Historical Association #5

[Wayne23]

3/6: We will play #10 seed Utah ST, 12-16, 5-13, in the first round.

3/7: 71-70 in OT. Lee Vick saved us with a 22 footer at the buzzer to end regulation, and a 17 footer at the end of OT. He had 28. As a team we were sluggish and we didn’t shoot well.

#3 seed Boise ST, 18-10, 12-6, in the semifinals. We split in the regular season.

3/8: 70-69. This tournament is turning my hair grey! SF Neil Dean won it with an 18 footer.

#1 seed, #19 ranked New Mexico, 24-6, 15-3, for the title. They crushed us there, then we crushed them at our place. This won’t be easy.

3/9: 54-61. Great D, but our shooting was poor for the entire tournament. 25 for Vick, but no one else had more than 9.

23-7, 13-5, RPI #38.

3/12: #9 Midwest. We play #8 Texas Tech. 20-11.

3/16: 70-62. 20, 10 for PF Jim Rudd, 14, 6 for Vick, 11, 8 for C Walt Jarr. +5 RBs, +4 TOs. We were down 16 early, 12 at the half, 8 with 7:01 to play.

#1 seed, #4 ranked UCLA in round 2. VERY tough match up.

3/18: 64-81. 23 for Gibs, 18 for Vick. We were in over our heads. We fought hard though.

4/3: #2 Syracuse is the champ.

4/4: Awards: I am Mountain West COY. Seniors Lee Vick and Jim Rudd make 1st team.

4/9: Wisconsin-Green Bay wants me. It’s tempting… Too cold up there. I’m staying here.

4/23: I ask for a budget increase. No.

24-8, 13-5. Overall, I’m 106-53, .667.

New York World’s Fair.

[Wayne23]

5/1: National basic.

My singing career is on the back burner. I’m just too busy with coaching. My agent says if I let the public forget me I’ll be finished. Oh well.

5/22: LBJ introduces his plan for a “Great Society.”

6/5: Great transfer pool; we’re diving in!

I find the time to record a new single. I wrote this one myself, and it’s called, “Goodbye.”

6/16: We get a PF and an SG and they both look VERY good.

6/21: Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney are murdered in Mississippi. The Gov. of that state says the NAACP stands for “niggers, alligators, apes, coons, and possums,” and blocks any meaningful investigation of the murders.

6/26: 3 scholarships. We want inside players.

“Goodbye” seems to be a hit. It’s at #9 and still climbing.

A major civil rights bill is passed, the largest since Reconstruction.

7/18: Riots in Harlem.

8/7: The Gulf of Tonkin incident, if it really happened, is the trigger for a widening of U. S. involvement in Vietnam.

8/21: We offer to 2 PFs and a C.

“Goodbye” peaked at #6, my best seller to date and my first million seller. I’m sort of dating Diana Ross, the lead singer of the Supremes. We’re both too busy to be dating regularly.

9/1: A summer of race riots nears its end.

9/18: No commitments yet. Decent schedule.

The “Free Speech” movement is born.

9/25: Got a PF, #186. Lost a C.

9/27: The Warren Commission declares that Lee Oswald acted alone in killing JFK.

10/2: Got another PF, #177.

1st day of practice. I like this team!

10/13: Khrushchev is deposed.

11/3: LBJ wins a full term in a landslide.

Lenny Bruce is arrested on stage and charged with obscenity.

11/6: We’re going with a 3 guard set up most of the time. 9 man rotation:

Frosh Todd Mays starts at PG subs at SG. Senior Jim Gibs starts at SG.

Junior Ivan Lowe and soph Jay Barr sub at PG.

Frosh PG Lan Runn starts at SF with senior Ono Tari subbing.

Junior Neil Dean starts at PF subs at C.

Frosh Dan Sims starts at C.

[Wayne23]

11/20: 2-0 start. PF Neil Dean looks like the real thing.

Both recruits sign but we’re still chasing one other.

Britain abolishes the death penalty.

12/4: 5-1, RPI #27.

12/25: 8-2 heading to conf. play. RPI #45. +8.8 PPG, +5.0 RBs, +5.0 TOs.

It was the year of The Beatles. Nothing quite like the phenomenon of their enormous popularity has ever happened before.

It was also a year that saw escalation of U. S. involvement in Vietnam.

[Wayne23]

1/1/1965: 9-2, 1-0, RPI #60.

Still singing. They wanted me to do a Xmas album. I refused. Absolutely no interest in singing that music. There are about three songs worth singing and an album would need about ten. No.

