The voice of USF Athletics, Jim Louk, will routinely put down his radio headset and pick up the pen to share his perspective on the history of USF Athletics.

Louk has been broadcasting games for 27 years and is the resident historian in the Athletics Department hallways ... This week he talks with former broadcaster Jack Harris ...

Jack's Back!

After 40 years of Bulls basketball, the list of the program's radio play by play announcers is a short one, consisting of only a handful of names.

Dave Martin had the honor of calling the first ever Bulls basketball game in 1970, and he stayed with the program for four years. Randy Scott had a short tenure, and Ed Cain called the 1982-83 season. I came in for 1983-84 and lasted 14 years, followed by T.J. Rives and now Jim Lighthall.

Working alongside Dave Martin as an analyst in the early years was the man who would become the second play by play voice of USF Basketball, and he's undoubtedly the most well known broadcaster in our little group.

Jack Harris has been on the air for more than 40 years in our region, and he's still on the air every morning, teaming with another radio legend, Tedd Webb, on the WFLA-970 morning show.

Jacks' still a play by play guy, too, broadcasting the Tampa Bay Storm, so we're going to borrow him for awhile to do some play by play for us when the Bulls face James Madison on Saturday night. Jack will call a segment of the game midway through the first half. It will be his first USF play by play work since he finished his time with the Bulls after the 1981-82 season.

“It's going to be very nostalgic,” says Harris. “Things have changed so dramatically for the program. But I know it's going to bring back some great memories of working with the Bulls in the 1970's.”

Longtime Bulls fans remember Jack's calls through the Don Williams, Chip Conner and Lee Rose eras of USF Basketball. Teamed for years with analyst Eddie Card, Jack broadcast the team in the Curtis Hixson/Lakeland Civic Center era and was there when the brand new Sun Dome opened in 1980.

Saturday night, Jack's back! We'll bridge every generation of Bulls basketball radio broadcasts with Jack, myself, and of course our current play by play man, Jim Lighthall. Should be fun.

Get out to the Sun Dome Saturday and say hi to Jack in person if you can. If not, make sure to listen on WHNZ-AM 1250 for a slice of USF Basketball history, as our outstanding play by play man Jack Harris comes home to the USF microphones.

GO BULLS!