Tuesday, January 29, 2008
FORMER LSU COACH DALE BROWN TO BE TOMORROW'S SPEAKER!
FORMER LSU COACH DALE BROWN TO BE TIPOFF SPEAKER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30
The Big Orange Tipoff Club is proud to announce its next scheduled meeting on Wednesday, January 30. The luncheon starts at 1 1 :15 a .m. , at Calhoun’s on the River in Downtown Knoxville, where a buffet will be served. Former LSU Head Coach Dale Brown will be the featured speaker.
Please plan to arrive as early as possible for this meeting. Calhoun’s will open the buffet line at 11:15 a.m. to accommodate what is expected to be another standing-room-only crowd, as this meeting will be held just after the men’s nationally televised game against Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Tennessee Men's Head Coach Bruce Pearl is also expected to say a few words about his team’s upcoming big road game against Mississippi State Saturday night and their big nationally televised home game next Tuesday night against Florida .
The fact that UT’s men’s basketball team is drawing capacity crowds and is ranked #1 nationally in the RPI, and that the Lady Vols are also at the same time ranked #1 in the RPI, will drive attendance upward for this meeting. A member of the Lady Vol staff will also be on hand to talk about their big nationally televised game they played at Duke Monday night, and also to preview their road trip to Ole Miss on Thursday and their home game against Kentucky on Sunday afternoon.
THIS WEEK’S SPEAKER: Coach Dale Brown is the only Southeastern Conference basketball coach to have appeared in 15 straight national tournaments. He is also the second winningest coach in SEC history, surpassed only by the legendary Adolph Rupp at Kentucky. His LSU teams won numerous SEC titles and appeared in two NCAA Final Fours. He was chosen twice as National Coach of the Year. Legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden has called him one of the most inspirational speakers and motivators in America.
Of Brown's players that attended at least 4 years at LSU, he had an 84% graduation rate. He was North Dakota's leading scorer in high school, and was the only athlete ever to earn 12 letters in basketball, football, and track combined at Minot State University in his home state. He has been inducted into both the North Dakota and Louisiana Sports Halls of Fame, as well as being named an SEC Living Legend. He retired after 44 years in coaching, 25 of which were as Head Coach of the LSU Tigers.
HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: The Tipoff Club will be hosting the Knox County boys and girls high school basketball players of the week, as we do weekly, who will be awarded certificates by The Knoxville News-Sentinel and will be honored along with their coaches.
PICK'N'WIN CONTEST: One lucky member each week will win prizes by participating in the club’s weekly Pick’N’Win Contest for only $1 and picking the winners of a selection of men’s and women’s SEC games. The club will have several surprise celebrity guests on hand regularly, including former players, coaches, and other nationally-known basketball personalities.
MEDIA INFORMATION: All media are invited to attend and will have the opportunity to record any portion of the meeting, ask questions of Coach Brown in a public forum at the conclusion of his remarks, and will be able to interview him, as time allows, on both a group and individual basis. Each of our meetings so far has been covered extensively by print and broadcast media. Local talk show hosts are planning live remote radio broadcasts for some meetings.
All media are also invited to call Media & Public Relations Director J. Mark Hancock at 522-8547 to schedule radio, television, and newspaper interviews with various members of the Big Orange Tipoff Club Board of Directors, including Lloyd B. Richardson, Charles W. Morgan, Barry J. Smith, Michael J. Turner, Christy Gentry, Kelly Pesterfield, Justin Cazana, Jim Darlington, and Club Historian R. Larry Smith regarding the club, its promotion of UT basketball, its purposes, its sponsoring of awards and contributions to scholarships, and its charitable endeavors in supporting college and amateur athletics in East Tennessee. Board of Directors members have been making radio and television appearances and doing newspaper interviews regularly, and are available for speaking engagements to any groups.
BUS ROAD TRIP TO ATHENS FOR THE U.T.-GEORGIA MEN’S GAME ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16: We are offering one of our very popular away game bus road trips to Athens on Saturday, February 16. The tipoff for that game will be at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
The trip would include roundtrip luxury motorcoach transportation, a ticket to the game, a box lunch, snacks (soft drinks, chips, etc.), and all taxes and tips, for only $100 per person. It will leave Knoxville on Saturday morning and return immediately after the game, so no one will have to miss work or church.
