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<blockquote data-quote="Essobee" data-source="post: 20184" data-attributes="member: 715"><p>Mack and Rodney,</p><p></p><p>We need an old timers site on the board where we can just talk about the good times and the good 'uns. </p><p></p><p>Rodney, I had a chance to visit with Roger Kaiser a decade or so ago...heck of a nice guy, btw...and asked him if he could still drain the long ones. His reply: "Yep." He said he was still shooting practice shots. Roger was our first first-team AA in basketball. He, Bobby Dews and Dave Denton, comprised the "Lethal Three" of that time period. </p><p></p><p>Wade Mitchell and I became good friends later in life, but I haven't seen him in a year or so. I didn't recall who collided with him in the game so I asked him. He said he still has bad dreams about it. Wade is another great one and the finest of gentlemen. </p><p></p><p>IIRC, we had in the neighborhood of 25 seniors graduating from the 1956 team that lost to Tennessee. I saw a number of them at one of their class reunions during the 1990s and was amazed at how so many of them had done extraordinarily well in life. Wade was one of the smartest students at Tech, proof that even the really bright ones can play great ball.</p><p></p><p>Mack, we finished 4th in the nation in 1956 after the one loss (6 - 0) to undefeated Tennessee (Johnny Majors), which finished 2nd. Oklahoma finished number one. I couldn't argue with that...Bud Wilkinson finished his career at Oklahoma with 145 wins, 29 losses, 2 ties, 3 national titles, 14 conference titles, and 47 straight wins. Awesome record.</p><p></p><p>Do you guys remember the "tear-away" jerseys? And how Adolph Rupp hated to play Tech?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Essobee, post: 20184, member: 715"] Mack and Rodney, We need an old timers site on the board where we can just talk about the good times and the good 'uns. Rodney, I had a chance to visit with Roger Kaiser a decade or so ago...heck of a nice guy, btw...and asked him if he could still drain the long ones. His reply: "Yep." He said he was still shooting practice shots. Roger was our first first-team AA in basketball. He, Bobby Dews and Dave Denton, comprised the "Lethal Three" of that time period. Wade Mitchell and I became good friends later in life, but I haven't seen him in a year or so. I didn't recall who collided with him in the game so I asked him. He said he still has bad dreams about it. Wade is another great one and the finest of gentlemen. IIRC, we had in the neighborhood of 25 seniors graduating from the 1956 team that lost to Tennessee. I saw a number of them at one of their class reunions during the 1990s and was amazed at how so many of them had done extraordinarily well in life. Wade was one of the smartest students at Tech, proof that even the really bright ones can play great ball. Mack, we finished 4th in the nation in 1956 after the one loss (6 - 0) to undefeated Tennessee (Johnny Majors), which finished 2nd. Oklahoma finished number one. I couldn't argue with that...Bud Wilkinson finished his career at Oklahoma with 145 wins, 29 losses, 2 ties, 3 national titles, 14 conference titles, and 47 straight wins. Awesome record. Do you guys remember the "tear-away" jerseys? And how Adolph Rupp hated to play Tech? [/QUOTE]
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