List: Top 20 most hated college basketball players ever

thebigabd said:
Marcus Smart, Byron Eaton, Gabe Muoneke, Jason Sutherland, Brian Boddicker, and that Luke Axel guy who played for both Kansas and Texas.
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Eaton? What'd he ever do?

Boddiker, Thomas, Klotz...hell the entire 2004 Texas team...Bookout, I'm not liking Kelly Oubre at the moment, Laetner, I don't like Perry Ellis
 
Byron Houston was a borderline dirty player. He knew how to clear out with his elbows back when it was legal. I don't believe he ever got in a fight though. I always thought Brooks Thompson was a cocky SOB.
 
Dignon003 said:
Eaton? What'd he ever do?

Boddiker, Thomas, Klotz...hell the entire 2004 Texas team...Bookout, I'm not liking Kelly Oubre at the moment, Laetner, I don't like Perry Ellis
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Yeah Eaton doesn't strike me as particularly "hateable." I get the Marcus Smart hate.

Jason Sutherland definitely wins the title for the most hated player in the history of the Big 8/12. EVERYBODY hated him.
 
scrybe said:
BOB: I love your hatred for anything chickenhawk.
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Thanks...I really can't help it. I've always ALWAYS hated KU in basketball. My daughter, who was born in Kansas, actually wanted a KU shirt a few months back so I bought it for her. If I support it, then it will pass, but if I'm against it then she will like them just to spite me. It's painful.
 
SuperHoops said:
Byron Houston was a borderline dirty player. He knew how to clear out with his elbows back when it was legal. I don't believe he ever got in a fight though. I always thought Brooks Thompson was a cocky SOB.
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John Potter was really dirty too. I camped at Billy Tubbs camp in 85 with him, and got to know him really well. He was a really good player and a really nice guy. Saw him at Falls Creek a few weeks later and was again really nice. Then when he went to OSU he became the spawn of satan with some of his dirty plays. I never understood why he changed so much.
 
sheepdogs1 said:
Rodman was a bit of an unknown for most when in college.
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I'm betting Rodman would still make the list, because fans knew him from his NBA days.

Bill Laimbeer is another player who had quite a reputation during his pro career. Tyler Hansbrough wasn't well liked in college, mainly due to his playing style. You'd better believe every ACC fan except for the Tarheels hated his guts.
 
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Jason Klotz

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Brian Boddicker

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Chris Mihm
 
Someone mentioned how The Flopper was probably hated more for the overhype than things he did on the court. That was pretty much the only reason that students in my day hated KU's Darnell Valentine. He never did anything obnoxious himself, but the media overkill was as bad or worse for Valentine than it was for Smart. I remember he put up numbers that weren't much better than Isaiah Cousins' figures this year, and Valentine still made some All-America teams in '80.
 
Gabe Muoneke was the dirtiest player I have seen in college basketball. Just wasn't that well known outside of the Big 12.
 
NMSooner'80 said:
Someone mentioned how The Flopper was probably hated more for the overhype than things he did on the court. That was pretty much the only reason that students in my day hated KU's Darnell Valentine. He never did anything obnoxious himself, but the media overkill was as bad or worse for Valentine than it was for Smart. I remember he put up numbers that weren't much better than Isaiah Cousins' figures this year, and Valentine still made some All-America teams in '80.
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And he had a decent pro career.
 
I can't believe no one mentioned Danny Manning. Add in Milt Newton from that team. For me they are the Sqwak standouts and I've had them crammed down my throat for almost 45 years. I can't stand them. You might as well toss in Max Falkenstein, Bullhorn Bob Davis, and Greg Gurley Man. As well as Easy Ed Hightower..There have been others I disliked just for the fact they were so good. Living in Vegas for 15 years eased the daily pain as well as their last NC. Nothing takes away 1988.

Doug Smith was a killer for MU. It seemed as if he was there for ten years. Stepho and Sunvold killed us when Wayman was here and we couldn't beat them. Throw in Norm and Boomer Bain as possibly the worst fan base ever and they're easy to hate.

I never had a problem with Redding. I didn't like Kruger because he was so good. He was an assassian. The one I couldn't stand was Hartman. The only solace I got from him was that Billy Ball and Johnny Orr drove him crazy.
 
KCRuf/Nek said:
I can't believe no one mentioned Danny Manning. Add in Milt Newton from that team. For me they are the Sqwak standouts and I've had them crammed down my throat for almost 45 years. I can't stand them. You might as well toss in Max Falkenstein, Bullhorn Bob Davis, and Greg Gurley Man. As well as Easy Ed Hightower..There have been others I disliked just for the fact they were so good. Living in Vegas for 15 years eased the daily pain as well as their last NC. Nothing takes away 1988.

