The Official #5 Tennessee vs. #22 Ole Miss Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, SEC Network

#780
#780
cardvolfan said:
The guy was amazing…..truly special. That whole story of his was pretty sad. He kicked a lot of guys around. Just special ability.
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True. In his last days, he lamented that he had wasted his talent (ala Mickey Mantle). He chose Ole Miss when his high school GF was offered and accepted a "scholarship". The then HC at Ole Miss promised him a shot every trip upcourt. Ray Mears hounded him. So did Adolph Rupp and John Wooden. Johnny Neumann was Pete Maravich before Pete Maravich.

Memphis State handed over the keys to their ****** gym to him since his brother, Bob, was a 3rd team All-American there. The pickup games at the Fieldhouse were absurd. Larry Finch et al. Imagine what JN would have scored with a 3 pt line? 50 ppg?
 
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VolTull said:
True. In his last days, he lamented that he had wasted his talent (ala Mickey Mantle). He chose Ole Miss when his high school GF was offered and accepted a "scholarship". The then HC at Ole Miss promised him a shot every trip upcourt. Ray Mears hounded him. So did Adolph Rupp and John Wooden. Johnny Neumann was Pete Maravich before Pete Maravich.

Memphis State handed over the keys to their ****** gym to him since his brother, Bob, was a 3rd team All-American there. The pickup games at the Fieldhouse were absurd. Larry Finch et al. Imagine what JN would have scored with a 3 pt line? 50 ppg?
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Yes, and possibly more. I heard and read things about those pickup games back in the day.
 
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I was at the game tonight for the first time in forever. I want to thoroughly thank the Vols for a treating me to their best game of the year. The last time I made it to a game was at Stokely Center. :confused: Dinner afterwards at Calhoun's. Picked up some nice gear while I was in town. Fantastic to be surrounded by fellow Vols fans.
 
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Sea Ray said:
I was at the game tonight for the first time in forever. I want to thoroughly thank the Vols for a treating me to their best game of the year. The last time I made it to a game was at Stokely Center. :confused: Dinner afterwards at Calhoun's. Picked up some nice gear while I was in town. Fantastic to be surrounded by fellow Vols fans.
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Glad to have you back in Knoxville, and glad you enjoyed the game.
 
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cardvolfan said:
Yes, and possibly more. I heard and read things about those pickup games back in the day.
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The professional NBA players in the area - and out of area - would come to play against/with Neumann. Bailey Howell, Ed "Slim" MacArthur, Richie Guerin, Oscar Robertson, Havlicek, George Gervin, Bob Lanier, many others whose names are less well known...most often at the Christian Brothers College gym. Always open to hand-picked players.

It was majickal, absolutely majickal.
 
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VolTull said:
What fun Stokely was. Chattering metal steps to the upper seats. Running track around. First place I saw Jethro Tull. :). Ray Mears nutzoidiness. Walk to games and concerts from Frat Row (ATO). wow, I'm old as dinosaur ****. lol
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You were ATO? So was I!

There from 1982-85
 
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CAVPUT said:
Don't know what to expect in this one. Thought we should be over our flu issue and Dillione hasn't seen minutes so I thought we'd be healthy. Now Aidoo has a boo boo. Kinda think we're going to have a couple of scoring drought as usual. Gonna think we take the defense up a notch or two and we see a low scoring, tight ballgame. Vols 65 Ole Miss 61.
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Aidoo was the player of the game tonight with his 24 points and 10 rebounds effort.

Shout out to Seigler as well.
 
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Sea Ray said:
You were ATO? So was I!

There from 1982-85
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1969 - until Vietnam. Of which I did not enlist. (An entirely other story re: Nixon, Billy Graham, thrown eggs and judicial "justice"). I tell you that Animal House was a pale comparison to those days. Growing pot on the roof, hallucinogens rampant, FBI acting as "maintenance workers", arson charges for setting fire to the SAE house with bottle rockets, Phil Fulmer drunk as a skunk 'gatoring" (flopping around on an alcohol-slushed floor) in the basement. ATO athletes and friends balling in the "Pastor's Study" - up the stairs, turn right, down the hall to the end on the right where they could enter the side doors - , playing BBall out back, jumping the fence and having orgies on the baseball field....ok that's enough for now. :)
 
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If they can take this show to the road they very well could be one of the last 4 standing. Great game.
 
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