RIP- Alumni Gym
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Ok; guess it hasn't made it to the M&I obit page yet.
I knew his aunt Cynthia Bostick. She was Miss Kentucky 1970.
RIP AG.
Still never would have imagined he was as young as 44. I would have sworn mid to late 60s by how he acted in bantering with me. Sad to see that, but great to put a face with a user name after all these years.
Not to be disrespectful, or OT to the thread's intent, but isn't 8 days after someone passing a long time before the funeral? Of course, I don't know if it is a burial or cremation. I apologize, again, not trying to be rude, but every funeral I have been to has been 2-3 days after passing max.
Crazy there's a "did he really die" group. Let the man RIP.
It isn't as rare as you might think it is. Yeah, it is out of the "norm" but every situation is different. I've seen the family wait a week or two so that a member of the family in the military can make it back for the service. There are a lot of other reasons, as well.
I say go for it. I feel bad for questioning it now, but it just goes to show why what BLW did was so insensitive and selfish. RIP AG you were one of the good ones.
me too, liked yours as well - and now I know your name, LOL
Folks - I hope that those of you who can, and wish to, will go to the Funeral Home website and sign the guestbook, too.
I don't know about that. That name sure sounds like an alias to me!![[winking]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/wink.r191677.gif "Winking [winking]")
Yes. The male sex symbol from the 70's.
well, it's not UnusualI don't know about that. That name sure sounds like an alias to me!
UNCFANINKY vs alumni gym were the best! They lived in same town and AG would always tell him to bring it. I know UNCFANINKY always lurks and talks so much crap. I know they knew each other personally and people in same circles. I wonder under the circumstances the chapel hill fan in Owensboro will show his condolences
Yep. It felt like we were getting an inside glimpse of a personal blood feud when those two locked horns on here. They clearly knew each other in real life and did NOT like each other at all. Always pictured those two eventually getting into a brawl at some Owensboro tavern.
There's plenty I remember about AG's posts (some of it, admittedly, was not so favorable, which I won't get into here), but what I liked about him was 1) his intense passion for UK, nobody's blood was more blue; 2) his deep appreciation/knowledge of the program's history; and 3) his intense hatred for North Carolina--a lot of us claim to hate North Carolina, but NOBODY ever hated North Carolina as much as AG. And it seemed to bother the hell out of him that one the most annoying UNC fans was posting from his own Kentucky hometown.
Perhaps in tribute to AG we should all try to hate North Carolina extra hard this year. I know he'd appreciate that.
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Are you serious??? Get a grip man! Maybe, just maybe his best friend doesn't want to discuss his actual death??? No, that couldn't be it. What kind of "hoax" would that be exactly anyway??? Smh
This is the most F'ed up thread I've ever seen. Sorry for your loss Catastrofic73.
Sorry in advance. Its a pet peeve of mine too, but for some reason I still do it every time.
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Kentucky Basketball Cumulative All Time Statistics (aka: "The List")
All Time Wins: 2111 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage .762 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Championships: 8 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 11 (NCAA rank #2)
Final Four Appearances: 15 (NCAA rank #3)
Final Four Games Played: 26 (NCAA rank #4)
Final Four Wins: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
Elite-8 Appearances: 34 (NCAA rank #1)
Sweet-16 Appearances: 39 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 52 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Wins: 111 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 157 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .707 (NCAA rank #4)
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 61 (NCAA rank #1)
NBA Draft Picks: 106 (NCAA rank #1)
All-Americans: 55 (NCAA rank #1)
All-American Total Selections: 85 (NCAA rank #1)
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 24 (NCAA rank #4)
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 788 (NCAA rank #2)
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 628 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 417 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll #1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 99 (NCAA rank #4)
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 40 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 9 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 45 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 42 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 38 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 29 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll #1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 20-Win Seasons: 57 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 25-Win Seasons: 31 (NCAA rank #2)
Total 30-Win Seasons: 13 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 35-Win Seasons: 5 (NCAA Rank #1)
Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.190909 (NCAA rank #3)
Average Losses Per Season Played: 6.000 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Winning Seasons: 93 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 96 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches with a Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 6 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With A NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championships: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Total Wins (since 1930): 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades Top-5 in Total Wins (since 1930): 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Total Wins (since 1930: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 2 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-5 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 6 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Winning Percentage (since 1930) 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Conference Regular Season Championships: 47 (NCAA rank #2)
Conference Tournament Championships: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
National Attendance Titles: 25 (NCAA rank #1)
(Of the 64 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 44 of them, #2 in 14 of them, #3 in 2 of them, and #4 in 4 of them.)