Doug Smith was a killer for MU. It seemed as if he was there for ten years. Stepho and Sunvold killed us when Wayman was here and we couldn't beat them. Throw in Norm and Boomer Bain as possibly the worst fan base ever and they're easy to hate.

I never had a problem with Redding. I didn't like Kruger because he was so good. He was an assassian. The one I couldn't stand was Hartman. The only solace I got from him was that Billy Ball and Johnny Orr drove him crazy.
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I read somewhere that Max Falkenstein flat-out lied when asked about the "net cutting controversy of 1984," when he said KU never did anything like that in Norman. I'll trust Billy Tubbs' re-hash of that story (it was on that "Reunion" show where he mentioned the Beakers' net-cutting in '83 in Norman after they won a shocker in the Big 8 first-round).

But the WORST had to be that idiot from the Lawrence paper, Chuck Woodling - the one that trashed Wayman Tisdale after his death by repeating the blatant lies about what the OU team allegedly did at the Phog that night in '84. The KC paper was also bad - and branded those kids on the OU team from that era as a bunch of criminals (in so many words).
 
NMSooner'80 said:
I read somewhere that Max Falkenstein flat-out lied when asked about the "net cutting controversy of 1984," when he said KU never did anything like that in Norman. I'll trust Billy Tubbs' re-hash of that story (it was on that "Reunion" show where he mentioned the Beakers' net-cutting in '83 in Norman after they won a shocker in the Big 8 first-round).

But the WORST had to be that idiot from the Lawrence paper, Chuck Woodling - the one that trashed Wayman Tisdale after his death by repeating the blatant lies about what the OU team allegedly did at the Phog that night in '84. The KC paper was also bad - and branded those kids on the OU team from that era as a bunch of criminals (in so many words).
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I like KU ,the school. I went there for a year. Great campus, mascot, etc. Love AFH as a venue. I just can't stand living around their fans and having their teams shoved down my throats. I turn off the radio and TV and ignore anything about them in the papers - especially the KU Star.

MU and KSU aren't far behind. I'm going to watch the women play Saturday and KSU might have the whiniest fans ever.
 
NMSooner'80 said:
I read somewhere that Max Falkenstein flat-out lied when asked about the "net cutting controversy of 1984," when he said KU never did anything like that in Norman. I'll trust Billy Tubbs' re-hash of that story (it was on that "Reunion" show where he mentioned the Beakers' net-cutting in '83 in Norman after they won a shocker in the Big 8 first-round).

But the WORST had to be that idiot from the Lawrence paper, Chuck Woodling - the one that trashed Wayman Tisdale after his death by repeating the blatant lies about what the OU team allegedly did at the Phog that night in '84. The KC paper was also bad - and branded those kids on the OU team from that era as a bunch of criminals (in so many words).
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I posted a few years ago the local radio station in KC, 810, interviewed Falkenstein after he retired and asked him about the incident. One of the producers on 810 is an OU grad. He said they never cut the nets down in the LNC and the coach previous to Larry Brown would never allow that. What he didn't realize or had forgotten is that was that coaches last win at KU as he had already resigned under pressure and he was an OU grad.

If Falkenstein is still alive he must have alzheimers because it did happen. My brother was there.
 
KCRuf/Nek said:
I can't believe no one mentioned Danny Manning. Add in Milt Newton from that team. For me they are the Sqwak standouts and I've had them crammed down my throat for almost 45 years. I can't stand them. You might as well toss in Max Falkenstein, Bullhorn Bob Davis, and Greg Gurley Man. As well as Easy Ed Hightower..There have been others I disliked just for the fact they were so good. Living in Vegas for 15 years eased the daily pain as well as their last NC. Nothing takes away 1988.

Doug Smith was a killer for MU. It seemed as if he was there for ten years. Stepho and Sunvold killed us when Wayman was here and we couldn't beat them. Throw in Norm and Boomer Bain as possibly the worst fan base ever and they're easy to hate.

I never had a problem with Redding. I didn't like Kruger because he was so good. He was an assassian. The one I couldn't stand was Hartman. The only solace I got from him was that Billy Ball and Johnny Orr drove him crazy.
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I said every player who's ever played for KU and that includes all the above.
 
Big Old Booger said:
Thanks...I really can't help it. I've always ALWAYS hated KU in basketball. My daughter, who was born in Kansas, actually wanted a KU shirt a few months back so I bought it for her. If I support it, then it will pass, but if I'm against it then she will like them just to spite me. It's painful.
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I feel your pain.
 
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