UTC Mocs logoThe Voice of the Mocs let out a soft chuckle Wednesday afternoon.
“I’ve been fooling people for 999 games,” said Jim Reynolds as he reflected on his distinguished broadcasting career. “Hopefully I can fool them for at least one more.”
One thousand University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball games. That’s the number of Mocs contests the man many of us affectionately know as “J.R.” will have called by the close of tonight’s Southern Conference showdown against UNC Greensboro at McKenzie Arena.
And that would have been reason enough to honor the 57-year-old father of six daughters, which the school will enthusiastically do at halftime, Jennifer — “We call her ‘Rocko'” — Julie, Amy, Holly, Kaitlyn and Squeaky all joining in the tribute to their dad.
But no one lasts 1,000 hoops broadcasts in a competitive, passionate radio market like Chattanooga without more in his corner than longevity.