Last night we attended the
Coaches vs. Cancer event downtown at the College Basketball Experience part of the Sprint Center. We went
last year and decided we would keep coming back! The surrounding area coaches (KSU, KU, MU & UMKC) attend for a meet and greet, as well as a brief question and answer session. They provide appetizers, which were delicious by the way, and most importantly there's a bar. We happen to have friends on the board which happened to have a pocket full of drink tickets. This combined well with the silent auction and all of the fun KSU stuff up for grabs. Tony's name was written down for about 4 different things. We 'won' the KSU basketball signed by all of the 2010-2011 players, which of coarse includes my little Pullen and cutie patootie McGruder. John and Erin scored the
sneakers that we got last year signed by Frank for little Wally's room. Presh. Some guy was lingering around that station waiting to jump in at the last moment and win the bid... the lady in charge swooped right in a took the paper before he had a chance to outbid the Brockus'... he was pissed. We all laughed :)
Unfortunately we didn't get the chance to take a picture with Frank this year. There was about twice as many people in attendance this year and he had his son with him after the Q&A session. You may be surprised that I didn't ask him to put his son down for a picture with us... don't get me wrong, I thought about it... but fought the urge. Sadly you all will not be receiving another Frank, Willy & The Lines Christmas card. That one's gonna be hard to beat...
Here's John and Erin with the UMKC mascot. Willy wasn't there this year and that made me mad. I love Willy. Post to come on that. However, neither was Baby J which I could give a damn about.
Q&A Session with Norm Stuart. L to R: Mike Anderson, UMKC coach (Sarah can tell you his name :) ), Bill Self, and FRANK!
Yes I know my camera takes terrible pictures...
Just bein' Beasley...
Did I tell you I met him once? At Pizza Hut. He was thrilled to take his picture with us, see?
Erin bein' Beas...
I really wish this was a KSU and a KU player...
You know what they say about big feet... sick, I apologize for that comment.
This is the Coach's ball, ours looks the same except with all of the player's signatures in purple.
It was such a fun night and I'm excited to see how big it gets next year. I highly recommend it. It's for such a great cause that has affected each and every one of us in some way or another. Prayers and more research are very much needed.
