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[GrandGreen]

Blakely as a fundraiser for UNT??  Great idea .....  BUT .....  he really did not appreciate how the administration was running the program.  His personal views of NTSU, at the time, were extreely poor.  Good luck if you can pull that off with Coach Blakely.  He got the shaft just like Coach Spika who had those phenominal teams in the the toughest conference in the nation in the 60's and early 70's.

How did Dan Spika get the shaft? My memory is that he quit after NT picked Rod Rust to be athletic director over him. Dan was a great coach and to my knowledge never went back into coaching. He never got the attention he should have had coaching in the best conference in America at the time. Blakely never got the support he wanted from the administration but not many are going to keep their job being openingly critical of their boss. Also Blakely was barely a .500 coach once all of Robbin's recruits graduated. His biggest public complaint was lack of an adequate recruting budget.