A Johnnies mini-bash in NC (sort of)- RedStormNC & NCJohnnie meet !!!

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After discovering we live in the same town in North Carolina just a few miles away from each other, and planning for a while to meet - schedules finally aligned for two Johnnies basketball fans RedStormNC (me) & NCJohnnie… We met at Kickback Jack's - a local sports bar & grill here in Lake Norman territory.

Absolute pleasure getting to have some drinks and burgers together.... (Note to mjmmaherjr - NCJ likes Pale Ales too !!!). Great conversation learning about NCJ growing up minutes away from Alumni Hall and going to first games in mid 60's, and me growing up in Brooklyn, just a few blocks away from where our coach Mullin grew up. Covered everything from colleges attended, to careers and experiences relocating with our jobs to NC in '11 and '13 respectively... Also covered a bit on hobbies, attending same church, raising children etc.

Oh yeah, we made time to discuss quite a bit on Johnnies basketball too !!!

Lastly, NCJ works out at the Y and had always noticed a car in parking lot with Red Storm stickers and SJU license plate frame... It's my wife's car !!!

Great time and look forward to meeting again....and any other redmen.com posters wherever we may cross !!!

Picture below (that's NCJohnnie on left, and RedStormNC (me) on right.....

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Great time with RedStormNC tonight. Not pictured was Mike Zaun; we were helping to plan his escape from the Rookie Forum! One of these days I have to learn how to copy and paste photos into this board. Couldn't figure it out no matter what I tried. Hopelessly techno-challenged!
 
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[quote="RedStormNC" post=308210]After discovering we live in the same town in North Carolina just a few miles away from each other, and planning for a while to meet - schedules finally aligned for two Johnnies basketball fans RedStormNC (me) & NCJohnnie… We met at Kickback Jack's - a local sports bar & grill here in Lake Norman territory.

Absolutely pleasure getting to have some drinks and burgers together.... (Note to mjmmaherjr - NCJ likes Pale Ales too !!!). Great conversation learning about NCJ growing up minutes away from Alumni Hall and going to first games in mid 60's, and me growing up in Brooklyn, just a few blocks away from where our coach Mullin grew up. Covered everything from colleges attended, to careers and experiences relocating with our jobs to NC in '11 and '13 respectively... Also covered a bit on hobbies, attending same church, raising children etc.

Oh yeah, we made time to discuss quite a bit on Johnnies basketball too !!!

Lastly, NCJ works out at the Y and had always noticed a car in parking lot with Red Storm stickers and SJU license plate frame... It's my wife's car !!!

Great time and look forward to meeting again....and any other redmen.com posters wherever we may cross !!!

Picture below (that's NCJohnnie on left, and RedStormNC (me) on right.....

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Wait a second.......... You guys live in the same town in North Carolina ? I seriously always wondered how far you guys lived from each other and having NC in both your names. That's freaking awesome !!!
 
mjmaherjr wrote: Wait a second.......... You guys live in the same town in North Carolina ? I seriously always wondered how far you guys lived from each other and having NC in both your names. That's freaking awesome !!!

What's even more coincidental is we were both relocated to different companies located in Davidson and both wound up living in the same town (Mooresville). I told RedStormNC we should both make it up for BE tourney this year - last one I attended in person was in 1980s.
 
Yeah....we're probably five miles away from each other.... basically two turns spread between three connector roads !!!


Need a redmen.com bash when I drive up to visit my family Christmas week !!!
 
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I sometimes get your posts mixed up and also wondered where in North Carolina you guys were. That is north of Charlotte? I have thought some about moving to NC when my wife retires from teaching. My son has UNC on his list of colleges he wants to visit. He is only a sophomore so we have a little time. He hates Duke at least.
 
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Wife’s second cousin is Matt Doherty, who I believe still lives in Lake Norman area.
 
Andrew wrote: I sometimes get your posts mixed up and also wondered where in North Carolina you guys were. That is north of Charlotte? I have thought some about moving to NC when my wife retires from teaching. My son has UNC on his list of colleges he wants to visit. He is only a sophomore so we have a little time. He hates Duke at least.

My son is a senior and UNC Chapel Hill is his first choice. I often give him grief about it because I always root for Duke against UNC and told him he better not get into UNC because he'll make me become a Tarheel fan (after SJU of course)!
 
[quote="NCJohnnie" post=308222]Andrew wrote: I sometimes get your posts mixed up and also wondered where in North Carolina you guys were. That is north of Charlotte? I have thought some about moving to NC when my wife retires from teaching. My son has UNC on his list of colleges he wants to visit. He is only a sophomore so we have a little time. He hates Duke at least.

My son is a senior and UNC Chapel Hill is his first choice. I often give him grief about it because I always root for Duke against UNC and told him he better not get into UNC because he'll make me become a Tarheel fan (after SJU of course)![/quote]

Best of luck to your son! My wife's best friend from college got her PHD at UNC and we visited her a couple of times. It's a wonderful school. She met her husband when she was there as well. He went to Wake Forest. Thankfully they are on Long Island now because they and their kids are very close friends of ours. I also have a friend that I know since elementary school who is a doctor in Raleigh. I know several people in Charlotte as well, so like I said I definitely could see us moving there in the next ten years.
 
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[quote="Paultzman" post=308219]Wife’s second cousin is Matt Doherty, who I believe still lives in Lake Norman area.[/quote]

Small world indeed! It seems once folks settle in the area they never leave. Our two NC redmen.com fans live in Davidson country. I'm sure they may have crossed paths with Bob Mckillop at some point who, as you known, was Matt's coach at Holy Trinity.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=308219]Wife’s second cousin is Matt Doherty, who I believe still lives in Lake Norman area.[/quote]

Sometimes I wish there was a no thank you button. ;)

PS I have a niece with a lakefront house on Norman as well. Never been though.
 
