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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.
posted by geekyguy to basketball at 01:31 PM - 7 comments
That's amazing. Great story.
posted by chicobangs at 03:02 PM on January 25, 2008
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 03:21 PM on January 25, 2008
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 03:38 PM on January 25, 2008
Being that coaches are superstitious, he might not wear shoes again until he loses another game.
posted by dbt302 at 05:00 PM on January 25, 2008
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 05:18 PM on January 25, 2008
Saw this on ESPN today. Good cause, great idea, seems like a pretty cool guy to have coaching your team.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 08:48 PM on January 25, 2008
Good on him. Nice story. Seemed like an appropriate way to raise awareness. Although, appropriateness is objective.