The trip will include video UT basketball highlights en route. Our previous day trip to Cincinnati for the Xavier men's game and overnight trip to Columbia for both the South Carolina men's and women's games proved to be wildly successful, and our overnight trip to the men's game in Memphis on Saturday, February 23, is already a sellout. Coach Pearl has indicated that he wants to have as many Vol fans as possible as "witnesses" to follow the team on the road, and the Big Orange Tipoff Club has answered that call. The trip to Georgia has always been our most popular, so don't be left out as we take over Stegeman Coliseum and make it a sea of Big Orange, as we have done the past two seasons.
Please e-mail us back immediately at tipoff@utfan.com or visit our website at www.utfan.com/tipoff if you have an interest in this trip. You can reserve your spot and pay for it with your credit card through the link we have provided to Paypal on our website and can also download the signup form and bring it with you to the meeting or mail it to us with your check. Time is of the essence and space is limited, as the game is a sellout and we have only a limited number of spots still available to sell.
You do NOT have to be a member of the club to go on the trip. Anyone is welcome and invited, including children. If you’ve never been on a road trip to follow the Vols, they are a lot of fun and this is your opportunity to do so. For more information on this trip, please call Lloyd Richardson at 588-5433, Mike Turner at 599-2959, or Barry Smith at 384-3412.
Even though the Memphis trip is a sellout, we will still put you on a waiting list if you use the convenient form that is attached to this email and send it to us with payment or download it from our website and bring it with you to our meeting Thursday or mail it to us. We will not cash your check until you are assured of a space.
NEXT WEEK’S SPEAKER: Next week’s Big Orange Tipoff Club meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 6, with Raycom TV analyst Joe Dean, Jr., former Kentucky assistant coach & Mississippi State player, & now the Athletics Director at Birmingham-Southern, as the featured speaker.
Other speakers to follow include former Lady Vol National Champion & Olympian Tamika Catchings, and former Tennessee Vol SEC Champion forward Steve Ray.
BIG ORANGE TIPOFF CLUB SEASON FINALE PRE-GAME BASH & GALA EVENING DINNER EVENT ON SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 1: The Big Orange Tipoff Club is proud to announce its season finale pre-game bash & evening dinner gala event Saturday evening, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. , at The Foundry at World’s Fair Park in Downtown Knoxville, where a buffet dinner will be served.
Please plan to arrive as early as possible for this meeting to avoid the crunch, as it will undoubtedly be a sellout, as each of our last two have been. The Foundry will open the cash bars at 6:00 p.m., and the buffet lines at 6:30 p.m. to accommodate what is expected to be an overflow standing-room-only crowd, as it will be on the eve of the big nationally-televised Tennessee-Kentucky men's basketball game at Thompson Boling Arena. The program starts promptly at 7:30 p.m., and will conclude by 9:00 p.m.
The UT cheerleaders and the Big Orange Banditos Band will be on hand as well, making it a festive pre-game pep rally. Dress is “game casual” and very informal. Just wear whatever you normally wear to a game, jeans, sweater, etc. We are also keeping prices so low that it is affordable for the whole family or you can bring all of your business clients. A special commemorative "thank you" collectible gift will be given to everyone that you don't want to miss.
Tickets are only $25 each and $250 for a reserved table of 10, and are now on sale. Many tables will be reserved by our corporate sponsors and space is limited. We expect this event to be a sellout, as it was the past two years, so please get your tickets early so that you won’t get left out.
A ticket order form for that event for you to print and mail, fax, or e-mail back, or bring it with you along with your check to this week's luncheon meeting to purchase your tickets, which will go fast, is available on our website, www.utfan.com/tipoff , where you can also buy tickets via Paypal with your credit card. We encourage you to get your order in as soon as possible to secure your seat.
UT Coach Bruce Pearl will be there to meet and greet everyone prior to the dinner and will say a few words prior to the big Tennessee-Kentucky home game that will be nationally televised at Noon on Sunday. We will also have UT Lady Vols representatives there as well before they go to Athens for their game with the Lady Bulldogs on Sunday night.
