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I watched it, too. One week after the NCAA title was won by Louisville on that court.

Thanks for your comments. Shelbyville High School has a great basketball history. Bill Garrett, an IU star in the '40s who broke the color line, comes to mind. I had graduated from New Albany HS four years before this. It would have been nice for my school to have won that '80 title undefeated, but I believed New Albany also was overrated. They had great height, some fine shooters, and a great overall player in Richie Johnson, but they lacked quickness at guard and inside power at the forward spots. And they had been letting leads get away from them late in the season. They very nearly lost the Evansville Semistate final game, and the Final 4 game against Andrean, both after having run up big leads.

Thank you. I'm honored that you watched my vid. You really know TV.

Thank you! I'm so glad you like this. Of course, it's sad it took so much tragedy to give the vid its content, but we can also remember these guys admiringly.

Thanks, Joseph! I appreciate it, and I'll check that thumb situation.

There. I thumbed it up myself. My thumb was your surrogate. ... Thanks again, and I hope all is well with you.

Thank _you._ I'm glad you enjoyed my video.

Thank you @originalkingalpha! Some great observations. I agree that stepping back and thinking, including reassessing one's own beliefs, is an important part of being an educated person and a citizen. I as well have always registered independent.

@@brianarbenz1329 You're welcome, and thank YOU for your incredibly insightful reply. I absolutely appreciate your response and I indeed do agree with you 100%!👌🏽

On broadcasts of Notre Dame games, they always said TOR-an. That's what I went by. ... And I, too, loved Jerry Baker. A superb broadcaster.

I wrote a blog piece on John Hollinden. I plan to do a video on his life as well.

Brian Taylor certainly deserves to be remembered in this, but I decided to select as my criteria people who had some connection to the state Final 4. I felt a little uncomfortable leaving his name out. I also originally planned to include Evansville's John Hollinden before the narrowing of the criteria, but they both may be in future videos. Thanks for recalling Brian, whose death was a profound tragedy for all of Tell City and Perry County.

The NTSB report described removing the locks as optional. That's what I was going by. It is clear that a desire to speed up the trip in light of the multi-hour delay what was what prompted them to skip the removal.

@@brianarbenz1329 Can't imagine why NTSB would say gust locks are "optional." FAA performs investigations into all crashes, and is the official authority in such matters. Cuban co-pilot put three gust locks into place (rudder, vertical elevator and starboard aileron) after taxiing just prior to the team boarding the DC-3. One could argue (and it would need some arguing) that the locks were optional for such a "quick" layover, but once those locks are in place, there is NOTHING optional about removing them! They're called "locks" for a reason: They LOCK the control surfaces. Without the control surfaces, the aircraft will crash every time. Co-pilot forgot to remove the locks and, evidently, the pilot forgot to ask whether he had removed them. Co-pilot loaded the luggage and basketball gear in aft-heavy (tail-heavy) fashion. Much of it he placed on the aft floor of the cabin. Airplane used southbound runway for take-off. (All of it happened in the darkness of night.) Ear-witnesses said, When the airplane lifted off, it had used a "short" take-off roll and its attitude was MUCH too steep. (He was tail-heavy at the moment he left the loading gate.) No one knows how the pilot/airplane were able to navigate eastward, to the "crash point." Pilot might have tried "differential power" on the two engines. Again, without use of the control surfaces, pilot had no "positive control" over steering. Differential power was probably the only possibility he had. Without use of the elevator, pilot had no control over attitude. Pilot was able to maneuver the airplane east of the runway, but there it stalled and crashed. On the following morning, when investigators saw the scene under sunlight, they saw three gust-locks still in place (rudder, elevator, starboard aileron) and immediately knew why it had crashed. Too bad... (I had a copy of the FAA's accident investigation report. Also, somewhere on TH-cam is an excellent documentary that gives details of the disaster.)

@@Paladin1649 You obviously know the topic well. Maybe the vid that explained the NTSB report was incorrect.

