“It’s kind of easy to sit down and watch a ballgame and look at things on the sidelines. View latest articles, news and information about what happened to George McQuarn, American basketball coach (Cal State Fullerton Titans), that died on Monday September 4th 2017at age 76. “Even my girlfriend says, ‘A kid makes a mistake and you always take him out.’ But that’s not really the case. I want a kid to feel remorse when he makes a mistake . [1][2] Mathews graduated from UC Irvine in 1972 with a B.A. There are rules in our society, there are rules at this institution and there are rules in George McQuarn’s basketball program. He took his Nevada-Las Vegas team to Logan, where USU coach Kohn Smith, suffering from a brief lapse of sanity, calmly ripped the Rebel program, questioning its integrity. "We had the absence of an experienced point guard early in the year and had to play two freshmen (Kendall Youngblood and Albert Chappell) at that position. So, on the afternoon of Jan. 29, McQuarn said: “I just want to feel good about myself again. Fullerton actually played pretty well without Henderson and Morton, beating UC Irvine at home and winning on the road at San Jose State and Fresno State. Apologies to Bruce Springsteen, but around the Fullerton campus, The Coach always has been The Boss. In the 1998 episode of Teletubbies entitled, "Basketball", Mathews made an appearance with his son, Jordan, as they played basketball on the Sobrato Center court. Nevada Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian, whom McQuarn worked under as an assistant at UNLV, and who was among those who persuaded McQuarn not to resign in 1986, was unaware of McQuarn’s plan. “This could bring us together or tear us apart.”. Conference tournament champion, San Francisco Dons men's basketball head coaches, http://www.rccathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2013-14/schedule, http://www.rccathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/schedule, "Something was amiss for USC's Jonah Mathews, but then he changed shoes and his shots fell", https://web.archive.org/web/20060322013752/http://athletics.rcc.edu/cccmbca_website/cccmbca_0405/cccmbca_skeds/m_bk_standings_0405.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Mathews_(basketball)&oldid=977933973, Cal State Fullerton Titans men's basketball coaches, College men's basketball head coaches in the United States, High school basketball coaches in the United States, Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball coaches, Riverside City Tigers men's basketball coaches, Riverside City Tigers men's basketball players, San Francisco Dons men's basketball coaches, UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball coaches, UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball players, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 September 2020, at 21:17. We play hard and practice hard, I don’t see how you can practice one way and play another. “I certainly felt an obligation to the university and to the players whom I had recruited. newsletter, Utah man ran ex-wife off road, stabbed man with her, police say, Why port-a-potties should remind us to prepare for the next earthquake, Seeing the glorious Eagle Nebula, with Pillars of Creation, Utah County issues mask mandate; Provo, Orem to move back to orange restriction level amid COVID-19 surge, Are you a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims? The championship went to Utah State, which, given its current state of affairs, isn't likely to repeat. Unlike the time in 1986 when he announced his resignation effective the end of the season and then retracted a month later, there was to be no turning back. He began his career as an assistant at UC Irvine, Santa Ana Valley High School, and Cal State Fullerton. Welcome to another edition of the Big West Conference post-season basketball tournament, where the league's 10 teams gather together annually like one big happy family to conclude another soap opera of a season. Cal State Fullerton head coach George McQuarn knew a five-point lead didn’t mean much against UNLV. Do you need a bigger file? And those issues were the topic of Cobb’s meeting the night before McQuarn resigned. This was the hoops equivalent of tugging on Christopher Reeve's cape.
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