Parking will be free and plentiful. Roving photographers will be there to take individual, group, and candid photos that you will be able to purchase as souvenirs. We expect many former players to attend, as well as surprise celebrity guests.
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The Big Orange Tipoff Club is proud to announce its next scheduled meeting on Wednesday, January 30. The luncheon starts at 1 1 :15 a .m. , at Calhoun’s on the River in Downtown Knoxville, where a buffet will be served. Former LSU Head Coach Dale Brown will be the featured speaker.
Please plan to arrive as early as possible for this meeting. Calhoun’s will open the buffet line at 11:15 a.m. to accommodate what is expected to be another standing-room-only crowd, as this meeting will be held just after the men’s nationally televised game against Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Tennessee Men's Head Coach Bruce Pearl is also expected to say a few words about his team’s upcoming big road game against Mississippi State Saturday night and their big nationally televised home game next Tuesday night against Florida .
The fact that UT’s men’s basketball team is drawing capacity crowds and is ranked #1 nationally in the RPI, and that the Lady Vols are also at the same time ranked #1 in the RPI, will drive attendance upward for this meeting. A member of the Lady Vol staff will also be on hand to talk about their big nationally televised game they played at Duke Monday night, and also to preview their road trip to Ole Miss on Thursday and their home game against Kentucky on Sunday afternoon.
THIS WEEK’S SPEAKER: Coach Dale Brown is the only Southeastern Conference basketball coach to have appeared in 15 straight national tournaments. He is also the second winningest coach in SEC history, surpassed only by the legendary Adolph Rupp at Kentucky. His LSU teams won numerous SEC titles and appeared in two NCAA Final Fours. He was chosen twice as National Coach of the Year. Legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden has called him one of the most inspirational speakers and motivators in America.
Of Brown's players that attended at least 4 years at LSU, he had an 84% graduation rate. He was North Dakota's leading scorer in high school, and was the only athlete ever to earn 12 letters in basketball, football, and track combined at Minot State University in his home state. He has been inducted into both the North Dakota and Louisiana Sports Halls of Fame, as well as being named an SEC Living Legend. He retired after 44 years in coaching, 25 of which were as Head Coach of the LSU Tigers.
HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: The Tipoff Club will be hosting the Knox County boys and girls high school basketball players of the week, as we do weekly, who will be awarded certificates by The Knoxville News-Sentinel and will be honored along with their coaches.
PICK'N'WIN CONTEST: One lucky member each week will win prizes by participating in the club’s weekly Pick’N’Win Contest for only $1 and picking the winners of a selection of men’s and women’s SEC games. The club will have several surprise celebrity guests on hand regularly, including former players, coaches, and other nationally-known basketball personalities.
MEDIA INFORMATION: All media are invited to attend and will have the opportunity to record any portion of the meeting, ask questions of Coach Brown in a public forum at the conclusion of his remarks, and will be able to interview him, as time allows, on both a group and individual basis. Each of our meetings so far has been covered extensively by print and broadcast media. Local talk show hosts are planning live remote radio broadcasts for some meetings.
All media are also invited to call Media & Public Relations Director J. Mark Hancock at 522-8547 to schedule radio, television, and newspaper interviews with various members of the Big Orange Tipoff Club Board of Directors, including Lloyd B. Richardson, Charles W. Morgan, Barry J. Smith, Michael J. Turner, Christy Gentry, Kelly Pesterfield, Justin Cazana, Jim Darlington, and Club Historian R. Larry Smith regarding the club, its promotion of UT basketball, its purposes, its sponsoring of awards and contributions to scholarships, and its charitable endeavors in supporting college and amateur athletics in East Tennessee. Board of Directors members have been making radio and television appearances and doing newspaper interviews regularly, and are available for speaking engagements to any groups.
BUS ROAD TRIP TO ATHENS FOR THE U.T.-GEORGIA MEN’S GAME ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16: We are offering one of our very popular away game bus road trips to Athens on Saturday, February 16. The tipoff for that game will be at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
The trip would include roundtrip luxury motorcoach transportation, a ticket to the game, a box lunch, snacks (soft drinks, chips, etc.), and all taxes and tips, for only $100 per person. It will leave Knoxville on Saturday morning and return immediately after the game, so no one will have to miss work or church.
