Quote Originally Posted by Goldendawg View Post
Still hard to see Kermit at UNM, we wouldn't have Howland probably, but how did we get Ray instead of him?
This is how I read the tea leaves. We were looked at as a dirty program under Stansbury so Stricklin washed it clean and hired our first AA coach in basketball at the same time. Several alumni/boosters were pushing for Kenny Payne and he was going to bring World Wide Wes and dirty Nike/AAU tactics with him and Stricklin got scared at the last minute and hired a total nobody on his own that promised to completely clean us up and not swim in the cess pools known as AAU basketball. It was a giant turd expiremnt and Stricklin bolted as soon as he could 3 years later. Oh well it's over with now.