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Author Topic: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET  (Read 2574 times)

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FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« on: January 24, 2009, 10:10:36 PM »
Does anybody know how the floating head posters behind the baskets at mu games started (or how)?  There is a drunken argument happening about it right now.

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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2009, 10:32:18 PM »
Tom Crean invented them.

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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 03:02:16 AM »
Obviously Indiana.  Don't you watch Indiana home games on the Big Ten Network?

San Diego State first used them from which Marquette took the idea.  Marquette made them prominent though with their TV exposure.

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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 12:45:05 PM »
It really blew up when the student section was shown on PTI with the heads, mostly because there were Kornheiser & Wilbon heads.
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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2009, 01:32:37 PM »
Obviously Indiana.  Don't you watch Indiana home games on the Big Ten Network?

San Diego State first used them from which Marquette took the idea.  Marquette made them prominent though with their TV exposure.

TT is correct about SDS using them and MU taking the idea. Recently, ND and other schools have attempted to contact MU about how to make them because they aren't intelligent enough to figure it out on their own.  :D

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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2009, 09:09:09 PM »
IIRC, it started in the 2005-2006 season at MU.
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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2009, 07:50:20 AM »
I have always hated the heads.

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Re: FLOATING HEADS BEHIND THE BASKET
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2009, 10:12:17 AM »
It really took on a life of its own when we found corporate sponsorship to fund them.
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