Kentucky can also lay claim to several individual achievements for both players and coaches:
13 players winning NBA Championships a total of 18 times
10 players named NBA All-Star a total of 17 times
12 Olympic Gold Medal winners
8 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
5 players named National Player-of-the-Year
6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the-Year a total of 12 times
7 head coaches named Conference Coach-of-the-Year a total of 21 times
132 players named All-Conference a total of 225 times
77 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 113 times
12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 24 times
48 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 62 times
11 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 12 times
5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
72 players who played in the NBA at least one season
60 1000 point scorers
47 players named McDonald's All-American
11 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament
Kentucky also holds several other NCAA records and various additional accomplishments:
Kentucky has 2 NIT Titles (1946, 1976), 2 Helms Titles (1933, 1954), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), 5 Sugar Tournament Championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963), a league best all time SEC regular season record of 915-255 (.782), and a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 119-24 (.832).
Kentucky holds the NCAA record for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), for Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), and for Total Victories in a Season (38).
Kentucky plays in the nation's largest basketball arena (Rupp Arena, capacity: 23,500), and has both the nation's largest radio and television affiliate networks.
Kentucky has made a 3-point basket in 860 consecutive games (3rd-most all time), has won 17 of the last 18 National Attendance Titles (including the last 8 in a row and 25 overall), is the only school to win multiple NCAA (8) and NIT (2) Championships, is the only school to have 5 different NCAA Championship coaches, is the only school to win NCAA Championships in 5 different decades, and is the only school to win multiple NCAA Championships in 3 different decades.
Kentucky has played before both the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (78,129), and the largest Final Four Crowd in history (75,421).
Kentucky was the first school (in 2010) to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA draft, is the only school to have both the #1 and #2 picks in the NBA draft during the same year (in 2012), is the only school to have 6 players drafted in the first two rounds of the NBA draft in one year (in 2012), is the only school to have two different coaches win a NCAA Championship within the same decade (the 1990's), and also was the first school to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.
I really appreciate that!!! I have been sickened by a few on this thread
Thx 4 reassuring me, for the most part, that UK fans are more like family
AG was a brother 2 me
The OP could have ended any doubts early in this thread, and chose not to. All it took was a post from Aligned, kraziecats and a link by preacherfan to confirm what the op posted. Even 2 different Mods asked for a private link to the Obit, again the OP refused. I have a really good friend that posts on here, and if he passed today, the last thing on my mind would be to come here, and post a thread saying RIP (insert name here), and then not list a funeral home or an Obit so any that wanted to, could pass along any condolences. I went to the Davis funeral home web site and left a note, did you?
The OP created this whole fiasco and is now playing the pitiful me card. A lot of us old breed on here ALL thought the real AG was at least 20 years older than he was and thought maybe there was a name confusion, which is why we were seeking more info.
So, I have a really good grip here If the bold part is true, then why start the thread? This is a message board, if you start a thread, do NOT be surprised that there is a discussion that follows.
AG will be missed and I wish a speedy healing for his family and friends.
Have thought about cleaning up the thread a bit, but I say this with good intentions and thoughts, this fits AG very well and his board history.
Yep. It's fitting that AG's RIP thread includes some combat.
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Apologize and move on. No need to re-hash this.
Just to address the issue of the obituary not being given sooner. I, too, had concerns that no obit was given even after 2 days. But, I also know, from experience, that obits are sometimes delayed for a variety of reasons, including if an adult passes away and it is unclear who had the legal rights/responsibility to make arrangements. This happened recently when distant relative of my family passed away unexpectedly.
I do believe that the OP had his heart in the right place and was doing the right thing. I also understand why some of us were questioning it openly or privately. For me, I was hoping it wasn't true. AG was part of our RR family.
Yes. AG, Bluegrass Baron, and Kentucky Straight Bourbon were all the same guy...Jonathan Fisher.
It fits with board and moderator history too, Jerry. AG was definitely a party to our virtuous "no holds barred" scene, so kudos to you for appreciating that, and for being part of what makes that happen. Hopefully Rafters will always be that one place on Rivals where it all hangs out in the open, where sensitivity and censorship is not part of the process. Let AG's memory continue roll that forward please. One quick sentence about the demand for the obit, I don't exactly think it was available until much sooner than it was actually provided.
Obituaries are submitted by the funeral home conducting the services. Since he passed away on Friday in Nashville. I'm not sure all the funeral arrangements were made quick enough to release a Monday morning obituary in the newspaper. Condolences to the friends and family on their loss. AG was a good person.
You are correct. I was checking the various funeral home web pages at every opportunity. When I found it, it had been up less than an hour or so.
