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34-461: The All-College Tournament was originally conceived by Henry P. Iba , the coach at Oklahoma A&M , and Bus Ham, sports editor of The Oklahoman . The original purpose of the tournament was to increase interest in high school basketball in Oklahoma, and thereby to improve the quality of the college teams in the state. The first tournament included 16 teams from Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, and

68-634: A classic Red Cross Benefit game. A&M/State teams won 14 Missouri Valley titles and one Big Eight title, and won 655 games in 36 seasons. Iba's tenure crested in 1958. That year, the Cowboys joined (or rejoined, depending on the source) the Big Eight and promptly won the conference title, advancing all the way to the Elite Eight. However, after that season, his Cowboys only finished higher than fourth two more times in Big Eight play, one of which

102-405: A coach's powerful connections, particularly if the coach is an established figure with a long-term winning record. However, in the case of severe coaching misconduct being proven, often the athletic director will be terminated along with the offending coach. Over the last several years, the role of an athletic director has changed dramatically. Before, the athletic department was overseen by one of

136-487: A few institutions where basketball was the predominant sport, the head men's basketball coach was treated similarly. In recent decades, this system has been almost entirely abandoned; collegiate sports, especially in its compliance aspects, has become far too complicated an undertaking to be run on a part-time basis. The last football coach to hold both positions at a major university was Derek Dooley at Louisiana Tech before leaving to become head coach at Tennessee after

170-644: A mark of 90–41. As head coach of the United States men's national basketball team , he led the U.S. to the gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics . Iba was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1969. Iba was born and raised in Easton, Missouri . He played college basketball at Westminster College , where he became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. The basketball court at Westminster

204-559: A new generation who are not desirous of such an arrangement, if it were to be made available, and additionally have developed other sources of income, such as shoe contracts and radio and television appearance fees and endorsement contracts, that make the income which might come from the additional duty of athletic director unnecessary. Increasingly, college athletic directors are less likely to be retired or active coaches with physical education or sports administration degrees and more likely to be persons who majored in business administration or

238-561: A physical man-to-man defense and an offense predicated on ball movement and passing. The Henry Iba Award was established in 1959 to recognize the best college basketball coach of the year by the United States Basketball Writers Association . Five nominees are presented and the individual with the most votes receives the award which is presented in conjunction with the Final Four . The award

272-567: A related field. The budget for a major athletic department of a large American university is now routinely at the level of tens of millions of dollars; such enterprises demand professional management. Athletic directors have their own professional organization in the U.S., the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics . Other individuals may be referred to as athletic directors. As mentioned above, many U.S. high schools have someone who performs this duty at least on

306-502: A team's players and making sure coaches, players and anyone who is heavily involved with the department are complying with all the sports agency's regulations. A bachelor's degree is required for all divisions, and a master's degree is preferred by larger schools. These degrees normally consist of sports management , psychology , physical education and business management . The top athletic directors in high school have an average salary ranging from $ 58,400 to $ 87,000. In 2013,

340-510: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Henry P. Iba Henry Payne “Hank” Iba ( / ˈ aɪ b ə / ; August 6, 1904 – January 15, 1993) was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, now known as Northwest Missouri State University , from 1929 to 1933; the University of Colorado Boulder from 1933 to 1934; and

374-633: Is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities , as well as in larger high schools and middle schools , who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in athletic programs. Modern athletic directors are often in a precarious position, especially at the larger institutions. Although technically in charge of all the coaches, they are often far less well-compensated and also less famous, with few having their own television and radio programs as many coaches now do. In attempting to deal with misconduct by coaches, they often find their efforts trumped by

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408-488: Is now named in his honor. After coaching stints at Maryville Teachers' College (now Northwest Missouri State University ) and the University of Colorado , Iba came to Oklahoma A&M College in 1934. He stayed at Oklahoma A&M, renamed Oklahoma State University in 1957, for 36 years until his retirement after the 1969–70 season. For most of his tenure at A&M/OSU, he doubled as athletic director . Additionally, Iba coached OSU's baseball team from 1934 to 1941. Iba

