Tan Tom on Allen Fieldhouse

[massofcatfan]

Welcome to winter. And welcome to the Big Eight Conference, where newcomer Asbury already has ticked off archrival Kansas by describing revered Allen Fieldhouse, basketball cathedral of the Jayhawks, as "an old dump."  (is this the best thing he ever did?)  p.s. how come our team no longer loads up on star players from Junction City? 

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-23/sports/sp-621_1_tom-asbury

[EMAWzified]

Remember when Asbury before the start of his second, and most successful, year interviewed for the Cal job?
Now failing at Pepperdine.
Looked good in his Armani's though. Something that comes to mind everytime squawkers diss Frank's suits.

[WillieWatanabe]

From his old office at Pepperdine, Tom Asbury could look out the sliding glass doors and see the Pacific Ocean's waves lapping at the beach at Malibu.

 

[ben ji]

From his old office at Pepperdine, Tom Asbury could look out the sliding glass doors and see the Pacific Ocean's waves lapping at the beach at Malibu.

 

I had an intership one summer where the training was done on their campus. It is incredibly elite, makes boulder look like a trailer park. I could see the pacific ocean from my DORM ROOM, cute deer grazing on campus, beach a 10 minute walk away.

This picture from my cellular phone does it no justice.

[yoga-like_abana]

"See our bench?" he says. "I had it moved to the student side. Caused a big stir, but the students love it."

No dummy, Asbury also had the visiting team's bench moved a few feet from K-State's students, legendary for standing the entire game.

"That's why I did it," he says, smiling, perhaps at the thought of some Russian lit major from Topeka yelling farm vulgarities at, say, Coach Eddie Sutton and the rest of the visiting Oklahoma State team.

This really would be amazing to do again.

[TBL]

From his old office at Pepperdine, Tom Asbury could look out the sliding glass doors and see the Pacific Ocean's waves lapping at the beach at Malibu.

 

Welcome to the Pepperdine campus.     

[sonofdaxjones]

The funniest thing of all is that Tardville used to always say stuff about Malibu to Manhattan with an overtone of; nobody would think that if it was Malibu to Lawrence.


Always good for a laugh.

[RU4KSU2]

My senior year at KSU... was in the front row of the student section right behind the KSU bench for every game.  That article definitely captures the optimism of the time and how he might be the one to get the job done... Who would have thought it would be such a disaster...

[Andy]

"See our bench?" he says. "I had it moved to the student side. Caused a big stir, but the students love it."

No dummy, Asbury also had the visiting team's bench moved a few feet from K-State's students, legendary for standing the entire game.

"That's why I did it," he says, smiling, perhaps at the thought of some Russian lit major from Topeka yelling farm vulgarities at, say, Coach Eddie Sutton and the rest of the visiting Oklahoma State team.

This really would be amazing to do again.

i think the conf has a rule against it now