Someone mentioned Hank Flick yesterday....

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I just can't help getting my 2 cents in. Flick was the absolute worst PA that State ever had or over will have, I hope. He always put the crowd and the F'ball team to sleep. No exuberance, no excitement. Blah. Tsun and others had lively, upbeat PA's that excited their teams and fans. I was so glad when he got replaced. I will always blame him for some of the home losses due to lack of team excitement. That was my impression. Never had him for a proff, however.

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[G-Dawg]

Glad I took Dr. Flick's Interviewing class. Sharp guy with a hilarious sense of humor.

I loved when someone would walk in late for his class....

"Looks like the bus from Pearl has finally arrived to campus." - when someone was late to class.
"Hit that mother like a W girl at a buffet line"
"Redirect that mother." on talking about negative questions during an interview.
"It's the Commodore effect...Once, twice, three times a lady." - on the importance of saying things 3 times to get the audience to remember it

I could add 100 more. Please feel free to add your own. Loved that man.

 

[G-Dawg]

I dare anyone of my era to think of Silky Smooth Tony Watts without hearing his name in Hank's voice.

Or Flight 21 Cameron "Smoke" BUUUUURRRRRRRNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS

 

[HeCannotGo]

I dare anyone of my era to think of Silky Smooth Tony Watts without hearing his name in Hank's voice.

"Silky Smooth" was Greg Carter. It was "Top Gun" Tony Watts. Also had "the Mighty Dog, Chucky Chucky Evans" and "Downtown Todd Merit."

 

[Miketice]

We are now friends

Well just how big a boy are ya? i loved Flick. basketball and football. i loved every part of it. early memories of Bulldog football are his "First Down, Bulldogs!". he was great.

Dam great!

 

[Maroon90]

As a student in the late 80s, I enjoyed Flick "for hoops" but thought he was kind of flat for football. I can hear him saying during at time out at Scott Field, “The Union Program Council presents...'An Evening with Dr. Henry Kissinger'...Tuesday...November 10 at 7pm in the Union Ballroom...For more information, call 325-3762.”

I didn't attend a home basketball game from 94-98 because I lived too far away. When I moved back to Mississippi in '99 and attended a home basketball game, it sounded like Flick had become a caricature of himself--WAAAAYYY over the top in his PA voice, to the point where he was almost unintelligible at times.

The 2012 interview was great. That man loved Mississippi State, and he was a great teacher.

 

[thekimmer]

Here is one independent opinion....

I always liked him OK as a PA guy, but I recall a LOT of people (not sure if here or on Gene's) page 15 or so years ago really wanted him replaced as the football announcer. Now, everybody seem so like him.

Personally I never met him. Just knew him from his reputation on campus and his PA announcingng Never had a problem with him as he was all I really knew and became a tradition of sorts.

I do remember listening to the UGA broadcast of a game being played at the hump at least 15 years ago as I was living in GA and they were not fans of Dr. Flick. They remarked that he was terrible and reminded them of the stereotype of an old timey railroad conductor (ALLL ABOARD). Not that I agreed with them but still a relatively unbiased opinion. He obviously was not for everyone.

PA announcing aside, the man obviously loved State and was a confidant of many MSU sports legends. His interview outlines that and offers a very touching glimpse of the human side of big time college athletics.

 

[Junction John]

Well damn.

I guess you're right.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I'm not as old as you but I understand that. I was in John Forde's first Intro to PR class before he earned his PhD thirty years ago. He's the only professor in the department who is there from when I was a student.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Bob Arnett. His film class was outstanding and then I occasionally saw him at Southern Miss where he got his doctorate.

 

[PiedmontDawg]

Flick was great both as a teacher and announcer.

Two moments in class i'll never forget:

- Flick always dogged on someone in class, usually if you didn't participate, were late, or said something dumb; But, usually he meant it to be both condescending and uplifting all at the same time. Dude was a wizard at that. My semester in his class featured a couple football guys, and he gave Wes Carroll so much hell that year. Called him sunshine the whole time.

- Chris Spencer (O Lineman) was in class with me that semester and lived in my apt complex and as I was heading out of the complex walking to class (late) one day, he drove by and rolled down his window and said, "hop in let me give you a ride, Flick gonna make you pay if you're late!" We parked right at the building because he still had a handicap tag from an injury. I'll always be grateful to Chris for that.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

his voice just resonated throughout the hump. still get pumped up listening to that. Hump may never be what it used to be. It was something special back then.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Bob Arnett. His film class was outstanding and then I occasionally saw him at Southern Miss where he got his doctorate.

I was fortunate to have Bob as a teacher and friend since I was close to the same age as he was when I went to back to school. He even came to my wedding the year after I graduated. Wish I could see him again.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

"Looks like the bus from Pearl has finally arrived to campus." - when someone was late to class.
"Hit that mother like a W girl at a buffet line"
"Redirect that mother." on talking about negative questions during an interview.
"It's the Commodore effect...Once, twice, three times a lady." - on the importance of saying things 3 times to get the audience to remember it

I could add 100 more. Please feel free to add your own. Loved that man.

I laughed out loud at ^^^. Can hear all of these in Flick’s condescending tone.

As someone mentioned earlier, these weren’t said mean spiritedly but he liked to get a jab in when he could and we all liked that about him.