Hawk disasters are pretty easily identifiable for me. Iowa State having Hawk level mistakes are less frequent, so I was curious what else was out there. I’ve already learned quite a bit!
What's ISU's Skeleton in the Closet?
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I was at ISU 98-02, I remember walking home from class 1 day and Marcus Fizer was chasing after what I assume was his girlfriend at the time and shouting "don't run from me baby! let's talk" Not something you expected to randomly see LOL.
I got to meet Richard Evans several years after we both were done at ISU and he had some very interesting stories to share including that Fizer and Tinsley apparently were not great teammates and kind of did their own things separate from the rest of the team that for the most part got along well off the court and hung out together. Got to hear all about Larry's mess too and how his drinking problems were well known to anyone remotely close to the BB program. Sounded like he enjoyed playing for Larry but he wasn't surprised his personal issues eventually got him in trouble as he apparently Larry would visit certain Ames establishments before going to practice. Even told me that Diet Coke he had under his chair he wondered if it it was spiked with something at practice.
The Time magazine article about Lafester Rhodes didn't shed a great light on ISU.
Near the bottom of this long article. Didn’t know about this, either.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,151524,00.html
That cop could look a little more excited to be standing next to a living legend.
Ex-ISU basketball coach charged again
A former Iowa State University basketball coach convicted in 2004 of having child pornography faces a new charge of failing to comply with Iowa Sex Offender Registry rules.
www.kcci.com
The odd part on that was, while Gene Smith said he accepted the explanation and situation, he still cut Dan's salary by 100k. I didn't fully understand the thought that if there was nothing there really, why are you still punishing the hire?
A high amount of issues (stabbings and such) when I was in school during the early 90s was caused by non students that came to party. Even the riots I was around, riot doesn't really fit the situation. One of them was caused by stupid police decisions.
LR was one of Johnny's favorite players. I remember Johnny saying he would get a call every year from him asking him for a new pair of shoes. JO didn't understand why he needed Johnny to give him a pair but he always did. Johnny said he also asked LR if he got his mom out of that **** shack, and LaFester told him, yes coach I bought her a house. There didn't seem to be much animosity there from the way Johnny talked and this was well after the article.
Good post....yeah, it's difficult to compare "now vs then" as variables would be so different (literally photos would be real time on social media of anything like this now.
But you nailed it......BVD had to have known what was going on and should have intervened before it even happened.....he could have said "Sorry, Larry, but you are not traveling alone....and the expectations of behavior are ........" and obviously could have also offered support for underlying issues/concerns/addictions.
Royce White is the leader in the clubhouse at this point.
Running for congress, and it went about as well as you would expect.
