CLASS OF '77
ALABAMA
Linwood Seales –
sells Yellow Pages advertisements in Tuscaloosa.AUBURN
Keith Myers
– took early retirement from middle management position at Huntsville tobacco processingplant; now touring the west with his wife in their Winnebago.
Rumeal Robinson – probation officer in Mobile; questioned recently by NCAA regarding potential
relationship with Tennessee basketball program, to which he has sent several recent recruits.
FLORIDA
Emmett Lewis
– former McDonald's drive-thru captain and two-time Employee-of-the-Month, resigned indisgrace in April ‘99 after being accused of packing extra french fries into the bags of friends and attractive female customers; now, unable to get work in the fast food industry; currently, drives the Popemobile at the Vatican.
GEORGIA
Derek Downs
– Consumer Marketing Director with Ebony Magazine.Martin Salley - Georgia state trooper; always wears sunglasses, even at night; profiles New Yorkers.
Ricky Warwin - on methadone maintenance, Columbus, Georgia.
KENTUCKY
Monroe Douglas
– a Louisville AAU coach, now a member of Queon Kirksey’s entourage.Steffond Stalls - real estate agent in Lexington (KY) area, where he enjoys tremendous business success
secondary to the God-like status given former Wildcat basketball players there.
LSU
Oval Miller
- since 1990 gubernatorial appointment, the Louisiana State Treasurer.Darren Guest - LSU Athletic Director.
Lyndon Little - curator of the six "Portrait Rooms," shrines in The KaneDome honoring the greatest of LSU
stars.
MISSISSIPPI
Dwayne Rainey
– returned to restaurant business after losing bid for 4th term as Oxford mayor.MISSISSIPPI STATE
Wes Brow
– owns a butcher shop in Memphis’ red light district; gonorrhea once, trichinosis twice, since ’86.Danny Cole - Social Studies teacher and varsity basketball coach at Booneville (Mississippi) H.S.
TENNESSEE
Derrick Jackson
– career Marine, stationed in Beaufort, SC.Kevin Butler - used car salesman in Clarkville, Tennessee; running for city council.
Veltra Dawson – ran out of college eligibility in 1977; has remained near campus since, where he continues
to weigh his options.
Willie "Moonshine"Still - blinded by bathtub gin in the late 80’s, but still lives in the Tennessee mountains,
and still gets his corn from a jar.
VANDERBILT
Jeff Coil
- world-acclaimed New Orleans architect, whose projects include The KaneFoundationBuilding in Baton Rouge, KaneTowers in New Orleans, and The Governor’s Palace in Baton Rouge.
Larry Rembert - TV weatherman in St Louis.
CLASS OF '78
ALABAMA
Terry Rupp
– correctional officer in Finchburg, Alabama.Scott Manley – anarchist in Possum Flats, Alabama.
Terry Joiner – assistant coach with NBA’s Detroit Pistons, for whom he played for 6 years in early 80’s.
AUBURN
Bo Black
- delivers for UPS; very happy in Houston, Texas.Chris McGee – mayor of Possum Flats, Alabama; quite weary of Scott Manley.
FLORIDA
Dylan Howard
– retired in 1995 after long and productive professional career, with 11 years spent in NBA.Isaac Chase - former Florida head coach resigned in 1995; currently a member of Queon Kirksey’s
entourage.
GEORGIA
Damon Terry
– except for one 10-day NBA contract, spent his entire 15 year professional career in Israel,where he is now a coach of Tel-Aviv Maccabbe.
KENTUCKY
Winfred Case
– drugs and alcohol derailed a promising professional career, spent predominantly in Italy;currently, a counselor at a Lexington (KY) drug rehab center.
Todd Wolfe - head basketball coach at Murray State; interviewed for top job at Kentucky in 1995; probably
not a serious candidate for the job, which went to Bob Boyd.
Terrell Church - successful wholesale dealer of cellular telephones and accessories, Meridian, Mississippi.
LSU
Kannard Johnson
- appointed Mayor of New Orleans by Governor Kane in 1998.Cedric Neal - owner of "Neal Construction, Inc", a government contractor which has gotten all major
state highway projects under the current governor's administration; a multimillionaire.
Roosevelt Reese - controversial, but ultra-successful, sports agent, representing nearly every former LSU
player in the NBA (Amp, Stevie, Leodis, Juvon, Corliss, Vanilla, Arthur…) and in entertainment (Major Harris, Grand Mo Slam, Juanicus Turner, Harley Owen…); best known for his conspicuous consumption, his purple designer suits and his lavish pool parties entertaining current, past and future LSU players.
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi Banks
- noted sports psychologist and author of the self-help book, "The Positivity ofPositiveness"; consulting team psychologist for LSU, and several NBA teams.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Andre Goode
– manages small, family-owned motel along Route 19 in western Mississippi; HBO andJuanicusTV in every room.
Hunter McDonald – owner/operator of "Oh Yeah!" an adult magazine and video store in downtown Jackson.
TENNESSEE
Tyrus Brooks
- paranoid schizophrenic; won't leave his house in Columbia, Tennessee.VANDERBILT
Joel Cohen
- recently opened "Oy Vay!," an adult Jewish book and adult video rental store in Miami.
CLASS OF '79
ALABAMA
Henry Carr
- hangs out on front porch in Selma, Alabama; sweats alot.Count Williams - retired NBA star; invested poorly; suing his former agent.
AUBURN
Andra Davis
– tattoo artist in Birmingham.Chris Mohr – running for mayor of Gadsden, Alabama; hoping that having invented the internet and being
the inspiration for "Love Story" will help mayoral bid.
FLORIDA
Grady Green
- analyst on Florida Gator's radio broadcasts.Jacques Plante - chiropractor in Quebec City.
GEORGIA
Jerome Childs
- served two short prison terms for petty crimes; no known jobs.Orlando Graham - slices onions at large Kentucky Fried Chicken distribution plant outside Atlanta;
slices up to 1500 lbs of onions per day.
Elijah Pate - youth recreation director in Gulfport, Mississippi.
KENTUCKY
Ty Nealy
- valet parking attendant at 'Chez Kane', a 5-Star New Orleans restaurant, making $3.40 perhour, plus tips.
Terry McSwain - whereabouts unknown.
LSU
Derrick Cooley
- valet parking attendant at 'Chez Kane', a 5-Star New Orleans restaurant, making$300,000 per year, plus tips.
Horace Grant - 1996 gubernatorial appointee to Louisiana state Supreme Court; first Supreme Court
justice in state history without a law degree.
MISSISSIPPI
Gordon Houston
- junior high gym teacher and basketball coach, Odessa, Texas.Jay Teagle - an executive with NBA's Player Relations office.
Dujuan Walker - following a long and successful NBA career, now the color commentator on Washington
Wizards TV games.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Levi Middlebrooks
- hospital pharmacist in Monroe, Louisiana.TENNESSEE
Kerry Hammonds
– salesman at a posh Nashville men's store; now spells his name "Kerri" and dots his ‘i’with a smiley face.
Darwin Boyd - hard times after brief attempt at professional basketball career; currently in Chatanooga
where he "will work for food or cash."
Weegie Norris - since documenting he is 1/16th Piqout Indian, has worked as Blackjack dealer at Casino on
Piquot reservation in Connecticut.
VANDERBILT
David Johnson
- translator at UN.Larry White - Dermatologist at Johns Hopkins, specializing in back and shoulder acne.
CLASS OF 1980
ALABAMA
None.
AUBURN
Valentino Robinson
- after solid 9-year NBA career and short stint in Germany, bought a 7-Up bottlingplant in Birmingham.
Trevor Trimpe - does maintenance for mobile home park outside Selma, Alabama.
FLORIDA
Sanford Brooks
- stormy professional career spanned 15 years in Europe, the WBL and the GBL, never lasteda full year with one team, and never made it to the NBA.
GEORGIA
Rodney Black
- former assistant to coach Hugh Durham at Georgia; unable to find college coaching positionsince Durham's firing; currently, a member of Queon Kirksey’s entourage.
Shelton Smith – retired after 13 year NBA career with Spurs; lost millions in 1998, due to bad advice from a
portfolio manager with KaneFinancial.
KENTUCKY
Stanley Wright
- very happy living in Belgium, where he chose to stay after 12 year pro career.Mike Collins - vice principal and basketball coach at a junior high school in Louisville.
Garde Thompson - recently named assistant by Kentucky coach Bob Boyd.
LSU
Antoine Arnold
– sat on the bench next to Horace Grant at LSU in late 70’s; now, since a 1998 gubernatorialappointment, sits on The Bench next to Grant.
Amp Davis – retired in 1996 after Hall of Fame NBA career with Dallas Mavericks; retirement deal included
part ownership of the franchise; vice president of The KaneFoundation and on the boards of T World, KaneOil, KaneBroadcastingSystems, Neal Construction and JuanicusTV.
Melton Macklin - owns several Baton Rouge area banks; active in T McKinley Children's Charities.
MISSISSIPPI
Herman Hill
– now in 8th year as head basketball coach at Harvard.Mark Schroeder – unassuming Sheriff of Jackson County, Mississippi, now a reluctant hero following his
shooting of Scooby Skipper during a London standoff in July, 2000.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Ontario Jones
- security officer at one of Mel Macklin’s banks in Baton Rouge.TENNESSEE
JJ Camp
- hangs out on the corner of 5th and Main, in Knoxville, 18 hours a day.Puntis Wilson – hangs out on the corner of 8th and Main, in Knoxville, 18 hours a day.
Otis Estes – captain of legendary 1980 SEC Champions honored by Knoxville City Council in 1996
with the dedication of "Otis Estes Boulevard" in downtown Knoxville; currently, hangs out at the
corner of Estes and Main, 18 hours per day.
VANDERBILT
None.
CLASS OF '81
ALABAMA
Kenny Douglas
– basketball coach, JV football coach, and history teacher at high school power in inner cityMontgomery; respected by all students; displays wall-sized picture of himself guarding Amp Davis in his classroom.
Collin Murray – wrapped up long NBA career with Pacers in 1996; now Indiana’s assistant director of
basketball operations.