1/15: 13-3, 5-1, RPI #61. Alone in 1st.

The thing with Diana Ross didn’t last. I didn’t really think it would but it was fun while it lasted. She’s a very talented person, and a class act.

Catherine Deneuve and I had a little flirtation but it didn’t amount to anything.

A few days later I went to an insane Hollywood party. Spoke with Jane Fonda for at least an hour and there were sparks, but in the end she was just too political for me.

I’m into that, pro civil rights, anti-Vietnam, but it doesn’t consume me. I wound up getting gloriously drunk with Peter Ustinov and Richard Burton. Ustinov may be the most fascinating person I’ve ever met. Burton needs to stop making his life so melodramatic. There’s a lot of ego there.

I lead a very busy life. Fortunately, I don’t need a lot of sleep, because I sure don’t GET a lot of sleep!

1/29: 17-4, 9-2, RPI #37. +7.8 PPG, +5.3 RBs, +3.0 TOs. Still alone in 1st, 1 ½ up on New Mexico, 2 on Fresno ST. Junior PF/C Neil Dean is our best player, and SF Lan
Runn is our leading scorer- 15.0 PPG.

I’m giving a lot of thought to changing my musical style. I sing standards, old songs by people like Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael… But I absolutely love the music that people like Bob Dylan and The Beatles are making. I’ve been working at the piano in my spare time (What spare time!) to see if I can go in one of those two directions. Nothing definitive yet, but it’s interesting. I never tried to write songs until recently, and I’m enjoying that process. I haven’t come up with anything worth recording but I’m still learning.

I’ll probably do one more album of pop standards and by then I hope I’ll have figured out whether to go in the direction of folk or British rock and roll.

I’m still hanging out with Peter Ustinov. The guy’s an absolute genius. I drink too much when I’m with that crowd. They don’t do drugs though, which the younger actors and musicians I hang with do. I don’t indulge. A drug bust would finish my coaching career instantly. For that matter maybe being present in a place where a drug bust happened might do that too, but I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong, and it’s not my business if other people want to use. But when the hypodermic needles come out, I leave.

2/12: 20-4, 12-2. RPI #30. 2 game lead on #25 New Mexico, 3 over Fresno ST, with 4 to play. If we win all 4 I think we could get ourselves ranked. BUT, 3 of the 4 are away.

2/15: The maple leaf flag is introduced in Canada.

2/21: Malcolm X is assassinated while speaking to a crowd of 400. The assassins are members of Elijah Muhammed’s Nation of Islam.

2/26: We end the regular season at 23-5, 15-3, 1 up on #24 New Mexico, 4 or more on the rest. RPI #30. +10.1 PPG, +5.5 RBs, +3.6 TOs. The Mountain West tournament will probably wind up with us vs. New Mexico in the final. That would be a heck of a game. We beat them by only 2 at our place in the regular season.

The war in Vietnam sucks the U. S. further and further in.

I’ve decided that my voice is more suited to folk and blues than it is to rock, so I’m going in that direction. I have a song about Civil Rights and another one about the ever escalating war in Vietnam. I also have three blues songs written. Two are simple 12 bar blues types but the third is more complicated. I’m not the world’s greatest piano player so I need to be careful about what I write. At some point I may need to play it! I’m also learning the guitar. Some folk songs just need a guitar rather than a piano, and just being able to play a few simple chords helps. I’ll never be a Dave Van Ronk on the guitar, but I won’t need to be.

Anyway, it may be a while before I write music that I feel is good enough to release.

My last, at least for now, pop album and pop single are recorded, and they’ll be out some time in April. The single is “Laura.” That song is just hauntingly beautiful and mysterious, and it works really well with my Chet Baker style singing.

[Wayne23]

3/6: #8 seed San Jose ST, 12-16, 7-11, in the 1st round.

3/7: 72-56. They led at the half. I raised hell in the locker room. I don’t “lose it” very often. When I do it seems to be effective, but that kind of thing needs to be done sparingly or it loses its effect. 10, 12 for Dean, 15 for PG Todd Mays, 13 for SG Ivan Lowe. We’ll need to play better than this.

#4 seed Nevada, 18-10, 11-7 in the semifinals. They won by 3 there in our only meeting. If we can play the game inside we should win easily.

3/8: 86-83. 20 lead changes, 12 ties. Todd Mays had a terrific game, 23 points, and he won it for us with a 23 footer with about 2 seconds left, then stole the inbounds pass to ice it. 16 for back up guard Jim Gibs. We were outplayed inside, which I never would have thought could happen. Our guards, including Lan Runn, 12, 5, 4 with 4 blocks, saved us.

