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My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by NowhereLandAggie » April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm

He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 7th, 2021, 10:03 pm

That is what I'm excited about. We have won a lot of conference titles both regular season and tournament. We have our share of great seasons and big wins. It is now time to take the next step and start winning in the dance. I believe the only coach who has beat a 1 seed as a 16 seed fits the bill to get us there.
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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by mcaggie1 » April 7th, 2021, 11:10 pm

NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm
He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50142079/ne ... d-year-out
Next level like Ladell Anderson?



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by GameFAQSAggie » April 8th, 2021, 11:15 am

I do think that nearly anyone we hired would have been able to continue the tradition of winning the majority of our regular season home game, as that's the easy part. The hard part is someone who is not content with JUST having a high winning percentage in home games, but also trying to get more 2019 LSU and Florida, 2018 St. Mary's type wins and start winning games in the tournament. I hear the talk of bringing back Spectrum Magic, and am thinking that we didn't need this big great hire for that, it's having more postseason success we needed the big great hire for.

In other words, I don't JUST want to see them keep winning in front of our 5000 students and 5000 fans on the other side. I also want to start seeing wins in front of crowds that have only a small section of fans of us along with fans of our opponent, fans of two other teams there for a game either before or after ours, along with fans of four other teams and local impartial fans scattered through the rest of the arena!



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by NowhereLandAggie » April 8th, 2021, 11:36 am

mcaggie1 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:10 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm
He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50142079/ne ... d-year-out
Next level like Ladell Anderson?
Wasn't born when he was here, but he did go 4-7 in the non-expanded tournament.

Other than him, the only other coach to win a game in the NCAA tournament is Stew Morrill in 2001.

Close calls (5 points or less) include Dutch Belnap and Rod Tueller's squads of:

1975 Round of 32 Montana L 63–68
1980 11 W Round of 48 (6) Clemson L 73–76
1983 10 MW Round of 48 (7) Iowa L 59–64
1988 10 MW Round of 64 (7) Vanderbilt L 77–80

And Stew Morrill's teams of:
2003 15 W Round of 64 (2) #6 Kansas L 61–64
2009 11 W Round of 64 (6) #23 Marquette L 57–58
2011 12 S Round of 64 (5) #21 Kansas State L 68–73

The best recent luck USU has had with coaches are those with head coaching experience such as:

Craig Smith
Stew Morrill
Larry Eustachy

I am optimistic about Ryan Odom, because he has been both a HC and won conference and NCAA tournament games already. Only time will tell.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Blitz79 » April 8th, 2021, 3:58 pm

Odom's presser reminded me a lot of Duryea's.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by gomretat » April 8th, 2021, 4:56 pm

I am excited to see what Odom will do here and I think we got the right guy - but some of this just sounded like coach speak.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by mcaggie1 » April 8th, 2021, 4:59 pm

NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 11:36 am
mcaggie1 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:10 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm
He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50142079/ne ... d-year-out
Next level like Ladell Anderson?
Wasn't born when he was here, but he did go 4-7 in the non-expanded tournament.

Other than him, the only other coach to win a game in the NCAA tournament is Stew Morrill in 2001.

Close calls (5 points or less) include Dutch Belnap and Rod Tueller's squads of:

1975 Round of 32 Montana L 63–68
1980 11 W Round of 48 (6) Clemson L 73–76
1983 10 MW Round of 48 (7) Iowa L 59–64
1988 10 MW Round of 64 (7) Vanderbilt L 77–80

And Stew Morrill's teams of:
2003 15 W Round of 64 (2) #6 Kansas L 61–64
2009 11 W Round of 64 (6) #23 Marquette L 57–58
2011 12 S Round of 64 (5) #21 Kansas State L 68–73

The best recent luck USU has had with coaches are those with head coaching experience such as:

Craig Smith
Stew Morrill
Larry Eustachy

I am optimistic about Ryan Odom, because he has been both a HC and won conference and NCAA tournament games already. Only time will tell.
LaDell took us to the elite eight.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by NowhereLandAggie » April 8th, 2021, 5:35 pm

mcaggie1 wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 4:59 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 11:36 am
mcaggie1 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:10 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm
He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50142079/ne ... d-year-out
Next level like Ladell Anderson?
Wasn't born when he was here, but he did go 4-7 in the non-expanded tournament.

Other than him, the only other coach to win a game in the NCAA tournament is Stew Morrill in 2001.

