For the long time Tennessee Basketball fans. Your thoughts on Coach Emmett Lowery

[golfballvol]

Curious how veteran Vol fans feel about his time here.

 

[Oldvoldad]

Curious how veteran Vol fans feel about his time here.

Dang it man. I thought I was old. lol Don DeVoe was my first coach.

 

[mercuryvol]

Wow man, I only started in ‘67 and I’m 75.

 

[lefthander]

Wow man, I only started in ‘67 and I’m 75.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Dang it man. I thought I was old. lol Don DeVoe was my first coach.

It's silly to think of yourself as old. Ray Mears for me as a fan. He was my AD as a scholarship athlete at UT Martin. I don't feel old

 

[lefthander]

I was freshman walk on in 58 (never played) and remember both Lowery and Sines as maybe they were in transition. Big guy Tormolen was biggest individual I had seen at that point, I know they played slow and really good defense but did not know enough to evaluate Lowry although team was good but nobody as good as Kentucky back then

 

[hbjordan]

Lefthander,
Did you know Bobby Carter, guard, from about those years?

 

[tellicoflash]

My age at the time (10) I could not evaluate Coach Lowery.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

Lowery was the coach when I interned Tennessee in the Fall of 1956. Tennessee played their home games in Memorial gymnasium. he had a decent team but didn’t threaten to win the Conference title. The Gym was a disaster, Hardly any seating and one side of it was a huge stage. Lighting was terribly insufficient. I remember one night we were playing Kentucky coached by Adolf Rupp. When his team came on the court, they were wearing minor’s hats with were used in coal mines to provide light in the mines. It was an embarrassing place to play SEC basketball.

 

[i2amavol]

Dang it man. I thought I was old. lol Don DeVoe was my first coach.

Can't help on this one either. Mears was my first memories.

 

[macrovol]

Good coach when basketball was an afterthought. Had the misfortune of coaching against Rupp in his prime, but so did every other SEC coach.

 

[Savannahbayvol]

Probably did as well as possible under the circumstances.

 

[zeppelin128]

Waiting for someone to start the "opinion on Zora Clevenger" thread.