AUBURN
Byron Larkin
– salesman at Nissan dealership in Huntsville; displays wall-sized picture of himself guardingAmp Davis in his showroom.
Warren Coolidge – back home in LA as assistant coach and guidance counselor at Carver High.
Duane Gunne – in and out of prison since 1981 rape conviction stemming from incident at 1981 SEC
Tournament; displays wall-sized picture of himself guarding Amp Davis in his jail cell.
Donnell Harper - member of New York City Transit Police.
Elgie Warren – dedicated trumpet player in Bessemer, Alabama; had worked himself to 2nd trumpet in the
Bessemer Philharmonic, when his lip was yanked off in a freak fly fishing accident, ending his musical career.
FLORIDA
Wendall Winters
- salesman for beer distributing company in Jacksonville, Florida.L.G. Briggs – mad scientist, working out of his basement in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
GEORGIA
Emory Aaron
– BellSouth regional manager in Atlanta; owns season tickets to NBA’s Atlanta Hawks; not sickof hearing "We Will Rock You" or "Start Me Up."
Omar Rocke – a free man despite now admitting to the 1997 murder of a New Orleans cab driver; key
evidence which conclusively ties Rocke to the crime had to be dismissed by judge due to errors made by the inept Louisiana Crime Lab.
Kip Eno – whereabouts unknown.
KENTUCKY
LeRay Davies –
falsely accused of 1997 homicide in New Orleans; convicted because of planted, tainted,misplaced and confused evidence from the inept Louisiana Crime Lab; conviction later overturned .
Aubrey James - long professional career, mostly in Europe, now finished; lost what little money he had saved
due to bad investments by a KaneFinancial portfolio manager in 1998.
LSU
Edgar "Dunkin’" Hines -
director of indoor fireworks at KaneDome (introductions of LSU starters).Darius Clemons - bumbling misfit for whom Jon Kane has been unable to find a suitable position within the
KaneEmpire; recent jobs include Director of the Louisiana Crime Lab (1997), portfolio manager with KaneFinancial (1998), and director of security during SEC All Star team’s trip to Sicily (1999);
in July, given the seemingly harmless position of tour guide at The KaneDome Visitors Center.
MISSISSIPPI
Lester Gill
– lost during tour through KaneDome Visitors Center in July; presumed dead.Raynard Pope – minister-turned-activist-turned-politician; organizing a march on Washington, DC for
October to raise awareness of the growing threat of double reverse discrimination.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Frank Sowinski
- teamed with brother Hank to win three World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champion-ships in the mid-80’s; experienced a falling out with Vince McMahon in 1988.
Gerald Jones - hospital administrator in Cincinnati.
Devi Parks - puppeteer at T World.
TENNESSEE
Carlton Cooper
– former head coach at Florida; electrocuted in kiddie pool in Gainesville, 1997.Bugar Jones - short-order cook at a Nashville diner; enjoys great success with the ladies by telling them he's
T McKinley.
VANDERBILT
Brett Burrow
- successful rural Tennessee trial lawyer.Rickey Crutcher - enjoying retirement after ACL injury ended nice 9-year career with Pistons.
Terrance Greene – former air traffic controller in Dallas, now plagued by anxiety disorder and insomnia.
Virgil Harris - immigration lawyer in Miami.
Lamont Skill - articulate college basketball analyst for ESPN, now doing some studio work as well.
Vernon Miller - surgeon at Vanderbilt Medical Ctr, specializing in gender reassignment surgery.
CLASS OF '82
ALABAMA
Ethan Robertson
– still collects NFL pension, following short career with Seattle Seahawks.AUBURN
Grant Long
- assistant basketball coach, under Gary Caplan, at Ohio State University.FLORIDA
Kurt Powell
- TV evangelist in central Florida.GEORGIA
Harlen Graham
- color commentator on local cable TV for Georgia's home basketball games.KENTUCKY
Dannielle Austin
- former patient of Dr Vernon Miller.Henrick Waters - horse trainer in Lexington.
LSU
Torin Henry –
retired in ’94 after noble NBA career capped by an NBA Championship with Spurs in ’92,since which time he has returned to Baton Rouge and serves on the boards of KaneOil, The KaneFoundation and T World; national spokesman for the milk industry.
Mitchell Lee - recently left his job (public relations) at The KaneFoundation to become Executive
Director of T McKinley's Children's Charities.
Detroit Cooley - one of several executive vice presidents at KBS (KaneBroadcasting); no real
responsibilities, but has office on top floor of high-rise, and loves to play with buttons on the
telephone, use the office intercom system, and ride the elevators.
MISSISSIPPI
Marquis Miller
- never got more than a 10-Day contract with NBA, but had nice 10-year career in Greekleague; curently a real estate developer in Oxford (Mississippi) area.
Hersey Hawkins - popular local businessman in Oxford; also has own evening sports call-in show on
local radio station, and does color commentating on Ole Miss basketball games.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Robert Barnes
- teamed with friend LaDrell Noble to start one of most successful retail bookstores inAmerica; sold out early and failed to realize significant profits.
Vinnie Del Negro - recently opened Memphis' first Italian soul food restaurant.
Nino Lyons - contracts with Baskum County in northeastern Mississippi to pick up all road-kill on
county roads; also owns small restaurant, "Nino's Country Cookin'."
TENNESSEE
Dante Woods
– whereabouts unknown, but his 1980 SEC Championship ring recently turned up on eBay.Kenny Battle – pleaded guilty in 1995 to numerous charges ranging from drug to firearm possession; serving
10 years at federal correctional institute in Texarkana, Arkansas; Inmate-of the-Month, November,’98.
VANDERBILT
Dennis Whiteman - in wrong place at the wrong time when he was lit on fire during Rodney King racial
riots in East Central LA, 1992.
CLASS OF '83
ALABAMA
Neville Holmes-
played 8 years in Greek league; now coaching JV team in Huntsville.Gary Lietman – veteran of Pro Bowlers' Tour; first tour victory in Toledo in 1999.
AUBURN
Kennell Jones -
trains and houses show dogs in Montgomery, Alabama.Jonathan Brown - founding partner in the New England law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer.
FLORIDA
Rubin Reed -
lives in mobile home northwest of Pensacola; out the night the tornado struck.Luther Watts - works for small pest control outfit in Orlando.
GEORGIA
Fitzhuh Chance –
developed and marketed "Billy, The Large Mouth Bass" (the singing fish mounted on awall plaque that sold thousands in Kentucky); now living off the royalties.
Jerome Cousins – still playing professionally in Spain; now limited minutes in that country’s B league.
KENTUCKY
Ira Hayes -
returned to Arizona reservation after college and struggled with alcohol dependence until hisdeath in 1985.
LSU
Ulyses Utley -
play-by-play voice of LSU basketball; host and producer of "LSU Primetime," "Kane'sCorner,
Cameron Brown – 16 year NBA mega-superstar with the Nets; now stays at his home off exit 15A, counting
his money.
Lincoln Parks - Louisiana State Transportation Secretary (1988 gubernatorial appointee).
MISSISSIPPI
Wardell Leonard –
returned to Oxford last fall and completed work for his degree, as promised to CoachBob Maxfield in 1983.
Roderick Watson - well liked golf pro at predominantly white country club in Memphis; still scarred,
literally and figuratively, from fiery 1994 golf cart accident.
Slim Duncan - magician in Reno.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Todd Walker
- Utah jazz scout.Donnie Brown - modestly successful crime novelist; last two books dealt with the assassination of a
(fictitious) southern Governor, and terrorists' destruction of a (fictitious) prominent southern
university athletic shrine.
TENNESSEE
Dredrick Irving
- shot dead by opponent in LA pickup game in 1987, in argument over foul call.Gunther Weife - assistant coach of Germany's national women's team.
Desmond Jones - owns a barrow in the market place; lets the children lend a hand.
VANDERBILT
Willie Irons –
vice president of Nashville bank.Chauncey Scott - tobacco lobbyist in Washington, DC.
CLASS OF '84
ALABAMA
Frankie Hall – The Almighty Dupere for his own computer basketball league, in Mobile, Alabama.
Eldridge Carter - played several years of professional ball in Germany and Spain, but never more than a
10-Day contract in the NBA.
Vernon Tate - retired from basketball after 6 years in English 2nd division; married an English girl (1990)
and has remained in England, where he works in an American sporting goods store.
AUBURN
Kevin Glenn –
long NBA career spent with New York and Minnesota, and characterized my moodiness andselfishness, ended last year.
Marlon Vaughn - drives a delivery truck for a Selma, Alabama furniture company.
Archie Bishop – ordained minister and founder, Archie Bishop Ministries; scintillating performance at the
Owen-Fergy wedding at Westminster Abbey has done wonders for the ministry.
Harris Maxfield – 10th grader in Springfield, Vermont.
FLORIDA
Eddie Bell
– completing a 12-year sentence for manslaughter after drunkenly driving over 5-year oldgirl who was playing with her "T" doll in her front yard.
Sebastian Banks – exact whereabouts unknown; believed to be somewhere in the desert southwest, or perhaps
in Queon Kirksey’s entourage.
Dwan Porter - government bureaucratic desk job in Gainesville; has mastered the art of transferring calls
and "accidentally" hanging up on callers.
Odessa Turner - went to Sudan to visit best friend Igi Abu in 1989, and has never returned from Africa;
briefly, a flight attendant with Air Zimbabwe; currently, a Samali warlord.
GEORGIA
Cedric Mack
- owns Columbus, Georgia-based trucking company.Vinnie Warren – sold Vin's Full Service Car Wash last fall, then bought Jon Kane’s boyhood home in New
Hampshire, transported it to Baton Rouge, restored it and has charged admission since May; initial interest has been phenomenal.
Luther Tutt - driver for Atlanta meat-packing company; earns extra money on weekends appearing at
children's parties in one of several costumes he owns; most children choose Barney, T McKinley
or Big Bird.
