Download or read book Ray Mears' Big Orange Memories written by Ron Bliss and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Mears Big Orange Memories is Mears personal account of the Golden Years of Tennessee Volunteer basketball. Ray Mears led the Vols to unprecedented heights in the 1960s and 1970s, winning 278 games. His star-system approach resulted in nine of his players, including Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King, being named All-Americans. When illness forced him to end his coaching career in 1978, Mears was the all-time winningest active coach in the nation.