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10-01-2017, 07:37 PM
File this under cool meetings that happen when you wear Duke gear.
My younger son was wearing his 2001 Duke National Championship t-shirt at IHOP tonight (breakfast for dinner is a glorious, glorious thing).
An older gentleman with his adult son are in line in front of us.
He sees my son’s shirt and says, “That’s the right shirt to be wearing”.
I volunteer that I graduated from Duke, and his response was priceless.
He asks what year, and when I tell him, he responds:
“I was there quite a bit earlier than you were. I’m Fred Schmidt, and I was on Duke’s first Final Four team.”
He mentioned playing with Art Heyman and Jeff Mullin, and was extremely complimentary of K and how included he felt in the program, sharing that K credited them as where Duke basketball really started.
Any factual errors in the above can be attributed to either my poor recall or paraphrasing.
It was remarkably cool to meet Fred Schmidt.
A new great memory of a random meeting of a Duke player.
Fun way to end a weekend.
My younger son was wearing his 2001 Duke National Championship t-shirt at IHOP tonight (breakfast for dinner is a glorious, glorious thing).
An older gentleman with his adult son are in line in front of us.
He sees my son’s shirt and says, “That’s the right shirt to be wearing”.
I volunteer that I graduated from Duke, and his response was priceless.
He asks what year, and when I tell him, he responds:
“I was there quite a bit earlier than you were. I’m Fred Schmidt, and I was on Duke’s first Final Four team.”
He mentioned playing with Art Heyman and Jeff Mullin, and was extremely complimentary of K and how included he felt in the program, sharing that K credited them as where Duke basketball really started.
Any factual errors in the above can be attributed to either my poor recall or paraphrasing.
It was remarkably cool to meet Fred Schmidt.
A new great memory of a random meeting of a Duke player.
Fun way to end a weekend.