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Post by bsu0 on Apr 11, 2021 13:30:07 GMT -6
I played for the worst coach in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
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Post by reevo on Apr 11, 2021 13:40:22 GMT -6
I played for Paul Curtis who would leave after my senior year and become one of Gene Keady’s assistants. Great coach. We went to the final game of the Lafayette Semi-State and finished 2nd in the Hall of a game classic in my time. We beat Muncie Central at Central in the first game of the Classic before falling to Anderson Madison Heights in the championship game. We beat Gary Rossevelt in the morning game of the Semi state before losing to Anderson in the championship game that evening. We flat out ran out of gas that evening. I remember Curtis and Norm Held getting into it. Held was an arrogant asshole but was a good coach. Great memories from my days of playing High School hoops.
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Post by redfeather on Apr 11, 2021 13:49:16 GMT -6
Wrestler and football player. Basketball career ended in 5th grade. Same! We were State Championships in wrestling my senior year!
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Post by lmills72 on Apr 11, 2021 14:43:49 GMT -6
Had one brother who wrestled, another who played basketball.
I played basketball in 8th grade. Was terrible.
Wrestled in high school. Was better on the mat than the court, but still not good and quit after my junior year to focus on baseball.
Tried out for baseball at BSU but was really in over my head. Enjoyed my time at BSU, but kinda regret not finding a smaller school where I could have played.
Both of my brothers ended up wresting at BSU.
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Post by williamtsherman on Apr 11, 2021 14:52:18 GMT -6
I always thought track would have been my best HS sport, but when younger I had some sort of issue where my knees were extremely prone to tendonitis. Thankfully this never happened during football season but I was toast after pre-season track workouts. I tried to stick out track in middle school but I was finishing dead last in every race and always in pain....so I gave it up. Luckily this issue resolved itself by the time I was in college and I've done a lot of racing at all kinds of distances, as well as trail racing, orienteering, adventure racing and triathlons and enjoyed it all greatly.
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Post by mattg on Apr 11, 2021 16:17:38 GMT -6
I played bball all 4 years in high school in Ohio and then coached in high school in Florida for 3 years. Coached against some players who went D1, but most notably were Isaiah Ford and Shawn Wade who went D1 in football to Virginia Tech and Ohio State respectively. Frank Beamer came down here for a bball game to watch Isaiah play a game that I coached in. That was pretty cool!
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 11, 2021 16:38:18 GMT -6
I played for the worst coach in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Played for Bill Green when he was a lowly Freshman basketball coach. Kept in touch with him through his career later at Washington HS and then Marion.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Apr 11, 2021 17:27:00 GMT -6
No surprise football was my real love. I was a pretty good small school player and had some small offers.. DePauw, Earlham etc. Indiana state was my biggest then I went to a camp and realized I would be in way over my head. I used both basketball and Baseball to stay in shape. I found that for me the structure of organized sports worked better for me than training on my own
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Post by rgmillikan on Apr 11, 2021 18:08:02 GMT -6
I couldn't even make the Carmel basketball team in the late 1990s and early 2000s smack dab in the middle of their dark days(1996-2002 would be their h.s. version of 2002-current Ball State basketball).
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Post by williamtsherman on Apr 11, 2021 18:10:56 GMT -6
As a senior, I got a few letters from smaller schools about wrestling. The AD would hand them to me at lunch. I don't know how serious they really were and if they would have actually led to a scholarship offer. I threw them away immediately. I didn't like wrestling enough to do it four more years, and I didn't want my parents to find out about whatever interest those schools might have actually had in me. I was not bad at football, started, scored a handful of TD's, was quite helpful to the team and thus more or less fulfilled my dreams from an NFL-crazy childhood. However I had zero of the physical traits that would interest a college coach....just your classic try-hard, low-talent HS player.
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Post by 87grad on Apr 12, 2021 10:25:49 GMT -6
Played baseball in high school. Hit an even .300 as a senior and lost in the state semi-finals.
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Post by bsu0 on Apr 12, 2021 10:26:07 GMT -6
My high school basketball coach couldn't wash Green's jock. Green was truly a great coach IMHO.
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Post by williamtsherman on Apr 12, 2021 11:30:38 GMT -6
My high school basketball coach couldn't wash Green's jock. Green was truly a great coach IMHO.
Maybe he could now that there are tutorials on YouTube
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 12, 2021 11:34:03 GMT -6
My high school basketball coach couldn't wash Green's jock. Green was truly a great coach IMHO. Agreed. Good teacher. Better than in the classroom where he was the stereotype "coach" social studies guy as I recall.
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Post by realitycheck on Apr 12, 2021 13:14:13 GMT -6
Never played hoops other than intramurals. Wrassled, Football, Baseball and eventually Tennis. Got car and girl crazy once I got my license and that was it for athletics. Fast cars and semi-loose women were my downfall. Then as a student at a small midwestern college...oh wait that was Penthouse forum. Never mind.
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