KENTUCKY
Garrett Gabriel
- struggling actor in Hollywood; looking for acting parts while waiting tables.Roman Nelson - struggling actor waiting tables in Hollywood; lives with best friend Garrett Gabriel;
biggest part to date was in 1990, when he played the role of Chaka Chandler in the made-for-television movie, "The T McKinley Story."
Steve Powell – venture capitalist in Chicago; researched Wardrounds.com, but invested instead in
Archie Bishop Ministries.
LSU
Benjamin Franklin -
winding up 10 year career as back-up PG, first in Philly (8 years), now in Utah;career marked by moodiness and inconsistency.
Maurice Gaynor - first year head basketball coach at Georgia Tech.
D'Wayne Tanner - phenomenally successful Rap artist "Grand Mo Slam," with chart-topping singles
"Where Be The Bitches?"(1989) "Me and Coach’s Wife,"(1993) and "She Ain’t No Ho."(1995); (see: "Richest Men in the SEC").
Reggie Floyd – Postmaster General of Louisiana.
Derkie Leach - marketing strategist with "T McKinley Enterprises"; developed T Toothpaste and T Juice, as
well as the three flavors of T Ice Cream: "Chaka Chip", "Horace Coffee" and "Vanilla King."
MISSISSIPPI
LaFayette Beecher –
hypnotist in Biloxi.Scott Humphries - assistant basketball coach under Bob Maxfield at Mississippi; also owns several
"Weight Watchers" franchises in and around Oxford.
Rodney Henderson - assistant to father at Arkansas A&M.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Issy Washington
- "Black Jesus," the Nuggets’ razzle-dazzle PG for 12 years, remains one of the city’sfavorites, in his current roll as the Nuggets’ Assistant to the General Manager.
Hank Sowinski - WWF career cut short after being maimed by adult gorilla during feature bout at
Wrestlemania XIII.
TENNESSEE
Ken Bruce
– popular Winnipeg zamboni driver was shot and killed during the Scalzitti Massacre in Sicily,summer of 1998, while serving as the team’s bus driver.
Keiron Bigby - co-owner of "E-Z-Do Pawnshop and Check Cashing", in downtown Knoxville.
Roland Royce – JRS (Jewelry Relocation Specialist), contracting with EZ-Do Pawn Shop.
Cesar Fernandez – SRS (Stereo Relocation Specialist) with EZ-Do Pawn Shop.
Leland Jeffries – cashes government assistance checks at EZ-Do.
VANDERBILT
Tom Boring
- teaches English literature at prestigious Nashville prep school.Jimmy Glover - struggling actor with little work before or since he was immortalized in a series of Bud Light
commercials in 1993 in which he delivered the line "Yes I am!"
Josh Gilbert - referee working Big Sky Conference games.
CLASS OF '85
ALABAMA
Julius Edwards -
still hangs out around on campus; hasn’t missed a party in 20 years.Keith Gavin - tours with Marathon Oil team, playing exhibitions against all comers.
AUBURN
Trevor Roe
- Bell South representative, selling cellular phones.Raymond Means - serving a five–year sentence on charges of theft, forgery and fraud, in connection with
bogus real estate deals which bilked several former SEC players out of thousands of dollars.
Trey Willis – retired after 4 years of losing with Washington Generals (the Globetrotters’ perpetual victims)
and bought out Vin’s Full Service Car Wash.
FLORIDA
Igi Abu -
returned to Sudan; a village leader; everyone looks up to him.Huey Hinkle - making decent money with his own 900 psychic phone line (correctly predicted Dennis
Whiteman would be lit on fire and that Glen Sedoris would be crushed by a throne.)
Gerald Rice – assistant coach under Norm Sloan at Florida.
Neil Rivers - ballhandling magician a member of Harlem Globetrotters since 1989.
GEORGIA
David Fair –
indispensable PR director for Tennessee basketball program; successful campaigns include"A First Class Program" (1990), "Basketball is for Youth, but Education is for a Lifetime" (1994), and "Winning with Integrity" (1999).
Milton Ross - still growing, now 7'9".
Marcus Payne - sales rep for Adidas, living in Athens, Georgia.
KENTUCKY
Mike Kerr -
assistant coach with the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets; interviewed for Maverick’s head job in ’99.Andre Ware - Ware-abouts unknown.
LSU
Major Harris –
saxophonist/songwriter/recording artist whose career has seen a major resurgence since theearly 90’s; played at Clinton’s 1996 inaugural ball.
MISSISSIPPI
Jarvis Reddy
– oldest active SEC graduate still playing in NBA; now in 16th season, all with Phoenix.Rocen Keeton - married heiress to the Famous Amos Cookie estate; has got it made.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Charles Unger -
delivers for Domino Pizza, in Jackson.Wes Del - field rep for Nike, working Gulfport area.
Wilbur Grimes - sports memorabilia collector in Columbia, South Carolina; recently bought his second
Amp Davis rookie card, in mint condition.
TENNESSEE
Nigel Clay -
7-year NBA career ended in 1992; has returned home to Ocala, Florida, where he has invested inseveral restaurants and shopping malls.
Chris Ennis – only living graduate of Tennessee basketball program; featured on "That’s Incredible."
VANDERBILT
Rod Grosse –
parlayed two successful years on the Professional Bass Fishing Tour into his own TV show:"Fishin’ Rod" airs Saturdays at 5AM on ESPN2.
Norman Bates– finally convinced by marketing consultant David Fair to abandon the struggling "Norman
Bates Day Care" due to negative name recognition, but later ignored Fair’s advice and invested remainder of dwindling savings in a start-up day care center in the Boston area: "Louise Woodard Day Care."
CLASS OF '86
ALABAMA
Terry Saddler
– assistant coach under Bobby Bryant at East Carolina University.Rodney Peel - professional body builder; steroid distribution charges pending in Florida.
AUBURN
Sam Dowell
- found dead in back of a van in Miami; killer and motive never established.Bobby Parks - head basketball coach at Westinghouse High School in Atlanta, a perennial inner city power.
FLORIDA
LaFester Rhodes
- playground basketball legend in Miami's tough Bayside neighborhood; plays with a 357Magnum in his shorts.
Juanray Street – lost in a makeshift raft, trying to get his family from the Florida Keys to Cuba, in 1997;
presumed dead.
GEORGIA
Marvin Rudd
- suicide victim, 1986.Theotis Cherry - CBA career ended prematurely by 1990 car accident; now suing for millions of dollars he
claims he would have made in NBA.
Nelison Bender- returned to Georgia for degree in 1991, after brief stint in Greece; now in sales in Athens.
KENTUCKY
Wallace Ritchie
– successful real estate agent in Lexington.Chris Counts – car salesman in Lexington.
Robbie Hill - in 1992, married the daughter of Georgia Coach Hugh Durham and joined Durham’s staff
as an assistant; remarried in ’96 (after Durham was fired at Georgia) to the daughter of Kentucky coach Bob Boyd, and now serves as an assistant there.
LSU
Kendrick Short
– Executive Vice President of The LSU Channel.Daric Keys - restricted earnings coach at LSU (i.e., a multimillionaire).
Orlando Mejias - host of Jon Kane's weekly coach's show and LSU highlight shows in Spanish-speaking
countries of South and Central America.
MISSISSIPPI
Chester Strand
- desk job in Memphis; struggling with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.Elvis Taylor - special agent for Drug Enforcement Agency.
Linton Hooper - associate vice president (Sales) with Burger King, Inc, Chicago, Illinois.
Rootin’ Tootin’ Newton– left struggling comedy team with brother Darn Tootin’ in 1997, to join Howie
Mandell in cable variety show,"Rootin’Tootin’ Howey!"; show renewed for 2nd season despite poor ratings.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Undra Johnson -
Jackson, Mississippi postal worker recently fired after 9 months on the job; decidedagainst shooting up the office.
Columbus Beesworth - works for male escort service in Atlanta.
Cornell Cross - spent entire professional career in Germany; returned to States in 1994 and has started a
successful tire business.
Willis Yates – day trader in suburban Memphis; stock portfolio has dropped 40% since January; decided
against shooting up the office.
Dino Zambini - serving 90-year sentence in federal penitentiary for extortion and racketeering (see also,
Guido Zambini, below).
TENNESSEE
Taveras Keeler
– injuries forced retirement from NBA’s Heat in 1998; earned $18 million during NBAcareer, including a $3 million bonus in 1995, but retired in 1998 without a penny.
Itchy Smith – lives in Knoxville; chief source of income is millionaire Ernie Scheister, a Knoxville car dealer
and UT booster, whom Itchy calls "Daddy."
VANDERBILT
Elbert Dickens
– antitrust attorney working with the firm of Schwartz, Schwartz, Schwartz and Dickens,in Washington, DC, investigating the KaneEmpire.
Ralph Hogge - refrigerator repairman in Houston; his butt crack shows when he bends over.
Pierre White - high school French teacher in Columbia, SC.
Mike Herring - assistant mechanic for KaneOne, Governor Jon Kane’s private jet.
CLASS OF '87
ALABAMA
Clayton Hobart
- two-time MVP in French pro league, but too soft to ever establish NBA career.Aaron Dare - in seclusion at gulf shore mansion after testing positive for HIV in 1992.
John Eberling - quit sales job in 1996 to devote full time to managing career of tennis-playing daughter,
then ranked 2nd nationally among 12-and-unders, but now burned out and in drug rehab at age 17;
currently, a member of Queon Kirksey’s entourage.
AUBURN
Clinton Hinton
- playing professionally, now in Switzerland.George Powell - just hanging out, in Mobile, Alabama.
Kenny Robertson - drives for a shipping company in Cleveland.
FLORIDA
Damon Ingram
- under-assistant financial officer in-training, with Gainesville bank.Dalton Gates - four children since 1992, mysteriously, all victims if SIDS; currently, employed at Louise
Woodward Daycare, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jerome Young – enjoyed four solid years with NBA’s Kings in early 90’s; now is a successful west coast
KaneOil distributor.
GEORGIA
Mark Gadis
– assistant coach at Kentucky, where he is gaining respect for development of big men.Tim Wohl – oral surgeon in Savannah.
Mike Downs – owner of "24 Hour Wicker," Atlanta’s only all-night wicker furniture retailer.
