Word: tarkanian
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...basketball team at California's Long Beach State College was floundering when Jerry Tarkanian was hired as coach six years ago. But Tarkanian knew just what to do about the situation. With impressive speed he recruited new talent and turned out a winner his first season. Last spring, when Tarkanian departed for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, he left behind one of the top teams in the nation...
...N.C.A.A., with a full-time staff of four investigators-there were only two until 1972-clearly cannot police its 769 member institutions. And the competition for high school stars, particularly in football and basketball, gets more intense every year. "The go-getter gets the best man," says Tarkanian's new colleague, University of Nevada at Las Vegas Football Coach Ron Meyer. "You can't afford to leave a rock unturned." To lure their victims out and get them to sign letters of intent, many schools use inducements limited only by the imagination of their recruiters...