So many great memories of this guy from Crum's earliest teams. Louisville kid who always left everything on the court.
RIP Wes and thanks for the memories
RIP Wes and thanks for the memories
RIP Wesley Cox
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RIP Wesley. One of my all time favorites. !! Thanks for being a Cardinal..
I'm glad to hear this about the Program honoring Wes tonight.
Plenty of guys around town named after this guy. I know 2 of their fathers personally. I just wish younger fans had a chance to watch him play.
My freshman year at UofL was Wesley’s senior year when they made it to the Final Four in San Diego and lost in OT to Wooden’s last UCLA team. He was the heart and soul of that great Cardinals team.
Crawford made a great point about Wes being a big part of why Griff and Turner ending up at Belknap instead of going somewhere else.
I'd love to see PK find those Louisville kids that are in the mold of undersized forwards that went to war in the paint,fighting for everything they got. They're out there.
I remember Wes playing center for us when Stanley Bunton became ineligible at 6’6” he could hold his own against bigger opponents.
Sutton was the name that I couldn't come up with. Him and Wes cut out of that same cloth.
No telling how great he would have been without that darn asthma he had.
Next to Griff, he is my all time favorite Cards player.
Next to Griff, he is my all time favorite Cards player.
Well said Mayoman!
Interesting story about Wesley; during the Indiana vs Kentucky HS AllStar game, Jock Sutherland was doing the color analysis on the radio. The highly competitive Jock called Wes out for “dogging it” during the game, as he was slow getting back down the court on the defensive end. So much so, Jock went on to question Wes attitude during part of his early time at UL.
No one, including UL realized until well into his sophomore season that Wes suffered from acute asthma, to the point where he was getting less than 50% of his oxygen. Once Jock was told that Wes was diagnoses as asthmatic, he apologized profusely to Wes and UL fans for his failure to understand just how much it affected his performance.
Denny told a group of us some years after Wes graduated from UL, that he believed that Cox was as talented as any player that he had ever coached, including Griffith.
Interesting story about Wesley; during the Indiana vs Kentucky HS AllStar game, Jock Sutherland was doing the color analysis on the radio. The highly competitive Jock called Wes out for “dogging it” during the game, as he was slow getting back down the court on the defensive end. So much so, Jock went on to question Wes attitude during part of his early time at UL.
No one, including UL realized until well into his sophomore season that Wes suffered from acute asthma, to the point where he was getting less than 50% of his oxygen. Once Jock was told that Wes was diagnoses as asthmatic, he apologized profusely to Wes and UL fans for his failure to understand just how much it affected his performance.
Denny told a group of us some years after Wes graduated from UL, that he believed that Cox was as talented as any player that he had ever coached, including Griffith.
I went to Male HS with Henry Bacon and met Wes early on, and had numerous interactions with him over the years.
He was always a humble gentleman on every occasion.
He was a great person as well as BB players.
He will be missed.
He was always a humble gentleman on every occasion.
He was a great person as well as BB players.
He will be missed.