KENTUCKY
Jimmy Allen
- insurance salesman in Lexington; has 11 kids.Terry Daniels – rocky NBA career, in which he played for 12 coaches on 7 teams in 10 years, characterized
by destructive behavior and unfulfilled potential.
LSU
Louis Jackson –
assistant coach under Jon Kane at LSU.Stevie Williams - 3-time NBA scoring champ and perennial all-star with Heat; retired after 2000 season with
$20 million in deferred payments still due; plays golf and video games at mansion in Baton Rouge with Rosey Reese and other close personal friends.
Adlai Rudd- after short pro career in Belgium, returned to become Director of Security at The KaneDome.
Oliver Dane – Executive Vice President of KaneBroadcastingSystems, a diversified media and electronic
commerce company with the following assets: The LSU Channel, LSU Classic, The T Channel, JuanicusTV and LSU Espanol.
MISSISSIPPI
Sherman Stafford
– has several local endorsement deals in Oxford; plays a lot of golf and tennis.Floyd Risings - head basketball coach at Mississippi Institute of Technology; interviewed for South Carolina
job this summer, which got him a big raise at MIT.
Tyron Ashley – offensive coordinator of the Ole Miss football program.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Foster Lee Witts
- editor and publisher of "All You Can Eat", a monthly newsletter outlining all the all-you-can-eat restaurants in the Starkville area.
Larcel Oliver - hard-working head of Environmental Services at large Jackson, Mississippi hospital.
Duran Robertson – grill chef in Jackson (Miss) VA hospital cafeteria.
Jackson Bok - computer programmer with Strat-O-Matic Game Company, Glen Head, NY.
Tank Sowinski - when last seen, weighed 580 lbs; can't get out of house; subscribes to Foster Lee's newsletter.
TENNESSEE
Sam Little
– freed from a Tennessee prison in March after serving less than half of a four-year sentence oncharges of theft, forgery and fraud, in connection with a sports gambling ring; now, back on campus at UT; helps around the weight room.
Erich Jefferson – member of United Autoworkers, Moose Lodge #104 and Alcoholics Anonymous.
Smooth Hammond – quit job in 1996 after mail notification that he was "already a winner" in Publishers’
Clearinghouse Sweepstakes; welfare, petty crimes, two short jail terms since.
Izell Cleckley – abruptly fired from his position of radio play-by-play voice of Tennessee basketball in
January, 1999; work now limited to some voiceovers for the "The T McKinley Cartoon Hour."
VANDERBILT
Jonas Miles -
KaneFoundation Chair of Infectious Disease at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.Wade Phillips - country lawyer in rural Tennessee; wears designer suits with suspenders and greases back his
hair.
Oren Schaeffer - Georgetown law degree; prosecutor with Maryland attorney general's office.
CLASS OF '88
ALABAMA
Barnabas James
- back home in St Louis; 4 jobs, 3 wives and 5 kids since college.Harvey Thompson – promising NBA career, with Lakers, terminated by fatal car crash in 1997.
Malcolm Mackey – turbulent NBA career (leading scorer with Clippers) ended with same fiery LA car crash
that took his former teammate, Thompson.
Garrick Turner - police academy rookie in Montgomery, AL.
Isaac Brothers - morals charges pending after incident at llama's cage at the Memphis Zoo.
AUBURN
Eddie Bryant
- cable TV repairman in Decatur.Stew Cokely – at twilight of a surprisingly long NBA career, spent mostly at end of Cavaliers’ bench.
Bobby Flowers – Memphis food critic still recovering from review of Nino’s Country Cookin’.
Fredrick Irving – still argues the foul call that lead to shooting death of his brother Dredrick.
FLORIDA
Dave Kunka –
still playing professionally in Italian league; has learned the language and is considering localbusiness opportunities.
Keswick Joiner - quidditch coach at Durmstrang.
Amos Moses - boorish host of nationally syndicated morning radio talk show, "Amos in the Morning."
GEORGIA
Roosevelt Curry -
UPS manager in Cincinnati.Lucius Boone - aspiring Rap artist has been unable to get 1st recording contract: performs under the name,
"Sham D" (which is what he played at Georgia).
Mark Gilbert – commercial real estate investor and developer, Scottsdale, AZ.
Kyle Gonyo - 8-year veteran of the Detroit Tigers’ baseball organization; retired in 1997 after career stalled
at AAA level; now the 3rd base coach with Martinsville of the Appalachian League.
KENTUCKY
Jud Beardsley -
lumberjack in Montana.Maurice Cruz - earned spot on roster of Puerto Rican national team; to play in Olympic Games this summer.
LSU
T McKinley
- founder and CEO of "T McKinley Enterprises, Inc", which include T World (Louisiana themepark), "The T McKinley Cartoon Hour" (Saturday mornings on KBS), and the T McKinley line of
children's clothes, toys and accessories; one of the nation's richest men and most beloved little persons.
Warren Peace - first year head basketball coach at UCLA; yet to follow up his critically acclaimed first novel,
"Tolstoy".
Calvin Duncan – well-compensated vice president of T World; with T’s blessings, has shown up for work
four times in four months.
MISSISSIPPI
Anthony Epps
– 13th year as KaneDome tour guide.Titus Wiley - assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall (Div III).
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Oru Ice -
bag boy at Piggly Wiggly Supermarket, Hamden, Miss.Mark Zimmer – released in 1996 after 15 year jail term for attempted murder of Hank Sowinski, in jealousy
over playing time; currently living and working in Idaho.
TENNESSEE
Devin Levy
- spent parts of four seasons in the NBA between 1989 and '92, but never developed theperimeter skills needed to succeed in NBA at 6’5; blamed career failures on former coach Doug Moe, who he assaulted in 1995; served 4 months in jail because he could not come up with bail.
Willie Cutts - recently received shock probation after serving 18 months of a 10 year jail sentence for drug
and weapons charges; back on staff at UT as assistant coach.
VANDERBILT
Otis Holmes
– among early graduates of NBA’s substance abuse program; sober since 1994.H. Esterbrook Longmaid III - enjoying fruits of family estate, but bored; failed on attempt to become first
American to fly around the world backwards in a hot air balloon.
CLASS OF '89
ALABAMA
Tim Boyle
- government desk job by day, couch potato by night; now living in Montgomery.Santana Dotson - has returned home to Miami; battling for leadership of his old gang, one of the largest and
most feared in Miami.
Elliott Hatcher – breeds and trains a vicious breed of aggressive dachshunds, in Selma, Alabama.
Blue Richards – has maintained a factory job since parole from prison in 1996.
AUBURN
Ellis Rae
- mail carrier in Selma, Alabama; recently, mauled by pack of dachshunds.Juda Parks – owns eponymous home appliance store in downtown Auburn.
Kenny Ford – talented clarinetist left The Major Harris Band in 1993 to embark on solo career; break-out
performance was at 1994 New Orleans Jazz Festival, back when it was big (before KaneFest).
Dustin Hester – uninspiring desk job in county government in Grayson, where he has managed to be away
from his desk or on another line for four years (but your call is very important to him).
FLORIDA
DeVall Ball -
drives a delivery truck for T Bread in Florida’s panhandle.Illya McGee – assistant coach at South Alabama.
Carrick DeHart - 911 operator in Miami.
GEORGIA
None.
KENTUCKY
Arlandis Rush
– 12th year living in Holland, where he plays professionally and enjoys Amsterdam's liberaldrug policies.
Chris Webber – game warden in southern Illinois.
LSU
Chaka Chandler
– assistant basketball coach under Jon Kane at LSU.Horace Coffey - on the payroll at T World, but without defined job; being taken care of by best friend,
T McKinley.
Herman Royster - Louisiana state Labor Commisioner.
MISSISSIPPI
Dr. Boo Banks
- continuing meteoric rise up the Ivy walls of Academia: PhD from Mississippi Institute ofTechnology; Nobel Prize for Physics while professor at Ole Miss, and now, recently named Chairman
of Physics Department at Yale; at 26, the youngest department chairman ever at an Ivy League school (also, scholars believe, the first named 'Boo').
David Maxfield - head basketball coach at the University of Georgia.
Tremel Murphy – junior faculty at University of Mississippi Dental School.
Darn Tootin Newton – the straight man in the former comedy team of "Rootin Tootin and Darn Tootin
Newton" has not fared well on his own since being dumped by brother for Howie Mandell (see above); struggling in solo act as straight man.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Ed "Colonel" Sanders -
tragically killed in 1992 roller coaster accident at T World.Fenoris Beasley – no job, no income, but great jewelry.
TENNESSEE
Keenan Carr –
played six seasons, and won two championships, in Italy’s first division; currently, servingfinal year in Italian prison on drug charges.
LeMuel Haward – continues work toward high school equivalency degree in Knoxville.
Johnny Cat Jones - Academic Coordinator for University of Tennessee basketball program.
Yusef Washington – sells Rolex watches on the streets of New York.
VANDERBILT
Mike Pomeroy
– Chief Legal Council for Dollywood; Clarence Hood’s report of a personal relationship withDolly Parton have not been substantiated.
Jimi Holiday - full-time director of a national right-to-life organization.
Jarrett Buggs – free lance writer in Nashville area; recently completed his first book, "LSU Basketball for
Dummies," (2 million copies sold and multiple translations).
CLASS OF 1990
ALABAMA
Rickey Stephens -
enjoying nice NBA career with Portland; 3-time All-Star; All-Star game MVP in 1993.Cleo Miller - city bus driver in Mobile, Alabama.
Rufus Bones - fled country in 1992 to avoid 12 paternity suits.
AUBURN
Tedman Brown
– writer/publisher of a respected recruiting magazine covering southern high school preps.FLORIDA
Johnnie Selvie –
runs a profitable limousine service in Orlando region.GEORGIA
Tommy Gaines
- construction worker in Savannah, Georgia.Bill Kenney – recently declared for personal bankruptcy for 2nd time.
Dave Benoit - unpaid as volunteer assistant at Bethune Cookman, in desperate attempt to break into
coaching.
