Travis Ford ejected from high school game

[WACB]

Travis Ford was just another parent Thursday night watching his son, Brooks, play a high school basketball game.

Unfortunately for Ford, he's recognizable in Stillwater, Okla., as the Oklahoma State basketball coach.

Ford said something during Stillwater High School's 63-51 loss to Bartlesville that got the attention of one of the officials. Stillwater radio's Bill Van Ness said the game was stopped and Ford was escorted from the gym. Van Ness said "a regular parent" probably would have been ignored.

Brooks Ford scored 12 points off the bench in the loss in Bixby.

Oklahoma State is 5-3 after consecutive losses to Tulsa and Missouri State. The Cowboys will face Minnesota (5-4) on Saturday at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...h-school-game/ar-AAghnab?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

I was a huge fan of Travis in my high school days. I met him Frosh year at UK. That changed. I still respect him as a player and how he played here. I'd like to know what he said to get tossed.

 

[railroadkat_1]

I was a huge fan of Travis in my high school days. I met him Frosh year at UK. That changed. I still respect him as a player and how he played here. I'd like to know what he said to get tossed.

Sure an overlook Travis Ford spent his Freshman year playing for Missouri and Norm Sloan The run in's I have had with Travis he's been a real Richard! Sat out a year after transferring to UK and plaid 3 years for the Cats.

 

[dmaso44]

Sure an overlook Travis Ford spent his Freshman year playing for Missouri and Norm Sloan The run in's I have had with Travis he's been a real Richard! Sat out a year after transferring to UK and plaid 3 years for the Cats.

I think BWO was referencing his freshmen year not Fords

 

[UK90]

I'd like to know what he said to get tossed.

If his personality is still as it was when he lived here, I'm sure it was something plenty nasty and mean-spirited.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

I think BWO was referencing his freshmen year not Fords

Yes. It was my freshman year. Dude was not cool for sure. I didn't initiate contact with him; for some strange reason he came to me and started trash talking me; basically humiliate me for wanting player autographs and being a loser. I politely told him I didn't need to talk to him, as I was just passing through and he laughed and made a smal scene. Kinda crazy since just the year before I basically looked at him as a champ. Still, I walked away from that exchange thinking he was great? Call me stupid.

I saw him again right after his star performance in that movie he was in. Again, he was basically verbally abusing a kid who I guess asked for his autograph. The kid was probably 17 or so. I felt bad for the guy, I could see the shock in his eyes that one of his heroes was berating him in the parking lot of a gas station.

But like I said, I still respect him as a player for the program. One of my favorite memories of him on the court was him directing the wrong player to the free throw line to shoot for, I think, Gimel. Classic Travis.

 

[KMKAT]

I must have gotten Travis on a good day; I met him in Dallas during our title run outside the arena, and he couldn't have been nicer. He was very cordial to my family as we waited outside after the games. I also saw him in 2014 during the FF in Dallas and another good experience.

I guess its all about the timing.

 

[UK till Death]

I must have gotten Travis on a good day; I met him in Dallas during our title run outside the arena, and he couldn't have been nicer. He was very cordial to my family as we waited outside after the games. I also saw him in 2014 during the FF in Dallas and another good experience.

I guess its all about the timing.

No, for every good Travis story there's about 1,000 bad ones.

 

[jrpross]

Unbelievable. If Kentucky had just hired him like Pitino said we should, I'm sure none of this would have happened.

 

[.S&C.]

No, for every good Travis story there's about 1,000 bad ones.

Ya know, I've had A bad run in with him, and good ones. But I do believe some of these stories have grown beyond the truth. Some people actually tout incidences they didn't even experience. IMO if he was as bad as some believe, he wouldn't even be fit to hold a job working with people, much less recruit kids and coach high level basketball.

 

[UK till Death]

Ya know, I've had A bad run in with him, and good ones. But I do believe some of these stories have grown beyond the truth. Some people actually tout incidences they didn't even experience. IMO if he was as bad as some believe, he wouldn't even be fit to hold a job working with people, much less recruit kids and coach high level basketball.

I'm guessing that may be true to an extent but there are just too many stories concerning him and his father treating people poorly for it to be largely false.

 

[Ugoff]

I love these threads. Always get some amusing stories about Ford's dikitude.

 

[.S&C.]

I love these threads. Always get some amusing stories about Ford's dikitude.

This one time he yelled at his player louder than Cal does his.

True. Heard it from a friend who heard it from his cat.

 

[Ugoff]

This one time he yelled at his player louder than Cal does his.

True. Heard it from a friend who heard it from his cat.

See, that's what I'm talkin about.

 

[Mike-D]

It was back in '83. Or maybe it was '92. Anyway, met Travis out one night at Jenny's Diner off of Hustbourne and Taylorsville rd. He seemed really nice until I asked him why he would miss a Free-Throw sometimes, and pointed out he should follow-through on his shot a little better at times. I couldn't get his autograph after that, but I'll always remember him wolfing down those 10 pancakes without syrup.

 

[KentuckyWildcat4Life]

Have any of you ever met his father? If you think travis Is bad....lmfao

 

[DodgerDukie1985]

Reading articles on Deadspin and CBS Sports, a lot of people seem to think the ref went overboard in tossing him. Supposedly Ford said "Blow your whistle. And do your job" after disagreeing with a call. If that's true, that shouldn't warrant an ejection and sounds to me like the ref who tossed him wanting his 15 minutes of fame.

