Sean Tuohy Jr., an unheralded pass-first point guard out of Memphis, has committed to play basketball at Loyola of Maryland. This would be non-news if not for the fact that Tuohy is better known as S.J., the rambunctious little brother from the Oscar-nominated film The Blind Side (don’t act like you read the book).
S.J. From ‘The Blind Side’ Commits To Loyola
In the movie (and book...maybe...I didn’t read it), S.J. interrogates and bargains with SEC football coaches who are trying to land the services of his adopted older brother, Michael Oher. Well now he’s a senior at the same prep school where Oher rose to stardom, and apparently he’s good enough to be a D-1 baller.
Tuohy had the opportunity to walk-on at Ole Miss, where Oher starred on the gridiron and where Sean Tuohy Sr. became the school’s, and the SEC’s, all-time leader in assists. When discussing why he ultimately chose Loyola and charismatic head coach Jimmy Patsos, S.J. displayed a touch of the character that made him almost famous.
“I was being recruited by a lot of smaller Division I schools like Loyola. They looked it up online and called some people, and it took off a little bit,” Tuohy said.
Shortly afterward, Tuohy got a call from Patsos. It was about 10:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning, and Tuohy was half asleep.
“He told me I was going to love it there because they didn’t do anything before 9 in the morning,” Tuohy said. “That was the first time I talked to him, and I remember thinking, ‘This is the guy I want to play for.’”
S.J., I want you to have a good time but if you get a girl pregnant out of wedlock, I will crawl into the car, drive up to Baltimore and cut off your penis.
I enjoyed the film.
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