Just so you’ll know Huck, and probably his staff, had no knowledge of a lot of improper benefits.
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Just so you’ll know Huck, and probably his staff, had no knowledge of a lot of improper benefits.
I fully know... the problem is that no one ever comes out and says that publicly - they just like to trash Coach Huck like he was running around town passing out envelopes with $20,000 in them like the idiot at Kentucky. Appreciate you putting that out there to the message board because too many people think they know how everything went down back in '89, but very few know what really happened.
I was in Chattanooga in '85 or '86 for a conference and the Herd was staying in the same hotel. This was the game that Skip went awol. 3 players apparently missed the team bus to the Roundhouse. I had called for a taxi to the game and the 3 players got in the taxi with me. I paid the fare, so I'm guessing I broke the rules.
Good post, but IIRC the ONE win we got in the WVU Coliseum came under Coach Z, with a team that had a young LaVern Evans who also played, later, under Huck!
Not to say that TH didn't have some moments but the last couple of years of his tenure were characterized by a lack of any teamwork, cohesion and an almost total breakdown in discipline.
Tom brought in just too many "bad apples" and couldn't control them. Their me ball, on floor antics, and probably some off the floor too, sent the Herd program quickly into a downward spiral and ultimately cost Herrion his job!
You clearly are correct sir... I apologize for crediting Huck with the Coliseum win. But the tuxedos were SAAAAWEEEEEEETTTT!!!
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...not to mention a WVU bench player ripping off his uniform to the delight of the MU crowd!
The Spamite bench warmer was a guy named Austin. He was from Bridgeport and was a walk on. Without him this would have been USPAM's first team with zero players from WV on it, which was the only reason he was there. He apparently got into an argument with Catlett, who was already showing signs of the mental problems that would eventually consume him, ripped off his jersey and left the court.
Since then, of course, it has become common place for Spamite teams to have no residents of the state it sypons off taxwaste from on it.
I was in the flying saucer that night! One of the best fan feelings I ever experienced! Needless to say, the partying went deep into the night @ the Holiday Inn (next door). Evans was clutch down the stretch!!
Very foggy the next a.m.
Evans was a heck of a player; a "slasher" who could go to, and finish at, the hole despite being only 6'4". He had one of the best first halves in the NCAA tourney, at least at that time, against Villanova but the Herd just couldn't hold on down the stretch in the 2nd half. Many of Nova's players who were on that team won it all as the Wildcats were NCAA champs the next season!!!
He left the bench when a fight was about to break out. As I recall, the wvu staff and Catlett were giving him hell and shoving him around after the potential altercation was settled down. He pulled off the jersey and the rest is history.....
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Tim Austin transferred to ETSU and was a senior starter in 1986/87 when MU thumped the Bucs in Huntington.
Robert Earl Jones from my hometown===Mt. Hope. The last time I saw Jones was several years ago, He was large as a boxcar. He was driving a car so small that I bet he climbed in from entering the sunroof.
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Greg is doing WELL and I hope to see him in a few weeks when we gather to Celebrate the Life of Lewis D'Antoni in Huntington & Mullens.
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