Dontae Jones in flight at NEMCC
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Interestingly enough, 32 was also the number of credit hours he passed at NEMCC the summer before coming to State.
That’s Dr. Dontae Jones. I’m getting really tired of having to remind you guys of this.
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I remember hearing before the '96 season that he could grab a quarter off the top of the backboard. Pretty sure he hit is head on the rim in a couple of games that season.
Regarding the quarter thing, I've heard that said about a lot of people but I've never actually seen it. There was a guy that played at Memphis named Michael Wilson who was in the Guiness Book of World Records for highest vertical leap and he went on to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, and even he couldn't do that.
I went to a game at Northeast to see him play. My dad and I were up in the bleachers, higher than 10 feet off the floor.
On one two-handed dunk, Jones got so high his arms and shoulders were plumb level with the rim. That absolutely happened. I saw it with my own eyes.
On one two-handed dunk, Jones got so high his arms and shoulders were plumb level with the rim. That absolutely happened. I saw it with my own eyes.
He later got his graduate degree in aeronautical engineering with Vick Ballard.*
You left out the best part I always heard about players that had such leaping ability as they could make change for the quarter
Seems like a pretty difficult thing to prove, even if you could do it. How long would it take to put the 17ing thing there in the first place?
That was a good year to be a student and a State basketball fan.
I don't know about quarters, but there was a guy in my fraternity that sold him a lot of dime bags
Imagine students camping overnight outside the hump for tix now. Electronic tickets will never feel as good as walking out of there excited that you had gotten your ticket. Great times!
To actually grab a quarter off the backboard you would have to get at least let's say 4" over the top. That's 13' 4". With a long wingspan a 6'7" dude will have a standing reach of 9' max. To grab a quarter that beans you need a 52" vertical which would be a world record... To have that, the height, and the wingspan. Nope.
Here's video of a guy touching the top of the backboard. He's 6'10" with a 9'3" standing reach and 47" vertical. It's apparently the only video of it ever happening.
Here's video of a guy touching the top of the backboard. He's 6'10" with a 9'3" standing reach and 47" vertical. It's apparently the only video of it ever happening.
Seems pretty easy to prove.
use a ladder to put a quarter there
video a guy jumping up and taking it down
One magic moment he did indeed have in the spring of 1996.
Shortly after the final 4, I saw at the MEM airport with an entourage. He and many others were piling out a nice suv, he was wearing a fur coat. I know he was never coming back at that point.
Shortly after the final 4, I saw at the MEM airport with an entourage. He and many others were piling out a nice suv, he was wearing a fur coat. I know he was never coming back at that point.
I don’t think its common to just leave ladders laying around basketball practice facilities and arenas for shíts and gigs. That was kind of my point. Not to mention that for that height, you’d need an extension ladder and not a common A-frame.
He was in my freshman dorm hathorn. He got there two weeks late and never appeared again after that.
Remember for 1 season everybody in youth basketball was wearing those high calf white socks
If I could grab quarters off the top of the back board, It would be really really easy for me to get a ladder, set it up and video it. REALLY REALLY EASY.
I knew the one “professor” (is that a knock on community college versus an international grad student teacher?) who stood her ground and brought the system down. She passed away last fall. Suffice it to say, she won her suit quickly, but should have received so much more. The corruption was pervasive and evil.
I’m unaware of any untimely deaths of anyone else in the process. Perhaps I’m uninformed?
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The subsequent teacher overdose deaths and teachers convicted of felonies were completely unrelated to Dontae Jones. I was just reinforcing the fact that 9 times out of 10 nemcc hired shittay “instructors” and that was made obvious by the downfalls.
I’ll have to do some research. News to me. I’d say the statistics were/are likely closer to 2 out of 10 and statistically comparable to anything hired at a university. I’d argue MS Comm. College education as part of an individual pursuing a subsequent bachelor’s degree is second to none. I realize there are huge discrepancies between those colleges within the State.
Knocking out the 2-year basics with a 50-year old, 15-year educator with a MS State doctoral graduate vs. an instructor grading papers under a pretentious department head with a master’s from the Bangladesh School of Science and Technology (English as a fourth language is an added bonus) is a pretty easy decision.
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That seems like a lifetime ago. Jones’ was the closest watched recruitment of a basketball player in my memory. Dude was a legend before he stepped foot on campus.