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Silver Anniversary: Doug Roth of Tennessee flipping off students in LSU home win
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:39 pm
anyone else old enough to remember this incident? Home game on "JP" in SEC game of the week at the Assembly Center in Chris Jackson's freshman year.
Roth was a caucasian Tennessee center about 7'0" with short curly hair and goggles as he had only one functioning eye.Interesting looking fellow to say the least.After scoring a basket and maybe hearing one too many catcalls from the LSU student section he lifted his arm and gave an extended "uncomplimentary hand gesture" to the crowd.
Refs saw what he did and immediately gave him a technical and Tennessee coach Don DeVoe took him out and put him on the bench. It was truly hysterical as this guy looked like quite the nerd. Imagine Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory being 7 feet tall.
Oh,and LSU won 122-106
Roth was a caucasian Tennessee center about 7'0" with short curly hair and goggles as he had only one functioning eye.Interesting looking fellow to say the least.After scoring a basket and maybe hearing one too many catcalls from the LSU student section he lifted his arm and gave an extended "uncomplimentary hand gesture" to the crowd.
Refs saw what he did and immediately gave him a technical and Tennessee coach Don DeVoe took him out and put him on the bench. It was truly hysterical as this guy looked like quite the nerd. Imagine Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory being 7 feet tall.
Oh,and LSU won 122-106
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Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:50 pm to I-59 Tiger
hahaha! I remember that. I was at the game.
Every time he got the ball, usually around the top of the key, the entire student section would chant, "Shoot! Shoot!" knowing that he wouldn't... because, after all, he was a 7-foot center who couldn't shoot.
Some time in the second half, he got the ball, the student section began chanting again... he shot it, he made it, then flipped the students the bird.
those were great times in the PMAC.
Every time he got the ball, usually around the top of the key, the entire student section would chant, "Shoot! Shoot!" knowing that he wouldn't... because, after all, he was a 7-foot center who couldn't shoot.
Some time in the second half, he got the ball, the student section began chanting again... he shot it, he made it, then flipped the students the bird.
those were great times in the PMAC.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:54 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Refs saw what he did and immediately gave him a technical and Tennessee coach Don DeVoe took him out and put him on the bench
I remember it like it was yesterday. CJ put 50 points on them that day. When Roth went to the end of the bench after the technical foul, the students began chanting "Start the bus...start the bus" at Roth. I know...not as cool of a student chant as "suck that tiger dick, bitch", but it was the best us old-timers could do.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:54 pm to Wideman
I was there as well, what a fun game that was.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:06 pm to I-59 Tiger
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anyone else old enough to remember this incident?
I was there as a youngun w my dad. He laughed and told me "thats not how you act" and thats about it.
Yeah CJ was lights out that game! Man he was amazing to watch.
This post was edited on 2/11/14 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:06 pm to LSUGrad9295
Hey, stop calling me an old-timer!
Posted on 2/11/14 at 4:17 pm to I-59 Tiger
I was at that game too. Even saw myself on Inside LSU Basketball that week. CJ did drop 50 that game but by seeing him in person that day I was able to see what a great passer he was.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 5:21 pm to ScrapPack
When he did it, I think the JP commentator described the action with a Doug Roth with a little "How do you do?!"
Posted on 2/11/14 at 6:24 pm to I-59 Tiger
Remember it quite well. The announcers for JP had a good time with it
Posted on 2/11/14 at 7:03 pm to LSU713
Awesome game. UK had a big goofy white center about the same time named Darren Locke or something like that. The students used to ride him without mercy too like that.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 9:07 am to FMTiger
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The students used to ride him without mercy too like that.
I have no idea how we, as students, had a good time at an LSU athletic event without chanting something that had the words "suck", "dick", or "bitch" in it. Amazing.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 11:22 am to FMTiger
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Awesome game. UK had a big goofy white center about the same time named Darren Locke or something like that. The students used to ride him without mercy too like that.
The students had fun with Vandy's Will Perdue, too.
ETA: LSU played an exhibition game against the Yugoslavian national team one time. They had a player named Yerkov, and the students would chang "Jerkoff, Jerkoff," whenever he got the ball.
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 11:24 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 11:58 am to Jim Rockford
Funny old Vandy taunt was for Barry Goheen (sp?), who had some crazy hair
Chants of "comb your hair, comb your hair, comb your hair" came from the student section...
Chants of "comb your hair, comb your hair, comb your hair" came from the student section...
Posted on 2/12/14 at 12:12 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Imagine Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory being 7 feet tall.
beastmode
Posted on 2/12/14 at 12:33 pm to LSU713
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Funny old Vandy taunt was for Barry Goheen (sp?), who had some crazy hair
Chants of "comb your hair, comb your hair, comb your hair" came from the student section...
Was he the one who had the ever-popular "butt-cut"? Or was he the short, wormy looking Jewish kid with the Jew-fro? (not that there is anything wrong with being Jewish)
Posted on 2/12/14 at 12:45 pm to Jim Rockford
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ETA: LSU played an exhibition game against the Yugoslavian national team one time. They had a player named Yerkov, and the students would chang "Jerkoff, Jerkoff," whenever he got the ball.
When I was a senior in HS (1983), LSU played Detlef Schrempf and the Washington Huskies in the Deaf Dome. The cry that night was "Dead Shrimp! Dead Shrimp!"
Posted on 2/12/14 at 6:53 pm to LSUGrad9295
Jew fro
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