Freshman teams playing games before the varsity. There were some great games for that 69-70 freshmen including Illinois with two outstanding players. We won. A lot of folks would come early for those games.
One of the most entertaining Marquette game I've ever witnessed was our freshmen vs Notre Dame (preceding the varsity game) in the 67-68 season. Dean the Dream Meminger had close to 50 as MU edged the Irish (Austin Carr, Sid Catlett, Collis Jones). Final was something like 96-94.
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- Witnessing Steve Novak getting a much higher score on his philosophy test than yours truly.
- Seeing Merritt and Diener walking around with dual-gallon jugs of water.
- Todd Townsend wandering the halls of the nursing building.
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Wally's dad played at GW and was in the ABA before Deane even got to SUNY-Potsdamn...
Spoken like a true Redhawk!
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- Todd Townsend wandering the halls of the nursing building.
Any Todd related stories I know are not for public consumption, but lets just say your story surprises me in no way ;D
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The entire Hoops Team kitted out in Seal Skin jackets in the aftermath of winning the Ship.
My favorites were the ankle length pimp jackets sported Whitehead and Toone. Absolutely stunning. Go big or go home, man.
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I once heard that Diener dropped acting for non-theater majors.
Most of the team was at Murphy's in 2007/2008-ish and Mo Acker was rocking two cell phones. I asked him why and he responded, "One for business, one for pleasure."
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My favorites were the ankle length pimp jackets sported Whitehead and Toone. Absolutely stunning. Go big or go home, man.
I enjoyed Butch's hats. Always fashion forward.
Once,...We were playing Butch in foosball doubles in the Union...I could tell when he decided to get serious in the match...he took off the hat. lol
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1. Glenn Rivers was in my team sports class taught by Charlie Nader (then the golf coach). Although Rivers had a 40-inch vertical and was obviously an amazing athlete, he was HORRIBLE at volleyball. He also sucked at soccer, but that didn't surprise me as much.
And like the rest of us, he cheated on the midterm exam. Nader left the room while we took the test, and we all collaborated on the answers. Literally, shouted them out. A few of our classmates even took out the textbook to make sure we got the answers right. I rationalized the cheating with my belief that it was a stupid test filled with irrelevant questions. I mean, who gives a rat's rump what year volleyball was invented?
2. As I'm walking up Wisconsin Ave, Sam Worthen and Artie Green are approaching. Across the street, Larry Hatchett is going the other direction. Hatchett stops and yells, "Aren't you guys going to class?" And Artie answers: "Man, I ain't into that education $hit!" He and Worthen laugh their arses off. I laughed, too, because I wasn't really into that education $hit, either! (Although, unlike Sam and Artie, I was into it enough to get my degree.)
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2. As I'm walking up Wisconsin Ave, Sam Worthen and Artie Green are approaching. Across the street, Larry Hatchett is going the other direction. Hatchett stops and yells, "Aren't you guys going to class?" And Artie answers: "Man, I ain't into that education $hit!" He and Worthen laugh their arses off. I laughed, too, because I wasn't really into that education $hit, either! (Although, unlike Sam and Artie, I was into it enough to get my degree.)
See the "we ain't here to practice college" has been around for decades.....just never had twitter to reveal it to people. :P
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The entire Hoops Team kitted out in Seal Skin jackets in the aftermath of winning the Ship.
My favorites were the ankle length pimp jackets sported Whitehead and Toone. Absolutely stunning. Go big or go home, man.
I remember Toone in that jacket! He was wearing 3 inch heels and a "Huggy Bear" 4 inch hat. Seemed like he was nearly 8 ft. tall! Them joints so tough!
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Buycks sat next to me in world history he came in one day and sits down and goes "we got a quiz today?" ... It was the midterm. Poor guy cheated off me and unbenounced to him I was still drunk from my night before.
Also shotgunned a beer with Jimmy Butler because I had two in my pockets going back to O'Donnell after a night out and didn't want TAMU to write me up again. It was the second week of school and I had no idea who he was till my friends told me.
