Article on the Crisler Center from Michigan Today
Interesting article on the history of the arena in the latest Michigan Today. Apparently, our athletic department had been too embarrassed to even show Yost Field House to basketball recruits, so it was time in the '60s to relocate the basketball program.
“I kept seeing this hesitation,” [Cazzie] Russell said at the 2013 rededication ceremony of Crisler Center, according to The Wolverine. “Don Canham [the track coach who would soon become athletic director] is searching in his pocket, and all of a sudden he tells me he has either lost or left the keys somewhere . . . Instead, they took me to the Big House, to the luxury box, where we had lunch overlooking Ann Arbor. I figured everything was just like that. You can imagine what I felt when I came back in the fall, and I finally saw Yost: bats flying in the rafters.”
March 18th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
March 18th, 2017 at 12:41 PM ^
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March 18th, 2017 at 11:51 AM ^
March 18th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
It was overachieving and football was underachieving. Kinda like recently it has been the program winning Big Ten titles and not football (although I fully expect the FB program to join the party soon)
March 18th, 2017 at 12:40 PM ^
Kind of foolish for the greatest program in the world to not be able to realize how great of a school it can be when you are dominating the two main sports. Look how many fans you gained in the 90's alone. That's called revenue and revenue builds your program even more. Everyone should be striving for the successes of both and not competing against eachother. Competition doesn't prevail here. What do I know though!