Talk:Don Haskins

Pat Riley reference disingenuous?

In the section of this article marked The 1966 NCAA Championship Team Pat Riley is referenced as a counter example of a Kentucky player that had not gone on to a degree, which I do not dispute (I have no knowledge either way). However the context of the statement compares the successes of Texas Western players outside of college degrees and leaves out the incredible success of Pat Riley as a basketball coach and later as President of the Miami Heat. While I agree with the sentiment of the paragraph it seems wrong to put Pat Riley's name in an example of players that were not successful or as successful. As a matter of fact if you follow the Wikipedia link for Pat Riley you find the second sentence says "Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to another.". Here is the section of the article I am speaking of:

"In the historic game, Texas Western played only its seven black players. Four of the seven – Cager, Flournoy, Shed, and Worsley – earned degrees. The remaining three left college a semester or less from graduation, and went on to their respective careers—Artis as a Gary, Indiana police officer; Hill in sales, eventually rising to senior buyer for a natural gas company; and Lattin as an NBA draftee for the San Francisco Warriors, and then in business management, currently as an executive with a liquor distributor. In contrast, though it was not mentioned until decades later, four of Kentucky's five starters, including stars Louie Dampier and Pat Riley, had still not earned degrees by the mid-1970s.[8]"

In my opinion Pat Riley should be left out of this counter-example, it just doesn't work to put such an obviously successful individual into this context. Perhaps it would better to just have the sentence not include Louie Dampier (who also warrants a Wikipedia link and is arguably a success) and Pat Riley like this: "In contrast, though it was not mentioned until decades later, four of Kentucky's five starters had still not earned degrees by the mid-1970s.[8]"

Daveremy (talk) 07:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC) daveremy

Glory Road one of the best

I saw the movie "Glory Road" and in my opinion it is one of the best out in quite awhile. Thanks to Josh Lucas's portrayal of the hard task master Don Haskins. Luckily we were spared the nausea of having Ben Affleck in the portrayal of Don Haskins a great humanitarian and coach. Though this movie was never hyped on Leno or Letterman as all others are it still did quite well at the box office.Thanks Disney for a great piece of history.

Genius

This guy was a genius. Clay4president 01:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought the movie was very good, but it gave a false-dramatic sense of Texas Western and its place in basketball at the time. As previous articles relate, Texas Western was a very good team before 1965-66, played in the post-season the previous three years and Haskins started coaching there in 1961. He had several black players before, including Jim "Bad News" Barnes who was a good NBA player.

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The Washington Post sport page stated....

 IN the Washington Post the coverage was all about Duke and Kentucky.  Maury Povich's (of TV) dad, Shirley Povich was the august Post sports columnist.  He or some other Post writer stated in print before the title game... that the semi-final between of Kentucky vs.Duke was the "real" Championship.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.252.6 (talk) 02:33, 22 June 2009 (UTC) 

Edit request on 12 February 2013

Please change the second sentence here:

His first Miner team had an 18-6 record, in his second year he posted a 19-7 mark and made the first of his 14 NCAA Tournament appearances. The Miners again reached the NCAA Tournament in 1963 and 1964 and played in the NIT in 1965.

to:

The Miners again reached the NCAA Tournament in 1964 and played in the NIT in 1965.

The original text says that Haskin's Miners made the NCAA tournament three times before he won the national championship. In fact, they had only been there twice before, in 1963 and 1964, as shown in the chart near the bottom of the article:

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason Texas Western Miners (Border Conference) (1961–1962)

1961–1962 Texas Western 18–6 5–3 2nd

Texas Western (Border): 18–6 5–3

Texas Western Miners (Independent) (1962–1967)

1962–1963 Texas Western 19–7 NCAA 1st Round

1963–1964 Texas Western 25–3 NCAA 3rd Place

1964–1965 Texas Western 16–9 NIT 1st Round

1965–1966 Texas Western 28–1 NCAA Champion

Kitoko 03:47, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Done I did a bit more of a rewrite of those sentences than you requested as it was a bit confusing as worded, but I believe the spirit of your request is there. Cheers, —KuyaBriBri^Talk 19:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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