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1. Glenn Rivers was in my team sports class taught by Charlie Nader (then the golf coach). Although Rivers had a 40-inch vertical and was obviously an amazing athlete, he was HORRIBLE at volleyball. He also sucked at soccer, but that didn't surprise me as much.
And like the rest of us, he cheated on the midterm exam. Nader left the room while we took the test, and we all collaborated on the answers. Literally, shouted them out. A few of our classmates even took out the textbook to make sure we got the answers right. I rationalized the cheating with my belief that it was a stupid test filled with irrelevant questions. I mean, who gives a rat's rump what year volleyball was invented?
2. As I'm walking up Wisconsin Ave, Sam Worthen and Artie Green are approaching. Across the street, Larry Hatchett is going the other direction. Hatchett stops and yells, "Aren't you guys going to class?" And Artie answers: "Man, I ain't into that education $hit!" He and Worthen laugh their arses off. I laughed, too, because I wasn't really into that education $hit, either! (Although, unlike Sam and Artie, I was into it enough to get my degree.)
I can absolutely believe that 100%. Sam is/was a very nice guy but let's just say academics wasn't a priority. Larry on the other hand was a very serious student and also a super nice guy.
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Buycks sat next to me in world history he came in one day and sits down and goes "we got a quiz today?" ... It was the midterm. Poor guy cheated off me and unbenounced to him I was still drunk from my night before.
Also shotgunned a beer with Jimmy Butler because I had two in my pockets going back to O'Donnell after a night out and didn't want TAMU to write me up again. It was the second week of school and I had no idea who he was till my friends told me.
Again I'm sorry. If you didn't make it so damn obvious I could of turned a blind eye, lol
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I can absolutely believe that 100%. Sam is/was a very nice guy but let's just say academics wasn't a priority. Larry on the other hand was a very serious student and also a super nice guy.
Larry was on my floor freshman year - 11 McCormick - really nice guy. Unfortunately he got Frozena-like minutes of playing time. And yes, a good student. He went to medical school and became a urologist. I gotta believe it is a marketing challenge to attract patients to a urologist named Hatchett!
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...And Artie answers: "Man, I ain't into that education $hit!" He and Worthen laugh their arses off. I laughed, too, because I wasn't really into that education $hit, either! (Although, unlike Sam and Artie, I was into it enough to get my degree.)
Sam and Artie were both in my Speech class and they did usually show up for class. Sam was a natural in the class and could rattle off very entertaining speeches--I have no idea if he ever prepared anything or if he just winged it but they were always good, and he'd always have the whole room laughing. Artie on the other hand, struggled. The teacher actually allowed him to bring a (Time?) magazine up to the podium and he read an article out of it in front of the class for one of his speeches. It was so painful to watch because of his low grade school reading level.
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Again I'm sorry. If you didn't make it so damn obvious I could of turned a blind eye, lol
Me? Obvious? Never! ;D
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Two of my college buddies beat Diener and Wardle in Pop-a-Shot at Murphy's. It was 2003; I think Wardle was a graduate assistant.
Another friend made a mock EA Sports College Basketball cover featuring David Diggs, drafted a fake press release, and posted it on Dodds' Rivals site. Some people actually thought it was legit. I would have thought the racial epithet in the title was a dead giveaway.
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Keefe
Best part of the pimp coats was they were gifts from my family!!!
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Also shotgunned a beer with Jimmy Butler because I had two in my pockets going back to O'Donnell after a night out and didn't want TAMU to write me up again. It was the second week of school and I had no idea who he was till my friends told me.
Hmmmm...a 6'7"...ahem...non-traditional...guy at Marquette. Surely you had some idea who he was. Or maybe Marquette had changed a lot since I was there.
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Two of my college buddies beat Diener and Wardle in Pop-a-Shot at Murphy's. It was 2003; I think Wardle was a graduate assistant.
