You may not have ever been to a game at the Tad Smith Coliseum to watch Ole Miss basketball, but for generations of fans, it was our own weird little UFO-like home in the Mississippi winter.
The aptly nicknamed Tad Pad does not have national title banners to attribute its home court advantages. There is an institutionalized feel to a lot of elements to the building that was very common to buildings from that era.
But when it was full, it could be incredibly loud in the place. Yes, the roof leaked in its later years and caused a rain out for the Lady Rebels and Pat Summitt’s Lady Vols, and it was widely regarded as an outdated mess.