Tim Couch the basketball player

[CELTICAT]

Curious if anyone remembers Couch’s basketball days, particularly his senior year where he lead the state in scoring at 36 points per game. Based on this article from KHSAA, linked below, sounds like he had a solid outside game. Have always been curious what kind of player he was. Obviously with over 3,000 points, he could play.

Tim Couch glory days.

Anyone remember and have some insight?

 

[Blue_2_the_bone_rivals]

Curious if anyone remembers Couch’s basketball days, particularly his senior year where he lead the state in scoring at 36 points per game. Based on this article from KHSAA, linked below, sounds like he had a solid outside game. Have always been curious what kind of player he was. Obviously with over 3,000 points, he could play.

Tim Couch glory days.

Anyone remember and have some insight?

Yeah. He was a stud. I watched him play. Fantastic rebounder, great at dunking lobs and putbacks, and a decent shooter. He was what you expect a D-1 athlete to be. Biggest thing to me was his mean streak. He was rough. Got into a few brawls on the court, one during district tournament I believe. I’ll never forget seeing a license plate on a vehicle and asking who in the world is that. License plate said “panty dropper”. It was his. lol

 

[akaukswoosh]

He was good. So was football TE Derek Smith. Both thought they might walk on to the UK basketball team but that’s just too difficult.

 

[Anon1658882690]

He pretty much played to stay in shape for football.. He was the pg and soon as he crossed half court he steph curry'd it.. Never took that sport real serious though.. He had one hell of a party at old continental inn his sr year at the sweet 16 though,, lol..

 

[littlecreek]

He was good. So was football TE Derek Smith. Both thought they might walk on to the UK basketball team but that’s just too difficult.

Jared Lorenzen was good as Smith's teammate in HS too. I believe Smith played basketball for Northern Kentucky after he left Kentucky. They played against Kentucky one year early in the season.

 

[NociHTTP]

I'm really surprised the local DMV allowed that

 

[chattanoogawildcat]

Thanks for the read op!

 

[zoid1]

Ya Couch was a great athlete in fball and bball. I graduated around the same year as him but I think he lead the state in scoring as a Junior at 36 ppg, soph 28 ppg and senior he was at 25 ppg due to ankle sprain and he was basically the best QB in HS in the nation and didn't wanna get a major injury in bball. He knew by his Senior year he had the body of a NFL QB at 6-5 225. Probably could of lead the state in scoring at around 40 ppg his Senior year if he stuck with basketball full time and went to UK and definitely played a lot for Pitino.

 

[Mike-D]

License plate said “panty dropper”. It was his. lol

Yeah, I don't think you get that many characters, but I'm sure he finagled it in somehow.

 

[Blue_2_the_bone_rivals]

Yeah, I don't think you get that many characters, but I'm sure he finagled it in somehow.

It was a tag on the front. lol

 

[BBBLazing]

He was a world class athlete at 6'5" in the 14th region, he was going to put up numbers. Probably could have been on some D1 basketball teams, but he chose correctly playing football.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

Yeah, I don't think you get that many characters, but I'm sure he finagled it in somehow.

PNTYDRPR

 

[jeffky]

I'm really surprised the local DMV allowed that

 

[Fat-so]

Yeah. He was a stud. I watched him play. Fantastic rebounder, great at dunking lobs and putbacks, and a decent shooter. He was what you expect a D-1 athlete to be. Biggest thing to me was his mean streak. He was rough. Got into a few brawls on the court, one during district tournament I believe. I’ll never forget seeing a license plate on a vehicle and asking who in the world is that. License plate said “panty dropper”. It was his. lol

He married a nice lady who was kind enough to drop them for the whole world in playboy.

 

[TTTblue24]

Played against him in the 14th, so strong and could shoot from anywhere. We beat them his jr year, my sr year & he had 30+ but I held my own lol. He liked to jab at guys but could take it as well, only would get mad when others took it too far. They were fouling at end of the game to put us on the ft line and I was shooting 2 when he and his buddies started talking about my hair & mustache (rem this was 1995, & my stache was nice btw) but I made the first ft……stepped in the lane cause it was only Leslie players on the line and said “you boys don’t get laid often do you”. He got a chuckle and then I sank the 2nd ft & we won by 10 or so. But he was a great ball player and could have played power 5 D1 for sure.

 

[mrhotdice]

Curious if anyone remembers Couch’s basketball days, particularly his senior year where he lead the state in scoring at 36 points per game. Based on this article from KHSAA, linked below, sounds like he had a solid outside game. Have always been curious what kind of player he was. Obviously with over 3,000 points, he could play.

Tim Couch glory days.

Anyone remember and have some insight?

Its him being an player in all sports. When it takes yrars to play golf, thr golf swing comes easy. Many PGA players were grezt in other high school sports.

 

[Aike]

Never played with him, but played some pickup games with his brother at EKU. Also a nice player, but not nearly as tall.

 

[smallmouthhog]

I was in Little Rock in 98 when Mumme was the coach and Leach was the O Coordinater. The game Leach talked about being the luodest of any stadium he was ever in. Couch threw for 499 and KY had the lead most of the game. David Barrtt picked one off that got the swing going for our comeback. The place was rocking at the end. Couch was unreal.

 

[bballcat4]

Btt

 

[true-blue1]

He was an average basketball player. Good guy though.

 

[saxonburgcat]

This thread reminds me of the time I was an adult chap for a church youth group. We entered a tournament that allowed all ages to play. I was thrilled to be playing beside the local HS basketball star who would later play college bball. Many of these kids are so multi-dimensional. From the first set on I realized this wasn't true in his case. He was really really bad.

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

I was in Little Rock in 98 when Mumme was the coach and Leach was the O Coordinater. The game Leach talked about being the luodest of any stadium he was ever in. Couch threw for 499 and KY had the lead most of the game. David Barrtt picked one off that got the swing going for our comeback. The place was rocking at the end. Couch was unreal.

I was there. We were up 20-7 at War Memorial then Mike Major really implemented his defense.