Close calls (5 points or less) include Dutch Belnap and Rod Tueller's squads of:

1975 Round of 32 Montana L 63–68
1980 11 W Round of 48 (6) Clemson L 73–76
1983 10 MW Round of 48 (7) Iowa L 59–64
1988 10 MW Round of 64 (7) Vanderbilt L 77–80

And Stew Morrill's teams of:
2003 15 W Round of 64 (2) #6 Kansas L 61–64
2009 11 W Round of 64 (6) #23 Marquette L 57–58
2011 12 S Round of 64 (5) #21 Kansas State L 68–73

The best recent luck USU has had with coaches are those with head coaching experience such as:

Craig Smith
Stew Morrill
Larry Eustachy

I am optimistic about Ryan Odom, because he has been both a HC and won conference and NCAA tournament games already. Only time will tell.
LaDell took us to the elite eight.
I did know that. He won in a 25 team tournament against UTEP and then Santa Clara. John Wooden's UCLA team took them out after. Supposedly Ladell Anderson said after that USU would likely never reach that far again. I read an article by Greg Hansen, a USU Alumnus when USU played Arizona in 2005 where he stated that.

And 50 years later, it hasn't happened.
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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 8th, 2021, 6:07 pm

NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 5:35 pm
mcaggie1 wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 4:59 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 11:36 am
mcaggie1 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:10 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm
He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50142079/ne ... d-year-out
Next level like Ladell Anderson?
Wasn't born when he was here, but he did go 4-7 in the non-expanded tournament.

Other than him, the only other coach to win a game in the NCAA tournament is Stew Morrill in 2001.

Close calls (5 points or less) include Dutch Belnap and Rod Tueller's squads of:

1975 Round of 32 Montana L 63–68
1980 11 W Round of 48 (6) Clemson L 73–76
1983 10 MW Round of 48 (7) Iowa L 59–64
1988 10 MW Round of 64 (7) Vanderbilt L 77–80

And Stew Morrill's teams of:
2003 15 W Round of 64 (2) #6 Kansas L 61–64
2009 11 W Round of 64 (6) #23 Marquette L 57–58
2011 12 S Round of 64 (5) #21 Kansas State L 68–73

The best recent luck USU has had with coaches are those with head coaching experience such as:

Craig Smith
Stew Morrill
Larry Eustachy

I am optimistic about Ryan Odom, because he has been both a HC and won conference and NCAA tournament games already. Only time will tell.
LaDell took us to the elite eight.
I did know that. He won in a 25 team tournament against UTEP and then Santa Clara. John Wooden's UCLA team took them out after. Supposedly Ladell Anderson said after that USU would likely never reach that far again. I read an article by Greg Hansen, a USU Alumnus when USU played Arizona in 2005 where he stated that.

And 50 years later, it hasn't happened.
Great coach, but sucks he said something like that instead of "we'll be back here soon." He was right though. We haven't been close to the elite 8 since then. Our one tournament win was followed with a 25 point loss to Matt Barnes, Earl Watson and UCLA.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Bank Shot » April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm

Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 8th, 2021, 6:34 pm

Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
That was quite a game. As a Utah hater I loved the ending, but it had to suck as a Utah fan seeing their chance to be champions slip away like that. They were up double digits at the half and controlled most of that game.

And yep, you never know when you will get back. You got to make the most of those moments. I remember after OKC losing to Miami everybody thought it was just a preview of things to come with a core group of Durant/Westbrook/Harden all age 23. Yet they never made it back and the team dissolved.
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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by NowhereLandAggie » April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm

Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm

NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by aggies22 » April 8th, 2021, 6:47 pm

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?
Probably against Kansas.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by NowhereLandAggie » April 8th, 2021, 6:50 pm

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?
You are right, I just checked that. Scott Padgett and Jeff Shepard hit the shots and Nazr Mohammed played in the middle.

Antoine Walker and Ron Mercer were in previous years. Those teams were loaded.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 8th, 2021, 6:50 pm

aggies22 wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:47 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?
Probably against Kansas.
Yeah I could be wrong, but I swear he used that Mcdonald's joke too at one point. Kansas would make the most sense. A great game by an Aggie team that came oh so close.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 8th, 2021, 6:52 pm

NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:50 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?
You are right, I just checked that. Scott Padgett and Jeff Shepard hit the shots and Nazr Mohammed played in the middle.

Antoine Walker and Ron Mercer were in previous years. Those teams were loaded.
Yeah their 96 championship team might be the greatest college team ever. That team was absolutely loaded with future NBA talent.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by frankiesaysrelax » April 9th, 2021, 10:58 am

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:52 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:50 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?
You are right, I just checked that. Scott Padgett and Jeff Shepard hit the shots and Nazr Mohammed played in the middle.