Bonzie Colson - owner/operator of "Bonzie's Putt-Putt", in Athens, GA; needs a new windmill for the
7th hole.
KENTUCKY
Glenson Capers -
AAU coach in the Chicago.Kevin Bradford – financial planner in Lexington area.
Hookie Mann - bass guitarist for fledgling blues band in Chicago; recently featured in a Chicago Blues
publication as an up-and-coming artist.
Craig Conner – briefly broke in beach volleyball circuit in mid 90’s; now a promoter for the tour.
LSU
Leodis Lee -
3-time NBA All-Star; 25 ppg scorer with Sixers; most popular athlete in Philadelphia.Sean Dobbins - returned to Baton Rouge after 9 seasons in NBA; motivational speaker, still thriving on
reputation as "Mr. Clutch."
Adrian West – Louisiana’s Lieutenant Governor.
MISSISSIPPI
Hakim Shahid
– still productive in 11th NBA season with Pistons.Leland Tolan - best player in Japanese’s fledgling professional basketball league for three years; now retired
but fluent in Japanese, having established many lucrative trans-Pacific business contacts.
Byron Earl - Nike field rep negotiating exclusive Nike contracts with major college athletic programs.
Lewis Lambert – SEC Director of Security.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Guido Zambini -
recently featured on "America's Most Wanted" for his part in federal racketeering andextortion charges that have already sent his brother, Dino, to prison.
Willis Webb – former captain of KaneOil tanker which spilled tons of crude oil into the waters off the
Alaskan Coast in July, 1997; now a shrimp boat captain in Gulfport.
Buster Coombs – head basketball coach at his alma mater; winless in 2nd season; feeling the heat.
TENNESSEE
Mike Reed
– spends days on couch on front porch, sipping a warm beer, smoking a Marlboro, overlookingtwo rusted-out Fords on front lawn.
Tim Jones – serving a 6-year sentence in the federal prison in Pensacola, Florida, for a 1998 drug conviction;
fellow inmates are all sick of hearing how he should have been a 1st Round NBA pick.
VANDERBILT
Fred Smith
– bailed out on failing Jaguar dealership in southern California, battling former business partnerin courts; occasional golf partner of O.J. Simpson.
John Righi – 6th grader in Carmel, Indiana.
Scooter Howe - University of Mississippi graduate student; an experimental subject in Dr. Boo Banks' Nobel
Prize (Physics) winning publication: "Gravity: why it affects those named 'Scooter' particularly, while those named Juvon or LaFester seem to be spared."
CLASS OF '91
ALABAMA
Clarence Hood
– writes and publishes the internet-based "Hood Report", a nebulous scandal sheet of rumorand speculation about the SEC.
AUBURN
Mark Adamo
– a commodities trader in Birmingham.Aswan Alexander – solid NBA starting center for Celtics and, since ’98, Pistons.
James Lee - entry level position with hazardous waste management company.
FLORIDA
Morocco Blair
- sales clerk at a men's "Big & Tall" store.Pancho Hitchcock – released from Tallahassee prison in 1997; current whereabouts unknown.
GEORGIA
Charlton Goodson
- struggling actor in LA; can be seen in 1999 Jambox commercial, being dunked on byJuvon McGarry.
Lincoln Washington - jockey in Florida.
KENTUCKY
Jamie Prosser
– Baptist minister in Paducah, KY.LSU
Juvon McGarry -
despite limited minutes with NBA's Charlotte Hornets, he remains highly marketable, withhis "Jambox" sneaker line, and national endorsement contracts with Mountain Dew and Pizza Hut.
Alton Montgomery – versatile frontcourt performer for LA Lakers; now in 10th season, a major reason for
team’s success.
Ortez Vandross – his booth, "Shoot Over Ortez," at T World, is now a national landmark, and his
copyrighted trademark, "Keep that Shit Outta Here!" is a household phrase throughout America;
a multimillionaire and national icon.
MISSISSIPPI
None.
MISSISSIPPPI STATE
Otis Bowen -
believed to be in Montana or Idaho, as part of the Federal Witness Protection Program,after testifying against the Zambini Brothers.
Regeus Brunson – veteran NBA forward plagued by depression since college days, but coming off productive
season after his Sacramento Kings hired Positivity guru Dr Mississippi Banks to travel with the team.
John Doe – happy to be anonymous, living with wife Jane, in Anytown, USA.
TENNESSEE
Curtis Bostick –
has spent four of the past six years in prison on various charges; working to complete the"Hooked-on-Phonics" series.
Willie Moss - defected to United States from Iraq in April, claiming to have Iraqi nuclear secrets, which he
offered in exchange for immunity from charges (public intoxication, public defecation) which were awaiting him upon return to Knoxville.
Donnell Lumpkin - sentenced in August 1999 to life in prison for the first degree murder of a former SEC
referee; recently, granted a new trial by the Tennessee Supreme Court on the grounds that a member of the jury was an LSU season ticket holder.
Serge Zweikker - small businessman working out of his home in Cincinnati, from where he runs a mail order
term paper service, a natural extension of a service he provided while in college, when he wrote 10-12 papers each semester.
VANDERBILT
Sam Righi
- in 5th grade in Carmel, Indiana.Artice Tyson – owns a small Nashville trucking company.
Terrell Church, Jr – executive with local internet service provider on east coast.
CLASS OF '92
ALABAMA
Cletus Clark
- tours the nation with Athletes In Action, a Christian group playing exhibition games againstcollege teams.
Marlon Groves - abusing the welfare system in Mobile, Alabama; has not worked since 1993.
AUBURN
Johnnie Benjamin
– successfully extorts a couple thousand dollars a month from Roosevelt Reese,threatening to reveal his financial relationship to the agent while an Auburn underclassman.
Christian M’Bongo - playing professionally in Greece.
FLORIDA
Simon Brown
- butler at KaneHouse.Horace Copeland – after brief professional career, played briefly with Hornets and Heat of NBA in 1993, but
now out of basketball and out of work; declined ass’t coaching position offered by Norm Sloan.
Ed Malloy – enjoyed the "Shoot Over Ed" booth at the church bazaar; plans on doing it again next summer.
Louis Stokes - talented New Orleans artist, sculpted the bust of Jon Kane now towering above downtown
New Orleans.
Byron Trash - born-again minister after "seeing the light" during an LSD trip at a Grand Mo Slam
concert at the KaneDome in 1995.
GEORGIA
Tim Geer
– too slow for NBA, but has enjoyed productive career in English and French leagues.Jivester Simpkins – turned Dad’s rinky-dink laundry business into a front for the biggest drug dealership on
the southside of Chicago.
Greg Wyatt – standout in Italian league; still working toward another shot at NBA.
KENTUCKY
Demetrius Beekman -
living back at home, with Mom and little brother; no real job.Lester Bowie - got big guaranteed money in Italy; learning the language and enjoying the culture, has no
plans to pursue jump to NBA.
Lester Jiggetts - spent the year working on the horse farm of a prominent UK alumnus; plans to move on to
selling Chevy's at the dealership of the same UK booster.
Cisco Martinez - suspended sentence for minor cocaine trafficking; now working with US Customs at
Miami International Airport.
LSU
Micheal Huger -
remains incredibly popular as the first white player to play at LSU during the KaneEra;barnstorms the state, giving basketball exhibitions, speaking at functions, serving as Grand Marshall
at parades, etc, as his book "I Had a Dream", goes to it’s third printing.
Jarvis Stacey - local legend as former LSU player and top scorer for 2nd division Italian league team in mid-
sized northern Italian city; constantly asked, "Amp good, no?" and "T small, eh?"
Rickey Robinson – appointed mayor of Monroe, by the Governor, in 1998.
MISSISSIPPI
Todd Crowe
- president of drug testing services company, in Oxford.Carey Edwards – malpractice attorney in Jackson.
Jerome McDuffie – Knick’s lottery pick in ’91, tore his ACL on opening night of ’96, and never recovered.
Darren McDuffie - cured of leukemia through experimental treatments provided through the Kane
Foundation; graduating in May from Ole Miss with biology degree, with plans for a career in medical research.
Spokane Washington – along with beautiful and charming wife, Tacoma, functions as "professional host" at
at the Governor's Palace in Baton Rouge, responsible for scheduling and entertaining visiting dignitaries who dine or stay at the Palace.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Tobias Schifter -
back in Isreal, where he is all-star in the professional league and starter on the nationalteam.
Claudius Johnson – two-time NBA All-Star with Nets, but career plagued by injuries and inconsistency; still
in prime of career and approaching option year on contract, so Nets expect a big year.
Elton Barnes – respected head coach in Greek league, after a successful playing career there.
Cornelius Bouillon - hawks unofficial and unlicensed LSU teeshirts and sweatshirts outside the KaneDome,
year round.
Terrance Chivers - brought to Israel by good friend Tobias Schifter; still the top PG in Israel.
TENNESSEE
Sedric Veazey –
played parts of two seasons with NBA's Pheonix Suns, and then two more in CBA; has neverreconciled with former college coach, and in fact is shopping expose book on Tennessee basketball program.
Hensley Parks – menial jobs and petty crimes since ’92; talks of returning to UT for commemorative
diploma.
VANDERBILT
Diggity Douglas –
former Rhode Scholar returned from Oxford in 1994; made millions with computersoftware company while studying for PhD (Economics) at Columbia; now, has given it all up; currently, a member of Queon Kirksey’s entourage.
Jerry Willard – journalist for Houston Chronicle; won 1998 Pulitzer Prize for series on the plight of Cajun
peasants working on construction of the Governor’s Palace in Baton Rouge.
CLASS OF '93
ALABAMA
Kelvin Lowery
– financial consultant, living in Tuscaloosa.Torian Watkins - million dollar plagiarism suit pending against Grand Mo Slam, claiming Slam’s 1994
double platinum smash hit, "She Ain’t No Ho," was stolen from his unpublished, "Jaqueesha A Ho."
AUBURN
Edgar Best
- former Boonseville, SC, chicken farmer is now a highly compensated chicken farm consultant.Chris Tribble – after 3 months in NBA and 3 years in Europe, a stock broker on Wall Street.