#3 seed Fresno ST, 18-11, 11-7, shocked New Mexico, so we play them for the title. They won by 5 there, then we won by 27 at our place. My biggest worry is that my guys may think that with New Mexico out, all they need to do is show up.

3/9: 71-60. We led all the way but they stayed close for a long time. We played with poise and confidence. 8 players scored between 6 and 12 points. Dean had 12 and 13, Sims 10 and 10.

26-5, 15-3. RPI #24. RANKED!!! #25.

3/12: #6 East. We play #11 Texas Tech, 18-11.

3/16: 66-53. Balance again tonight, 7 player had between 6 and 12. We led most of the way. Win #27, the most for any team I’ve coached.

#3 seed, #9 ranked Cincinnati, 27-4. TOUGH team.

3/18: 72-84. They were too much for us. But all 5 starters are back next year.

4/3: #1 Syracuse wins it all.

4/4: Awards: Neil Dean is Mountain West POY, Def. POY, and 1st team. Lan Runn is Frosh OY, and 1st team. Center Dan Sims also made 1st team. I am Conf. COY.

4/9: Tempted to go to Oregon ST but I’m staying for another year. I just don’t see Oregon ST being competitive in the PAC 12.

4/23: I ask for a budget increase. No.

27-6, 15-3, 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. Overall, 133-59, .693.

Continued massive protests for civil rights and against U. S> involvement in Vietnam. They are often met with violence for the neo-fascist right.

My latest album and single went nowhere. Except for giants like Sinatra, Streisand, Bennett, and a very few others, pop seems to be dead. Still working to get my folk and blues songs up to the level where I want them to be. I won’t release anything until that happens.

[Wayne23]

5/1: National basic.

6/5: One transfer we like.

6/16: Didn’t get him.

6/26: 4 scholarships. We want 3 bigs but we’d settle for 2 and 2.

I have three songs that I think are “release quality.” Two are blues numbers and one is about… well, it’s a “hippie song,” all about love for humanity. I’d like another 8 or
9. I see no problem releasing an album that combines blues and folk, maybe even the kind of folk rock people like Paul Simon write. If you don’t know him you will.

Thrill of a lifetime. I was hanging with Debbie and Carol King after their show and Carol said she was going to a party and we might want to go with her. Why not? We went. 4 guys named John, Paul, George, and Ringo were there. There were about 15 people, all in all, so we got to spend a long time with them- the party broke up a little after sunrise. They actually knew my music and Paul asked what I was working on. When I explained that I was writing my own music now they insisted I play and sing. I did a blues number and my “hippie” folk song. Paul and George really seemed to like both. They advised me to release as “A” and “B” sides of a single, and worry about the album later. Man, that’s a parry I won’t ever forget. Great kids. John could be less intense, and Ringo could be less of a substance abuser.

7/2: 125,000 U. S. soldiers sent to Vietnam. Most will be draftees.

7/30: Medicare and Medicaid are established.

8/6: Sweeping reform with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

8/11: Major riots in Watts, in L. A.

8/21: We offer to a 2 PGs, a PF, and a C.

I release, “All Family,” with “Beat Street” as the B side. I have 8 songs written that I like, 5 folk, 3 blues. Trying to get a few more so that if the single moves I can be ready with an album.

8/30: The single is moving, big time! It’s perfect for the times, and the kids are really buying it, and the radio stations are playing it.

9/7: “All Family” is at #4, the highest any of my songs has ever gotten. Exciting!

9/18: Thought we’d be invited to a tournament. We weren’t. Schedule is a little more challenging.

9/25: We lose a big.

10/2: We lose a PG.

Good team, about as good as last year. Picked 2nd to New Mexico in conf.

10/15: First public burning of a draft card. Major anti-Vietnam protests. The Hell’s Angels counter protest.

11/6: 8 man rotation:

3 guards getting about equal time- soph Todd Mays starts at the Point, soph Lan Runn starts at SG, and frosh Bo will subs at both.

Herb Groe, a junior transfer from Cal, starts at SF. Soph Eric Wyte, a transfer from Texas, gets almost as many minutes there, and soph Uli Brza gets a few minutes at SF, and more at PF.

Senior Neil Dean starts at PF, subs at C.

Soph Dan Sims starts at C.

“All Family peaked at #3. My album, “Blues and News,” releases tomorrow. The single, "War and Peace" will also release then.

