In reply to: What an athlete Golden Tate was. Did he play on the Irish posted by irishhawk49
Pretty cool "career."
Ok, I'll start.
Tom Brady (baseball and football), Eric Byrnes (in football, he was actually really good and his team was unbelievable), Jason Kidd (unbelievable), Pat Burrell, Amani Toomer.
I'm pretty sure that there's a few more, but my memory escapes me beyond that. The best/most dynamic athlete I ever competed against and/or saw up close and personal was a guy named Demitrius "hook" Mitchell. This guy was unbelievable--he would hold his own slam dunk contests in the park to raise money and he'd jump over cars, trucks (saw him do a 360 over a truck), people, desks stacked up, and all kinds of obstacles. This was around 1992-93, so before all the really crazy dunk stuff (besides MJ and Wilkins) took off. He was only about 5-10 but he could touch the top of the backboard and was just explosive. He got a lot of shots to make it, but he just didn't like school and he got messed up with some bad guys. I've linked a preview of a documentary they did a while back, but there is even more info out there for anyone interested in checking.
is walking in the snow to see my high school play against this skinny 6’6 sophomore from Lansing Everett. His name was Earvin Johnson. He was thin as a rail with a huge Afro. He made some sweet passes and had a few dunks. He grew three more inches in high school. I probably saw him five or six times when he was in high school. Averaged 28 pts and 16 rebounds as a senior. It was fun to follow his career.
Keith Kurowski once yelled at me to “get off the damn court!” in high school. I wasn’t even on the team.
injured early on and never really panned out. Left team because of injury. New Jersey guy. Around 1992 or so. Came in with Ryan Hoover, as best I recall. Fairly bleak period for Notre Dame hoops.
when he made a move to the basket I thought about sacrificing my body causing him to take a charging penalty but no wasn’t that stupid….
I believe Myron Pottios was also on the team.
From what I understand, they played a pretty physical brand of basketball.
edit: I guess it wasn't a bookstore team, as RJD points out below. Must have been some type of pick up type games between the dorms or whatever.
Bookstore started in the early 70s.
I know Monk Malloy was on one of the other teams and was actually pretty good.