But of course Paranoia is not a disabling illness. At least, according to Dr. Whit!

I have worked with groups favoring Restorative Justice, including the Victim-Offender Mediation Program. That method is really the answer to the over-imprisoning of the population.... After 9/11 in 2001, the federal government gave military weaponry to local police departments around the country. Clark County, Indiana, which includes Jeffersonville, was one of the biggest recipients per capita. It was a gravy train for local departments, and it was made available all because W hadn't taken the threat seriously enough when told about it. Failing to take simple steps to prevent often leads to more elaborate steps toward a cure, when prevention would have been far better.

Thanks, and I am making more videos. I'll have to clear up some software issues before I get a lot more produced.

You'll never be arrested if you are well to do, because drug purchases and use are almost always indoor. In poor areas, the dealing tends to be done out of doors, usually by non-residents of the housing project or neighborhood who convene there. So arresting does not require a warrant.

Thank you. I'm glad you like it. If you feel so inclined, I hope you'll pass the word.

I was trying to figure out which player you meant. Then I saw the initials... And thanks for commenting!

Nice sentiments. Thanks for contributing your thoughts. Where did "Little Tommy Sauer" live?

@brianarbenz1329 Cherokee, IA is where my parents house was. The Knicks were almost always on the Sunday CBS game of the week. The Chiefs games were always broadcast on NBC because it was kind of local. I absolutely loved it.

@@tomsauer3830 Sounds like you've got some great memories of sports accomplishments.

You're like me. I'm 71.1in and a lefty as well.

Wow this brings back memories. I went to school with Stacy. He was even better at football. What people don’t remember is that when Marion scored, their own player panicked and called time out. The rest is history.

Also I remembered when they broke into a NFL game saying Stacy had died.

Relevant in basketball, I'm presuming you mean. (It's a great university, of course.) Oh yes, I was a senior in high school when IU won the title undefeated in 1976. I remember that vividly.

Won a bet on Keith smart shot

@@bill-to7ir Well, you win some, you lose some!

I remember watching Richie play for U of E in an NCAA tourney game in a hotel while I was on the road covering the Indiana high school tourney.

@@brianarbenz1329 That's cool. Richie played every position in some of those games while Bud played PF SF SG. They were different

I certainly do, and I went to high school with Norman Mukes, who I believe was Richie Johnson's godparent, if I recall correctly. I remember Norman, Charlie Mitchell, Greg Cornelius and (RIP) Steve Miller towering around those hallways. I felt like I was short at 6 feet tall.

@@brianarbenz1329 Hey man that's really cool! You're dead in about Norman. He's still got unbroken records at NHS but Romeo might have gotten one. I sometimes wish I'd have stayed playing for Lillian Emery under Rex Bliss

@@MukesBoy I'm living in Evansville and was here when the aces plane went down

@@MukesBoy The portion at about the 3 15 mark with the title "from Glory to Grief" and the somber music shows the opening tip off of the '73 state title game. Charlie Mitchell gets the tip and Julius Norman instantly hits a basket. I just needed some undefined basketball footage and had been watching the films of that final 4 and decided that would be ideal. I was 14 and a 9th grader at Hazelwood when that remarkable win happened. It made the community go wild.

I remember at the championship game between Broad Ripple and New Albany. There was a jump ball between Richie and King Duke. Richie was 6’8 and Duke was 5’8. King Duke actually won the jump ball. It was funny because when they lined up to jump all the New Albany fans in Market Square were laughing their asses off. I was there.

I watched em win against saracuse in 87 because I was big fan of calbert Chaney and Steve Alford and uofl was out of the picture

@@MukesBoy We had a surprise snow storm that day and the cable was off in my apartment, so I decided I "needed" to go down to the Courier-Journal sports department that night to get some work done, which by amazing coincidence was just as the title game was on TV. Would you believe it, the TV hookup was out there, too. But in the early minutes, it came back on and I "worked" at watching one of the best championship games ever. When Keith Smart hit that final shot, even a bunch of cynical, seen-it-all sports journalists were whooping it up.