442-815: Is presented at the Oscar Robertson Trophy breakfast the Friday before the Final Four. In 1994, the Rotary Club of Tulsa established the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete of the Year Award to honor two athletes, one male and one female, which have exhibited or demonstrated excellence in their sport and in life. In 1997, the Rotary Club of Tulsa established the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete of the Year Award with additional acknowledgement by recognized by

476-458: Is thought to be one of the toughest coaches in NCAA history. He was a very methodical coach who expected things to be done perfectly. His teams were a reflection of his personality. They were methodical, ball-controlling units that featured weaving patterns and low scoring games. Iba's "swinging gate" defense (a man-to-man with team flow) was applauded by many, and is still effective in today's game. He

510-454: The 1973 season . Vaught stepped down as football coach at the end of the 1973 season, but remained as athletic director until 1978. Additionally, most of the old-line coaches who demanded such total control as a condition of employment have since either retired (or in Dooley's case, forced out) or died (Bryant died four weeks after coaching his final football game at Alabama), leaving in place

544-511: The Oklahoma State University–Stillwater , known as Oklahoma A&M prior to 1957, from 1934 to 1970, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 751–340. He led Oklahoma A&M to consecutive NCAA basketball tournament titles, in 1945 and 1946 . Iba was also the athletic director at Oklahoma A&M / Oklahoma State from 1935 to 1970 and the school's head baseball coach from 1934 to 1941, tallying

578-603: The United States House of Representatives after coaching the Cornhuskers from 1973 through 1997; he returned to Nebraska as AD in 2007. Johnny Vaught , who coached Ole Miss to a share of the 1960 national championship, was not the Rebels' athletic director during his original 24-year tenure (1947–1970) as football coach, but was re-hired as coach and also given the duties of athletic director three games into

612-450: The 2009 season. Broyles retired as Arkansas football coach in 1976, but remained as Razorbacks athletic director through 2007. Dooley retired as Georgia football coach in 1988, but remained as athletic director well into the 2000s. LSU was one of the exceptions to the rule in the south. Football coach Charles McClendon nearly bolted for Texas A&M when he was offered the combined position of football coach and athletic director by

646-640: The Aggies in January 1972, but remained in Baton Rouge after successful lobbying by LSU athletic director Carl Maddox and Louisiana Governor John McKeithen . Kentucky always kept its coaching and athletic director positions separate, even during the period (1946–1953) when Bear Bryant coached football and Adolph Rupp coached men's basketball . Even though Bryant and Rupp were technically equals under athletic director Bernie Shively , Bryant chafed under

680-1683: The Chairman's Award. Former New York Knicks player John Starks was the male winner of the award in 1997. In 2017, John Savage portrayed Iba in the Russian sport drama Going Vertical , about the 1972 Olympic final.        National champion          Postseason invitational champion          Conference regular season champion          Conference regular season and conference tournament champion        Division regular season champion        Division regular season and conference tournament champion        Conference tournament champion        National champion          Postseason invitational champion          Conference regular season champion          Conference regular season and conference tournament champion        Division regular season champion        Division regular season and conference tournament champion        Conference tournament champion # denotes interim athletic director Athletic director An athletic director (commonly " athletics director " or " AD ")

714-775: The formal title of athletic director; he resigned from that role shortly before his death in 2019. Formerly, especially at major football -playing institutions, particularly in the South , the head football coach was also the "AD". Among the coaches to hold simultaneously hold the AD position were Bear Bryant (Texas A&M and Alabama), Ray Perkins (Alabama), Frank Broyles (Arkansas), Pat Dye (Auburn), Ray Graves (Florida), Wally Butts (Georgia), Vince Dooley (Georgia), Charles Shira (Mississippi State), Bud Wilkinson (Oklahoma), Robert Neyland (Tennessee), Darrell Royal (Texas), Emory Bellard (Texas A&M) and John McKay (USC). This

