I'm old also. Did you also suffer through Sox Walseth? I arrived at CU for his last two seasons.
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I'm old also. Did you also suffer through Sox Walseth? I arrived at CU for his last two seasons.
If you were older Sox was a pretty good BB coach for the men but not a good enough recruiter to move the men into the upper end of the conference, he did have some decent teams though, at least by CU standards of the time. He won the Big 8 three times helped a lot by having Cliff Meeley
As a women's coach he did pretty well going 77-21 Although I don't know what he was like personally in that time period. I have talked with some guys who played for him when he was men's coach and they seemed to genuinely like and respect him.
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No, at least not live. I would have been 9 or 10 his last year. I was probably listening on the radio though.
I'd listen to all the games on the radio and I had a little notebook that I'd paste all the boxscores from the daily camera in.
Once Jo Jo Hunter showed up ('79?), I had to see him and begged my dad to take me to a game. We then probably didn't miss more than a couple home games for the next 5-6 years. Unless they were playing Kansas, Oklahoma, or Missouri, we always had a front row seat at the events center.
I was around men's basketball with Sox coaching starting in 75 as one of my friends was dating a player so we got free tickets to the games. I was not around in the Cliff Meeley era.
I did watch probably all of his home games with the women's basketball games. Have you ever seen the scores of the home games? Usually the only cheering was when they broke 100 as the competition was so poor until they got in to their conference play. He coached some very good players who have some funny stories to tell about his discomfort in coaching them. Until he passed away, he supported the women's team and his wife, who has now remarried, still comes to the games with her husband.