Russ Carver – produces infomercials in Nashville.
Gregg Weiss – annoying machine gun-like laugh after everything he says; co-workers all mock him.
FLORIDA
Phil Goodman –
owns two coin-operated laundry mats in Jacksonville.Isaac Hawkins - mercenary in Mongolia.
Thaddeus Hayes – moved to Salt Lake, UT, where he has remained active in Mormon church since his
conversion in 1990; three wives, seven children and one golden lab.
Randolph Jones – whereabouts unknown, even to Randolph.
Curtis Bayne - working in brother's meat packing plant in Tampa.
GEORGIA
Johnny Hodges -
has overcome drug problems and continues to thrive with NBA’s Chicago Bulls (All-Starand 20 ppg scorer in ’00).
Clemon Hawley – alumni relations, University of Georgia.
Cleo Barbee – metal worker in Jacksonville area, on strike since January.
Jasper Warren – 8-year pro has made a lot of money as a solid NBA frontcourt reserve, now in Denver.
KENTUCKY
Mark Redden -
graduated with Bachelor's degree in business; now mulling over several offers in sales in thelocal Lexington area, where he is a hot commodity.
LSU
Woodrow Wright
– back home in DC, with Wizards, after stints in CBA and in Europe; has position atT World waiting for him.
Demetrius McQueen – along with former teammate Ellis Wilson, named superintendent of Shreveport area
school system; when routine audit discovered millions embezzled from school system, he was reassigned as Louisiana Gaming Commissioner.
Ellis Wilson – recently received coveted Louisiana casino license for Mississippi riverboat, due to float in
summer of 2002.
Victorlus Payne – Executive Director of LSU Hoops Interactive, which includes LSUHoops.com,
LSUrecruiting.com, Marlin.com, Queon.com and other LSU websites (of course, little MIT grads do all the work).
Corliss Williamson – returned to given name after brief religious conversion; remains one of the NBA’s best
and most respected players; unrestricted free agent after this season; despite objections from agent Rosey Reese, would sacrifice money for a shot at a championship.
MISSISSIPPI
Billy Bob Wells –
while at Ole Miss, a ‘C’ student; currently, President and CEO of Arby’s Restaurants, Charlotte, NC.Marlo Tarver – while at Ole Miss, a ‘B’ student; currently, regional manager of Arby’s Restaurants in
northwestern Mississippi.
Junior James - while at Ole Miss, worked out a rigorous mathematical proof that the random motion of
thermal equilibrium could be fitted within the framework of the phenomenological theory in its original, classical form, without reference to a limiting atomic model; currently, a grill chef at Arby’s Restaurant, Laurel, Mississippi.
Bradley Maxfield – head basketball coach, University of Alabama.
Bennie Manuel – assistant coach at Ole Miss.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Ibraheem Bobatoon –
returned to Ivory Coast after college, despite invites to NBA camps; runs a successfulimport/export business,
Tom Griste – cybersquatter with domain rights to "Amp.com," "FirstClassProgram.Com." and
"TheAlmightyDupere.com."
Aaron Staples - lives six blocks from The KaneDome; can get four cars on his front lawn on game nights, at
$10 apiece.
John Donnall – assistant coach under Buster Coombs at Mississippi State.
Pat Warren – Starkville TV sports anchor.
TENNESSEE
Luigi Testovani -
has returned to Italy to play professionally, having signed with a first division team; alsotaking some classes locally in hopes of learning to speak English.
Snake Vinson – indicted in 1998 on cocaine trafficking charges and pleaded guilty to trying to arrange the
murder of the trial judge and a key witness; in the US Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, until 2067.
VANDERBILT
Horace Morrison –
8th season with NBA’s Lakers; major contributor off NBA Champs’ bench.Fred Dorque – recent medical school graduate; broke both legs tripping down stairs at diploma ceremony.
Joe Schmeaux – works at the cubicle next to the nephew of a former girl friend of the chief loan officer at the
bank where Kenny Herrell’s sister’s 11th grade lab partner had a seizure.
Joseph Harris – elementary school in Lebanon, NH.
Class of '94
ALABAMA
Mustafa Hoff
– voice of Tinky Winky on the popular children’s show, The Telletubbies.Purvis Hunt – ticket-taker at T World.
Julius Richmond – Arena Football League tight end, living in Columbus, Ohio.
Donald Taylor – awaiting a renal transplant in Durham, NC.
AUBURN
Beasley Bumpass
– operates the Beasley Bumper Cars, at T World.Jamal Croom – drives the city bus in Sanford, Florida.
Eric Essom – Elvis impersonator, living in Las Vegas.
Clifton Pruitt – owns a landscaping service in Montgomery.
Danny Tirado – Eric Essom impersonator, living in Reno.
Danny Webber – data management position in Mobile; walks around with a retarded look on his face.
FLORIDA
Jamar Jones
– saw time in parts of three NBA seasons, most recently with Milwaukee in ’97; with moneyrunning out, has asked agent to look into European options.
Riddick Parker – found dead in trunk of BMW in 1993; killer and motive never established.
GEORGIA
Zeb Jones
– KaneOil roustabout in west Texas.Tim Lorie – middle management position at $30,000 per year; $30,000 in VISA debt.
Elijah X – ordained minister in Valdosta; promised congregation he will beat the drug rap.
KENTUCKY
John Holecek –
recently moved with friend Brent Broede to state of Vermont, where the two exchanged vowsin what was among the first Civil Unions in that state.
Garry Connacher – apple picker in Washington state.
Kirby Dar Dar – manager of a Waffle House franchise, Roanoke, Virginia.
Derwin Lynch – lineman for Louisville Gas & Electric.
Brent Broede - homemaker in Bellows Falls, Vermont; very happy as "Mrs. John Holecek."
LSU
Junius Dawson -
NBA superstar in San Antonio, with brand new $90 million contract.Artie Green – in 7th season with NBA’s Orlando Magic; tells friends that Jon Kane has promised him his
own World when he returns to Baton Rouge.
Anthony Mason – operates "The Juvon", T World’s virtual reality, high-flying, basketball simulator.
MISSISSIPPI
Robodaldo Duartes
– returned to Spain in 1994, since which time "El Robo" has been one of the mostbeloved and successful bullfighters in Spain.
Lester Hamby – Assistant Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
Billy O’Brien – assistant coach at Georgia Tech, under Maurice Gaynor.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Mike Broz –
associate security director at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.LaMarcus Gould – KaneScout troop leader in Shreveport.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Cyrus McGinnis
– now out of basketball (no known job) after one season in NBA and four in Europe.TENNESSEE
Karlos Jackson
– solid NBA guard, now with Heat after free agent jump from Seattle; still counted as a"graduate" in official statistics by Tennessee program, since he is just 18 credits shy and had talked of returning for degree.
Octavius Neptune – has played professionally in Italy, Holland, Israel, Turkey, Cyprus and France, and
served jail time in each country.
Damon Wilson – miraculously cured of a uniformly fatal form of lymphoma through the heroic efforts of
KaneFoundation physicians and scientists who worked tirelessly, around the clock, supported generously by the philanthropic T McKinley’s Children’s Charities; within days of discharge from hospital, shot and killed his parents and girlfriend during an amphetamine-induced rage.
VANDERBILT
JC Dawkins
– articulate lawyer in prestigious Baltimore law firm, and part-time analyst for CourtTV.Barney Perkins – one of Nashville’s hot young Country artists, but 2nd album disappointed.
CLASS OF '95
ALABAMA
Shabazz McGrew
– promising NBA career cut short by fatal 1997 car crash which also killed former Alabamateammates Malcolm Mackey and Harvey Thompson.
Melvin Drake – former site foreman for Neal Construction, Inc; Cedric Neal’s scapegoat for the throne
accident which killed Glenn Sedoris (see below).
ARKANSAS
Cornelius Crisp
– roadie for Grand Mo Slam.Cedric Gumm – early morning newspaper delivery route, in Pine Bluff.
Tito King – earned NBA contract after hard work in Europe paid off; getting limited minutes of Raptors’
bench.
Wes Peppers–once promising NBA career has stalled; entering a make-or-break season with Cavaliers.
Frenchy Sanders – one season in NBA, two in Europe; cut from the KaneStars in ’98 and quit the game.
Marcus Trotter – now playing professionally in Portugal.
AUBURN
Cephyus Bunyon
– lyricist for Weird Al Yankovich.FLORIDA
Calvin Brewer
– unemployed; living in Ocala.Jerome Levins – patient transporter at University of Florida Medical Center.
GEORGIA
Jim Burney
– roadie for the Chattering Magpies.KENTUCKY
Drennan Baker
– drives Hostess delivery truck in Maryland; has put on 80 lbs since starting his route.Jay Baxter – crossing guard at Stevie Williams Elementary School in Shreveport.
Damon Bethea – lost weight after rookie cut, and has been bench contributor with NBA’s Wizards since ’96.
LSU
Othello Henry
– anchors the middle for the KaneStars; 1st rap album debuts in December.MISSISSIPPI
Ben Edney
– owner of "Running of the Bulls," a popular Ole Miss campus sportsbar and restaurant.Governor Williams – top aide and advisor to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott; considered a future political
Star after speech at Republican national convention in August.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Edwin Beechey
– Knick standout, having recovered from two major surgeries to make NBA All-Star team.Adam Fletcher – operates a bee farm in Biloxi; the state’s biggest honey producer.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Matt Olken
- an actuarial scientist with Aetna Life & Casualty, Columbia, SC.TENNESSEE
Fred Chavers
– living in the Dallas area, under the alias Bill Parsons, for reasons that are not clear.Silas Clay – in maximum security prison in Louisiana, after making threatening statements toward that
state’s Governor in 1998; no known release date.
DeMarco DeMaris – institutionalized since suffering permanent brain injury sniffing glue in 1998.
Vernon Drew - has held several menial jobs and stayed out of jail since leaving UT in 1995.
Darrin Horn – back in prison after violating terms of 1999 parole.
VANDERBILT
Tom Katucki
– 1st grader in Norwich, Vermont.Dick Schmuck – no current job; lives back home with parents, in Dayton.
