Word: utep
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...Bear" won 719 games at the University of Texas--El Paso (UTEP), none more famous than the 1966 NCAA title game. Don was the first coach to start five black players in the championship, and Texas Western, as UTEP was then known, upset an all-white Kentucky team...
...time, my Indiana team played UTEP and--surprise--I got ejected after arguing with a referee. As I walked past Don, he looked straight ahead and said, "You put up with that crap a lot longer than I would have. See you after the game." That's Don--always a friend...
...lifetime, there was no coach I respected more than Don. UTEP had no reason to be a national power. When Don arrived, West Texas wasn't really interested in basketball. Hell, they played in a rickety-ass gym. No coach in the history of college basketball did more with a given situation than Don Haskins, and he did it for 38 years...
Gutlerner and Merseth are also considering reinventing UTEP into a one-year program for graduates of the College that would provide them with health benefits and financial assistance and enable them to remain at Harvard as teaching fellows...
...definitely think that UTEP is more for the serious folk,” Parris said. “People at UTEP just plan on teaching forever for the most part...