Rest In Peace, Tark the Shark.
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Jerry once said, “The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky that they’re going to suspend Cleveland State for another two years.” A good coach that bent the rules. Especially in Sin City, where the Casino’s don’t like the rules to be bent.
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This has been a sad week in College Basketball.
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Two coaches that are viewed much differently, but who both had a huge impact on the game. RIP to both.
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The thing I like about Tark is that he never channeled a player like Mike Evans to K state the way Dean Smith did. I also like that Tark never high jacked one of our coaches in a Final Four run. I also like that Tark never forced one of our coaches to recruit only half the country for 15 stinking years.
Other than that, I am cool with Dean Smith.
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@jaybate-1.0 I don’t know the Mike Evans to K-State story, please expand. Mostly I liked Dean because he was Jayhawk. The 2nd two I agree with you, although we did get Paul Pierce out of California.
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Here is a recent story related to Dean Smith, Mike Evans and Jack Hartman. It is by Kevin Haskins at CJonline.com. It ran shortly after Dean Smith’s death.
Here is the link.
http://cjonline.com/blog-post/kevin-haskin/2015-02-09/dean-smith-also-offered-assistance-k-staters
My question would be: did Dean offer Evans to KU first? This story by Kevin Haskins does not leave an impression that he did, but it also does not assert anything one way or the other.
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If Tark were alive today…
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky that they are going to let Cal have 15 OAD/TADs on scholarship.”
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I am so glad you posted that tweet by Bill Self about Tark. Despite Tark’s flaws, Tark was arguably the greatest defensive coach of all time. I always wondered if Self had met him and picked his brain, and he apparently did and Tark apparently treated him right. I don’t recall KU playing Tark under Self. Did we? I sure would like to get my hands on some feeds of the games they coached against each other. They must have been defensive clinics.
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RIP Coach Tarkanian, one of the few to take on the NCAA head on. Sometimes I feel like we could use more like him. He was very influential in the time when the NCAA was starting to bloom and he brought huge exposure and also assembled one of the better college teams ever.
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@jaybate-1.0 When UNLV was Ranked #1, Roy’s team, that had Randall, " the best passing big man I’ve ever seen at KU" went into Madison Square Garden and beat them handily.
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If memory serves, Tark is a great Outside In Coach and his 1989/90 NC gave Duke a nice polish in the face. I don’t think that season CBB had implemented 3 Pt rule yet. His teams were always high scoring teams.
BTW, I remembered we were one of the 2 teams that beat UNLV in their NC season in early Non Con. RCJH!
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That I recall fondly. I am not a Tark lover. I just thought he was a great defensive coach.
Randall was a helluva player. One of my favorites. Boy could we use him this year.
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Thanks for the memory augmentation.
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@jaybate-1.0 JB, u r good! Augmentation! What a word. You must have also remembered Stacey Augmon who was then the 89/90 UNLV guard.
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He was good. That whole UNLV team was good. But KU was better one game.
I wonder when Self coached against Tark? ORU, Tulsa or Illinois?
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@jaybate-1.0 JB: It was Tarkanian’s Fresno State vs Self’s Tulsa team in the 99/00 season. They played 3 times that season including the final of the WAC tournament. I believe Tark beat him all 3 times.
Ha Ha, not sure were the Outside In games vs the Inside Out games. Or Self may had been beaten by an Inside Out team so badly that he vowed to stick to Inside Out system. I think we need a BB historian here to help.
