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The time Shug Jordan bailed out the UGA basketball team.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:28 pm
I forgot that Shug coached B'Ball at Georgia before coming to Auburn. This is a pretty funny story.
Shug bails out UGA basketball team
Shug bails out UGA basketball team
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Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:31 pm to AUCatfish
Auburn men have been reforming TPOS UGA people for decades
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:32 pm to AUCatfish
Great story.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:33 pm to Pettifogger
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Auburn men have been reforming TPOS UGA people for decades
It seems to be our raison d'être.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:34 pm to AUCatfish
UGA players selling shite they got for free to turn a profit: An ongoing tradition since 1946.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:34 pm to AUCatfish
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:36 pm to joeyb147
I like the fact that Shug didn't know what a point spread was.... 
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:43 pm to AUCatfish
Wonder what they were trying to sell them for? A dime? Maybe a quarter.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:47 pm to WG_Dawg
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UGA players selling shite they got for free to turn a profit: An ongoing tradition since 1946.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:48 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
Hell, you could probably get a couple of beers and a hooker for .25 back in 1946. We should ask scrooster, I think he was like 50 then.
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Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:48 pm to beatbammer
I can poke a little fun at my school on occasion. I just try not to do it too often ha.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:50 pm to AUCatfish
From the article:
Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp said Shug was “as fine a football coach as he was a basketball coach.”
Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp said Shug was “as fine a football coach as he was a basketball coach.”
Posted on 2/24/15 at 1:51 pm to AUCatfish
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We should as scrooster, I think he was like 50 then.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:11 pm to AUCatfish
Fun fact: until Joe B Hall won his 271st basketball game at Kentucky in 1984, Ralph "Shug" Jordan held the SEC record for most varsity men's basketball and/or football victories as an HC at his alma mater (95 basketball wins + 175 football wins).
Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:13 pm to AUCatfish
I really need to read a book about Shug's life. Sounds as though he had an amazing one.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:39 pm to flyAU
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I really need to read a book about Shug's life. Sounds as though he had an amazing one.
Maybe one of you Aubies can elaborate but wasn't Shug a decorated war vet?
Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:47 pm to AlwysATgr
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Maybe one of you Aubies can elaborate but wasn't Shug a decorated war vet?
Yep.
Before he was named head coach of the Auburn University football team, before he led the Tigers to a record 176 wins, before he was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame, then-Capt. Ralph “Shug” Jordan was one of 156,000 troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
“I think about him every year about this time. A lot of people’s fathers left and didn’t come home,” Jordan’s son, Ralph Jordan Jr., said. “…We’re losing that generation. They’re almost gone.”
A member of the U.S. Army’s First Engineer Special Brigade, Jordan was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his action during the invasion.
“Coach Jordan was a war hero,” said longtime friend Wheeler Foshee, who met Jordan at Auburn in 1953. “He was also an excellent football coach.”
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Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:51 pm to Pettifogger
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Before he was named head coach of the Auburn University football team, before he led the Tigers to a record 176 wins, before he was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame, then-Capt. Ralph “Shug” Jordan was one of 156,000 troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
“I think about him every year about this time. A lot of people’s fathers left and didn’t come home,” Jordan’s son, Ralph Jordan Jr., said. “…We’re losing that generation. They’re almost gone.”
A member of the U.S. Army’s First Engineer Special Brigade, Jordan was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his action during the invasion.
“Coach Jordan was a war hero,” said longtime friend Wheeler Foshee, who met Jordan at Auburn in 1953. “He was also an excellent football coach.”
Thanks Pettifogger. This is great stuff.
Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:58 pm to AUCatfish
Interesting. Did not know that about him
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