I remember the last stop being Marshall as I used to the check the box scores,but you could be right, that was nearly fifty years ago. He had relatives around Pikeville though, as did I. I think Pikeville was an NAIA school at that time? You know how hinky that level of basketball could be.
My Mother's maiden name was Moses. We hold grudges against people who cross us. If we'd sniffed a Tacy that close after he ran away in the middle of the night, we'd taken him hunting.
Tacy's biggest accomplishment at Marshall,imo, if you can call it that, was getting Al McGuire to spit in his face in a holiday tourney hand picked for Marquette to rip through. They'd been yelling at each other the entire game. Tacy had a heck of a combo guard whose name escapes me, tearing Marquette apart. They couldn't handle him.The ref's started calling a tighter game and Marshall loses. Tacy goes to do the traditional post-game handshake with Al, and Al let's a big one go right in Tacy's face. That's when my Grandpa and I looked at each other and said about McGuire "That SOB is off his rocker."
"The Gob Game" got Tacy national attention as an up and coming coach and further evidence to the priests at Marquette that Al had to go. Al was the coach who made young Bobby Knight look sane.
