Army discharges men's basketball coach

And Crews, while aloof, never struck me as a prick or anything. He was a good coach, and as was mentioned earlier, his style just sort of fell out of favor.

Re: Merfeld -- Bubbler pretty well summed up his time in Evansville. Good dude who got hired by the wrong AD.

 

I have a Marty Simmons story to share. Marty coached one year at D-III Wartburg, which was my junior year. I was the equipment manager for the FB team, but also taped some of the basketball games. In the Iowa Conference, we do women-men doubleheaders, as a way to cut costs and keep things simple.
Anyway, rumor spread around campus that the defending nat'l champs, UW-Platteville was coming to town to scrimmage the Knights. We heard a lot about Platteville but didn't know much about their coach. Come to find out it was Bo Ryan. Marty and Bo agreed to have the scrimmage closed off to the public.

On the night of the scrimmage, I finished working out in the lower level of the old gym/PE center and was about to head back to my dorm. Our AD catches me and asked if I could stay and help out the film crew. I said "sure, why not?".

Platteville raped horror on Wartburg during that scrimmage. Marty, known for having a temper, looked like a cherry Tootsie Roll lollipop after that.

Bo was cool as the other side of the pillow.

Marty left after the end of the season when Crews called him back to Evansville to be his head assistant coach.

 

Andy Elkins ... there's a name I haven't heard since, well, about 1994.

Thanks for reminding me how old I am.

 

I think things went downhill for Evansville basketball when they ditched the sleeves on the uniform.

 

That was after Crews left. They were already going downhill.

 

Still no idea what triggered this?