Jeff Hornacek

[cyfreddy]

Hey, kind of funny I was thinking the same thing iccyfan ! If I remember right we played them kind of close !

I played in a 24-hour tournament in Newton against you guys that Summer and I was the opposing shortstop. Suffice it to say, I was ready to move to extra-hitter after my team-mates compared my range to his! You guys also had an ex-football player (Tom Randall?) who launched some moon-shots and generally made playing left-side infield a scary proposition!

I worked food service at the Towers for a year, and Stacie was my "partner" at the dish machine two nights / week. Very nice girl and always upbeat, which is hard to be when you're scrubbing pots and pans...

As for Jeff's walk-on status, I'm 99.9% positive he enrolled at a non-scholarship Ivy League (Brown? Cornell?) school, didn't like it early and enrolled at ISU after classes had begun. I think that explains why he was a walk-on, as opposed to his being an "unknown" to Orr & company...

 

[cyfreddy]

I named my son after Jeff Hornacek. I picked that over Jordan who is my son's middle name.

Anybody know what Jeff's up to now? He's probably one of the most successful NBA players ISU has ever produced, but I never seem to hear him talked about much even on this site.

I thought about him when it was announced Sean Haluska is going to be a walk on next year for us. Jeff Hornacek was a walk on believe it or not.

Jeff was a great player. Very unselfish with the ball and he could can the big shots. If Sean turns out to be half as good we'll have a heck of a player.

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

Great article. One thing surprised me though. After spending as much time as I have in SLC, I'm surprised Jeff would live there after BB. It's one weird place. As much money as Jeff has, he could live any where.

The most unanswered question in Utah-- where are the tablets now??

I spent a week in SLC for a fire protection seminar in November and I came away with the impression that it was the cleanest big city I've ever visited.

While I'm not LDS, every good Saint knows the angel took back the gold tablets once Joseph Smith was done translating them with his "seerer stone", or maybe you're asking about different tablets?:sweet:

 

[CTTB78]

Yes, SLC is very clean. Also very weird. And thanks for answer on the tablets, I had never heard that explanation. Interesting.

Thanks, Iccyfan.

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

Hey, kind of funny I was thinking the same thing iccyfan ! If I remember right we played them kind of close !

I don't think we did Fred, but you can choose to remember it that way if you want to! :laugh8kb:

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

Yes, SLC is very clean. Also very weird. And thanks for answer on the tablets, I had never heard that explanation. Interesting. Thanks, Iccyfan.

I truly don't know much about the LDS church, but after touring Temple Square and returning home from the seminar in SLC, I checked out a book from my local library. "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer does NOT paint a pretty picture of the LDS church and the myriad off-shoots, but it does give a pretty comprehensive history of how it came about...

As for the topic of this thread, Hornacek and Barry Stevens are my #1 and #1A favorite Cyclones of all time, in no particular order.