Another friend made a mock EA Sports College Basketball cover featuring David Diggs, drafted a fake press release, and posted it on Dodds' Rivals site. Some people actually thought it was legit. I would have thought the racial epithet in the title was a dead giveaway.
My roommates and I use to play Pop-a-Shot for hours at Murph's on Thursday's when it was $2.50 Long Islands.
One safe Townsend story, I knew* him through a friend of mine. One night I was out with some friends including the mutual acquaintance at Caff's. Todd shows up at some point and wanders over to say hi to my friend while I'm talking to her. So we are all chatting for a minute and my friend heads to the bathroom so it's just him and me. I needed another beer, so I offered to get us drinks....his response was amazing.
"Naw, I don't need to get drinks from dudes." He then walks over to a group of girls he's never met, talks to them for about a minute, one of them buys him a drink and then he comes back over says "Court isn't the only place I've got game" and he walked out to the patio area leaving me to puzzle out what just happened.
*meaning he once remembered my name.
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I tucked a very, very drunk Joe Nethen into bed one night.
I worked with Trevor Powell's girlfriend. She was getting booty calls constantly.
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Hmmmm...a 6'7"...ahem...non-traditional...guy at Marquette. Surely you had some idea who he was. Or maybe Marquette had changed a lot since I was there.
Haha two weeks into my freshman year I was still going off of what my HS was like with lots of "6'7"...ahem...non-traditional...guys" took a bit for me to notice things
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I tucked a very, very drunk Joe Nethen into bed one night.
Did you ever change his Walkman batteries for him?
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Did you ever change his Walkman batteries for him?
Maybe one event proceeded the other? Did he listen to his Walkman before going to bed passing out?
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Your family responsible for the bikes, too?
Keefe
Best part of the pimp coats was they were gifts from my family!!!
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One day playing pickup ball at the Rec Center I found myself playing a "pickup" team of guys from the team. After one particular defensive rebound John Luerk had the look in his eye he was going to go coast to coast. Being the first man back from my team and faced with a charging varsity basketball player, five feet inside the free throw line I stop, set my feet and put my hands straight up in the air, thinking he'd go around me to the basket. John took my position/stance as a challenge and decided to dunk over the top of me (I'm 6'4" myself). He missed the dunk, it hurt like HELL and he was absolutely stunned that I didn't bail at the last second, getting the hell out of his way.
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Once saw Vander and Derrick at a house party. This was during a season in which Junior was the starting PG, and a frustrating one at that. I drunkenly told them that Derrick needed to be the starting point guard, because obviously no one could be worse than Junior right? They laughed and shrugged it off.
A few minutes later, VB pulled me aside and said "trust me, you do NOT want him to be the starting point." Then we did a shot of Rumpleminze together and Vander threw up. Or maybe that was me?
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Driving LIMOs you get a lot of interesting interactions.
Teve was really lazy one night and he took the LIMO a block, I dropped Deonte off at the AL once at like 2AM on a Saturday I think he was just going to shoot around. There's a funny John Dawson story from his first week on campus but I'll wait until he graduates for that one.
Haanif thought was by far the best. He was so nice and had a nice conversation with me. This was right after he was finally declared eligible as well so we talked about that.
LIMO stories are the best, I have a lot of those.
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Driving LIMOs you get a lot of interesting interactions.
Teve was really lazy one night and he took the LIMO a block, I dropped Deonte off at the AL once at like 2AM on a Saturday I think he was just going to shoot around. There's a funny John Dawson story from his first week on campus but I'll wait until he graduates for that one.
Haanif thought was by far the best. He was so nice and had a nice conversation with me. This was right after he was finally declared eligible as well so we talked about that.
LIMO stories are the best, I have a lot of those.
Magic back at MU??
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One day playing pickup ball at the Rec Center I found myself playing a "pickup" team of guys from the team. After one particular defensive rebound John Luerk had the look in his eye he was going to go coast to coast. Being the first man back from my team and faced with a charging varsity basketball player, five feet inside the free throw line I stop, set my feet and put my hands straight up in the air, thinking he'd go around me to the basket. John took my position/stance as a challenge and decided to dunk over the top of me (I'm 6'4" myself). He missed the dunk, it hurt like HELL and he was absolutely stunned that I didn't bail at the last second, getting the hell out of his way.