Alexous Scruggs – in 6th season with NBA’s Celtics, who have elected not to offer a new contract.
Glenn Wisby – 3rd year law student at Georgetown; interned last summer with the lucrative LA law practice of
Hammond, Cochran and Spence.
CLASS OF '96
ALABAMA
Dakron Dalide
– a final cut for Serbia’s Olympic basketball team.Curtis Kitchen – finally admitted to law school; wants to be a sports agent.
Trevor Teachey – 5th year member of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets.
ARKANSAS
Alonzo Qadaffi
– no real attempt to find a job yet; source of income unclear.Les Dugan – Grand Wizard of the Arkansas KKK; ass’t manager of Denny’s Restaurant in Pine Bluff.
Tarik Thacker – recruiter for sports agent Roosevelt Reese.
AUBURN
Nathan Gilmore
– still playing in Europe; NBA scouts are keeping tabs.James Grady – down on his current prospects, asking the question "What could be lower than washing the
dishes at Nino’s Country Cookin’?"
Jimmy Kimbrough – cleans the toilets at Nino’s Country Cookin’.
Marcus Neal – wherabouts unknown.
Teo Petrovic – leading scorer on two-time Serbian champion; very popular locally.
Charlie Merritt – a loving wife, three small children, a good job and a house in the suburbs; gave it all up to
join Queon Kirksey’s entourage.
FLORIDA
Ulysses Hatchett
- assistant coach at Southern Indiana Community College.Damon Hendrick – undrafted in ’95 as a hardship, but has found success in Italian league.
Jason Oby – maintains one of the dozens of unofficial LSU Basketball web sites, BayouBengals.com.
GEORGIA
Moose Powell
– recreation director in small Manitoba town; studying for zamboni license.Eddie Schwartzkopf – new head coach at South Carolina, which he enthusiastically called "the culmination
of a life-long dream," and "the only job I ever wanted;" (has an escape clause in his contract that would allow him to accept the Georgia or Kentucky job should either become available).
Bobby Stringer – starting 2nd year in English pro league, where he is best player on a week 2nd division team.
KENTUCKY
Hector Ambrose
– 3rd year with NBA’s Pacers after two seasons in CBA.Glenn Boler – administrative assistant at Providence College.
Eugene Collie – 5 year NBA veteran, contributing off bench for Bulls.
Mike Roper – stunt double for Harley Owen in recent thriller "Sudden Blunt Mutilation IV."
Carlo Davies – assistant coach at Marshall University.
Boris Piskun – like many former Wildcats, a real estate agent in Lexington area.
LSU
Micheal Pack
– has bounced around the league, now with Toronto in his 5th NBA season.Thaddeus Word – announced retirement from KaneStars in May; named Louisiana Commerce
Commissioner in June; after reading first chapter of "Commerce for Dummies," resigned, and asked for job at T World.
MISSISSIPPI
Garvin Holder
– in his dreams, that overtime shot at the buzzer against Purdue goes in every time.Chateau Piper – struggling to hold down a job; diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome stemming
from attempt to Run With the Bulls, which ended his basketball career in Pamplona in 1986.
Doxie Jordan – starting PG of Israeli champ, Maccabi-Elite Tel Aviv.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Jelphous Noonan
– has seen Harley Owen’s "Sudden Blunt Mutilation IV" eight times.SOUTH CAROLINA
Brian Del’Amico
– will soon take over father’s trucking business in eastern Pennsylvania.Nicky Pitts – saw time with NBA’s Utah Jazz, until knee injury forced retirement in 1999.
LeVeldro Simmons – recently interviewed for assistant coaching position under new Gamecock coach Eddie
Schwartzkopf.
TENNESSEE
Johnny Fat Jones
– death row in Alabama.Stephon Stamps – death row in Arkansas.
Speedy Williams - death row in Illinois.
VANDERBILT
Horace Bogart
– owner of a cargo plane leasing business; big contributor to President Clinton and theDemocratic Party; has spent a night in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House.
Jehovah Jenkins – exciting CBA standout has never developed perimeter skills to get to the NBA; might now
use Vanderbilt degree to enter the conventional work force.
Reed Dugan – owns a recording studio in Nashville; big contributor to Governor Kane; has spent a night in
the Arthur Marks bedroom at KaneHouse.
Steve Penney – a Nashville millionaire, now retired at 26 after selling computer software company; has
taken up the guitar, preparing for the Mensa test.
Tyree Reese – undergoing experimental asthma treatments at The KaneClinic in New Orleans.
CLASS OF '97
ALABAMA
Elijah Berry
– lifeguard at hotel pool, KanePlaza Resort, in Birmingham.Chester Mangum – in LA; won’t rest until he finds he real killer of Nicole Simpson and Richard Goldman.
Duane Posey – CBA scorer with little hope of making the NBA.
ARKANSAS
Antonie Snow
– sells Land Rovers at dealership of a prominent Razorback booster.AUBURN
Orpheus Duncan
– maintenance at KanePark in downtown Memphis.Harkeem Mars – whereabouts unknown.
Tokembe Oke – after two years away from the game, working out in hopes of playing a couple years in
Europe.
FLORIDA
Derek Gaddy
– plays with Milwaukee Bucks of NBA; still improving.Michael Templeton – chronic pain since 1997 KaneProAm, when struck by golf ball hit by former president
Gerald Ford; Ford settled; suits pending against Kane, Titlelist and Ping.
GEORGIA
Marco Bangum
– runs eponymous summer basketball camp in Athens.Jay Gizzi – pharmaceutical representative recently promoted to central office in Philadelphia.
Tellas Lampley – toll collector, on the Metairie side of the Cameron Brown Bridge, near the Mississippi River
Delta in southern Louisiana.
Robbie McGowen – professional career likely over after major foot operation following the 2000 season.
Bobby Righi – kindergarten in Carmel, Indiana.
KENTUCKY
Carlos High
– unemployed, in Indianapolis area.LSU
Damon Bacote
– recently renewed with CBA’s New Orleans KaneStars, reportedly for $20 million over8 years (averaged 4ppg off the bench last year).
Tom Kane – kindergarten in South Hadley, Mass.
Ben Odoms – only now, in 5th season, becoming a force with the LA Clippers.
Marcus Pauley – exciting starting PG in 5th season with NBA’s Vancouver Grizzlies.
MISSISSIPPI
Bennie Council
– makes extra money on weekends refereeing T-ball games (organized basketball games forpre-schoolers, named for T McKinley); will press charges against two fathers who stormed the court after a missed traveling call last March.
Greg Favors - dancer and choreographer in New York.
Obbie Goddette - operates the motorized head of The Governor, the animated, 90-foot replica of Governor
Kane featured at daily T World parades.
Pablo Spellman – the best defender in Cyprus’ pro league.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Duante Armstrong
– bouncer in Natchez, Mississippi, bar.Eddie Fagan – promising young high school coach with Division I aspirations.
Danny Jaeger – lawn maintenance service in Beaverhead, Montana.
Adolphus Prince – now out of basketball, banned from NBA after 2nd drug violation.
Danyell Robertson – refused to take mandatory CBA drug test and retired prematurely because of it.
Markee Stuckey – dismissed from police academy in Biloxi, reason not specified.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Ron Bullock
– back in Columbia, where he counsels local high school students and speaks about theaddictive powers of Vitalize.
Spotwood Burwell – former South Carolina assistant, now looking for job after Eddie Fogler’s recent firing.
Velpo Felps – the mute harpist in a struggling comedy team of four brothers; recent guest appearance on the
"Rootin’ Tootin’ Howie" Show failed to catapult them into the big time.
Al Schmeaux – continues physical therapy after 4 month hospital stay with severe burn injuries suffered at
New Year’s Eve party.
Marlon Townes – Dallas Maverick’s starting PG; unrestricted free agent after the season, who owner Amp
Davis intends to keep.
TENNESSEE
Horatio "Woo Woo" Cotton
– awaiting sentencing on recent conviction of arson and assault charges(admitted to dousing Al Schmeaux with kerosene and lighting him on fire at recent New Year’s Eve party).
Funke Moses – disappeared shortly before due to testify before NCAA Infractions Committee; has not been
seen or heard from in 8 months.
VANDERBILT
Ron Hobby
– solid and respected starter with NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.Kenny Houser – Vanderbilt MBA in hand, now beginning that fawning climb up the corporate ladder, but
feeling professionally limited by being a fictitious player from a computer basketball league.
CLASS OF ‘98
ALABAMA
Clyde Simon –
productive CBA scorer; invited to Hornets’ camp this summer.ARKANSAS
Bo Dean Backus
– sells corn dogs and pretzels, just outside the gates of T World.Cyrus Bensen - junior account manager with Wilson Sporting Goods.
AUBURN
Tim Myers
– regional manager of a computer retailer in Mobile; likes to dress in women’s clothes.FLORIDA
Linus Estes
– uglier than ever (oooff!).GEORGIA
Wayman Bunch
– has not impressed in 3 years with Atlanta Hawks, who are not likely to renew.Otha Harris – - after averaging a double-double in the CBA drew not an ounce of interest from NBA scouts,
has decided to hang up the sneakers for good.
Kevin Clary – 1st year varsity coach at high school in hometown of Warsaw, Indiana.
KENTUCKY
Boris Bullock
– spokesman for the Kentucky Lottery.Eulas Coe – provides bulk off the bench of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.
Frank Pus – banjo player in small Appalachian village.
LSU
Antoine Dasher
– runs the lucrative Jon Kane LSU Summer Basketball Camps in Baton Rouge; (theGovernor has not actually attended a camp session since the late 80’s, but usually flies over the camp in his helicopter at least once during the week long session).
Vanilla King – 3rd year pro with NBA’s Timberwolves; Rookie of the Year in ’99.
Harley Owen – megastar of hit Hollywood action movies, calendars, one unsuccessful music album; national
spokesman for Viagra and Old Spice; (see SEC’s Richest Men).
Vernon Toomer – long range NBA bomber; option year at Utah.
