My HS band director was a protege of his (and is now the director at UGa) and so I heard much about him going through band at Doyle High in south Knoxville. He was a tremendous band director for UT.
my sister just texted me the news
I liked Dr J, though he called me "country"
My HS Director got me into the Pride as I feel my try out was pro forma
True story(s)
My FR year we weren't going to Jackson for the Ole Mss game but Chris Schenkle called Dr J and promised air time at half time so Dr J lobbied the AD and got us going
We were going to be putting in a new show (we used to do that in the old days) for the KY game & the Bengals game. We now had a week to put it in and it was raining on Tuesday. Dr J walked down the stairs between sections T and U, opens his arms up at center field and the rain stopped!
