Creative story about Coach Abe Lemons in the 80's

[theboys]

One you've probably heard, but bears repeating:

Shelby Metcalf, Texas A&M basketball coach, when told by one of his players that the player had all F's and one D in has classes, replied, "Well, it looks like to me you're spending too much time on one class, son."

[Texas Aggie]

Lemmons was a character, all right, in a conference (at the time) that had its share of them. I don't know if Lemmons really said all that stuff he's quoted as, but after retirement he did give speeches at officials' functions. I think he spoke at one of our (Texas) state meetings for basketball in the early '90s -- one that I didn't attend.

He definitely had a sense of humor and didn't take things too seriously.