The trip will include video UT basketball highlights en route. Our previous day trip to Cincinnati for the Xavier men's game and overnight trip to Columbia for both the South Carolina men's and women's games proved to be wildly successful, and our overnight trip to the men's game in Memphis on Saturday, February 23, is already a sellout. Coach Pearl has indicated that he wants to have as many Vol fans as possible as "witnesses" to follow the team on the road, and the Big Orange Tipoff Club has answered that call. The trip to Georgia has always been our most popular, so don't be left out as we take over Stegeman Coliseum and make it a sea of Big Orange, as we have done the past two seasons.
Please e-mail us back immediately at tipoff@utfan.com or visit our website at www.utfan.com/tipoff if you have an interest in this trip. You can reserve your spot and pay for it with your credit card through the link we have provided to Paypal on our website and can also download the signup form and bring it with you to the meeting or mail it to us with your check. Time is of the essence and space is limited, as the game is a sellout and we have only a limited number of spots still available to sell.
You do NOT have to be a member of the club to go on the trip. Anyone is welcome and invited, including children. If you’ve never been on a road trip to follow the Vols, they are a lot of fun and this is your opportunity to do so. For more information on this trip, please call Lloyd Richardson at 588-5433, Mike Turner at 599-2959, or Barry Smith at 384-3412.
Even though the Memphis trip is a sellout, we will still put you on a waiting list if you use the convenient form that is attached to this email and send it to us with payment or download it from our website and bring it with you to our meeting Thursday or mail it to us. We will not cash your check until you are assured of a space.
NEXT WEEK’S SPEAKER: Next week’s Big Orange Tipoff Club meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 6, with Raycom TV analyst Joe Dean, Jr., former Kentucky assistant coach & Mississippi State player, & now the Athletics Director at Birmingham-Southern, as the featured speaker.
Other speakers to follow include former Lady Vol National Champion & Olympian Tamika Catchings, and former Tennessee Vol SEC Champion forward Steve Ray.
BIG ORANGE TIPOFF CLUB SEASON FINALE PRE-GAME BASH & GALA EVENING DINNER EVENT ON SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 1: The Big Orange Tipoff Club is proud to announce its season finale pre-game bash & evening dinner gala event Saturday evening, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. , at The Foundry at World’s Fair Park in Downtown Knoxville, where a buffet dinner will be served.
Please plan to arrive as early as possible for this meeting to avoid the crunch, as it will undoubtedly be a sellout, as each of our last two have been. The Foundry will open the cash bars at 6:00 p.m., and the buffet lines at 6:30 p.m. to accommodate what is expected to be an overflow standing-room-only crowd, as it will be on the eve of the big nationally-televised Tennessee-Kentucky men's basketball game at Thompson Boling Arena. The program starts promptly at 7:30 p.m., and will conclude by 9:00 p.m.
The UT cheerleaders and the Big Orange Banditos Band will be on hand as well, making it a festive pre-game pep rally. Dress is “game casual” and very informal. Just wear whatever you normally wear to a game, jeans, sweater, etc. We are also keeping prices so low that it is affordable for the whole family or you can bring all of your business clients. A special commemorative "thank you" collectible gift will be given to everyone that you don't want to miss.
Tickets are only $25 each and $250 for a reserved table of 10, and are now on sale. Many tables will be reserved by our corporate sponsors and space is limited. We expect this event to be a sellout, as it was the past two years, so please get your tickets early so that you won’t get left out.
A ticket order form for that event for you to print and mail, fax, or e-mail back, or bring it with you along with your check to this week's luncheon meeting to purchase your tickets, which will go fast, is available on our website, www.utfan.com/tipoff , where you can also buy tickets via Paypal with your credit card. We encourage you to get your order in as soon as possible to secure your seat.
UT Coach Bruce Pearl will be there to meet and greet everyone prior to the dinner and will say a few words prior to the big Tennessee-Kentucky home game that will be nationally televised at Noon on Sunday. We will also have UT Lady Vols representatives there as well before they go to Athens for their game with the Lady Bulldogs on Sunday night.
Parking will be free and plentiful. Roving photographers will be there to take individual, group, and candid photos that you will be able to purchase as souvenirs. We expect many former players to attend, as well as surprise celebrity guests.
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