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Post by aggie2ru on Jul 25, 2017 19:16:45 GMT -5
"Jumping Joe" Binion just didn't get a break pro-wise. He was a great one!
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Post by tyball1 on Oct 18, 2017 10:19:54 GMT -5
The best way to see debates is a decades starting lineup for women's and men's.
70s 80s 90s 00s 10s
I think that would be pretty interesting material for this debate.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Oct 18, 2017 10:57:32 GMT -5
best aggie men's team in history and best aggie women's team in history would be good material for debate too...
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Post by aggierattler on Oct 19, 2017 23:44:50 GMT -5
I would like to see this debate go back AT LEAST to the 1960s with Al Attles' group.
He has told me quite a bit about his teams and feels that they could match up with any of Cal's other teams as well as any teams coached by Reynolds, Littles, Corbett and Capel, guys.
But the scope of this topic is BEST PLAYER.
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Post by saabman on Oct 20, 2017 6:56:45 GMT -5
We did go back to Al Attles group . We addressed groups from the 1960 to late 1980 .
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Post by tyball1 on Jan 22, 2018 14:09:12 GMT -5
best aggie men's team in history and best aggie women's team in history would be good material for debate too... Actually, not really. No men's team is better than the '86-87 team that went 26-3..in MEAC history. Even over Fang's 93 and 98 squads. There is a conversation for the women's teams, but I'm taking the 2005-06 MEAC champions over everyone. No one is stopping Amber Bland. Matter of fact, I'll put up that team against Howard's '97-98 team as the best MEAC women's team ever. |
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Post by tyball1 on Jan 22, 2018 14:15:18 GMT -5
just wanted to give a shout out for joe brawner, who played with Bird and won MEAC player of the year over Bird... Brawner is the best true freshman in A&T history, even over Bruce Jenkins. |
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Post by aggierattler on Jan 22, 2018 15:31:33 GMT -5
best aggie men's team in history and best aggie women's team in history would be good material for debate too... Actually, not really. No men's team is better than the '86-87 team that went 26-3..in MEAC history. Even over Fang's 93 and 98 squads. There is a conversation for the women's teams, but I'm taking the 2005-06 MEAC champions over everyone. No one is stopping Amber Bland. Matter of fact, I'll put up that team against Howard's '97-98 team as the best MEAC women's team ever.
This is before your time, but strictly on the women’s side, absolutely no MEAC WBB team will ever touch SCSU’s teams between 1975-76 and 1978-79. They won a national championship the year after losing in the national championship game. I loved our Amber Bland-led teams and that Howard team was good, too, but those SCSU teams were unbelievable. |
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Mar 25, 2018 8:32:36 GMT -5
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Mar 25, 2018 8:53:00 GMT -5
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Mar 25, 2018 9:08:45 GMT -5
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Mar 25, 2018 10:16:38 GMT -5
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Post by aggieblackie on Mar 25, 2018 10:47:17 GMT -5
I will put the men's 1967 team that won the CIAA Championship and was the only team to defeat the Earl "The Pearl" Monroe led WSSU Rams who won the National Championship that year as the best team in A&T's history.
I base this on the competition of the teams A&T and other HBCU teams played in those days.
Because of segregation the CIAA had the best black players in the land. That is why in those days the NBA sent more scouts to the CIAA Tourney than any other tournament in America - including the ACC.
After integration, HBCU schools did not get the cream of the crop in players. The white colleges began to take our best players and the talent level began to decline in all HBCU schools.
We will never agree on who is the best player in A&T history nor who had the best team because of different eras of viewership.
I have been viewing Aggie basketball since 1962 and I have a pretty good idea of who were the best teams and best players were.
Regardless, we have had a great history in basketball under Coaches Cal Irvin and Don Corbett. We may be on that course again with our new found recent success.
Time will tell.
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Post by SixtiesAggie on Mar 25, 2018 12:53:45 GMT -5
So, no one on the sight knows anything about teams before 1960? Al finished in 1960. Was there a team that may have been the first to play in the NCAA II tournament? If so, what year was that? We need to "stay in our lane", talk about what we really know by virtue of actually seeing these individuals perform live. Remember, at some point in time (50s & 60s) we could actually see the best players in the country playing in the CIAA, SIAC, and the SWAC due to segregation. Those schools that were desegregated, only had one or two Black players. And the segregated schools were not necessarily in the south. Remember, some pro teams only had one or two Blacks during that period, while some had none. That was an era of great basketball as well as other sports at HBCUs. Integration transformed that period in history for HBCUs.
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Post by Maxell on Mar 25, 2018 14:52:25 GMT -5
just wanted to give a shout out for joe brawner, who played with Bird and won MEAC player of the year over Bird... Brawner is the best true freshman in A&T history, even over Bruce Jenkins. Brawner tore it up! ..but Bird was, Bird. |
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