Sad news: Don Haskins is dead - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

SeattleUte · 09-09-2008, 05:36 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/sp...prod=permalink

One way I could always tell Rick Majerus was a good person is that he habitually got choked up talking about watching Texas Western's all black team beating Kentucky's all white team in the 1966 national championship game. Fittingly, there's a great quote from him in the mid-part of the linked NY Times obituary.

Haskins is also an important part of Utah and BYU basketball history, and my life as a fan. How unusual that he stayed 38 years at UTEP, even after that momentous and shocking national championship.

Coach Haskins, I hope you're somewhere, and that I can accurately say God bless you. You're a good man.

Indy Coug · 09-09-2008, 06:56 AM

Why is it sad news when a 80 year old guy dies? He got past the average life expectancy, he doesn't have to put up with being old, senile or disabled anymore. He gets to move on to a better sphere of existence.

Good for him.

bigpiney · 09-09-2008, 02:31 PM

Gene Upshaw dammit.

We need GU all over everything.

MikeWaters · 09-09-2008, 02:34 PM

and white coaches have been using black players to achieve success ever after.

SeattleUte · 09-09-2008, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Why is it sad news when a 80 year old guy dies? He got past the average life expectancy, he doesn't have to put up with being old, senile or disabled anymore. He gets to move on to a better sphere of existence.

Good for him.

I see my last line stung. Hee hee.

Indy Coug · 09-09-2008, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I see my last line stung. Hee hee.

I didn't even read your post, I just reacted to the thread subject line.

09-09-2008, 05:36 AM	#1
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	Sad news: Don Haskins is dead http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/sp...prod=permalink One way I could always tell Rick Majerus was a good person is that he habitually got choked up talking about watching Texas Western's all black team beating Kentucky's all white team in the 1966 national championship game. Fittingly, there's a great quote from him in the mid-part of the linked NY Times obituary. Haskins is also an important part of Utah and BYU basketball history, and my life as a fan. How unusual that he stayed 38 years at UTEP, even after that momentous and shocking national championship. Coach Haskins, I hope you're somewhere, and that I can accurately say God bless you. You're a good man. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster Last edited by SeattleUte; 09-09-2008 at 05:38 AM.

09-09-2008, 06:56 AM	#2
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	Why is it sad news when a 80 year old guy dies? He got past the average life expectancy, he doesn't have to put up with being old, senile or disabled anymore. He gets to move on to a better sphere of existence. Good for him.

09-09-2008, 02:31 PM	#3
bigpiney Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Big Pine , CA Posts: 842	Gene Upshaw dammit. We need GU all over everything.

09-09-2008, 02:34 PM	#4
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	and white coaches have been using black players to achieve success ever after.