bacon1431

May 25th, 2011 at 9:54 PM ^

Larry Eustachy. He was caught at a party propositioning women on Missouri's campus. After Iowa St had just lost to them. It's just the old adage - "If you can't beat em, bang their women"

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Raoul

May 25th, 2011 at 9:08 PM ^

Any chance they bring Johnny Orr back for this year's game? He's both Michigan's and Iowa State's all-time winningest coach. Perhaps they could do a 35th anniversary salute to the 1976 team that made it to the National Championship game.

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acnumber1

May 25th, 2011 at 9:54 PM ^

Any chance?  Every chance, I hope.  Assuming Johnny Orr is healthy enough this is a no-brainer.  

35th reunion of the '77 team!!  

Green, Grote, Hubbard, Alan Hardy (!), Johnny Rob, J. Lozier (Mark's older brother?), Dave Baxter, Jumpin' Joel Thompson, Tom Staton (!), Ray Owens, L Lillard, W Lelich, Tom Bergen.

Some of those names JUMP off the page, others were contributors that I thought I ought not leave out.  

Wow, that would be an amazing event.

Or would it be the '78 team as fall '12 becomes spring '13?  Even if so, the names are good except we'd lose Grote, Green and Johnny Robinson.  

BUT, we'd gain the Bodnar twins and Mike McGee (from the top of the key!).

 

Better yet, a reunion of all who played for Orr.  

This must happen.  Great coach, great team, largely unknown to younger Michigan hoops fans.

 

EDIT:  I realize the '76 team was suggested - even better, though it's a stretch to go 35 years with the 2011/12 team.  Britt and Hubbard added to the list!

 

Awesome idea!

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Raoul

May 25th, 2011 at 11:18 PM ^

Not sure if you saw this already, but Mike Rothstein did an interview with Orr in January when he was inducted into Michigan's Hall of Honor. They had a ceremony at halftime of the Minnesota game, but Orr wasn't in attendance. From the interview, it doesn't sound like health would be an issue because he had just flown back to Ames for the unveiling of a statue of him. (Maybe at age 83, two trips so close together were too much for him.)

It sounds like Orr and Beilein have a lot of mutual respect for each other, so it seems like Beilein might be interested in bringing Orr back.

It's also interesting to note that Orr was represented at that January ceremony by Wayman Britt, who was the captain of the 1975-76 team. Rothstein did a "Catching Up with..." interview with Britt in October 2010.

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tenerson

May 25th, 2011 at 9:05 PM ^

Check their roster. Royce White and Chris Allen are there. They just signed Percy Gibson. They also have a couple shooters in Scott Christopherson and Chris Babb. Allen, White and Babb all sat out last year along with Anthony Booker who was highly recruited out of high school. They should be decent.

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blueheron

May 25th, 2011 at 9:28 PM ^

I think they beat Michigan in the '86 tourney. That was the Tarpley-led team that had just won its second straight Big Ten championship.

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Michigan4Life

May 25th, 2011 at 10:06 PM ^

is MSU lite with MSU transfer like Allen and Lucious plus some Michigan players like Percy Gibson.

 

Regardless, Michigan should be the favorite to win this game for both years.

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Raoul

May 25th, 2011 at 10:54 PM ^

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