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Post by Steve Aztec on Dec 19, 2010 15:13:45 GMT -8
Dare I say... A better time to be an Aztec sports fan than the 60's and 70's? I think so, especially if basketball and football can put up great numbers again next year. We Are On A Roll!!! Not better than the '60s unless football can keep moving upward. Just my opinion. Was basketball in the Top 10 in the 60's? In fact were either football OR basketball in the Top 10 in the 60's?
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Post by Steve Aztec on Dec 19, 2010 15:17:41 GMT -8
The mere uttering of the words, "National Championship," raises the hair on the back of my balding head and shivers down my arthritic spine! To paraphrase Hickory High coach Norman Dale: "I'm sure the thought of going to the national championship is beyond your wildest dreams, so let's just keep it there for now......" NTU...Has basketball plateaued in the community? Seems that two years ago you said Fisher was going backwards and interest was dying in the community. Funny, it sure doesn't seem that way to me. I wonder how your Fisher Hater buddies Air Crap and OldWolf69 feel about it now. It seems that they would come on the board and face the facts that they were wrong. ***Of course they are probably on the board right now under different names...afraid to admit who they are.
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Post by aztecfred on Dec 19, 2010 19:35:35 GMT -8
Not better than the '60s unless football can keep moving upward. Just my opinion. Was basketball in the Top 10 in the 60's? In fact were either football OR basketball in the Top 10 in the 60's? We were ranked in the FB top 20 in the late 60's or early 70's. Never in BB.
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Post by longtimebooster on Dec 19, 2010 19:39:18 GMT -8
Wow. Did any sane aztec fan think they would live to see the day when the aztecs would have a team ranked so high in a major sport? Geez, I remember having a conversation about 4 years ago, or so, with a fellow Aztectalker at McGregor's. We were sitting at 17-7, or something in that neighborhood. Abukar had joined the team a few games earlier in January and the team was playing great with Heath, Slaughter, Williams, et. al. We had a road trip coming up with 4 huge games @byu, @utah, @wyo, etc. I proclaimed that if we had managed to win all four, we'd be ranked. At this, my fellow Aztectalker made a huge guffaw and ripped me a new one. "Do you know how good you have to be to be a Top 25 team? We're not in that ballpark. And we'll never be. We have decent teams -- good teams even. But Top 25? Never." We ended up stubbing our toes on that roadie, dropping games to the Zoobs and Pokes, I believe. We almost made it over the hump, but didn't. The Top 25 was right there to be had, but we blew it. My friend gloated. I never bought into his nonsense. In Fish I trusted. But I must admit, even in my wildest dreams I didn't dare to dream of a Top 10 ranking that's now verging on a Top 5 ranking.
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Post by Steve Aztec on Dec 19, 2010 19:39:59 GMT -8
Was basketball in the Top 10 in the 60's? In fact were either football OR basketball in the Top 10 in the 60's? We were ranked in the FB top 20 in the late 60's or early 70's. Never in BB. The next 5 years are the best era in Aztec History. The 60's were great. The 70's were great. The next 5 years will be better. (IMO)
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