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Post by aggie2ru on Apr 1, 2013 20:29:30 GMT -5
'60's aggie.....you get better with age my man. The oral history of our school would intrigue anyone interested in knowing whose shoulders we are standing on today!
Jerry Powell was a ball playing mofo. Hugh Evans at #10 and Jerry at #20 use to terriorize and dominate the back court when they played. Hugh was also a bad, bad, bad, short stop and "Big Ten" named him captain of the baseball team his junior and senior years.
Yep, Jerry Powell was head basketball coach at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY. Thanks for mentioning it because I forgot JP was an assistant coach for Cal.
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Post by aggierattler on Apr 1, 2013 22:52:54 GMT -5
Yeah...I agreed with that several pages back on this thread. Al Attles' Aggie resume is second to none. ;D rattler.......I sorta equate Coach Cal Irvin signing Al Attles at "T" to Coach K (Duke) signing Johnny Dawkins with jump-starting their respective coaching careers. Al and Cal were both from Newark, NJ and the "northern pipeline" was fully opened and established once Al came south. With Coach K pulling Dawkins from DC it signaled that K was ready to add some "color" to his squad. I definitely missed seeing Al Attles play at A&T, but my old man was a former Aggie student-athlete (and later a former Aggie AD) who knew Attles very well. He still says that the teams that Attles played on were probably A&T's best all-time teams (his opinion, of course). I am still searching for video of those teams in action. Somebody has video somewhere!  As I've mentioned before, Al Attles became a mentor to me when I first came into the NBA back in 1988. He is a treasure who Aggie Athletics has not "properly embraced" and showcased to the world, IMHO. It's not too late, though.  Attachments:
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Post by Bigboy on Apr 2, 2013 8:00:09 GMT -5
Jerry Power is a scout for an NBA team, I want to say it's the Washington Wizzards but I may be wrong. He was at the MEAC Tourny last year in Winston. He told me that he was there to check out the kid from NSU (I forget his name). When I first came to A&T I use to hang out with Jerry and Wiley "Bo-Lightning" Harris.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 13, 2013 13:15:31 GMT -5
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jun 13, 2013 14:07:22 GMT -5
if my memory serves me correctly, i believe sparrow attended laurinburg institute before enrolling at a&t, the same school that we recruited lj pimpkin from a year or two later...
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Post by numberonebrave on Jun 13, 2013 18:28:34 GMT -5
I am new to NCA&T history (SWAC Man). What type of numbers/statistics did Al put up to make him the greatest in NCA&T HISTORY? What kind of record did the Aggies have durning his tenure? I am just asking, I do not have a dog in this fight(discussion)
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Post by Aggie77 on Jun 14, 2013 15:06:41 GMT -5
Many consider Al the greatest because of success in his total basketball career, therefore carrying the A&T's name to the highest level. While at A&T Al was a great all-round player. More than 50 years later, he's 2nd in assists, just two from being in 1st, 4th in steals. | Year | Champ | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | A&T's Record | (3)Scoring | 56-57 | WSSU | VSU | FSU | NC A&T | 16-4 (1)
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| | 58-59 | NC A&T | VUU | VSU | NCCU | 21-4 (2) | 9.2 | | 59-60 | WSSU | St. Aug. | Hampton | VSU | 17-6 | 17.8 |
(1) Freshmen weren't eligible for varsity sports. (2) N.C. A&T became the first predominately black college to earn a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Aggies finished third in the nation. (3) Suspect data AL Attles Video |
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Post by AggieGroove on Jun 14, 2013 15:40:35 GMT -5
Many consider Al the greatest because of success in his total basketball career, therefore carrying the A&T's name to the highest level. While at A&T Al was a great all-round player. More than 50 years later, he's 2nd in assists, just two from being in 1st, 4th in steals. | Year | Champ | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | A&T's Record | (3)Scoring | 56-57 | WSSU | VSU | FSU | NC A&T | 16-4 (1)
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(1) Freshmen weren't eligible for varsity sports. (2) N.C. A&T became the first predominately black college to earn a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs. The Aggies finished third in the nation. (3) Suspect data AL Attles VideoCan u post Sparrow's career stats by year or is it posted earlier in this thread? |
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jun 14, 2013 18:26:48 GMT -5
Thriller, I'm with you...it's time to focus on A&T football. Now that the stupid NCAA sanctions have been lifted, we have the chance to be the best team in well over a decade. I think Coach Broadway has been playing with one arm tied behind his back and this year he's going to come out swinging both fists. I hate and love that we have App State first...I hate it because I think they are a tough out even if we had everything perfect but I love it because it will give us a really tough game at the start of the season. We can "test" our players under "live fire" and let them see the level of performance that they will need to have if they expect to win championships. I can hardly wait to see that blue and gold run on the field in Boone.
