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Sentimental Favorite BU Player

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Every once in a while a post evolves away from the original intent and drifts to a subject that's completely different. My recent post regarding why I like DSE changed into a "who has the best bank shot" in BU history, post. In this case, it was a pretty cool direction because it got me thinking about great bank shooters in BU history and reminded me of one of my all time favorite BU players (sentimentally speaking), Sam Simmons. Further, it got me thinking about the many, many great players who've put the red and white jersey on without great media or popular acclaim, yet have been beloved by the mass of BU fans for sentimental reasons. I'm not talking about the all time great players like Hawkins, Phegley, Walker, Melchiorre or Anderson, but rather the sentimental favorites. Guys we loved for personal reasons. Doug Shank signed my popcorn box in the old fieldhouse before a Louisville game one time, outside the locker room, fully knowing that if Coach Stowell caught him signing just prior to taking the court, he'd be in trouble. He's been my favorite (sentimental) player ever since.

Who's your favorite sentimental player of all time? Why?
 
For me that's easy -- Tom Les.

I watched him start playing for BU when I was 10 y.o. Needless to say I WAS Tom Les! :)

I patterned my game after him at an early age -- scrappy defense, taking charges, diving on the floor (if I played on a raised floor like him I would have dove into the crowd :lol: ), I'd even pass up the wide open shot like T. Les just to get an assist to an open teammate. Sometimes, I'd try to play a whole game without taking a shot just to get assists.... like him. He was my hero when I was little because he was small with limited ability...... Just like me:)
 
Harold McMath- great work ethic- was one of my mom's favorites

Hasan Houston- great athlete- best bank shot artist ever

Barney Mines- smooth as silk- great tweener

Mike Williams- big, powerful- friendliest guy

and JL and Hawk from my time there at BU- both great guys- very nice- still friends to this day...
 
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Braves4Life said:
For me that's easy -- Tom Les.

I watched him start playing for BU when I was 10 y.o. Needless to say I WAS Tom Les! :)

I patterned my game after him at an early age -- scrappy defense, taking charges, diving on the floor (if I played on a raised floor like him I would have dove into the crowd :lol: ), I'd even pass up the wide open shot like T. Les just to get an assist to an open teammate. Sometimes, I'd try to play a whole game without taking a shot just to get assists.... like him. He was my hero when I was little because he was small with limited ability...... Just like me:)
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Were you able to enjoy Franky Sylvester?
 
Versace era - Donald Reese, Barney Mines.

Molinari era - Dwayne Funches, Kerry Burrell.

Les era - Tony Bennett, Zach Andrews.
 
brocks said:
Zobes . . . THA-REEEEEE!
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I agree. He wanted to play at BU so bad he didn't even try to go anywhere else. He worked hard and earned a scholarship later and ended up being an integral part of the team.

JJ was another that I really admired

I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned Deon Jackson....as he seemed like he was an all-time favorite when he was playing
 
Robert Jenkins... as a kid I used to run around the Fieldhouse and always went to the locker room before games to slap 5 to the players before they headed out to warm up.

Tony Barone either must have felt sorry for me or just wanted to make a 8 years life but he invited me into the locker room before we played New Mexico State in Versaces first season. And needless to say Robert Jenkins let me sit on his chair.

From that era... JJ Anderson, Harold McMath, Bobby Humbles and I was real small but really like Jimmy Caruthers.

I would have to say one of my all time favorites was Dwayne Funches. When he was a freshman I can remember cringing ever single time he touched the ball let alone shot it, but by the time he was a senior that man was an absolute beast in nearly every area of the game. JJ Tauai and Bayo are close seconds to Funches, but he improved the most and worked the hardest of any Brave I have watched.
 
Joe Allen....he just seemed "bigger than life" on that raised floor.....he accomplished things on one leg most could never attain on two! :D
 
Going back further...Gene "Squeaky" Melchiorre....clean shaven (points) --bounced back from the BU scandel :oops:to do okay for himself:?
 
DannyCooksey said:
Surprised no love for Dion Thurman or Xanthus Houston. My personal fave was Trevor Hart or James Baptist. :)
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Wow, I forgot about James The Baptist...7'1, opera-singing, intellectual, tallest player ever to wear the uniform. What a great combination! If only he could have played basketball!
 
Sentimental favorites by coaching era:

Stowell era- Tom Les
Versace era- Willie Scott, Hasan Houston
Molinari era- Rob Dye, Billy Wright
Les era- Zach Andrews, JJ Tuai
 
From my earlier days......Mike Williams- was a friend of my brothers and always remembered my name when ever he saw me, also got a couple of his old hooded sweatshirts, that I eventually filled out:(:!:

During jr. high/high school....Hawk and JL once again friends of my brothers

My time at BU.....Charles White (had more than our share of confrontations on the court in high school....always gave me he** for dunking on me in the Pekin Holiday Tourney his sr. my jr. year!) Marcus Pollard (classes togther and worked on some projects together), Deon Jackson, David Winslow (a good friend from school who helped me out alot when I blew my knee out)

Since my time at BU....Jerome Robinson, JC, Will Franklin, JJ....currently I really like EM, SM the most.
 
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