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Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 6:28 PM
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Tates Locke passed away today. big part of CU basketball history, both good and bad. If you think rick barnes was "active" on the sidelines, you never saw Tates.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 7:01 PM
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Sad to hear! Prayers for his family!
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Tates was a dear friend and fishing buddy . . .
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May 15, 2024, 7:07 PM
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of my Dad and Harold Boozer (Sumter, SC). Many good memories of fishing Santee and Summer Basketball Camp with him and his staff in Littlejohn.
Trusting dear friends will be reunited as all three have now “gone home”.
Thanks for the memories Coach . . . and hug my Dad for me!!!
Thanks for the “heads up” masked tiger !
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Supposedly "Blue Chips" was based on Tate's book
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May 15, 2024, 7:16 PM
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Caught in the Net. - it's a good read.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 7:17 PM
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God bless you, Tiger. Rest in peace.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away- Interesting
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May 15, 2024, 7:26 PM
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the major coaches at Clemson when I was there Tates and Hootie die within a short period of days of each other.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away- another comment
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May 15, 2024, 7:38 PM
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Tates and Joe Williams seemed to be close when they were coaching in SC. They seemed to be very opposite in temperment and coaching style though.
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Locke was pretty highly regarded when he came to Clemson. His first
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May 15, 2024, 8:11 PM
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head coaching job was at Army, where he went 40-15 in 2 seasons. When he left for Miami-Ohio, he was replaced by his young assistant, Bobby Knight. He was firey competitor at Clemson, and he would scream and stomp his feet on the court and I always thought he was having a stroke or a heart attack. He was obviously a sharp guy who supposedly had a charasmatic personality, as I was in middle school at the time and had a young female teacher who knew him, and she always got goo-goo eyes when she talked about him. He was extremely ambitious and competitive, and unfortunately used some terrible judgement along the way, but he was still very highly regarded by many who knew him.
RIP Coach.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 8:13 PM
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Clemson coach when I was a student. Prayers for his family and friends.
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Re: Prayers sent.***
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May 15, 2024, 8:41 PM
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 8:55 PM
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Bobby Knight loved Tates Locke.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 9:44 PM
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Wow he was a coach. RIP Coach Locke.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 10:11 PM
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Prayers for the family. RIP 🙏
GO TIGERS!!!
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 15, 2024, 10:30 PM
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He was doing the same things the other ACC coaches were doing . When Clemson signed Tree ,Skip Wise and Stan Rome the powers to be weren't gonna allow it compare it to what is happening now. Tates was a great coach. Skip Wise was the best freshman that I have ever watched, including Jordan.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 16, 2024, 6:03 PM
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He was doing the same things the other ACC coaches were doing . When Clemson signed Tree ,Skip Wise and Stan Rome the powers to be weren't gonna allow it compare it to what is happening now. Tates was a great coach. Skip Wise was the best freshman that I have ever watched, including Jordan.
Skip Wise was the best Basketball player to play in the ACC. If he could have kept his head on straight he would have set records that would be standing today. Also, if Tates would have had the Portal and NIL, he could have won the ACC and most likely an NBA title as well.
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As a student I went to one of his practices.....it was intense.***
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May 15, 2024, 10:35 PM
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Re: As a student I went to one of his practices.....it was intense. yes
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May 16, 2024, 6:55 AM
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We saw one once also.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 16, 2024, 5:42 AM
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Sorry to hear about Hootie and Tates. Tates coached to be in the game with 2 minutes left. One frustrating thing was if Wayne Croft ever got hot and hit 3 baskets Tates would pull him out to rest him because he had to be tired.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 16, 2024, 5:50 AM
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They did not have a 3-point line while Croft was at Clemson.
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 16, 2024, 1:52 PM
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3 baskets equal 6 points too. He did say 3 baskets?
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Re: Tates Locke has passed away
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May 16, 2024, 6:05 PM
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Sympathy to his family and RIP Coach Locke
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