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1 hour ago, Hoosierdave said:

Anyone know when the deadline is for kids to declare a transfer? Pretty sure I saw somewhere on this forum saying exit meetings with players was this Tuesday.

I’m not aware of a deadline but I do seem to remember that sometimes names aren’t known until the semester is finished.

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7 hours ago, Seeking6 said:

Had to google a few articles because I remember the name just not the story. Didn't start following the Hoosiers hard until early 80's. What I found amazing about DH and others....is the number of players that Knight booted after obviously two of the greatest seasons a coach or program could ever have. 

Conflicting reports on DH. Did he leave because of the way Knight did things or otherwise? I saw he was a 3rd round pick in NBA draft in 81. Curious if he ever had regrets leaving. 

To be honest, he was a little (not a lot, but a little! 😬) before my time. I just know he ended up as our all time leading shot blocker. 

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7 minutes ago, BruceDouglas said:

To be honest, he was a little (not a lot, but a little! 😬) before my time. I just know he ended up as our all time leading shot blocker. 

I figure with the name Bruce Douglas you might have known his Peoria teams. The 81 Quincy team with BD and Payne still remains one of my favorite. Even as a Chicago born and Northern Illinois raised kid....we all knew how special those teams were. 

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2 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

I figure with the name Bruce Douglas you might have known his Peoria teams. The 81 Quincy team with BD and Payne still remains one of my favorite. Even as a Chicago born and Northern Illinois raised kid....we all knew how special those teams were. 

Oh, I knew Bruce and those teams all too well. That's why I said it was only a little before my time. I grew up in Danville and we had pretty good teams around that era though never made it too far in the tourney. I have a vague memory of a close game against Quincy where one of our big guy made the mistake of trying to score after getting a rebound of a missed FT. Payne stuffed his shot, got the ball, was fouled and that completely turned the game.

I was becoming an Illini fan at that age as well, landing Bruce along with Winters, Altenberger, etc was a pretty huge deal for Lou's program.

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4 minutes ago, BruceDouglas said:

Oh, I knew Bruce and those teams all too well. That's why I said it was only a little before my time. I grew up in Danville and we had pretty good teams around that era though never made it too far in the tourney. I have a vague memory of a close game against Quincy where one of our big guy made the mistake of trying to score after getting a rebound of a missed FT. Payne stuffed his shot, got the ball, was fouled and that completely turned the game.

I was becoming an Illini fan at that age as well, landing Bruce along with Winters, Altenberger, etc was a pretty huge deal for Lou's program.

Wasn't an Illini fan but Tony Wysinger was one of my favorites on non IU teams during those times as well. Very good teams. 

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19 minutes ago, BruceDouglas said:

Oh, I knew Bruce and those teams all too well. That's why I said it was only a little before my time. I grew up in Danville and we had pretty good teams around that era though never made it too far in the tourney. I have a vague memory of a close game against Quincy where one of our big guy made the mistake of trying to score after getting a rebound of a missed FT. Payne stuffed his shot, got the ball, was fouled and that completely turned the game.

I was becoming an Illini fan at that age as well, landing Bruce along with Winters, Altenberger, etc was a pretty huge deal for Lou's program.

By chance did you know a high school coach that was with Ron Felling by the name of George Grubbs

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4 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

Wasn't an Illini fan but Tony Wysinger was one of my favorites on non IU teams during those times as well. Very good teams. 

Yeah, me too. Solid dude. Still has the single game assist record at Illinois.

 

2 minutes ago, Billingsley99 said:

By chance did you know a high school coach that was with Ron Felling by the name of George Grubbs

Sorry, nope. But that does remind me of another memory from those HS days. I remember being in the Danville Schlarman gym during their holiday tournament. Just a 4 team tournament, the 2 Danville teams plus Luther South and Lawrenceville. So on that court I watched both Marty Simmons and Doug Novsek (sp?) and Luther had a guy named Mike Conley. That was SR, not JR of course and he'd go on to be an Olympic gold medal winning triple jumper. I think LS had another kid who went on to play college ball and Danville had a couple as well. And one kid who signed with the Yankees for baseball.

