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  1. 1 hour ago, Eagle71 said:

    "This is the worst damn place in the world to play basketball! This place is a snake pit!" – Drake coach Maury John, after a double-overtime loss to North Texas

    Photo 1969. The Snake Pit. Crowd 4,500+.  NTSU enrollment - 15,024.  "WELCOME TO THE PIT"  It was ROCKIN'!

    5,000 Super Pit Challenge!  Make it the next worst damn place in the world to play basketball!

    NTSU basketball game 1969 Snake Pitjpg.jpg

     

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  2. On 8/1/2017 at 6:45 PM, SCREAMING EAGLE-66 said:

    Rust should be ,for sure ,  not in is ridiculous....  He coached the NFL for several years starting in 1976 and one year as head coach at N.E. Patriots for one year 1990.  He  did not do well but N.E. had not very well the year before either.  His UNT teams put a lot of players in the NFL.

    Rod was a great coach no doubt and deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. His problem, being from out of state, was recruiting. He inherited the great players he had and once they departed, he was unable to recruit in Texas at even an acceptable level. If he had more local ties, he would have had a better chance at competing in the recruiting game.

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  3. 1 hour ago, drex said:

    OK, so let's move on to the 1968 North Texas vs. #6 Arkansas in Little Rock.  Good crowd from NT with another screw job.  Ron Shanklin, who later went on to play for the Steelers, caught the winning touchdown pass late in the game and the refs ruled him out of bounds.  He was not out of bounds and he was a skilled receiver who knew exacly where to put his foot down in the end zone.  You see, the little guys are never supposed to win unless it's the Big Dance in basketball.

    Was there also. A sinking feeling at the end of the game and a long drive back to Dallas was what we brought home.

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