Dead Dog Alley

Sam Bowie would have been a legitmately great player if not for the five or six times he fractured a leg. A look at the 1979 McDonald's All American game roster had a couple of nice players: Isaiah Thomas, Dominique Wilkins, James Worthy, Clark Kellogg, Ralph Sampson, Sam Bowie, John Paxson, Byron Scott, Antoine Carr, Steve Stipanovich, Quentin Dailey, Greg Kite, Dereck Whittenburg, Sidney Lowe, Darren Daye, Terry Fair. (No Rod Foster or Thurl Bailey or Jon Sundvold? What were they thinking?)

When they traded him to the Kings it might have been the most consequential trade in history. Not because of the magnitude of the trade, but because of a side effect. Without that trade the Bulls might have won enough games so that they didn't end up with the 3rd pick in the 1984 draft, or if they do they might not draft a 2-guard since they already would have had one. Michael Jordan could have ended up with the Mavericks instead.

At least he wasn't riding a scooter and assaulted by a former NFL practice squad player who went off the deep end

I'd put the over/under on the eventual number of alma maters for Bynum at 2.5

I'm guessing he won't be filling the lock down defender off the bench type role

We missed out on the number one junior college player in the country in 1983, who instead went to Missouri. Missouri lost Stipanovich and Sundvold so he thought he'd go in and be the star, which he was; but it was on Norm Stewart's two worst teams between 1980 and 1995. Oh well; with him we would have gone to the tournament in 1984 and 1985, and with a regional in Lincoln in 1984 they could have been playing at home; and they most likely would have won a game or two.

Doc occasionally threw out this lineup for a couple minutes at times in 2009: 5 - Sek Henry (6'3") 4 - Paul Velander (6'2") 3 - Brandon Richardson (6'0") 2 - Steve Harley (5'11") 1 - Cookie Miller (5'7")

Anyone with an OWH subscription can get the names: https://omaha.com/sports/high-school/plus/this-is-what-happened-when-all-of-nebraskas-top-high-school-players-were-on-the/article_9915c362-ac76-5c46-a975-773433cf2702.html

Here's my choice

At 18 teams, that is still 5 teams shy of the Southern Conference at its peak:

That performance that night by Missouri was one of the most impressive ones I ever saw at the Devaney. They also brought the Golden Girls with them, as well as quite the ho-train that sat behind the bench.

Tom Shatel says it was Norm Stewart: https://huskerextra.com/news/basketball/mens-basketball/shatel-nebraska-fans-made-pba-one-of-the-best-home-court-advantages-in-college-basketball/article_2564a2fe-da78-11ee-8222-9791232dba3a.html Way back when, Missouri coach Norm Stewart called Nebraska fans a bunch of “Dead Dogs” after a game. NU coach Danny Nee turned it into a slogan and “Dead Dog Alley” became a T-shirt. Given Tom Shatel's level of accuracy I stand by my assertion that it was Johnny Orr.

Norm's contribution was to call NU a bush league operation.