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(12-18-2021 03:07 PM)Muskrat Wrote:  

(12-18-2021 12:19 PM)Older and Older Wrote:  

(12-17-2021 07:09 PM)Muskrat Wrote:  I'd like to see them bring either Steubenville or Mount Union to the MACC, to get revenge for those back-to-back season opening losses 47 years ago.

Remember it well. Either Frank Truitts last year or first year for
“Sexy” Rexy Hughes. Boy we were bad but other than those two we played a big time schedule. We had some nice players but never enough.
Pitt and Penn State usually twice every year home and away.

It was Hughes' first year. Frank Truitt was always a mystery to me. On paper, it was an awesome hire. He was a highly successful high school coach and later the heir apparent to Fred Taylor at Ohio State, when Taylor was still winning and considered one of the top college coaches. He was hired by LSU but quit for various reasons. It seemed a real coup for KSU to have landed him, but the basketball program didn't improve under him. It didn't get worse, though, either. He did have one winning season, in 1968/69, which was their first in 17 years and last until Jim McDonald became coach.

Truitt did have some nice recruits - like Roger Evans ABJ Player of the Year. I saw his teams beat Purdue and play Bob Lanier's St Bonaventure and Dace Cowen's FSU teams. Both at Kent. We nearly beat Florida State but I recall a group of African American students rooting for FSU. They were not happy with the lack of players of color on Truitt's teams - he always had several large farm boys from Wisconsin.
I recall losing to some small schools under Grube - he had some terrible teams. Hughes was a real case. I was told by a young lady friend that he tried to pick her up in a bar downtown.