Re: Boys, I thought I had the best story every about playing pick up ball on

When were you at Clemson, Spud? I was there late 70’s (c/o ‘81) and played a lot. Actually did Work Study ($1.40/hr) at Fike, cleaning the pool, signing out equipment, etc. in ‘78/‘79.

Played a LOT of ball in Fike. Only with the fb players a few times. Steve Fuller and Clark were both SAEs I recall, and always together. But the most impressive thing I saw was during warmup/shootaround before a game, one of the Bostics stood flat footed under the basket - with his back to the basket - and did a two handed dunk. I had NEVER SEEN such a big guy with that kind of ability EVER!

My other story was coming in to Fike and I walked into one of the closed in side courts - not in the main gym - and there was a game going with quite a few of the Clemson players, so I asked if anyone had called ‘next game’? A guy told me “Actually, this was a class, and not a pickup game”. When I asked the other guys working at Fike about it, I discovered it was RPA 301 and they were being graded on ‘officiating and knowing the rules of the games they played’. I felt pretty good about my B’s in Calculus and Chemistry after that.

I worked for Banks McFadden and Fred Cone. Two of the nicest, most down to earth people you could ever meet. It wasn’t until years after graduation that I learned they were two Clemson legends!

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Nov 13, 2023, 12:17 PM

I played a lot of ball on court 1 with the football players from 80-83. I don’t look the part at all (5’7” and about 140 lbs then) but I held my own. Had what would be now considered a preferred walk on offer from the Citadel but decided to go to Clemson. I knew Frank Magwood. We grew up near each other on Johns Island. I tell people we did the original White Men Can’t Jump routine before it was a movie. Frank knew I could play and he would say “I’m not taking the little white guy, you gotta take him” to whoever he was picking against. The other guy would invariably say “ I’m not taking the little white guy”. So Frank would say “okay, I’ll take him but you gotta give me TK” (Kinard). Well boys, if me and Frank and Kinard could get any kind of big guy we could hold the court all afternoon. I remember running into the Fridge one time. I drove the lane and passed the ball to the corner and my momentum took me hard into him. He didn’t even flinch, caught me as I bounced off and said “you ok little man?” Most of the time it was me and 9 football players. They used to call Kevin Mack “Outlaw”. I thought it was because he always wanted to fight over any call anyone made but I guess maybe later we all understood why. He was just a nasty dude. And Spud, I always said that Kinard could have played college basketball just as well as he did football. He was great and I got to play on his team many times, thanks to Frank and our little white guy routine. The other thing I remember was watching Andy Headen change over the years he was there. He came in as a skinny QB recruit and ended up getting drafted and playing linebacker for the Giants. What a transformation. Great memories!

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