Big deal. Ners would have taken the ball right out of his hands, drove the other way and dunked over the tallest guy on the team. He then would have pounded his chest and screamed: "I AM AWESOME DAWSON!"
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Had Terry Reason, hair and all, in speech class. Terry gave a speech about the first time he saw snow, in Milwaukee. He said he looked up into the street lights when it first started snowing and told the class he thought it was bugs attracted to the lights.
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Spoken like a true Redhawk!
You know it! Well versed on all things Wally World
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Sam and Artie were both in my Speech class and they did usually show up for class. Sam was a natural in the class and could rattle off very entertaining speeches--I have no idea if he ever prepared anything or if he just winged it but they were always good, and he'd always have the whole room laughing. Artie on the other hand, struggled. The teacher actually allowed him to bring a (Time?) magazine up to the podium and he read an article out of it in front of the class for one of his speeches. It was so painful to watch because of his low grade school reading level.
That's great stuff. Sam was definitely my favorite Warrior my first two years at MU. Still ...
We played DePaul in the '79 NCAA tourney with an Elite Eight berth on the line, and we had them down 8 with about 8 minutes to go. Sam had Toone ahead of the field for an uncontested dunk but overthrew the pass. We get that hoop and we're up 10 and probably take significant air out of the ball. (This is pre-shot clock, and we had a pretty nice 4-corners.) Instead, DePaul scores on the next possession, it's a close game, they finally take the lead with less than 2 minutes left, and they go on to win by 6 when we have to foul. If we take care of business, there is no Larry Bird-Mark Aguirre matchup in the Final Four!
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Real
If you had Terry in a Speech class you likely had me as well. Was INCO Major and did not have a single class that DJ, Terry, Mandy, Walter or another ball was not in. DJ and I had virtually same schedule until he left the program.
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Goose, Do you remember Terry's speech?
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I was grabbing some late night Real Chili and Novak was in town with some former players for I think Dan Fitzgerald's wedding. It was during the NBA lockout. They played credit card roulette and Novak ended up losing and had to pay for everyone's food. They were giving him a hard time since he was the only one without a job at that moment.
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I was grabbing some late night Real Chili and Novak was in town with some former players for I think Dan Fitzgerald's wedding. It was during the NBA lockout. They played credit card roulette and Novak ended up losing and had to pay for everyone's food. They were giving him a hard time since he was the only one without a job at that moment.
That's so funny, I was there that night. As they were leaving we called out "REAPER!" and Chris Grimm got so excited that someone recognized him.
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I picked David Boone up at the airport his first time in Milwaukee, back in the day when you could meet people as they got off the plane.
I asked Majerus, "What does he look like"?
With the most common of sense, Rick says "Bring all the 6-7 black guys that get off the plane".
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Keefe
Best part of the pimp coats was they were gifts from my family!!!
Joe
I knew that. I was expecting you to correct me on the actual animal leather. Remember, I'm not Lyle when it comes to pelts!
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Larry was on my floor freshman year - 11 McCormick - really nice guy. Unfortunately he got Frozena-like minutes of playing time. And yes, a good student. He went to medical school and became a urologist. I gotta believe it is a marketing challenge to attract patients to a urologist named Hatchett!
I was just going to ask what became of Larry. Had many classes with the man. I don't know how he was able to juggle basketball with biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, labs, biochem, calculus, and all the rest while playing ball. Was a fantastic guy. So glad to hear he ended high up the medical food chain as he did.
I graduated with a dentist named kruel, a guy with a last name "doctor" (dr. Doctor). And a guy named smiley
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I graduated with a dentist named kruel, a guy with a last name "doctor" (dr. Doctor). And a guy named smiley
How about Feelgood?
