Post by FOTP on Aug 24, 2005 16:21:28 GMT -5
Gang - I was just driving in my car and caught the tail end of the John Thompson Show on 980. Thank god I got the end of it...
So here is the lead up: JTII is in Vegas for the Jordan Camp (shocker that it's in Vegas) and he's rambling on about Jordan and being able to talk to Huggy Bear as he was getting fired. Then he talked about being invited to the closed door Minn. T-Wolves practice (kind of a bonding thing...again a shocker that its in Vegas). So he says Big Ticket...and then starts going off on "The Next Big Ticket" committing to the Hoyas today! It was awesome. JTII was so excited and went on to describe Vernon's game in a ton of detail...wonder how many times he's "happened" to be there when he played. He joked that he heard about it on the internet at which point Al Koken teased him about his lack of info into the program
It was great radio.
JTII raved about the staff and how great they are and what a huge get this was. In a weird way I think he was a little surprised....not in a bad way, but in an excited way.
He knew everything about Vernon's game and started to disect it. Then he gave my favorite line: "This kid reminds me of Allen Iverson...the kid never stops working and plays as hard as I've ever seen a kid play...he just keeps running and running all day". I almost crashed into the car in front of me...
He finished it up by saying he wished he was home because he knew that JTIII would be buying dinner tonight! He also actually called him JTIII which I found interesting...he usually just calls him John. I thought it was cool.
Also, apparently one of the producers on the show Chris ______ is a Hoya grad because Koken thanked John for waiting till the end because Chris is going nuts right now...good stuff.
Finally, at the very end JTII was just talking about the Hoyas and he says: "We're coming...people better look out...cause We're Coming". I got the chills.
I've never been this excited about the Hoyas...never.
So here is the lead up: JTII is in Vegas for the Jordan Camp (shocker that it's in Vegas) and he's rambling on about Jordan and being able to talk to Huggy Bear as he was getting fired. Then he talked about being invited to the closed door Minn. T-Wolves practice (kind of a bonding thing...again a shocker that its in Vegas). So he says Big Ticket...and then starts going off on "The Next Big Ticket" committing to the Hoyas today! It was awesome. JTII was so excited and went on to describe Vernon's game in a ton of detail...wonder how many times he's "happened" to be there when he played. He joked that he heard about it on the internet at which point Al Koken teased him about his lack of info into the program
It was great radio. JTII raved about the staff and how great they are and what a huge get this was. In a weird way I think he was a little surprised....not in a bad way, but in an excited way.
He knew everything about Vernon's game and started to disect it. Then he gave my favorite line: "This kid reminds me of Allen Iverson...the kid never stops working and plays as hard as I've ever seen a kid play...he just keeps running and running all day". I almost crashed into the car in front of me...
He finished it up by saying he wished he was home because he knew that JTIII would be buying dinner tonight! He also actually called him JTIII which I found interesting...he usually just calls him John. I thought it was cool.
Also, apparently one of the producers on the show Chris ______ is a Hoya grad because Koken thanked John for waiting till the end because Chris is going nuts right now...good stuff.
Finally, at the very end JTII was just talking about the Hoyas and he says: "We're coming...people better look out...cause We're Coming". I got the chills.
I've never been this excited about the Hoyas...never.