I covered the 1991 Final 4 at the Hoosier Dome and it was a fabulous atmosphere. Just as you saw Damon Bailey, I saw the matchup between Glenn Robinson and Alan Henderson, and saw Steve Hart and Brian Evans from Terre Haute South.

Watched the '94 game in the dome with Bryce Drew and Co. Single class basketball with the championship in the dome was an unbelievable experience.

@@kevinnewell6167 I was courtside for that Final 4, as part of Courier-Journal coverage. Remarkable talent and exciting finishes!

Whereas the CIA connection to cocaine in L.A. is not clear (the newspaper findings of that have been doubted) it is certain that in wider sense the CIA and the powerful in this nation get away with crimes far worse than for what the poor are imprisoned. For Mena, Arkansas details, here is a good link: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/19/activities-at-airport-in-mena-detailed/

@@brianarbenz1329 Just lies.

@@nicholasbrowning4558 I have already posted that the newspaper info that The Razor posted about Compton has been doubted. But it has not been proven to be "lies." And the rest of what he said about the Mena airport situation has been verified. I have adequately dealt with what he posted.

You are correct. I had not kept up on Jim Bradley's life, and his death at 29 was news to me. Thanks for making me aware his sad ending. (Actually, it was Portland, Ore. where he died, but you know that basic story, which I did not.)

I played in H.S. against Bradley ... Lew Alcindor actually made a trip to E.C. on behalf of Wooden to recruit him ... Story has it that Wooden only visited the home of two players on recruiting trips ... Walton and Alcindor ... And here's a trivia question from that era: What were Alcindor's final CBB schools before choosing UCLA? ANSWER: In addition to UCLA, he also considered St. John's and Michigan.

@@douglascarlson9006 I remember Jim Bradley playing for the Kentucky Colonels in the ABA, though no specific action. He was bid on by the Colonels and the NBA's Lakers. Jim McDaniel of Western Kentucky U. was bid on by those same two teams. Kentucky got both, but to little avail.

Jim Bradley was found in an alley in Portland, not Denver.

Thanks for that info on Mr. Coppock. He had a great line not included on that clip. He told Stacey Toran it's appropriate you're going to Notre Dame, because you just pulled you're first Hail Mary! That was clever. And I'm glad you like the video.

@@brianarbenz1329 Yes Brian ... and Tommy Baker was not only a pretty talented guard, but he also became a symbol of Knight's commitment to maintaining a clean program ... It was late 70s - I think, IU was in the Great Alaskan Shootout holiday tourney when a few IU players were supposedly smoking weed at a party up there between games ... Knight kicked Baker and Donny Cox off the team, and disciplined Ray Tolbert and Butch Carter ... thanks again for this VID ... I just SUBBED.

@@douglascarlson9006 Thanks for the Sub! ... The way I remember the 1978 IU expulsions was that each player was asked one at a time if they had smoked pot. Each one who answered yes was suspended for one game, but Tommy and, I recall it being two others, but maybe it was one, were deemed to be lying, so the coach dismissed them permanently. Stories I checked for making this vid said specifics were kept confidential by Knight's office.

@@brianarbenz1329 Those were days Brian ... Who would have ever thought that they would essentially wave the long standing rules against traveling and double dribble ... I've been completely alienated from the NBA game and college game is not far behind ... I just don't get it.

@@douglascarlson9006 TV doesn't want spectacular drives to the hoop nullified by any pesky traveling call. And there is too much TV-supplied money wrapped up in coaches' and ADs' salaries these days. John Wooden made $80,000 top salary in 1975, including his speaking and basketball camp fees. John Calipari made $8.1 million at Kentucky.

Indeed he was. Stacey had so much going well in his life. His death reminds us how everything can end in an instant because of a careless decision or two. Stay safe, all.

