My Losing Season (2003)
“VMI came to Charleston to try to beat us on our home court to pay us back for embarrassing them in Lexington. Because we had beaten them at VMI, I gave them very little chance of handling us with the whole cold-blooded fury of our corps behind us. Our house was tough on visiting teams, but our house was hell on VMI. There was no such thing as a bad game when the only two military schools in the South got together. But on February 13, 1967, I played in one of the most exciting basketball games I...’d ever seen. I watched the boys on both teams honor the character and nature of their schools by playing a game that glitters in remembrance.
I have written about the second VMI game in Charleston in what I call the basketball chapter of The Lords of Discipline. Yet on a return visit to my twenty-year-old novel, I discovered that I combined two games of my Citadel career to craft the single basketball game I shoehorned into the plot of the novel about my college. As I reread the chapter for the first time since the book came out, I kept stumbling across the half-hidden skeletal remains of the final game of my career when I faced the indomitable Johnny Moates for the last time.MoreLess
I have written about the second VMI game in Charleston in what I call the basketball chapter of The Lords of Discipline. Yet on a return visit to my twenty-year-old novel, I discovered that I combined two games of my Citadel career to craft the single basketball game I shoehorned into the plot of the novel about my college. As I reread the chapter for the first time since the book came out, I kept stumbling across the half-hidden skeletal remains of the final game of my career when I faced the indomitable Johnny Moates for the last time.MoreLess
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