 

[irishcat1965]

Reading articles on Deadspin and CBS Sports, a lot of people seem to think the ref went overboard in tossing him. Supposedly Ford said "Blow your whistle. And do your job" after disagreeing with a call. If that's true, that shouldn't warrant an ejection and sounds to me like the ref who tossed him wanting his 15 minutes of fame.

If true, the ref was a complete jackass and needs to grow a sack. I don't care how much of a jerk Ford is or isn't.

 

[railroadkat_1]

I was a huge fan of Travis in my high school days. I met him Frosh year at UK. That changed. I still respect him as a player and how he played here. I'd like to know what he said to get tossed.

BWO sorry I miss interpreted your post, my apologizes. I stick by my post that Travis is a real Richard!

 

[PanzerV]

How is this guy still coach at OSU....? I thought they liked their hoops out in Stillwater....?

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

How is this guy still coach at OSU....? I thought they liked their hoops out in Stillwater....?

 

[Uk1111]

Ya know, I've had A bad run in with him, and good ones. But I do believe some of these stories have grown beyond the truth. Some people actually tout incidences they didn't even experience. IMO if he was as bad as some believe, he wouldn't even be fit to hold a job working with people, much less recruit kids and coach high level basketball.

Not trying to call you out, but you're saying many our lying and then saying you've had at least 3 run ins with him since you said you'd had a bad 1, and good ones ( meaning at least multiple good ones ). I find it very hard to believe that anyone has had a run ins ( run ins, means more than a sighting ) and since he's not friendly, how in the world did you talk with him on at least3 different occasions?!?!

All I'm saying, is don't call others liars, when chances are you are at least most likely exagerating your " run ins " with him, lol.

 

[ukfan79]

How is this guy still coach at OSU....? I thought they liked their hoops out in Stillwater....?

Have you ever watched their games? Even when they are decent their gym is barely half full for every game other than Kansas. Even the Oklahoma game has gaping sections of empty seats. And the place seats only 13,000

 

[musrat59]

It seems more like the Ref was out of line than Travis.

 

[Bombur]

I played Laser Quest with him once. You guys remember the old Laser Quest? Was it in an old tobacco warehouse?

 

[UKCATSFREAK]

I was a huge fan of Travis in my high school days. I met him Frosh year at UK. That changed. I still respect him as a player and how he played here. I'd like to know what he said to get tossed.

I loved Travis as a player as well. He graduated from UK right before I got there. Thank god that UK didn't hire him after Tubby when his name was being thrown around alot after Donovan said no. If we hire Ford, he for sure would have gotten more time than Billy Clyde and then we miss out on Cal. I think Cal would've taken another job if UK had not come around and who knows where we would be right now. It would've completely changed the path of the UK program forever.

 

[lakercat]

I have met many UK basketball players and other players and coaches; I have never asked for an autograph (Masiello was friendly to us, as was Pitino). I am a rare one who is completely unimpressed by their celebrity status. I talk to them like I talk to everyone else. They seem to respect that. I have even ran with a few at the blue courts (they weren't playing hard). I had only one bad run in with an athlete. He gave me a smirk and said that he didn't have time for autograph seekers. I gave it back to him, basically telling this athlete that he was just another Joe Shmoe who happens to play a sport well, and I told him to get over himself (in less than friendlier words), His mouth dropped; then he began talking to me. He seemed cordial after that; it must have been a bad day. He seemed to respect that I viewed him as just another person, another human.

I've met Don Nelson; he was a very large, and imposing man (and his deep, gruff voice.....). We had a conversation about a bunch of things, and he is extremely intelligent; an INTJ personality like me (Meyers-Briggs; not saying I am extremely intelligent, but he and I share the same MBTI personality type). Don Nelson didn't win a championship, but he is one of the biggest reasons the NBA is the way it is today. The Warriors took what he did, and perfected it.

I met Polson recently; he's just another regular guy, and he looks and acts that way. We chatted about things basketball and non-basketball related. One guy asked for his autograph and his book, and he accommodated. He did say that Florida was a tough road environment, but he said that INDIANA was BY FAR the worst road experience.

-Derrick Miller works at a car lot in Nicholasville; he used to eat at our restaurant that we ran for a year or so. He was never a jerk, but he didn't hesitate to say that he was the best player on a bad team. He remembered his stats almost perfectly.

-I served Marquis Estill; I asked him how tall he was, and had no idea who he was. Someone else had to tell me who he was. Yikes.

 

[DrH. Lecter]

I loved TF when he was a player. Later had a family member at EKU when he was coaching there and it was pretty generally agreed even back then that he was a nozzle.

 

[DrH. Lecter]

On a different note, I had a friend who was an umpire and did HS softball games. He threw Petrino out of one of his daughters softball games...at Petrino later confronted him in the parking lot. He held his cell phone up and dialed 9-1-1 and said if BP didnt walk away he was hitting the send button. KY has some very strict laws protecting officials.

 

[Richard Cory]

I played Laser Quest with him once. You guys remember the old Laser Quest? Was it in an old tobacco warehouse?

The old South Hill Station? Across the street from the UK power plant? I think it was an old train station, but not to far from the old tobacco warehouse area. I think it has been turned into loft style apartments now.