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Post by numberonebrave on Jun 14, 2013 18:51:03 GMT -5
(Many consider Al the greatest because of success in his total basketball career) .............Thanks
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Post by aggie2ru on Jun 18, 2013 21:09:38 GMT -5
Yeah bruh brave........Al was a true trailblazer in many ways. Our MBB program stands on his shoulders. As an example: What the teams he played on at "T" accomplished and his success in the NBA beats what any Aggie has done up to this point. There are a few Aggies that had a cup of coffee in the NBA and ABA but none stuck and stayed like Al.
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Post by aggierattler on Jul 26, 2013 13:08:23 GMT -5
In case you haven't seen this in another thread...this is taken from ESPN's 2010 edition of "College Basketball Encyclopedia - The Complete History of the Men's Game." It ranks all 330 college basketball programs that were currently in Division 1 at the time of printing. Because of transitions, North Carolina Central and Winston-Salem State were not included. It is my intention to do a capsule of each MEAC men's basketball program over on MFZ... hopefully in alphabetical order. Here is the one on Aggie Basketball: SCHOOL (with Sagarin Ranking): #231 North Carolina A&T State AggiesOVERVIEW: The Aggies from this historically-black university have won 16 of 40 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament championships and played in 16 Division 1 postseason events. The reason? Legendary coaches Cal Irvin, Gene Littles and Don Corbett, and stars such as the great Al Attles and all-time leading scorer and rebounder Joe Binion. FIRST GAME or FIRST SEASON: February 8, 1926 ALL-TIME BEST TEAM: 1987-88 Corbett's squad went a school-best 26-3 with 18 double-digit victories and claimed a seventh straight MEAC tournament title. Conference POY Claude Williams (1,648 points and 973 rebounds) and all-time assists and steals leader Thomas Griffis joined three other players who would top 900 career points: Carlton Becton, Corvin Davis and Glenn Taggart, ALL-TIME BEST PLAYER: Guard Al Attles (1956-60) The famously tough guard led the Aggies to two College Division national tournaments, including one Final Four. Attles went on to play 11 seasons with the NBA's Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors and coached them another 14 seasons, including one NBA title. He is currently a senior executive for the club.  ALL-TIME BEST COACH: Cal Irvin (1954-72) Rarely does a school have two career 400-win coaches in its history, but the Aggies' Irvin and Corbett left such a legacy that their court in named after both. Irvin (brother of MLB Hall of Famer Monte Irvin) won six league titles, reached five national tournaments, two College Division Final Fours, and his 1958-59 team went 26-4.  GAME FOR THE AGES: Attles and Joe Cotton led the way to the 1959 NCAA College Division tournament. After running through Tuskegee and Florida A&M, the Aggies took down American by 17 to become the first historically-black college to reach an NCAA Final Four. The run ended with a 110-92 loss to eventual champion Evansville. But the real "Game for the Ages" has to be an epic 132-134 triple-overtime loss in the semifinals of the 1968 CIAA Tournament to the Norfolk State Spartans, which has been regarded as one of the Top 100 basketball games in collegiate history. FIERCEST RIVALS: A toss-up between Winston-Salem State and North Carolina Central. When either team comes into Ellis Corbett Sports Center, the gates have been known to be closed 20 minutes before tip-off because of overflow crowds. BEST FIVE PLAYERS OF ALL-TIME: *G Al Attles (1956-60) *G James "The Bird" Sparrow (1975-79) *F Elmer Austin (1969-72) *F Joe Binion (1980-84) *F/C Claude Williams (1983-88) RECORDSPOINTS IN ONE GAME: 41 by James Jackson vs. St. Augustine's (1963-64 season) REBOUNDS IN ONE GAME: 21 by Bruce Jenkins vs. James Madison (11/19/98) PPG IN ONE SEASON: 24.9ppg by James Outlaw (1973-74 season) PPG IN A CAREER: 18.8ppg by James Sparrow (1975-79) |
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jul 26, 2013 13:58:42 GMT -5
I think Joe Binion scored 41 points against Livingstone in the 80's.
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Post by aggierattler on Oct 17, 2013 18:12:17 GMT -5
I know that we are talking about players, but here are a couple of forgotten coaches in Aggie Basketball History... 1939 Aggies basketball coach Inman Breaux:  !949 Aggies basketball coach Joe Echols (who Norfolk State later named their arena after):  |
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Post by numberonebrave on Jan 19, 2014 8:09:09 GMT -5
I keep waiting on the best women' player of all time. Is that Amber Bland?
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