Today is the 5th annual student-faculty basketball game. The first three games were on the floor of the United Center about an hour before a Bulls game. Then the Bulls got greedy and started requiring too high a guarantee for both # of tickets and ticket. The game was then switched to the Loyola basketball arena on campus, fittingly called the Gentile Center. Its 2-2 with the last faculty victory coming on a thrilling and utterly random three pointer I made a couple of years ago.
There are three problems with the continuing viability of the faculty team. First, we keep getting older and the students on average do not. Second, a shockingly large number of students in law student seem to played college ball, other varsity sports and/or elite high school ball. The faculty does have a visitor from practice who played college ball at Princeton at the beginning of time but the students have players from Loyola, Grinell, Princeton and Wake Forest from the recent past. Finally, you can't teach height and I have been singularly unsuccessful in convincing my colleagues to recruit for both publication and above average height.
We do have going for us the intimidation factor, the fact that most students have had no time play for over a year, our ability to threaten dire academic consequences, a dean referee who cheats outrageously for us, and the daughter of a different dean who is the starting point guard for the Loyola women's team. Plus for the first time my daughter will be joining me in the back court a mere three weeks since her season as a starter for her high schools freshman team.
The sweet part is that the students mostly just want to hang out with us and go out for a beer afterwards.
Do you guys have anything similar? And if you are either tall or good can you join us next year?
Nothing of the sort. It is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteWe made it close with the help of some 3Ls who were designated "faculty" members for the day but ultimately lost 30-25. I had 5 points including the first 3 pointer of the game. Fun to play with my daughter in hte back court for a couple of minutes.
ReplyDeleteNothing of the sort at Brooklyn. Even the student/faculty softball game has died off. The only friendly competition is the revived "Race Judicata." Last year I offered to pony up a dollar for the designated charity for every student who beat me. I think I ended up paying $11. :-) Unfortunately, Derek Bambauer, a young tike on the faculty went past me at two miles.
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