[Wayne23]

11/20: 2-0. We looked good!

“War and Peace” is doing okay, not great. #31. “Blues and News” is #44 on the album chart.

12/4: 5-1. We lost at #15 Georgetown.

12/25: We go to conf. play at 10-1, RPI #34. +10.3 PPG, +6.1 RBs, +5.5 TOs.

12/30: Ferdinand Marcos wins a U. S. rigged election and becomes President of the Philippines.

[Wayne23]

1/1/1966: 11-1, 1-0. RPI #32. We came from 15 back at San Jose ST.

1/11: A journalist, Clyde Petit, has interviewed a couple hundred US servicemen in Vietnam. He passes along a statement from an officer that reads: "If there is a god, and he is very kind to us, and given a million men and five years and a miracle in making the South Vietnamese people like us, we stand an outside chance of a stalemate."

1/15: 15-1, 5-0. RPI #21. Alone in 1st. Since he was placed in the starting lineup SF Eric Wyte has been getting >20 per game.

1/29: 18-2, 8-1, RPI #22. Alone in 1st, 1 up on New Mexico and Boise ST. Wyte is getting 18.8 PPG.

2/12: 21-3, 11-2, #24, RPI #22. Tied for 1st with #25 New Mexico.

2/26: We end the regular season at 23-4, 13-3, 2nd place in conf. RPI #24. +9.3 PPG, +4.8 RBs, +6.2 TOs.

3/4: John Lennon says of The Beatles, “We are more popular than Jesus.”

[Wayne23]

3/6: We play #7 seed Colorado ST, 15-13, 8-8, in the 1st round.

3/7: 71-59. 23 for Eric Wyte. We were awful in the 1st half, mediocre in the 2nd, but they played worse.

#6 seed San Jose ST, 19-10, 9-7, in the semifinals. We won by 5 there, 19 here.

3/8: 69-86. Down 17 at the half, as much as 25 in the 2nd. We were just awful, and were never in it.

24-5, 13-3, RPI #28.

3/12: #8 East. We play #9 Iowa, 17-12.

3/16: 84-66. 16 for PG Bo Will. 4 guys had 11 each.

#1 overall seed Syracuse, 30-1 in the 2nd round. I just want my guys to play hard.

3/18: 37-66. We tried to slow it down. Didn’t work.

3/26: We get a PG, #348. Our only committed recruit so far.

4/3: #1 Syracuse wins it all.

4/4: Awards: Eric Wyte and Neil Dean make Conf. 1st team. Dan Sims makes 2nd team.

4/9: Going to USC.

This is a big step up, to the PAC 12. Not sure USC can compete, but it’s worth a shot!

4/16: I get a big guy to commit.

4/23: I ask for a budget increase. C+ 238,350

25-6, NCAA round two. Overall, I’m 158-65, .709.

U. S. Senator J. William Fulbright (Yes, THAT Fulbright) steps up his public opposition to the war in Vietnam.

[Wayne23]

5/1: National and International basic.

5/12: Hideous, brain dead, fascist Ronald Rayguns launches his political career by running for Gov. of California. He is a completed programmed candidate, a human Pinocchio.

6/5: 1 guy we’re looking at.

6/13: The SCOTUS ruling establishing “Miranda rights.”

6/16: We get him.

American involvement in the war in Vietnam escalates steadily and greatly.

6/26: 3 scholarships. We want at least 2 bigs.

7/28: LBJ send another 50,000 troops to Vietnam.

8/1: Charles Whitman climbs a tower at the University of Texas and guns down 13 people. At the time this was something of a rarity.

8/21: We offer to a PG and 2 Cs.

9/18: 3 for 3! Got ‘em all- 2 Cs, #33 and #56, and a PG, #69.

Palmetto Shootout vs. Cal. Soft schedule, but not completely so.

10/2: 1st day of practice. We’re picked 7th in the 12 team PAC 12.

11/6: 7 man rotation:

Frosh John Seat starts at PG. Junior Cam Wyte is at SG. Frosh Ken Carr subs at both.

Senior Shon Mora starts at SF. Junior Josh Star subs at SF and PF.

Junior Cas Vaka starts at PF, subs at C. Soph Mick Evan starts at C.

Edward Brooke, a Massachusetts liberal Republican, yes, such a thing once existed, becomes the first black U. S. Senator since Reconstruction.

Tragically, Ronald Rayguns is elected Gov. of California. He can spell and define neither Governor nor California.