1977 TV news sports clip of Coach Bill Blakeley with Mean Green vs UTA

[NT80]

Classic, original Mean Green basketball uniforms from the Fry / Blakeley era at NTSU...

 

[akriesman]

A couple of years ago I was having a beer with Snake Legrand in Arlington.   We were discussing the NT/UTA battles while Blakely was at UNT.  He had some hilarious stories.

[UNT86]

On the stage at UTA.

Was also a Jimmy Gales sighting in there too.

And the warm ups at the end of the clip were awesome. 

[UNTLifer]

David Von Erich with the finger roll near the end. 

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, UNT86 said:

On the stage at UTA.

Was also a Jimmy Gales sighting in there too.

And the warm ups at the end of the clip were awesome. 

Those warm ups had striped pants, if memory serves. Great look. 

[cogido]

The Blakeley years and teams were so electric. Remember Stan Blackman intimidating SMU when we played them at Moody. Great years in the Super Pit.

[GrandGreen]

3 hours ago, cogido said:

The Blakeley years and teams were so electric. Remember Stan Blackman intimidating SMU when we played them at Moody. Great years in the Super Pit.

I am going to be a little negative about Blakeley, he won primarily with Robbins recruits.  He added a needed point guard (weasel Johnson, great moniker) , but the rest of the team were there because of Robbins and Tubbs. 

As for the SMU game which I attended, Ira Terrell was SMU's star and had a great game.  Blackman gave NT a presence in the paint and NT won a close game.  

I think this was the game, were Sonny Allen proclaimed he would never schedule NTSU again.  That publicity when SMU played their last game in Denton for a long time (maybe forever, can't remember if they have played at NT again) resulted in what is still the record crowd for a NT basketball game in the SPit.