Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
Just a thought I saw reading my morning paper online : Should UT honor Majors with a statue.

What would be your thoughts on putting a statue up in remembrance of Johnny Majors?

Of course, everyone remembers, they've given one out not too long ago for the late great Pat Summitt.
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Pat Summitt is probably the greatest coach UT will ever have in regards to what she meant to the sport itself. There is a reason the women's BB half of fame is in Knoxville.

It's also hard to argue that anyone at UT will ever have her type of success ever again. 84% winning percentage over 38 years. 7 time national coach of the year, 8 national championships including the only 3 peat. Final 4 22 times. First to 1000 wins. And that's only her national accomplishments. 2x as many SEC titles, 87% SEC win rate.

And she also literally built the program. She used to also drive the bus and wash the uniforms when she started. The basketball training facility was built with privately raised money that Pat was hugely responsible for. One of my professors who I respect the heck out of said she was the most impressive person he ever dealt with and he knew governors, presidents, generals, and billionaires. (Oil connections in texas).

Except that she would have hated it we should have statues to her at every entry to Thompson Boiling and several places throughout.

I dont even care about WBB, it's boring as heck, but what she did was unworldly. And she probably did it all with out one bit of cheating. Or at least if I can believe any with success did it without cheating it was her.

COACH PAT SUMMITT: 1952-2016(.
 
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LouderVol said:
Pat Summitt is probably the greatest coach UT will ever have in regards to what she meant to the sport itself. There is a reason the women's BB half of fame is in Knoxville.

It's also hard to argue that anyone at UT will ever have her type of success ever again. 84% winning percentage over 38 years. 7 time national coach of the year, 8 national championships including the only 3 peat. Final 4 22 times. First to 1000 wins. And that's only her national accomplishments. 2x as many SEC titles, 87% SEC win rate.

And she also literally built the program. She used to also drive the bus and wash the uniforms when she started. The basketball training facility was built with privately raised money that Pat was hugely responsible for. One of my professors who I respect the heck out of said she was the most impressive person he ever dealt with and he knew governors, presidents, generals, and billionaires. (Oil connections in texas).

Except that she would have hated it we should have statues to her at every entry to Thompson Boiling and several places throughout.

I dont even care about WBB, it's boring as heck, but what she did was unworldly. And she probably did it all with out one bit of cheating. Or at least if I can believe any with success did it without cheating it was her.

COACH PAT SUMMITT: 1952-2016(.
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Since you brought up basketball, I ran across a picture of U.T. 1967 team. I posted it earlier in the Alumni Game thread in basketball forum
 

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That was a very good U.T. team with Tom Boerwinkle at center, Tom Hendrix and Ron Widby at forwards, and Billy Hann and Billy Justus at guards. Also, Bill Young, Wes Coffman, and Mike Humphries are the other ones I remember.
 
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1972 Grad said:
That was a very good U.T. team with Tom Boerwinkle at center, Tom Hendrix and Ron Widby at forwards, and Billy Hann and Billy Justus at guards. Also, Bill Young, Wes Coffman, and Mike Humphries are the other ones I remember.
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Was there a lot of social tumult on UT campus in the late 60s/early 70s?
 
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1972 Grad said:
That was a very good U.T. team with Tom Boerwinkle at center, Tom Hendrix and Ron Widby at forwards, and Billy Hann and Billy Justus at guards. Also, Bill Young, Wes Coffman, and Mike Humphries are the other ones I remember.
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That was the season I had my first transistor radio and listened to John Ward’s play by play of every game.
 
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RavinDave said:
That was the season I had my first transistor radio and listened to John Ward’s play by play of every game.
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My Mom used to buy me those old transistor radios at K-Mart. I would take one home and split it open to look at all the electronics. I can distinctly still remember the smell...lol
 
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@1972 Grad I need you to settle a debate between me and my wife. Is it pronounced cape san blas and in like glass, or cape san "blah"
 
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luthervol said:
The family is headed back down on July 4th for the week but my son and I can't go because it is no longer dead week for high school sports in GA.
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Breaking my normal responding rule..... my wife has been there for a week. She had to get a new stackable washer/dryer. Ace Hardware in Port St. Joe was the only place nearby that would deliver.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Breaking my normal responding rule..... my wife has been there for a week. She had to get a new stackable washer/dryer. Ace Hardware in Port St. Joe was the only place nearby that would deliver.
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If you amended the rule to exclude the Gramps' thread, no one would think any less of you. Well maybe '79 would, but who cares about him.

My wife looked at rentals to see if we could get a second place, but she said everything was booked. I guess that's a good sign.
 
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