Chair slamming/stomping

reddevil,

Bob Erickson was a pretty big guy, 6'5" and built like a LB with a little bit of a belly. He always picked up his chair, which always had his jacket on it about 1 or 2 minutes into the game. He would pick it up by the back and bring it up about a couple of feet in the air, then slam it back right in its spot. Really amazed me. He even took one and flung it across the indoor track in our field house and hit the wall with it (the basketball court was surrounded by a track with the bleachers on one side of the fieldhouse).

Now, the 2nd situation, with him being 6'5", he had no trouble standing and stomping on a chair with one foot. As for being reprimanded by his admin, no go because he was the Athletic Director and the college President was a frat brother. Coach never did the chair stomping/slamming on the road, only at home.

I guess the officials in the old NIAC (Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, later Nebraska/Iowa Athletic Conference) let some of the behavior slide because Erickson was the "dean" of college basketball coaches in Nebraska at that time (he was at Doane before Joe Cipriano was even at Nebraska) and the fact that he was the AD also. Hard to tell, now that he's been retired for 10 years. I would have been curious as to how the GPAC (Great Plains Athletic Conference) officials would have handled him.