SIAP-another OLD Bradley recruiting story
I am sorry if this is bad timing to bring up another old BU story, a day after a very nice win vs Drake.
The reason for the timing of this post is that I just found out that Chico Vaughn died last October-I am afraid that word of Illinois basketball greats doesn't get to Cape Cod very fast.
I thought a few on this site would find the below SI article from 1963 interesting:
Vaughn was the leading scorer in Illinois HS basketball history from Cairo
Vaughn went on to be the leading scorer in Southern Illinois basketball history too, before a nice career in the NBA with the St Louis Hawks
Below is a link to the 1963 Sports Illustrated article that highlights Vaughn's very short stay at Bradley(Coach Orsborn initially won the recruiting battle for Chico) in the 'wild west' days of recruiting before Letters of Intent
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1075474/index.htm
Vaughn was on campus and set to register at Bradley and Orsborn had assigned a BU player to watch over him until registration. There was nothing 'innocent' about the concern that BU had regarding a recruit(even one already on campus) back in those wild west recruiting days.
Vaughn disappeared -spirited away to Dayton. But before Dayton could enroll him, Chico was again 'led' away-this time to Southern Illinois
The SI article states that BU's recruitment of Chet Walker was only initiated in response to losing Vaughn(but my understanding is the two weren't related).
BU was hoping(and planning) to have both Walker and Vaughn in their recruiting class.
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/c...cle_b083ee46-3db0-11e3-8a8a-0019bb2963f4.html
I am sorry if this is bad timing to bring up another old BU story, a day after a very nice win vs Drake.
The reason for the timing of this post is that I just found out that Chico Vaughn died last October-I am afraid that word of Illinois basketball greats doesn't get to Cape Cod very fast.
I thought a few on this site would find the below SI article from 1963 interesting:
Vaughn was the leading scorer in Illinois HS basketball history from Cairo
Vaughn went on to be the leading scorer in Southern Illinois basketball history too, before a nice career in the NBA with the St Louis Hawks
Below is a link to the 1963 Sports Illustrated article that highlights Vaughn's very short stay at Bradley(Coach Orsborn initially won the recruiting battle for Chico) in the 'wild west' days of recruiting before Letters of Intent
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1075474/index.htm
Vaughn was on campus and set to register at Bradley and Orsborn had assigned a BU player to watch over him until registration. There was nothing 'innocent' about the concern that BU had regarding a recruit(even one already on campus) back in those wild west recruiting days.
Vaughn disappeared -spirited away to Dayton. But before Dayton could enroll him, Chico was again 'led' away-this time to Southern Illinois
The SI article states that BU's recruitment of Chet Walker was only initiated in response to losing Vaughn(but my understanding is the two weren't related).
BU was hoping(and planning) to have both Walker and Vaughn in their recruiting class.
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/c...cle_b083ee46-3db0-11e3-8a8a-0019bb2963f4.html
