Jimmy V
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@JRyman What’s facebook? And I thought birds tweet.
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@nuleafjhawk Right back attcha.
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Speaking of non-sports related topics, does anyone have any ideas or opinions on who KU’s next football coach will be ?
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No clue although I like Bowen and he wouldn’t leave KU.
It will be interesting to watch the musical chairs hitting the Power 5.
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@nuleafjhawk Geez I’m dense. I just figured out the joke in your post.
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@globaljaybird
Th Olathe School District is first rate at ll levels. Now we have Olathe West under construction.
Unfortunately Olathe North West was recently rocked by a tragedy when two student committed suicide with days of each other. No question it was tragedy for the school, the district and the community at large.
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@JRyman You know Coach K? Wow. thats cool. I’ve a lot of respect for him. Even more now.
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@nuleafjhawk There are girls posting on this site?
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@JayHawkFanToo Man, Olathe West? You’ve got to be kidding. I went to Olathe South. At that time there was only Olathe North, South and East had opened the year before I graduated.
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@nuleafjhawk said:
Speaking of non-sports related topics, does anyone have any ideas or opinions on who KU’s next football coach will be ?
It won’t be Mike Riley of Oregon State, he just got hired by Nebraska. Talk about laughable and underwhelming.
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Whenever I hear Jimmy V’s speech I get emotional. I was a fan of his ever since I got to meet him when they played the Final Four at the Kingdome in '84. During the Friday practice sessions, I sat down in a section that turned out to be where the coaches were sitting too…UNLV’s Tarkanian and DePaul’s Ray Meyer among them. Got a couple of great candid photos of V.
His speech really hits home this year. About a month ago I lost a loved one to cancer…an immensely talented dancer and choreographer. Even in her hospice bed she was still working out the steps for an upcoming performance with her friend and assistant…one that, thank God, she was able to watch on video the day before she died. As I watched her go through the final stages, I thought about Jim Valvano. “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.” And she didn’t…all the way to the end.
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@nwhawkfan I’m very sorry for your loss. I need to learn to read this stuff when I’m at home, and not at work. Or keep a box of Kleenex at my desk…
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Yeap. They broke ground and it is schedule to open in 2017. It is roughly on Hwy 7 and 135th.
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@brooksmd Seems like the only thing birds do out here is eat my plums & poop on the windshields, sidewalks, & deck.
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@JayHawkFanToo In 1984 when we built our first new house on the NE side of Olathe there was only Brougham Elementary on the East side of I 35. Within 10 years there were at least 4 new schools just in that quadrant. Memorial Day weekend 1984 I caught my boys watching the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with their telescope on the Twin Drive In big screen. I had to laugh at that but not in front of them. The nut doesn’t fall far, that’s for sure.
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@globaljaybird ha I thought it was apple, you guys have your own word!
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@brooksmd Wade was in remission for a year & then one day just collapsed. First time I walked in his hospital room I had to turn around & step out-I lost it. His father was outside & we held each other & balled like babies. He had come out just weeks before & watched a PPV fight with us.
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@brooksmd Was different with Mike. We all were real strong around him. He was too. He was a horse. I’d known him since I can remember. We drank beer together in old Municipal Stadium the first year the Royals played there. We had a race car together, our parents both worked together, my mother rented a house from them after my dad passed. We went to kindergarten together, graduated HS together, & married sisters.
His cancer had spread to his spine, hip & lungs. He smirked a little when they were installing his feeding tube & said “Phil, how am going to get steak & lobster in there?” The last “dinner” we had before the tube was from Woody’s Wood Fired Pizza in Joplin. That’s how the name “Dad’s Handsome Woodrow” came about. His wife & daughter were both RN’s on the staff of Freeman West in Joplin where he was treated & passed. The experience with Jake’s friend taught me how the disease would progress, but no one anticipated it would be so swift. He had been seeing a DO who was adjusting his upper back & that Dr was the one who finally sent him to the ER. They found three vertebrae in his thoracic spine were completely destroyed & one hip badly deteriorating. The Sunday night before his last scheduled chemo his son in law, one of my sons, & I changed out a motor in a Dodge Caravan & had the replacement in & running about 5 am. the next morning. We slept about 2-3 hrs & took him for his 3rd chemo but was so ill they readmitted him. The following Sat he passed. Even though the relentless results were the same, this was not a long, enduring, drawn out deterioration. It was very aggressive & quick. In many ways it is fortunate to happen this way. You never want to let go, but was beyond our grasp before we knew it. I believe that was probably the point in my life when I actually gained a true & accurate perspective & wisdom of what lies ahead. for us all. Damn, was 50+ years old & finally growing up, albeit the difficult way.
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@globaljaybird
dang you guys!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Sorry, please accept my apologies.
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@globaljaybird no need!! Just feeln bad for you guys!!! On a good note, I plan on heading to Lawrence to see game tomorrow.
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My favorite Jimmy V line: To a ref, “Can you give me a technical for what I’m thinking?” Ref, “No Jimmy” Jimmy, “I think you suck”. The ref broke his word!! Thanks for this thread Brooks, nice to see some other topics on here on occasion, even in the midst of a basketball season.
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@globaljaybird It’s a tough disease. My mom suffered through 2-3 years battling colon cancer. Like I mentioned, my wife with her training certainly helped the family through the final months.
On another note, @JRyman mentioned watching ESPN’s 30-30 about NCSt National Championship. Got to watch it and dvr it last night. Jimmy V managed to get me to do in one hour, all three things he said you should do every day. The extra insight into his interaction with his players and his life has changed my opinion of him as a coach. But I still liked him better when he started tv commentary.
And finally to everyone who has lost family or friends to cancer my condolences and ask that we all give what we can to beat this disease. And I appreciate also that we can discuss and bare our souls on this site without any negative posts. See ya’ll on chat tonight for the game.
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@brooksmd When someone close is on your side, it makes all the difference in the world. God Bless.
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I echo your remarks, Brooks. My condolences to all affected by cancer as well.
As you make your year-end charitable donations, please consider giving to any one of the many worthy organizations fighting cancer, whether it’s the V Foundation or one in your town. Here in the Northwest, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (named after the late MLB player and manager) has done a great job, and I’ve been supporting them for many years since I watched my brother’s next door neighbor, an otherwise healthy guy, die way too early from the disease. We’ve all been touched by it either directly or indirectly, and any support you give to help beat cancer is greatly appreciated.
