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Belated report from Hall of Fame dinner, and more

mthoopsfan

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Chase Reynolds spoke very well, and talked of growing up and being an athlete in a small town. I was very impressed with how he spoke. His dad, a great guy, was banged up in a truck accident a year or so ago, but was in attendance and seemed to be pretty good to me.

Mike Montgomery spoke very well and was funny. Seems like a great guy. I had never been around him before.

All the great Griz hoops coaches were there, except Tinkle, who tried but couldn't do it. An amazing group. Travis was there too.

As I said earlier, Matt Martin was there was Rapid City SD where he runs an insurance agency. HIs wife seemed awesome, as were his 2 kids.

The entire team and Krsyko were there. Larry's son Cam, who played at Dartmouth, was there.

Many Native American former Griz were there, and got introduced at halftime. Tuff Harris, who lives in Billings. Mike Chavez for his 20025-06 hoops team that beat Nevada in the NCAA tourney. He seemed to be going very well. Lives in Billings. With his wife.

The prior night, I ended up downstairs at Red's with the 87/88 Lady Griz team, dragged by my good friend, Jean McNulty-King. She is a piece of work. Had a special shot with the tam down there. Had never been in that totally cool room in the basement. The owner brought us down there. Jean has gone from representing like 50 players as their agents, to well over 200. She let a player-client revamp of social media. Lots of work now.

Lisa Tinkle was there with her 87/88 team. We know her pretty well because she used to babysit our older kids where she played for CMR. Joslyn moved to Asst coach at UNLV in the late spring to coach with a former Stanford teammate. Tres is playing in Turkey for the 2d year. Was in Istanbul last year, but in an interior smaller place this year. Recently married. Elle is living in Japan now with her husband who plays professionally. Her guy played for Gonzaga after playing football and getting hurt at a big Texas school. Asked Few if he could walk on. Did, and got a scholarship the 2 following years.

As you know, Junior Bergen raised the flag for the game on Saturday. Colt Anderson and his wife and parents, and Beau, were around and out and about. Dalton Sneed comes back to alot of Griz games, as do many other former players.
 
Great report.
Being from Montana is like having a passport to the world. Montanans are everywhere, and the bond is always strong.
How much do you wear your Griz gear, and get reactions or meet Montanans? When I travel, and I'm a snowbird, I find that Griz gear, Dartmouth gear to a lesser extent, and other type of identified shirts, almost always gets some good attention. I had my Griz linebacker tee on yesterday when I went to get prescriptions at the local pharmacy. The check-out woman started talking Cats and Griz and mentioned the recent games. I asked her if she was from MT. She no, Cody, but she graduated from Eastern in Billings. We had a great talk. Everyone in the pharmacy was listening to our banter.

Scores of my Dartmouth, Stanford and NYC friends have checked in recently over the recent FCS playoff weekend, as well as the Griz-Cat game. They saw or even watched UM clobber SDSU. And all saw the Cat's post-game coverage. Some of the Ivy types watched Yale v. MSU, and said Yale had a good chance to win. Just too many picks, and at the wrong time. And I keep noting that Dartmouth beat Yale this season.
 
One more thing. I might have said this elsewhere earlier, in Basketball, but Bobby stopped by the Hall of Fame cocktail party briefly. I don't mean to brag or anything, and I would never do that as you know, but the first people who Bobby came over to see, were my wife, Jean McNulty-King, and me. Oh, maybe we were close to the door he came from too. Ha.
 
One more thing. The senior-in-high school Krystko twin girls are both hotshot volleyball players. One was the national player of the year, I believe. She is going to Penn St, a recent powerhouse in college volleyball. She is 6'4". The other is going to Stanford. She is 6'1". The slightly better one was invited by the USA national team to come to the Olympics in France and watch the matches. She did.
 

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