Guy V's Time is now!

Eat 'em up!

http://blog.chron.com/cougars/2013/0...ame-induction/

Eat 'em up!

http://blog.chron.com/cougars/2013/0...ame-induction/ Originally Posted by bigtex

Gotta agree bt, he belongs there.

Greatest recruiter of all time. Still not over NC State tho... One of the worst coaching jobs I've ever seen. Huge lead with a quarter of the game to go, and UH goes into a stall, despite having the best offensive team in the nation. HUGE error in judgment. I barfed in public after that game! I also heaved after Harry Larrabee's UT beat Dwight Davis' UH team a couple of years later.

That said:

Guy V was a national basketball legend in a state that didn't understand the rules of the game. If he'd have coached anywhere else, he'd have had multiple national championships.

Unfortunately a lot of our fellow Texans have no concept of the game ... Like Lapdog!

Nothing is more awesome than the memory of Ollie Taylor out jumping Lew Alcindor at the opening tip the year after Elvin Hayes graduated.

Too bad he often got outcoached.

Too bad he often got outcoached. Originally Posted by pyramider

I beg to differ! NCAA Head Coaches with 592 career wins, 14 NCAA appearances, including 5 trips (with 3 of them being in a row) to the Final Four are not "often outcoached." Bottom line: A team has to win quite a few big games in order to get to THE "big game."

With that said, I agree with Sup about the NC State game. To go into the 4 corners that early in the NC State game was a poor coaching decision on Guy V's part. I might have understood it better, had he done so with a couple of minutes on the clock, but.......the rest is history. With that said, it is easy to be a Monday Morning Quarterback and say after the fact, that Guy V woulda, coulda, shoulda done this or that! I am sure if he had it to do over again, he would do it differently.

I always felt the reason he did so was because the few close games the Coogs had that season, were close because, they were not a very good free throw shooting team. That might have been their only team weakness. Occasionally, late in a game opposing teams exposed that weakness by exchanging trips down the court with a 2-1 advantage, or disadvantage if you were a Coog fan. The Coogs free throw shooting woes that season did cause a few, but not many, tense moments.

Went to a lot of UH practices back in the day. Lots of running. Not much from the line.

Greatest recruiter of all time. Still not over NC State tho... One of the worst coaching jobs I've ever seen. Huge lead with a quarter of the game to go, and UH goes into a stall, despite having the best offensive team in the nation. HUGE error in judgment. I barfed in public after that game! I also heaved after Harry Larrabee's UT beat Dwight Davis' UH team a couple of years later.

That said:

Guy V was a national basketball legend in a state that didn't understand the rules of the game. If he'd have coached anywhere else, he'd have had multiple national championships.

Unfortunately a lot of our fellow Texans have no concept of the game ... Like Lapdog!

Nothing is more awesome than the memory of Ollie Taylor out jumping Lew Alcindor at the opening tip the year after Elvin Hayes graduated. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

But UCLA still won the game, didn't they?(Referring to Lew Alcindor's team)

Yes they did, along with another national championship that year. During the Alcindor years, UCLA only lost two games out of 90.

and one was to Cougar High!

and Ollie Taylor at 6-2 won the opening tip in the second game over 7-2 Lew Alcindor. It was awesome.

This was the year AFTER Elvin Hayes, Don Chaney and Ken Spain graduated. UH had a 7-footer, Mars "The Planet" Evans, a sophomore (freshmen couldn't play varsity then) who couldn't get off the ground if you dropped a firecracker under his ass. Hence, they had a guard jumping center.

Ollie could SKY!

and one was to Cougar High!

and Ollie Taylor at 6-2 won the opening tip in the second game over 7-2 Lew Alcindor. It was awesome. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

One team won the national championship, another team won the tipoff. Which is more awesome?

What's your fucking point? Are you ragging me because I thought the Cougar teams of the 60s were great?

Where did you go to school? UCLA, during the Wooden years? I doubt it.

what the fuck does it matter anyway?

You're a dipshit. anybody else here want a piece of this asshole?

Yes, one was to Cougar High School, by 2 points on their home court. Later in the NCAA tourney, Cougar high lost 101-69. On their way to seven consecutive championships.

I dont think anybody denies UCLA's greatness.

So again, what's your fucking point? That Guy V doesn't deserve to be enshrined or Do you just want to rag me for being a UH fan back then?

Please explain yourself, dipshit!

Not at all. He was an outstanding coach. And besides it's fun rattling a cage now and then. All in good humor and not serious. Chill.