Thank you! What a nice surprise to find it was recommended to your channel, and that you like it. Great to know that. Hope you'll spread the word about this and other videos on my channel.

Thank you! I am very glad you found this a good documentary to watch. I wish these young men didn't have to be gone so soon. They each had so much more living and contributing to the world left in them.

Thanks for sharing the stories of these young men. Anyone interested in Indiana basketball history will appreciate your sensitive telling of these players’ too-short lives.

I didn’t want this to cause emotional pain to anyone. I certainly understand why it is sensitive, but I meant this video to show where the nation really was at that point in history, contrasted with where the mainstream view held that we were. We weren’t really fighting a unilaterally good fight against evil in the Cold War. There was evil on our side, too, and lots of corruption and deceit by the CIA. On the domestic front, racism was and still is more engrained in our national system that we were told. This video is more about that national failure to face reality than about JFK. I was five when he died, and I remember it vividly. I still feel the loss.

@@brianarbenz1329 Since you've articulated that point very well, I understand and appreciate it as I agree with what you're saying about 'national failure'. I was ten years of age when our president was murdered and old enough at the time to know what it meant to our country. High treason was committed on that day in November and no one was arrested nor even held accountable. That day still hangs over our collective head and we are caught in the wake of ruin. The day of reckoning hasn't yet been realized and that is why it will be devastating when the nation awakes from its self imposed coma.

@@gpiano88 Though I don't share all of your beliefs on the assassination, I certainly share the deep feelings of personal loss from his death. I had lost my father two years before (to desertion, not death) and I, as a four and five year old, rallied around the TV image of John F. Kennedy as a substitute father figure. I saw him speaking in a news conference on my grandfather's Motorola b + w TV. Grandpa explained to me who he was. That was probably early '63 or late '62. Then, on 11/22/63 I saw the bulletin on my grandparents' large TV in the living room. I still remember every ensuing minute of that afternoon and evening.

@@brianarbenz1329 What you and I have in common in that context is rarely shared among our fellow citizens. That with the agonizing silence of denial also plays a part.

@@gpiano88 Why do you like Jack Kennedy? He was a limited 1940s playboy from a very wealthy and privileged family. And he was very inept as a president. He wasn’t a very nice person (and Bobby was a creep and upstart). And grow up about the assassination. It was done by a lone wolf called Lee Oswald and it wasn’t difficult for him. There is no need to assume any conspiracy.

That is me. I have done voice impressions, mostly of U.S. political figures, since the 1970s. And I knew Vaughn Meader. I searched him out during his quiet post First Family years. I traveled to Maine and spent a week with him and his wife Sheila. So you might say I studied the art of doing JFK's voice under the master -- though he always honored his pledge never to do his JFK act again, a promise he made in the days after John F. Kennedy was killed.

You did a fantastic job ! I really beginning to Believe that it was Jfk Or Vaughn Meader . Speaking about Vaughn Meader i knew this guy that used to get in touch with celebrities, He said he got in touch with Mr.Meader But he was not very friendly to him , this is just what he told me saying to him never call me again ..

@@RobertSnyder-l3s Thank you! ... And I'm sorry your friend had a bad experience trying to contact him. I guess it's intangibles whether an effort like that goes well or not. Maybe Vaughn Meader was just having a bad day, or whatever.

Kurt, thank you, and I'm delighted this moved you. I had for many years wondered just what JFK would have said if he were tragically freed from the absence of candor of real world politics. And, as said above, that is me doing JFK's voice. I wrote the speech, but after years of contemplation over his views and personal makeup.

Yes, it is! It's an otherworldly twist! But I think this does open some exploration of what he could have said during the passage from the political real world to the honesty of the ideal realm he was entering.

Thank _you_ for the observation. I'm delighted to know my JFK vid connected with you. Glad to have you as a viewer.

Thank you. I appreciate your comments.

Thank you. I hope you like my other vids, too. Great to hear from you.

