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Post by aggierattler on Feb 22, 2010 23:41:36 GMT -5
I need help from anyone on this. Does anyone here remember a huge basketball brawl between us and Tennessee State in Corbett during the 1980s?? I was not there...but I was living in Tallahassee and saw the film clip on CNNSI. Nick Charles ran that damn clip for about an entire week. Does anyone have a date or even a year of when that happened? Michael Simmons, do you have any photos of it? Someone please help me out, if you can. I have a TSU Tiger who says that it never happened.  |
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Post by DECKS on Feb 22, 2010 23:55:52 GMT -5
He's right. It never happened. Perhaps you are thinking of the brawl with NCCU.  |
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Post by Trueaggie on Feb 23, 2010 0:22:45 GMT -5
A&T played TnSu in the year 82-83; there was no brawl that I remember but we won the game. We had one of the best A&T ever; Eric Boyd, Joe Binion, Doc Rivers, Tony Thomas, Jim Brown, Stichcomb. Man those were the days....
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Post by aggierattler on Feb 23, 2010 6:40:40 GMT -5
OK. Decks & TrueAggie, I must be mistaken about the opponent. I appreciate your input. (But I could've sworn...!)
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Post by B&GMM 80 on Feb 23, 2010 12:02:51 GMT -5
Those were the day(s), when a Seat in Corbett was hard to come by, Attendance was off the Chains for all those games, DON CORBETT was the Man, and we had sucessful Championship Years! (you're right, those were the DAYS!
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Post by bseballaggie on Feb 24, 2010 1:43:49 GMT -5
OK. Decks & TrueAggie, I must be mistaken about the opponent. I appreciate your input. (But I could've sworn...!) There was a brawl in Corbett in about 81 if I remember correctly but I believe it was not a college game the gym was jammed packed, myself and some of my fellow teammates were apart of the chain that was created around the gym floor to keep people from coming out of the stands onto the floor! it may have been a high school championship game or something of that nature, there were a lot of Greensboro natives not students of A&T involved, for some reason I remember a lot of high school kids and Greensboro natives! |
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Post by bseballaggie on Feb 24, 2010 2:02:16 GMT -5
BGMN80 do you remember the panty raid, that was started by the woman of High Rise, all standing on the balcony screaming we want a panty raid and you could hear it, them all the way from Cooper Hall, that was a wild night, I believe Scott Hall emptied, their had to be 2k men plus on the yard that night campus police was over run and Greensboro Police riot squad was called into to support and they came swinging blackjacks at any male in range! That was the year that we had the largest line in the nation(football team) I 'll never forget PIG-IRON hitting one of those three wheelers with a forearm and flipping it over!!
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Post by Hollywood on Feb 24, 2010 10:29:41 GMT -5
There was a brawl with Tennessee State around 87/88 in Corbett. I can confirm because I was standing under the basket and my best friend went on the court and swung on a Tennessee State player. (not proud of that). But it did happen.
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Feb 24, 2010 11:19:55 GMT -5
The last time A&T played Tenn. St. in Corbett was in 1987 and they split that year. The only brawl that I witnessed was with nccu and I believe that happened in either '89, '90 or '91. You can always call espn, and they will be delighted to play the feed that news2 sent to them for national coverage, or you can wait for them to show it again. They generally play it everytime there is a basketbrawl.
A&T did not play nccu in '88.
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Post by BigtimeAggie on Feb 24, 2010 15:09:57 GMT -5
I did not go to the Tenn St game but I do remember something about a fight
I don't think it got a lot of news coverage.
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Feb 24, 2010 15:47:51 GMT -5
I did not go to the Tenn St game but I do remember something about a fight I don't think it got a lot of news coverage. During the time that you people have come up with a brawl (a brawl would be bench clearing), A&T was heavily covered by the media. That would have been on TV. The fans were moved back from the visitor's bench at one point because students were accused of physically touching a coaches' ears. The university pushed several rows of the bleaches back to get the students away from the visitors. I think that made the papers. The only other so-called brawl that I remember was in a tournament game with Howard in Winston-Salem. There were times during those years when players may have pushed or said something, but the big fight was between A&T and nccu. |
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Post by aggierattler on Feb 24, 2010 18:15:20 GMT -5
OK. Decks & TrueAggie, I must be mistaken about the opponent. I appreciate your input. (But I could've sworn...!) There was a brawl in Corbett in about 81 if I remember correctly but I believe it was not a college game the gym was jammed packed, myself and some of my fellow teammates were apart of the chain that was created around the gym floor to keep people from coming out of the stands onto the floor! it may have been a high school championship game or something of that nature, there were a lot of Greensboro natives not students of A&T involved, for some reason I remember a lot of high school kids and Greensboro natives! Yeah...that was a high school championship game. |
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Post by aggierattler on Feb 24, 2010 18:27:48 GMT -5
There was a brawl with Tennessee State around 87/88 in Corbett. I can confirm because I was standing under the basket and my best friend went on the court and swung on a Tennessee State player. (not proud of that). But it did happen. Thank you!! I also talked to former assistant coach Tim Abney, and he said that there definitely was a big fight with TnSU in Corbett during the 1980s. He was on-the-road with his tennis teams and will look it up when he gets back to Jefferson City.  |
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Feb 24, 2010 20:11:19 GMT -5
It had to have happened from '87 back because A&T didn't play them in '88. I can't recall the brawl. It had to be one that didn't last very long or was not the magnitude of the central fight. The nccu brawl was the mother of all brawls. Ask Abney if Juan Lanauze was on that team. He would fight at the drop of a hat.
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Post by aggierattler on Feb 24, 2010 20:18:55 GMT -5
It had to have happened from '87 back because A&T didn't play them in '88. I can't recall the brawl. It had to be one that didn't last very long or was the magnitude of the central fight. The nccu brawl was the mother of all brawls. Ask Abney if Juan Lanauze was on that team. He would fight at the drop of a hat. I will ask him. ;D |
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