When Stan Joplin was fired, the talk was that former North Carolina player and Tennessee head coach Buzz Peterson was UT's top choice. Apparently money was a problem, but Peterson ended up taking a low paying job at Appalachian State the next season and Toledo hired Gene Cross.

Peterson went 24-13 at App State, but bolted his home-town school after one year for a big pay raise at UNC-Wilmington. He went 13-17,10-20,10-20 and 9-13 at UNCW and was fired last season.

Looks like we made the right call going for Cross.

lol

(03-20-2015 03:18 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  Looks like we made the right call going for Cross.

Hey, he was "player" of the year.

(03-20-2015 08:44 PM)adunifon Wrote:  

(03-20-2015 03:18 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  Looks like we made the right call going for Cross.

Hey, he was "player" of the year.

...and our leading scorer.

had a strong post up game

(03-20-2015 03:18 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  Looks like we made the right call going for Cross.

Two losers. Cross was a bum, he had no idea on how to coach a basketball team.

Cross was always beating the bushes looking for more players. I understand he had some success down at the "Y".

,BMOC

Sent from my KFTHWI using Tapatalk

I've always wondered if Brey helped get Cross the job at Toledo to get rid of him - not that it (Amstutz) hasn't happened (West) before. Saw Brey's interview yesterday where he told everyone at the post game that his mom had passed away in the morning - then spent a few seconds talking about her. No drama and didn't tell the players before the game. Gave me respect for him that I really didn't have before - so it is possible that Cross only acted that way when he became a head coach, got more money, and had no one around most of the time that he had to answer to. I still bet he was a problem at ND and Brey seized the opportunity to get him out.