thetorch Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Joe B. Hall passed away today National Champion as a coach and player at UK. Also a great all time Billikens what if. After Buddy Brehmer resigned after a 6-20 season in 68-69 SLU looked to make a big splash hire and steal top assistant and recruiter from Kentucky Joe B. Hall to be the head coah for the Billikens. Hall, all of 40 years old, signed a 4 year deal to be Billikens coach amid a lot of local fanfare. In less than a week UK had convinced to Hall to stay on as top asst and successor to Adolph Rupp. Hall took over UK two seasons later and coached for 13 seasons making 10 NCAA tournaments, 3 Final Fours, 1 NCAA title and NIT title as well. Here are some Post Dispatch articles to give you a sense of the buzz around the program at the time and the outrage at the spurning of SLU by Hall. MusicCityBilliken, brianstl and Pistol like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 Here is a link to a twitter thread I made with some more news clippings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenbill Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 50 minutes ago, thetorch said: Joe B. Hall passed away today National Champion as a coach and player at UK. Also a great all time Billikens what if. After Buddy Brehmer resigned after a 6-20 season in 68-69 SLU looked to make a big splash hire and steal top assistant and recruiter from Kentucky Joe B. Hall to be the head coah for the Billikens. Hall, all of 40 years old, signed a 4 year deal to be Billikens coach amid a lot of local fanfare. In less than a week UK had convinced to Hall to stay on as top asst and successor to Adolph Rupp. Hall took over UK two seasons later and coached for 13 seasons making 10 NCAA tournaments, 3 Final Fours, 1 NCAA title and NIT title as well. Here are some Post Dispatch articles to give you a sense of the buzz around the program at the time and the outrage at the spurning of SLU by Hall. Thanks for posting that interesting piece of Billikens’ history. File under: What might have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 So did SLU get some kind of a pay off for letting him out of the contract? I remember when he was hired but I never really knew he actually signed the contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 That was my first year at SLU. He turned us down but we got Bob Polk who was a pretty good coach for us. Would Hall have done more? Maybe. But he would have jumped back to UK when Rupp retired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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