re: What was campus like when Shaq was here?

Shaq was fun. Yes, we knew but of course, didn't really know. He would hit the clubs and not drink. Was almost always with a teammate or two and would always dance and join in on the fun. 100's memorable encounters...still recognized me at Orlando but we've crossed paths a couple times in the past couple years and doesn't anymore...he was definitely not a recluse.

- Remember car with missing front seat, he sat in back seat
- Think the statute of limitations is up but wanted beer in Broussard hall for visitors and guess who obliged.

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That was Gert Hamminks role

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Very much so and before him Antonio Vargas.....the big guy was hilarious

Maurice Williamson though could party with the best of them. When he and Stanley were Prop 8 and sitting out, they lived in an apartment across from one of my fraternity brothers and they became real good fiends. Stanley and Maurice as well as Lenear Burns were regulars at the House.......learned a lot about college basketball from them. Daddy Dale was not as "clean" as you might think. Great dudes though

Campus was fun and relaxed back then. I had classes with Shaq and lots of other athletes. Shaq would attend class, and take notes etc. Mostly I remember them all being 'real' dudes that you could shoot the shite with like anyone else, they just happened to be more recognizable.

Don't remember anyone being a real primadonna, even guys like Hodson (star QB) were generally friendly and you could drink a beer together.

I hate what Simmons did, because he missed out on a lot of good memories that no amount of money can buy. But who knows, maybe the current student body is different too, and wouldn't allow him to have a life.

My favorite......Watching Pistol Pete

I am a witness

the campus was not as big and the trees were not as old

I still have a cassette tape in which I recorded Shaq calling into Z98 in 1990 and requesting a Mariah Carey song.

I was at a party back around 92 and he came in... largest human being I had ever seen in person. I remember he was wearing a hat that said FU SCHNICKENS

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we were the group that started the chant of HOMOSEXUAL to Laetner like the FSU chant

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we chanted "we eat pizza, we drink beer, duke blue devils, F YOU BITCH." just keep in mind that was when i was a heathen

bonus:

"ollie's got a big ole butt, oh yeah. ollie's got a big ole butt. ollie's got a big ole butt, oh yeah. ollie's got a big ole butt."

dwayne schintzius anybody?

Shaq would go to the Blimpie by Murphy’s and take down two full sized hero subs like it was nothing

He had a turntable set up in his room and you could hear him spinning from the sidewalks outside Broussard Hall

He had a used 1991 Ford Explorer he bought at Hub City Ford and they took the drivers seat out and then re-Bolted it to the floor almost in the back of the vehicle where his bass woofers were

Maurice Williamson would have been an All SEC WR if he played football. Dude was a beast at only 5’11

Stanley was a nice guy but he was kind of shy and didn’t say much

There was a huge fight between the football players and the basketball players that Shaq was in the middle of. There was a peace summit between Curley and Dale that got a lot of publicity

Chris Jackson’s GF was a drop dead gorgeous light skinned girl, easily the most beautiful black girl on campus and Top 5 of all of the girls. She drove some kind of convertible, think it was a VW Golf or VW Jetta

We used to play On the outdoor courts on the 9ft rims behind UHIGH at night

We camped out for Duke, that was cool

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Well, there was Greg "cookie monster" Cook and Jose Vargas - those two guys stirred up a lot of fans.

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cookie MAN not monster..RIP