Antoine Walker and Ron Mercer were in previous years. Those teams were loaded.
Yeah their 96 championship team might be the greatest college team ever. That team was absolutely loaded with future NBA talent.
These were the years they would do 5 man rotations like hockey subs since their second team was better than most first teams.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » April 9th, 2021, 11:05 am

frankiesaysrelax wrote:
April 9th, 2021, 10:58 am
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:52 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:50 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:46 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:42 pm
Bank Shot wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 6:24 pm
Pretty much the same thing that Majerus said when he lost in the Finals. He knew that opportunity to get that far would never happen again. To his dying day he could recount, second by second, the last 6 minutes of that game.
One of the few times I ever cheered for the University of Utah in my life. I remember watching their double digit halftime lead dissolve as Ron Mercer and the blue chips recruits from Kentucky started raining down 3's on the gassed Utes.

I have heard Britton Johnsen say on the radio that even to this day, hearing about that game affects him some. They were so close to beating Kentucky then it all slipped away.

Rick Majerus said after one of his Kentucky losses, "they have a bunch of McDonald's All Americans, and we have a bunch of kids that worked at McDonald's."
Mercer wasn't on that 98 team, but he killed the Utes the year before in the Elite 8.

And didn't Stew Morrill make a similar joke after one of our tournament losses?
You are right, I just checked that. Scott Padgett and Jeff Shepard hit the shots and Nazr Mohammed played in the middle.

Antoine Walker and Ron Mercer were in previous years. Those teams were loaded.
Yeah their 96 championship team might be the greatest college team ever. That team was absolutely loaded with future NBA talent.
These were the years they would do 5 man rotations like hockey subs since their second team was better than most first teams.
Yeah they were loaded, although maybe I should quit complimenting them since Mark Pope was on that team. :puke:
Mark Pope was a sub on that team who still got drafted in the second round that year.



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by mcaggie1 » April 9th, 2021, 12:36 pm

NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 5:35 pm
mcaggie1 wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 4:59 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 11:36 am
mcaggie1 wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 11:10 pm
NowhereLandAggie wrote:
April 7th, 2021, 10:01 pm
He stated that he wants USU to be a consistent top 25 team and advance in the tournament.

Not just contend for conference titles, not just win some games, but advance in the tournament. I like how he has set his sights higher. Only time will tell if this happens, but many coaches have won at USU. He may take this to the next level.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50142079/ne ... d-year-out
Next level like Ladell Anderson?
Wasn't born when he was here, but he did go 4-7 in the non-expanded tournament.

Other than him, the only other coach to win a game in the NCAA tournament is Stew Morrill in 2001.

Close calls (5 points or less) include Dutch Belnap and Rod Tueller's squads of:

1975 Round of 32 Montana L 63–68
1980 11 W Round of 48 (6) Clemson L 73–76
1983 10 MW Round of 48 (7) Iowa L 59–64
1988 10 MW Round of 64 (7) Vanderbilt L 77–80

And Stew Morrill's teams of:
2003 15 W Round of 64 (2) #6 Kansas L 61–64
2009 11 W Round of 64 (6) #23 Marquette L 57–58
2011 12 S Round of 64 (5) #21 Kansas State L 68–73

The best recent luck USU has had with coaches are those with head coaching experience such as:

Craig Smith
Stew Morrill
Larry Eustachy

I am optimistic about Ryan Odom, because he has been both a HC and won conference and NCAA tournament games already. Only time will tell.
LaDell took us to the elite eight.
I did know that. He won in a 25 team tournament against UTEP and then Santa Clara. John Wooden's UCLA team took them out after. Supposedly Ladell Anderson said after that USU would likely never reach that far again. I read an article by Greg Hansen, a USU Alumnus when USU played Arizona in 2005 where he stated that.

And 50 years later, it hasn't happened.
What you may not know is that after UCLA (who eventually won the tournament) beat us, John Wooden (UCLA’s legendary coach) said that they were lucky that USU’s Nate Williams had a bruised knee, and wasn’t 100%. He said if Williams would have been 100% USU would have beaten us, and probably won the whole thing.
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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by smfdaggie » April 9th, 2021, 1:06 pm

Actually, Nate had a sprained ankle. That was a great team with Nate and Marv.
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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by treesap32 » April 9th, 2021, 1:09 pm

Blitz79 wrote:
April 8th, 2021, 3:58 pm
Odom's presser reminded me a lot of Duryea's.
Them's fightin' words!



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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by NavyBlueAggie » April 9th, 2021, 1:09 pm

That Nate was injured was a factor, and Coach Wooden made a generous comment toward Utah State. We can only hope to achieve again what we once had. Thanks to McAggie and smfdaggie for your memories.
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Re: My favorite part of Odom's vision

Post by mcaggie1 » April 9th, 2021, 1:17 pm

smfdaggie wrote:
April 9th, 2021, 1:06 pm
Actually, Nate had a sprained ankle. That was a great team with Nate and Marv.
My bad, I guess. I was told knee and ankle. But I think you are right. ankle. Luckily it doesn't change the outcome of the story.



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