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dacj501
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still love that story
12/31/2011 5:39 AM
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Posted by chattkia on 12/30/2011 10:03:00 PM (view original):
I've contemplated ordering sweatshirts for the teams I'm coaching.
I was too cheap to buy a sweatshirt so I ironed letters onto a T-shirt. On the back, it said, "National Champs, season #11". I wore it to a bar where I was meeting 5 other coaches for the first time.  One of them showed up with a sweatshirt he'd purchased from Franklin College.

I'm sure other customers wondered, "What's season #11?"
12/31/2011 6:10 AM
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I bought a Northwestern hoodie a couple of years ago when I was coaching there. In my defense, I was in Chicago in January without a coat so I had to buy something and there was a sporting goods store nearby.
12/31/2011 6:48 AM
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Al has got some serious Game with the ladies!   

While driving through West Virginia with the family on our way to a rafting trip I noticed signs for all the schools in my conference.  Once I saw "West Virginia State" I excitedly blurted out, "hey that's my school!".  I got the "oh my god I'm married to a teenager" look from my wife.  Needless to say I was quiet on the way home.  
12/31/2011 8:50 AM
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I wish I could remember who posted this classic story. I'll try to do it justice.

The coach's wife was in labor. When the doctors left the room, he thought, "I wonder if I  can get internet on that monitor." YES!  He started recruiting from the delivery room. Whenever anyone came in, he quickly closed out and pretended he was studying his wife's condition.

I think the title of the thread was ,"I'm going to Hell for this."

12/31/2011 9:38 AM
caesari
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This is the best thread in a loooong time
12/31/2011 9:54 AM
alblack56
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Recruiting is like my dating life.

How many times have I heard:

1)  I'm not ready to commit. But you can keep spending money on me until someone better comes along.

2) If this is anyone other than Al Black, leave a message.

3) Why do you only want to play at 2:00 a.m.?

4) Scouting me more than twice is creepy. And what's with all the phone calls??

5) I prefer to be wooed long distance. Maybe if you moved to Serbia....

6) I wish we could be together right now! But, first, I have other men coming for home visits.

7) No! I will NOT remove the red shirt on the first date!

8) Is that the only starting position you have?

9)  When you promised me minutes, I expected more than 30 seconds.
12/31/2011 10:22 AM (edited)
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10) We just met but you want me to but this red shirt on?
12/31/2011 10:47 AM
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2 friends and I coach in the CCIW, one of them at Martin Luther. While drinking heavily and sitting at the blackjack table at El Cortez in Old Vegas, a guy sat down with a red shirt that had "MLC" on it. After exchanging shocked looks with my buddy, I blurted out, "Is that Martin Luther College?" He said yes, and asked me how I knew. I told him, "he (pointing at my friend) is a fake basketball coach there." Guy pauses, then annoyedly says, "I am the basketball coach."

Then...awkward silence
12/31/2011 12:57 PM
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Posted by bdpoor on 12/31/2011 12:57:00 PM (view original):
2 friends and I coach in the CCIW, one of them at Martin Luther. While drinking heavily and sitting at the blackjack table at El Cortez in Old Vegas, a guy sat down with a red shirt that had "MLC" on it. After exchanging shocked looks with my buddy, I blurted out, "Is that Martin Luther College?" He said yes, and asked me how I knew. I told him, "he (pointing at my friend) is a fake basketball coach there." Guy pauses, then annoyedly says, "I am the basketball coach."

Then...awkward silence
Amazing story!
12/31/2011 1:24 PM
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after coaching my entire wooden career at maranatha baptist bible college, i switched denominations and now attend a baptist church. 
12/31/2011 4:25 PM
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I was in the Bahamas a few years back for a friend's wedding and, in between golfing, drinking, fishing, drinking, etc., I had to run to the "business suite", which was basically a closet with a small wooden desk and chair and some backward-***, primitive computer, to recruit.  Since I was drunk for the majority of my recruiting, I'm amazed that I recruited the #5 and #7 all-time leading scorers on my Pitt-Greensburg team. 

Another time, on a trip to one of my daughter's gymnastics meets, I had to convince my wife that we needed to drive through the Duquesne campus so I could see the college I coached at and try to find the gym where the games were played.  She thought I was an idiot.  She just doesn't get it.   
12/31/2011 4:34 PM
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Posted by norm24 on 12/31/2011 4:25:00 PM (view original):
after coaching my entire wooden career at maranatha baptist bible college, i switched denominations and now attend a baptist church. 
Do you see your players there?
12/31/2011 4:47 PM
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Posted by kucewicz on 12/31/2011 4:34:00 PM (view original):
I was in the Bahamas a few years back for a friend's wedding and, in between golfing, drinking, fishing, drinking, etc., I had to run to the "business suite", which was basically a closet with a small wooden desk and chair and some backward-***, primitive computer, to recruit.  Since I was drunk for the majority of my recruiting, I'm amazed that I recruited the #5 and #7 all-time leading scorers on my Pitt-Greensburg team. 

Another time, on a trip to one of my daughter's gymnastics meets, I had to convince my wife that we needed to drive through the Duquesne campus so I could see the college I coached at and try to find the gym where the games were played.  She thought I was an idiot.  She just doesn't get it.   
Great stories!

I've repeatedly lied to my 82-year old mother about my WIS  addiction.  She thinks I only have two teams.  At my niece's wedding, I was recruiting in the bathroom. I was gone so long that Mom sent Dad to check on me.  Yep...my 85-year old Dad yells out, "Allen, you in here?"
12/31/2011 4:49 PM
caesari
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I think one more story, which isn't near as crazy as these others, will be my final:

I coach HS basketball part time. Well, here we are, at halftime, up 65-14, and I say nothing to my players, just let them relax. And I go into the coaches office and land my coveted "double-whammy" time (two recruiting cycles in about 10 minutes). I was then late onto the court, and a freshman was acting as interim coach.
12/31/2011 5:32 PM
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