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Does Stan Joplin make it through the season at UT? Just wondering what everyone thought. I know it his last year of his contract, but does the AD make a statement a boot him early?

Thoughts? Opinions? Concerns?

Concerns? I could care what Toledo does with him, except I wish they would keep him around!

Only if they make him wear his purple or gold suit every game.

Stan should probably be shown the door at the end of the year. He has recently discussed his feeling that some unknown person in the school's hierarchy wants him gone. That's not right....Joplin has his faults, but he was a very good player under Bobby Nichols and represented the University well. If someone wants him out of there, they should come out of the woodwork and make their feelings known.

No way will he be fired. His contact runs out and he'll find the door on his own. I suspect the AD will leave it wide open, though. I don't think you fire a legend in the last year of his contract, especially if it costs you money.It's pretty pathetic but Stan gave us our last, truly great moment. Unfortunately it was not as a coach but as a player in the NCAAs thirty years ago, but it WAS a great moment, beating the Big Ten champ and making the Sweet Sixteen. I wish him well as we start the (insert name of hot young assistant who will become the next Jay Eck here) era.

H20ville...that 78/79 UT squad was as good a basketball team I've seen in the MAC. I think they stack up very well against the EMU, Ball State and Kent teams that also enjoyed a bit of a run in the tournament.
Miller, Swaney, Joplin and Appel could probably still start for today's team

They were awfully good. MAC had some excellent players back then across the board though-Roundfield, Poquette at Central, Russell at Western and BG had a Top Ten nationally recruit class a few years earlier, when I was in school-Cornelius Cash, Skip Howard and my all-time most hated Falcon ever Jeff "Monk" Montgomery, the guy who made Floyd look like an Olympic decathelete in terms of athleticism and just killed us every time we played them. They never quite lived up to the hype but were awfully good. I think there was a 7footer transfer from MAryland in that group as well. Can't recall his name.

Interesting that you mention Kevin Apple though and not Knuckles... Apple was most memorable to me for his early Beatles-hairdo.

I thought Harvey came along after 79.....that dude was boinking a girl my brother dated anyway. "Bro's before ho's" as the saying goes....

Knuckles was from 77-81. Has a nephew playing for Florida International. Tell your brother last time I saw Harvey he was cue ball bald and getting a pot belly.

Flipper wrote:I thought Harvey came along after 79.....that dude was boinking a girl my brother dated anyway. "Bro's before ho's" as the saying goes....

Wait, did you just say boink?

I'm sorry....I meant to type "shtupping" instead of "boinking"

Flipper wrote:H20ville...that 78/79 UT squad was as good a basketball team I've seen in the MAC. I think they stack up very well against the EMU, Ball State and Kent teams that also enjoyed a bit of a run in the tournament.
Miller, Swaney, Joplin and Appel could probably still start for today's team

Ha! Old man. I remember those guys. What about Jay Lehman and Tim Selgo? Remember Swaney's hair? What a meatball. I remember them beating us 85-70 in Crisler Arena. All of my relatives were Toledo fans. It was hell.

I've got the media guide from 1979 stashed away somewhere...I'll have to bust it out and scan some images...the team posed in tuxes. Not the timeless, classy black formal wear that James Bond might wear. No, they went with the pastel colored, wide lapel, polyester disco suits.

It's a classic....

I am impressed Flipper. How do you know all this stuff? Good show!

I've been following MAC hoops since the days of Tom Kozelko.

I didn't begin to actively hate the University of Toledo until I enrolled there in 1983.