Where Are They Now: John Thinnes Looks Back Fondly On His Days At Rollins

John Thinnes (pronounced Tennis)  was never a flashy guy, just a solid role player.  It should not come as a surprise to anyone who knew him that Thinnes improved so much from his freshman year to his senior year at Rollins.  He had some highs and low's in his playing career.  His freshman year Thinnes did not see the floor very often but he was part of the greatest Rollins basketball team of all-time.  Those Tars went all the way to the Elite Eight in 2003.  Sophomore year was a disappointing one for Thinnes and many of his Tars teammates.  So many close games, so many tough losses. Way to many of them in overtime.
  Thinnes reflected on some of the growing pains of that sophomore year:
"The first two years I did not play that much.  Sophomore year was really tough when we lost all those close games, the overtime ones were especially hard to take."
Thinnes added:
"We grew the off-season after my sophomore year though.  We did a lot of bonding. The fact that we had to get up and practice at 5 AM just motivated us even more."
  Thinnes always speaks fondly of his decision to go to Rollins:
"Best decision I ever made, to go to Rollins for school."
Coach Klusman being from Cincinnati certainly helped (Thinnes was from Cincinnati Lasalle High School.)
Scott Martin played a big part as well.  Martin was the coach at Cincinnati St.Xavier at the time and was the one who told The Rollins coaching staff about Thinnes.
 Thinnes currently lives in Orlando with his wife and his two year old daughter Emma.  His family lives in Cincinnati.  John also has another brother who is 28 years old and married.
  John Thinnes currently works for the Boghdan group which is an investment consulting firm.  Thinnes is in charge of people at this company, which is similar to Deprince, Race and Zollo.  He picks managers, manages assets, and has DRZ buying stocks and bonds from him.  The majority owner of the Boghdan group is Mike Walker, who was a college roommate of former Rollins player and current assistant coach Brad Ash.
 Although he still enjoys playing basketball, Thinnes has very little time to do so these days.  He commented on how great his connections to Rollins are:
" It is always great to see the guys when I do.  We got together for both the five and ten year anniversary of the Elite Eight team."
"One of my better friends is Jonny Reibel.   He now lives in Chicago, but whenever he comes to Orlando he stays with me."
"So the connections from Rollins are great.  From the connections to Cincinnati, to playing AAU ball with old teammates like John Smith.  All the time I used to spend playing ball with Nate Rusbosin, Matt Williams and Brian Casey.   To the internship at DRZ that allowed me to work at a place like the Boghdan group was always so much fun. I know anytime I need any advice whatever it may be for I have a great support system at Rollins."
 If you left John Thinnes open for a 3-pointer at the top of the key, even having not played much basketball since he stopped playing at Rollins, I can almost assure you he would "knock it down" for you.