That was fine satire, Ginny. I hit like! I am so glad my video's satire worked. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks for your comments! I first read that "unyoung, unpoor, unblack" mantra in a college textbook circa 1980. I wasn't even aware of who said it, and I had been a fan of Ben Wattenberg's writings and his PBS show "Think Tank." He was someone with whom you could disagree without boiling over; he was always educible and genial. Then later I realized my much liked commentator was in fact a co-originator of that blunt warning. As I saw the Republican Party become hardened, absolutist and beholden only to extreme factions, I realized it was time for _them_ to be warned that the electorate is decidedly un _their_ extreme base factions.

The hardening of the republican party was a reaction to the democratic party becoming an authoritarian figure head. Progressivism isn't about equality, it's about keeping people in poverty. The matra of the "us verses them" is token speech brought out by the progressives. The question becomes how much more do people want from a society that already gives? More free housing, free health care, free food? All the while the powers that be, the democratic party that had a 40 year run have done nothing.

I'm glad to have your comments. Yours is not a perspective I share, but a wide perspective is beneficial in a comment thread. My honest assessment is that inflation of the early '70s is the first of several factors which drove the poverty rate back up after steep declines in the '60s. LBJ's refusal to raise taxes to pay for the war he insisted we be fighting sparked the inflation, as he boosted the money supply to try to bring in more revenue in lieu of just paying for his war with taxes.

Ugh. Mind-blowing you people are real. Obama did not win, and Clinton lost because people are more racist than they are sexist. It’s because Barack Obama was able to speak to people, working class white folks, on THEIR LEVEL. He talked to their economic needs, their fears, etc… The same thing Joe did. Hillary was unable to do that. And it’s not some “woman” thing, Gretchen Whitmer, and Jennifer Granholm are both Midwestern elected executives who won overwhelmingly landslides.

@@fshoaps Thanks for your comments. I would honestly say that Obama's win in 2008, contrasted with Hillary's electoral vote loss in '16 is all about the dissatisfaction with the opportunities the average person feels they have. In '08 Barack Obama was the ultimate outsider to Washington at a time when people felt more shut out of opportunities than any time since the Great Depression. In 2016 things were a lot better, but most people still felt their chances for a good life were unacceptably narrow. Hillary, unlike back in 1992, was an insider to Washington. She could not position herself as the agent for change.

If you're in the Louisville area anytime soon, let me know. I'll show you Abol. That video wasn't a commercial, btw. I was just honing my skills at my editing software. I'm going to start making more videos.

@@brianarbenz1329 Very cool. I'll check them out. I live in Massachusetts. I don't really make it to that part of the country much but when I do again I'll let you know.

@@RoccosVideos We'll be right by the eclipse totality, about 40 miles from total darkness. I'm planning to venture into nearby counties in southern Indiana to experience total darkness April 8. I've never been in a total eclipse, and this will be a thrill.

@@brianarbenz1329 That's cool. It's going to be close to a total eclipse but not completely where I live. I think like 90%. I can't wait. I already have my glasses.

Oh Louisville.

Thank you, RoccosVideos! I'm delighted you found the video and got to learn who Ike was. And thank you for the warm words on him.... Yep, anxiety is awful. Good that you've made progress. Hope that keeps up. I'll always remember how Ike helped me. He was quite a friend. Though it had been a few years since I had regular contact with Ike, it's such a sad loss. I'm still not coming to grips with his death.

@@RoccosVideos Yep, Louisville. Ike and I at times lived within in a mile of Mitch McConnell's residence. But don't mistake his reactionary ways for this city's. Louisville is liberal and very open to progressiveness. In fact, in the vast majority of his elections, McConnell has lost his own precinct.

@@brianarbenz1329 I'm sorry for your loss. May the happy memories comfort you in this difficult time. It's nice to know even a state as red as Kentucky has a blue city in it. most people who vote Republican really have no clue they're voting against their own interests. People really are ignorant and I don't mean that in a derogatory way. Politics in the US are depressing.

@@RoccosVideos Well said.