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17 minutes ago, BruceDouglas said:

Yeah, me too. Solid dude. Still has the single game assist record at Illinois.

 

Sorry, nope. But that does remind me of another memory from those HS days. I remember being in the Danville Schlarman gym during their holiday tournament. Just a 4 team tournament, the 2 Danville teams plus Luther South and Lawrenceville. So on that court I watched both Marty Simmons and Doug Novsek (sp?) and Luther had a guy named Mike Conley. That was SR, not JR of course and he'd go on to be an Olympic gold medal winning triple jumper. I think LS had another kid who went on to play college ball and Danville had a couple as well. And one kid who signed with the Yankees for baseball.

George was the top assistant and later head coach at Lawrenceville

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6 minutes ago, Cutter said:

I had forgotten about Miday out of Ohio I think and was highly touted . Couple of others took a minute too as in haymore and smock

I think Miday finished at Bowling Green.  Smock is an interesting one as he also played football at IU.

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12 minutes ago, Cutter said:

I had forgotten about Miday out of Ohio I think and was highly touted . Couple of others took a minute too as in haymore and smock

Miday averaged 23pts 14rebs for Canton Timken HS.  Left IU after 3 games saying he didn't like how Knight treated him.  I noticed he had long hair coming out of hs.  I'm sure Bobby loved that, especially since they both came from the same region of Ohio. 

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42 minutes ago, jv1972iu said:

Miday averaged 23pts 14rebs for Canton Timken HS.  Left IU after 3 games saying he didn't like how Knight treated him.  I noticed he had long hair coming out of hs.  I'm sure Bobby loved that, especially since they both came from the same region of Ohio. 

Regarding that long hair.......Knight told him to cut it or not bother to show up for practice.  Miday responded that jesus had long hair.  Knight escorted Miday to Royer poll and said if he could walk across it he could keep his long hair.

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16 minutes ago, eddy4iu said:

Regarding that long hair.......Knight told him to cut it or not bother to show up for practice.  Miday responded that jesus had long hair.  Knight escorted Miday to Royer poll and said if he could walk across it he could keep his long hair.

Knight did something similar to Pat about getting his license but I forget the details 

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5 minutes ago, eddy4iu said:

Regarding that long hair.......Knight told him to cut it or not bother to show up for practice.  Miday responded that jesus had long hair.  Knight escorted Miday to Royer poll and said if he could walk across it he could keep his long hair.

That sure sounds like Bobby.  Wonder why he would recruit the kid, if his hair was an issue?  Wouldn't that come up in the recruiting process?  Or perhaps Bobby figured the kid would get in line once he was away from home.  What an ass.

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Just now, jv1972iu said:

That sure sounds like Bobby.  Wonder why he would recruit the kid, if his hair was an issue?  Wouldn't that come up in the recruiting process?  Or perhaps Bobby figured the kid would get in line once he was away from home.  What an ass.

We had a "hair" team rule when I played in HS.  Out of the eyes, off the ears, and off the collar.  You either got the cut or you didn't play.

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8 minutes ago, rico said:

We had a "hair" team rule when I played in HS.  Out of the eyes, off the ears, and off the collar.  You either got the cut or you didn't play.

Yep, I imagine many hs teams did either formally or unwritten.  Jocks traditionally wore their hair short.  But times were changing and Bobby wasn't having any of it.  What a surprise.

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1 minute ago, jv1972iu said:

Yep, I imagine many hs teams did either formally or unwritten.  Jocks traditionally wore their hair short.  But times were changing and Bobby wasn't having any of it.  What a surprise.

I am sure many colleges did as well especially in the 70's.

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Just now, rico said:

I am sure many colleges did as well especially in the 70's.

Remember hearing John Wooden talking about Bill Walton not wanting him to cut his hair.  Wooden told him he couldn't make him cut his hair but if he didn't he wouldn't be on the team.

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