IUPUI coach Ron Harper coached a basketball game barefoot to bring attention to his goal of collection athletic shoes for kids in Africa. His goal was supposedly 30,000 pairs of shoes, which to me sounds almost unattainable given that few people even know about IUPUI and even fewer probably would know about his cause. But word started getting out and in the end he got 110K pairs of shoes. Pretty amazing. I'll bet the logistics of getting that many shoes to some place in Africia isn't easy. No Shoes
I was listening to an interview with Hunter on the Mike & Mike show Wednesday morning. M & M surprised him by bringing on a rep from Converse who told him Converse was donating 15,000 pairs. At the time that boosted his total to 45,000. What a flood there must have been over the past couple of days. Samaritan's Feet has an eventual target of 1 million pairs. He has raised 10% of that total by himself! He's going to take his players over there to help distribute the shoes. Great story.
I still don't understand why the great state of Indiana chose to give schools those awful initials. ..IUPUI Ueee Pooey... even though I do believe you explained it to me once before. They should have named them Indiana A&M or Indiana Tech, or Indianapolis State and Ft Wayne State ...any thing but IUPUI and IUPUI Ft. Wayne.... Reminds me of that old Johnny Cash song about a boy names Sue!!
Terry, I couldn't agree more, but unfortunately we're stuck with it unless and until the leadership of the two big state schools decide to streamline the names. I don't see that happening anytime soon. It originated because of the joint contributions of curriculum and management from Purdue and IU in the state's two largest cities. I don't think either school's administrators are willing to give up their share of the identity. They probably consider the schools unique in that regard, and in a weird way I guess they are. Just look at this conversation we're having. Actually, IUPUI is only in Indy (IU/PU @ Indianapolis). The Fort Wayne campus is IPFW (Indiana/Purdue @ Fort Wayne) which isn't quite as bad. Maybe Indy should be shortened to IPI like Ft. Wayne. That would be more sensible IMO. :roll:
Interesting footnote to this story. Homeland Security had around 10,000 pairs of shoes that were confiscated by customs agents at the borders for trademark violations, etc., and which were going to be destroyed. In short, they donated these shoes to Coach Hunter's drive. I heard the story this morning on Mike and Mike.
Terry...could be worse... I mean look at Pepperdine...initials are Peee Euwww.... Who the hell would go with those initials?