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Not much has been said about doc introducing a girl to mm(rest in peace) who then dated for a year or so, only to return from an overseas trip to find doc was taking very good care of kris while he was away. She became mrs. doc in 1986 and have 4 children together. I wonder how that played out on the b-ball floor??
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How about Feelgood?
Was she a "masseuse"
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Not much has been said about doc introducing a girl to mm(rest in peace) who then dated for a year or so, only to return from an overseas trip to find doc was taking very good care of kris while he was away. She became mrs. doc in 1986 and have 4 children together. I wonder how that played out on the b-ball floor??
Then there was Butch schtuppin' Gail P...
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Lisa didn't lack for attention either, hey?
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Not much has been said about doc introducing a girl to mm(rest in peace) who then dated for a year or so, only to return from an overseas trip to find doc was taking very good care of kris while he was away. She became mrs. doc in 1986 and have 4 children together. I wonder how that played out on the b-ball floor??
Let it go rocket.
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Everybody knows that one, RS, and nobody cares.
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Everybody knows that one, RS, and nobody cares.
+1
She willingly ended one relationship for the sake of another, and it clearly worked out for them.
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Haven't heard that one. Wouldn't surprise me. Fiery competitor.
I saw a picture of Marquette Madness of Wade in (what I would guess was) the dunk contest wearing a #25 jersey, I believe going into his redshirt year (the caption said "Marquette fans were introduced to Dwyane Wade at Marquette Madness in 2000, and I think 00-01 was his redshirt year, with 01-02 his first year playing). Was anyone there that night? I've heard stories of there being whispers during his redshirt year that he was the best player on the team by far then, but was it evident that night?
Heck, I went to some of the Midnight Madnesses at the Cell (where the picture was taken), so I may have been there and just don't remember it. I would've been 11 then and probably wouldn't have realized who Dwyane Wade was/how good he was until at least a year and a few months later.
attended 4-5 MU practices while wade was a redshirt...he kicked the sh!t out of everyone...wasn't even close. tc used him to exploit the individual weaknesses of players in different game situations. he was extremely valuable as a practice player. in controlled half-court sets in practice he was dominant...in games i think you saw even the best take a little time to get used to D1 strength and speed. those were a fun couple of years.
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Once saw Vander and Derrick at a house party. This was during a season in which Junior was the starting PG, and a frustrating one at that. I drunkenly told them that Derrick needed to be the starting point guard, because obviously no one could be worse than Junior right? They laughed and shrugged it off.
A few minutes later, VB pulled me aside and said "trust me, you do NOT want him to be the starting point." Then we did a shot of Rumpleminze together and Vander threw up. Or maybe that was me?
This has me laughing so hard.
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A former coach hooked up a late 1980's men's basketball recruit with a "professional lady" during his recruiting visit at West Hall. Personally told to me by said former scholarship player
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Pics, hey?
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Being Jarrod Lovette's Spanish tutor was pretty funny.
Also remember that we occasionally had house parties during breaks and usually some of the players would show up. My buddy had put together his own demo tape, which was sort of a heavy metal / rap sound (like Pantera meets NWA). When things were winding down and we wanted people to leave we would just throw that on. I still remember one of the players (David Diggs I think) was talking up some girl when we started blasting the tape and he said "man, what is this sh*t?" and covered his ears as he walked out. We all bust out laughing.
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A former coach hooked up a late 1980's men's basketball recruit with a "professional lady" during his recruiting visit at West Hall. Personally told to me by said former scholarship player
Leave it to Dukiet to use hookers and still submarine the program.
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I was grabbing some late night Real Chili and Novak was in town with some former players for I think Dan Fitzgerald's wedding. It was during the NBA lockout. They played credit card roulette and Novak ended up losing and had to pay for everyone's food. They were giving him a hard time since he was the only one without a job at that moment.
Novak ended up with the last laugh. He has made about a bazillion dollars per minute played, and probably can buy and sell the rest of 'em a bazillion times over.