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Andrew wrote: Best of luck to your son! My wife's best friend from college got her PHD at UNC and we visited her a couple of times. It's a wonderful school. She met her husband when she was there as well. He went to Wake Forest. Thankfully they are on Long Island now because they and their kids are very close friends of ours. I also have a friend that I know since elementary school who is a doctor in Raleigh. I know several people in Charlotte as well, so like I said I definitely could see us moving there in the next ten years.

Beautiful place to live. However, by the time we moved here my three daughters were all in their late teens/early twenties and they all wound up back in NY/NJ. So we'll see where things take us. We visited Wake too - great school. He also applied to App State which is beautiful school up in the mountains. Lots of good college choices down here.
We are going to see Davidson play the Tar Heels at Chapel Hill on 12/29 and then driving home to watch the Johnnies beat the Hall!
 
This is one of the best parts of this site. Paul has created a great community for us here, and having the opportunity to meet and interact in person with others who we respect on here is always a special moment.
 
[quote="Andrew" post=308223][quote="NCJohnnie" post=308222]Andrew wrote: I sometimes get your posts mixed up and also wondered where in North Carolina you guys were. That is north of Charlotte? I have thought some about moving to NC when my wife retires from teaching. My son has UNC on his list of colleges he wants to visit. He is only a sophomore so we have a little time. He hates Duke at least.

My son is a senior and UNC Chapel Hill is his first choice. I often give him grief about it because I always root for Duke against UNC and told him he better not get into UNC because he'll make me become a Tarheel fan (after SJU of course)![/quote]

Best of luck to your son! My wife's best friend from college got her PHD at UNC and we visited her a couple of times. It's a wonderful school. She met her husband when she was there as well. He went to Wake Forest. Thankfully they are on Long Island now because they and their kids are very close friends of ours. I also have a friend that I know since elementary school who is a doctor in Raleigh. I know several people in Charlotte as well, so like I said I definitely could see us moving there in the next ten years.[/quote]

I live in Wake Forest! Of course the school is 90 minutes away in Winston-Salem. Lived in Raleigh for 20 years and moved here a little over a year ago.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=308219]Wife’s second cousin is Matt Doherty, who I believe still lives in Lake Norman area.[/quote]

We need to check the archives to see if:

1) Paultz was pushing Doherty on us; and
2) Paultz neglected to mention the family ties as he was pushing Doherty on us.:lol:
 
[quote="L J S A" post=308248][quote="Paultzman" post=308219]Wife’s second cousin is Matt Doherty, who I believe still lives in Lake Norman area.[/quote]

We need to check the archives to see if:

1) Paultz was pushing Doherty on us; and
2) Paultz neglected to mention the family ties as he was pushing Doherty on us.:lol:[/quote] did Paultz have another screen name " Dee " :)
 
Hey guys, great job in meeting and sharing this with us.

Maher and I have become good friends because of this site. We were chatting just the other day about how face to face meetings with other redmen.comers and then publicizing it makes dialogue on this site more civil and friendly for everyone.

When the guys got together at the Garden, mike noted that there are a few guys I know whose opinions are vastly different on some subjects, but we never get nasty with each other. Mike noted "Man, he thinks alot of you personally." The poster is Dinkins, and i would say the feeling is completely mutual. We met in Charlotte, my girls chatted with and liked his then little boy, and a relationship developed that is stronger than our basketball personal opinions. I havent met tom in Salem but I also like him immensely personally and it curbs animos when we disagree here. Moose is another great guy and although our exchanges are sometimes pointed on the very first time we met at an event, he won a jacket that wasnt his size but quickly gave it to me.

A few weeks ago I was at a conference. At one juncture I was dressed rather casually, and wore a st. John's fleece jacket. An exhibitor called out to me by name and I had never met him and was puzzled how he picked me out of a crowd.

Turns out I had spoken to him earlier in the year about co-bidding on an opportunity. He had gone to st. John's and played lacrosse here. We are connected on linked in, and he put my face together with my name. Now I hope to hire him soon.

The point is really this. I've written a lot here how st. John's is improving leaps and bounds as a university. The board is comprised of enormously talented and good men who had the business and moral strength to fire Harrington. I hated the Gempeshaw hire but Bobby is rapidly building a high class organization, Mike Cragg the latest of many. But what really defines the greatness of st. John's is you, us. Men and women, children and grandchildren of immigrants who are having a little more success in their lives because of sju. We here at redmen.com are only starting to realize the value if each other as a community that is centered on basketball but is much richer and deeper.

And that's all just great
 
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[quote="L J S A" post=308248][quote="Paultzman" post=308219]Wife’s second cousin is Matt Doherty, who I believe still lives in Lake Norman area.[/quote]

We need to check the archives to see if:

1) Paultz was pushing Doherty on us; and
2) Paultz neglected to mention the family ties as he was pushing Doherty on us.:lol:[/quote]
Actually the opposite, but don’t tell my wife. :)
 
Class of 72 wrote: Small world indeed! It seems once folks settle in the area they never leave. Our two NC redmen.com fans live in Davidson country. I'm sure they may have crossed paths with Bob Mckillop at some point who, as you known, was Matt's coach at Holy Trinity.

Get to at least one Davidson game a year 72. They always play a good brand of basketball and there are a couple of great little restaurants in town so we make a nice evening or afternoon out of it. Davidson is a small liberal arts, basketball only school. If we were looking to expand our footprint south, BE could do worse than adding Davidson. Expect McKillop's son may take over when he decides its time to retire.
 
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