Author Topic: Deaths of famous people (2015) (Read 17456 times)

Baseball is Life · « **Reply #75:** February 08, 2015, 03:22:39 PM »

Quote from: blue911 on February 08, 2015, 09:57:26 AM

RIP Dean Smith

Terps fan here but I always liked Dean more than that insufferable Coach K. RIP.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #76:** February 09, 2015, 10:25:33 AM »

Quote from: mitlen on February 08, 2015, 03:11:23 PM

Didn't he move to California?

yes. will be watching James Shields now.

mitlen · « **Reply #77:** February 09, 2015, 10:58:18 AM »

Quote from: blue911 on February 08, 2015, 09:57:26 AM

RIP Dean Smith

Listening to sports talk the last couple of days and you'd think Smith invented basketball. He may have taken concepts to a larger stage but a lot of the stuff he's being credited with "inventing", I saw in high school games in the 50s. There's a lot of urban legend going on.

varoadking · « **Reply #78:** February 09, 2015, 11:04:00 AM »

Quote from: mitlen on February 09, 2015, 10:58:18 AM

Listening to sports talk the last couple of days and you'd think Smith invented basketball. He may have taken concepts to a larger stage but a lot of the stuff he's being credited with "inventing", I saw in high school games in the 50s. There's a lot of urban legend going on.

He did reportedly invent the " At Home Degree" program...

mitlen · « **Reply #79:** February 09, 2015, 11:06:14 AM »

Quote from: varoadking on February 09, 2015, 11:04:00 AM

He did reportedly invent the " At Home Degree" program...

Stat thrown out this morning reported 96% (IIRC) graduation rate during his tenure. I wanna know, "Who wrote the papers?"

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #80:** February 09, 2015, 11:10:54 AM »

Quote from: mitlen on February 09, 2015, 11:06:14 AM

Stat thrown out this morning reported 96% (IIRC) graduation rate during his tenure. I wanna know, "Who wrote the papers?"

nope cheating only started after he left. /s Seriously, he apparently really cared, he even got a clause inserted into McAdoo's contract giving him a 100k bonus upon graduation (at least that's what Feinstein was saying this morning)

mitlen · « **Reply #81:** February 09, 2015, 11:14:05 AM »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on February 09, 2015, 11:10:54 AM

nope cheating only started after he left. /s Seriously, he apparently really cared, he even got a clause inserted into McAdoo's contract giving him a 100k bonus upon graduation (at least that's what Feinstein was saying this morning)

Feinstein's a gas bag.

Was that the Junkies interview? I heard him on the way to the gym but didn't catch all the interview.

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #82:** February 09, 2015, 11:15:11 AM »

I like Feinstein's books, everyone on the radio is a gas bag, its just a matter of degree

mitlen · « **Reply #83:** February 09, 2015, 11:17:10 AM »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on February 09, 2015, 11:15:11 AM

I like Feinstein's books, everyone on the radio is a gas bag, its just a matter of degree

IMO the best one he wrote was "Good Walk Spoiled".

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #84:** February 09, 2015, 11:23:10 AM »

I'm a fan of the last amateurs and where nobody knows your name

mitlen · « **Reply #85:** February 09, 2015, 11:32:37 AM »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on February 09, 2015, 11:23:10 AM

I'm a fan of the last amateurs and where nobody knows your name

I was always a Knight fan so "A Season On the Brink" was a keeper as well.

tomterp · « **Reply #86:** February 09, 2015, 04:47:10 PM »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on February 09, 2015, 11:10:54 AM

nope cheating only started after he left. /s Seriously, he apparently really cared, he even got a clause inserted into McAdoo's contract giving him a 100k bonus upon graduation (at least that's what Feinstein was saying this morning)

Wait, UNC was paying their players? No wonder they were starting all-americans at every position.

To el-Deano's credit however, he was the only coach to hold Jordan under 20 points a game.