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<blockquote data-quote="South Farms" data-source="post: 1365216" data-attributes="member: 590046"><p>I was an Assembly Hall usher my soph-jr-sr years, which was from fall 1980 until spring 1983. I got paid about $14 per game (3.40 an hr or thereabouts) and we had to get there about 1.5 -2 hrs before tipoff and stay about 1/2 hour after it was over. Basketball games were the easiest to work as just about everyone had season tickets and after the first two games in November , everyone knew where they sat.</p><p></p><p>By my Jr year I had enough clout to always get selected to work the A level ring and I was more often than not positioned right by the press row and behind Neale Stoners family box there (which was the south end of press row). </p><p></p><p>I got to see Harper a lot. I distinctly recall a game my Sr year when we beat Michigan in OT on a 40 ft jumper by him. the place went crazy. That was a fun time. We were good, not great, but you knew Lou would always give IU a tough game and started to win about half the time against them. </p><p></p><p> We knew then it was the start of a nice period for us. We had finally cracked the Chicago and State for the top recruits, after having lost those guys to DePaul and IU in the 1970's. Harper was a pure shooting point guard. One of the best we've had. Deron might have been better, but it was a different era .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="South Farms, post: 1365216, member: 590046"] I was an Assembly Hall usher my soph-jr-sr years, which was from fall 1980 until spring 1983. I got paid about $14 per game (3.40 an hr or thereabouts) and we had to get there about 1.5 -2 hrs before tipoff and stay about 1/2 hour after it was over. Basketball games were the easiest to work as just about everyone had season tickets and after the first two games in November , everyone knew where they sat. By my Jr year I had enough clout to always get selected to work the A level ring and I was more often than not positioned right by the press row and behind Neale Stoners family box there (which was the south end of press row). I got to see Harper a lot. I distinctly recall a game my Sr year when we beat Michigan in OT on a 40 ft jumper by him. the place went crazy. That was a fun time. We were good, not great, but you knew Lou would always give IU a tough game and started to win about half the time against them. We knew then it was the start of a nice period for us. We had finally cracked the Chicago and State for the top recruits, after having lost those guys to DePaul and IU in the 1970's. Harper was a pure shooting point guard. One of the best we've had. Deron might have been better, but it was a different era . [/QUOTE]
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