January 25, 2008

Barefootin'! : Ron Hunter, coach of IUPUI, decides to raise awareness for Samaritan's Feet, a charity that collects shoes for needy children, by coaching barefoot. 110,000 pairs of shoes were collected by tip-off. An inspiring story.

read story | posted by geekyguy to Basketball at 1:31 PM CDT (7 comments total)

Good on him. Nice story. Seemed like an appropriate way to raise awareness. Although, appropriateness is objective.

posted by Steel_Town at 2:47 PM CDT on January 25

That's amazing. Great story.

posted by chicobangs at 3:02 PM CDT on January 25

That's a great idea and a very worthy cause. Congratulations to them.

(Insert bad comment about "athlete's foot" below.)

posted by Howard_T at 3:21 PM CDT on January 25

He's doing it for a very good cause. It was still so funny when they showed him in the news barefoot tho.

posted by Scars at 3:38 PM CDT on January 25

Being that coaches are superstitious, he might not wear shoes again until he loses another game.

posted by dbt302 at 5:00 PM CDT on January 25

Coach had to get his pedicure on for that. I would be way too self conscious to wear a suit and no shoes knowing that for a goodly portion of the time, people were staring at my bare piggies.

Great cause and Good on him.

posted by THX-1138 at 5:18 PM CDT on January 25

Saw this on ESPN today. Good cause, great idea, seems like a pretty cool guy to have coaching your team.

posted by BitterOldPunk at 8:48 PM CDT on January 25

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