MISSISSIPPI
Billy Mintzer
– marginal NBA guard with Miami; would like to someday coach under Bob Maxfield.Brian Storey – graduate student (mathematics) at Ole Miss.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Richie Canady –
former Nike sales manager, now recruits preps to Nike camps and tournaments.Bob Boada – fell out of bed and struck by lightening on the night of the drawing for the $200 million
Powerball Lottery, proving the assertion that death from either is still more likely that winning the Powerball jackpot.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Achmed Fahad
– popular player in the growing Saudi league.TENNESSEE
Claudy Richards
– shot and killed during the UT alumni basketball weekend in Knoxville, April, 2000. Malcolm Crews – awaiting trial for the April, 2000 murder of Claudy Richards.Alexander Hack – turned in his good friend, Malcolm Crews, for the $50 cash reward.
VANDERBILT
Glenn Sedoris
– crushed by throne in 1997 during construction of The Governor’s Palace in Baton Rouge.Elby Mings – high school basketball coach and civics teacher in hometown in Kentucky.
Musa Muhammed – frustrated on the end of the Golden State bench; wants an opportunity.
Marco Rogue – member of Canada’s Olympic handball team, competing in Sydney in September.
CLASS OF ‘99
ALABAMA
Tazz Armstrong –
renewed for 3rd year with French team.Schlomo Golob – sits the bench for hometown team in Israeli pro league.
Darren Proctor – CBA contract not renewed; back in Tuscaloosa seeking employment and keeping in shape
By working out at U of A.
ARKANSAS
Jesse Hopper
– T Juice vendor at The KaneDome.Elmo McKinney – has found surprising NBA success, shooting 3’s for Phoenix Suns.
Chris Nathan – back home in Little Rock, making important political contacts and inappropriate sexual
advances.
Demetrius Ritchie – slowly realizing he may be a CBA lifer.
Nelvis Tipton – invited to rookie camp by NBA’s Rockets, but expects to return to Belgian league next year.
AUBURN
Harkey Bone –
whereabouts unknown.Charles Chiapetta – graduate assistant at the University of Washington; now shaving twice a day since move
to Seattle area.
Zenon Rodriguez – returned to campus, received B.S. degree in May.
Winston Slusher – sells Yellow Pages advertisements in Tuscaloosa.
Zachary Tinsley – despite $30,000 credit card dept and looming personal bankruptcy, has managed to build
and maintain a complete Tommy Hilfiger wardrobe.
FLORIDA
Delmar Alexander
– BellSouth cellular phone rep, living in Gainesville area.Demetro Kennedy – showed improvement in 2nd CBA season; scored 23 against the KaneStars in close win.
GEORGIA
Otha Harris
– bodyguard for T McKinley.Ike Reece – bodyguard for T McKinley.
KENTUCKY
Wesley Chase –
entering option year after breakthrough year with NBA’s NJ Nets; has hired agent RooseveltReese, who is very publicly urging the Nets to "show Wes some love."
Simon Minor – starter with NBA’s Indiana Pacers; the Pacers’ most popular player and a community leader.
Merle Coe – returned to West Virginia in 1999; married his sister and had two children.
LSU
Jerris Coleman
– rehabbing after knee injury ended 2nd season with Orlando of NBA.MISSISSIPPI
Edwick Calloway
– restricted free agent after good season off Hawk’s bench; Atlanta plans to keep him.Charles Lindsey – Greyhound bus driver, living in Jackson.
Corey Scheckel – 1st year ass’t coach at Harvard, under Herman Hill.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Marquis Popp
– broke into Junius Dawson’s Mercedes in June; got $300 in cash, two Grand Mo Slam CD’sand some pot.
Johnny Temple – quit Turkish pro team after 1st game, but later returned to lead his team in scoring.
Henry Temple – corrections officer at the federal prison camp in Pensacola, Florida.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Jonathan Mbalathini
– at age 25, already a 4-time NBA All-Star, with a lucrative long term contract.Rich Pence – preparing for LSAT; wants to go to law school.
TENNESSEE
Trenton Jones–
left Knoxville in April ’99 for what he bragged was "a sweet offer" to play in the Ugandanprofessional league, only to learn that Uganda does not have a league; has not been seen or heard from since.
Scooby Skipper – shot and killed by Mark Schroeder (Ole Miss, ’78) during a standoff with London police at
the Owen-Ferguson wedding, July, 2000.
Sam Madison – awaiting sentencing after confessing to killing a Knoxville high school honor student
for his Juvon McGarry ‘Jambox’ sneakers.
Scholandus Sanders – suspended for 2 games in his senior year for "violation of unspecified team rules";
now on death row in Alabama for same violations.
Lester Schlump – has extorted thousands out of Chuck Maxfield and David Fair; nice Knoxville condo.
Ron James – see Scooby Skipper.
VANDERBILT
Kent Kennecut
– divinity student at Yale.Charles Maxfield, Jr – pre-school in Anchorage, Kentucky.
CLASS OF 2000
ALABAMA
Ozzie Edwards –
professional basketball career lasted less than one full year, with the Washington Generals,the Globetrotter’s perpetual opponent; twice blasted teammates and management (including coach
Red Klotz) in the newspapers for "losing attitude;" eventually left the team by mutual agreement.
Ezra Powers – hard work in CBA has paid off with invite to Clippers’ summer minicamp.
Joshua Pucket – seldom gets off the bench of the CBA’s Rockford Lightening.
ARKANSAS
Ricky Leder –
pool maintenance at KaneHouse.Charley Roberson – expected to give up basketball career after difficult season in Israel.
Smokey Robinson – maintenance worker for city of Pine Bluff; lives for the weekends.
AUBURN
Touche –
the athlete formerly known as Touche now identifies himself as "i".FLORIDA
Tim Schumm
– through family connections overseas, got contract with team in Italian B league; would liketo stay for a 2nd year.
Terrance Teague – Swiss team will renew his contract for a 2nd season.
Dominic Woodson – looking for direction after knee injury ended basketball career prematurely;
considering sales, Queon Kirksey’s entourage, or teaching.
GEORGIA
Sherman Gully
– maintains an unofficial Juanicus web site.Eddie Stankiewitcz – put up huge numbers in British league; weighing several NBA camp invites.
Darrin Wimstadt – continues to defy skeptics, now in NBA; Charlotte’s PG of the future.
KENTUCKY
Mack Caldwell
– not "the new Larry Bird" as Boston had hyped, but a solid NBA rookie.John Renshaw – joined Jimi Holliday’s Right To Life Organization; will challenge the strict facial hair
policy.
Sadric Sloss –struggled with transition to pro game in rookie season with NBA’s Pistons.
Byron Wine – feels fortunate to have gotten a deal with a Spanish club.
LSU
Arthur Marks
– instantly, a NBA mega-superstar in Seattle; engaged to Francine, no date set.Joaquin Profit – encouraging rookie year with Timberwolves; has NBA game.
Rico Wright –rookie starter for KaneStars; declined several invitations to NBA camps.
MISSISSIPPI
Glen Oakes
– restricted earnings ass’t coach at Ole Miss.MISSISSIPPI STATE
JoJo Jones
– flag man for Neal Construction.Billy Redeker – Memphis convenience store clerk, who, at the moment, is being held hostage by a gunman
in a botched robbery attempt.
Alphonzo Vance – plagued by mysterious headaches since senior season ended, which have prevented him
from pursuing career in Europe.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Damous Anderson
– struggled in first NBA season with 76’ers.Kevin Archer – intern in Harley Owen’s publicity department.
TENNESSEE
Valedictorian McKoy –
at the moment, holding several hostages in a botched robbery of convenience storein Memphis.
Maurice Mundy – trying to get out of 2nd year of contract with Swiss pro team.
Quvodovis Weed – maintained what he called a close personal relationship with Arthur Marks and fiancé,
Francine, until recently charged with two counts of stalking, two counts of making terroristic threats and one count of extortion.
VANDERBILT
Will Curtis
– deferring law school admission as he pursues professional basketball career in England.I’Man Rush – first year of professional basketball in Greece; promises Sharon Maxfield he will return to
complete degree work.
CLASS OF 2001+
ALABAMA
ARKANSAS
Chris Ballard -
killed during the Scalzitti Massacre, Sicily, summer of 1999.Gianni Paschalis – returned to Italy to play professionally after two years starting for Crimson Tide; scoring
big for a low division Italian team.
AUBURN
Ory Vrable -
killed during the Scalzitti Massacre, Sicily, summer of 1999.FLORIDA
Louis Pumphrey
- killed during the Scalzitti Massacre, Sicily, summer of 1999.GEORGIA
KENTUCKY
LSU
Ian Gilley –
transfered to MIT in summer of 2000.Pepe Gomez – transferred to MIT, 2000.
Weasil Mingus – an inspiration to those within the LSU program, functioning as LSU student manager from
his wheel chair since his near fatal accident along Route 42 in Baskum County, Miss.
Juanicus Turner –the perpetual focus of two 24-hour cable channels: JuanciusTV ("All Juanicus. All the
Time.") and The Juanicus Channel ("Juanicus 24/7/365"), which chronicle his every move and have elevated him from a cult hero to a national phenomenon; a 3rd channel, Classic Juanicus, hit the airwaves in June; also with eponymous magazine, basketball camp and web sites; yet another autobiography is due out in July . . . America can not get enough of Juanicus Turner.
Travius Townsend – LSU student manager.
MISSISSIPPI
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Carmine Zambiti
– killed during the Scalzitti Massacre, Sicily, summer of 1999.Chewey Hughes – sacrificed eligibility in dealings with agent Roosevelt Reese; currently, hanging out in
Rosey’s Baton Rouge mansion.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Galen Navarro
- killed during the Scalzitti Massacre, Sicily, summer of 1999.TENNESSEE
Saddam Smith
– awaiting trial on charges of cocaine trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convictedfelon.
VANDERBILT
Jacque Dion
– transferred to Stanford in 1999 to be closer to sweetheart Chelsea Clinton, who has since lefthim for Georgia’s Louis Bell.
Joey Freeman – transferred to College of Charleston for more playing time.