Background
Tuohy is the son of Mida (Michell) and Edward "Skeets" Tuohy, a basketball coach at the prestigious Isidore Newman School, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the Tuohy Gymnasium is named in his honor.
Tuohy is the son of Mida (Michell) and Edward "Skeets" Tuohy, a basketball coach at the prestigious Isidore Newman School, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the Tuohy Gymnasium is named in his honor.
Tuohy attended the University of Mississippi where he was a member of the Mississippi Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, played basketball, and also met his future wife Leigh Anne.
Tuohy led the Ole Mission Rebels to their first Securities and Exchange Commission Men"s Basketball Tournament championship in 1981. As a player at Ole Mission, Tuohy was named All-Securities and Exchange Commission in each of his four seasons. He was named to the All-Century Securities and Exchange Commission team and is the only basketball player in the history of the Securities and Exchange Commission to lead a statistical category for four years, as he did with assists.
Tuohy holds the record for single season assists in the Southeastern Conference with 260.
Tuohy is only the fourth basketball player ever chosen to the Ole Mission Sports Hall of Fame. Drafted by the National Basketball Association’s New Jersey Nets with the 218th pick (Round 10) in 1982, he opted to continue his career overseas before returning to the United States. to be with his father in his final days.
He played college basketball at the University of Mississippi in the early 1980s, and is known for being the all-time assist leader in the Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission). The book and subsequent film are based on the Tuohys" raising of National Football League player Michael Oher, who is currently with the Carolina Panthers. Tuohy was raised Roman Catholic.
Out of high school, Tuohy was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds to play baseball, but turned down the offer to attend college.
With sports as his “meal ticket” through high school and college, Tuohy left New Orleans for the University of Mississippi on a basketball scholarship. College Tuohy has also been a broadcaster for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association since 2001.
He has seven years of experience as an analyst for radio broadcasts at Ole Mission, as well as national broadcasts for Westwood One and Columbia Broadcasting System Radio.