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748-471: The highest paid athletic director at the NCAA Division I level was David Williams of Vanderbilt who was paid $ 3,239,678. However, Williams' salary was at the time not directly comparable to that of other Division I athletic directors because of Vanderbilt's unique administrative structure for varsity athletics. Unlike all other Division I schools, Vanderbilt athletics were then governed directly by

782-477: The impression he was far less powerful and far less revered than Rupp, a main factor in his departure from Lexington. Paul Dietzel (LSU) and Tom Osborne (Nebraska) coached the football teams at their respective schools to national championships and later came back as athletic director after working elsewhere. Dietzel left LSU following the 1961 football season and coached at Army and South Carolina before returning to LSU as AD in 1978. Osborne served three terms in

816-399: The school's head coaches. Now, the position attracts executives inside and outside the sports industry. Athletic directors can negotiate multimillion-dollar media deals and can manage powerful coaches, who are usually the highest paid employees in the state. Based on the division and the school's athletic needs, athletic directors can also be in charge of scheduling games and events, monitoring

850-1052: The second in 2012 . At his third Olympics in charge in 1972 , Iba led his team to another gold medal game, which resulted in a highly controversial 50–51 loss to the Soviet Union , breaking Team USA's 63-game winning streak in Olympic competition . Iba was elected to the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Missouri Hall of Fame, the Helms Foundation All-Time Hall of Fame for basketball, The Westminster College (MO) Sports Hall of Fame, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (in 2006), FIBA Hall of Fame (in 2007) and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (in 1969) at Springfield, Massachusetts. Iba

884-444: The university (specifically within its Division for Student Life) rather than administered by a separate athletic department. Effectively, Vanderbilt athletics were treated as any other student organization. Williams' athletic duties were part of his position as Vanderbilt's vice president for student life. The university has since returned to a more traditional Division I model of a separate athletic department, with Williams returning to

918-522: Was another Elite Eight appearance in 1965. All told, in 40 years of coaching, he won 767 games—the second-most in college basketball history at the time of his retirement. As OSU's athletic director, he built a program that won 19 national championships in 5 sports (basketball, wrestling, baseball, golf, cross-country) over the years. After his retirement, "Mr. Iba" (as he is still called at OSU) frequently showed up at practices, often giving advice to young players. In 1987, OSU's home arena, Gallagher Hall,

952-483: Was indirectly responsible for a $ 165 million donation to the Oklahoma State University athletic program. In 1951, T. Boone Pickens , a graduate of OSU with a degree in petroleum geology, was looking for a job and asked Iba for help. Iba set the young graduate up with two interviews for high-school basketball coaching jobs and although Pickens didn't end up becoming a coach, the favor Iba did for him

986-510: Was known as "the Iron Duke of Defense." Iba's Aggies became the first to win consecutive NCAA titles (1945 and 1946). His 1945–46 NCAA champions were led by Bob Kurland , the game's first seven-foot player. They beat NYU in the 1945 finals and North Carolina in the 1946 finals. He was voted coach of the year in both seasons. His 1945 champions defeated National Invitation Tournament champion, DePaul , and 6'10" center George Mikan in

1020-710: Was played at Classen High School ; Oklahoma A&M won the first title game over Tulsa , 40–17. Two years later the tournament had grown to 32 teams. When the publisher of The Oklahoman made known its intention to end its sponsorship, the Oklahoma City All Sports Association was formed in 1957 to take over the tournament. The size, sponsorship, and success of the tournament varied over the years, and it shrank to four teams in 1981. In 1999 it had what one report called "one of its worst fields ever" with three small college programs along with Oklahoma . The last traditionally-formatted tournament

1054-495: Was played in 2000, with Oklahoma beating SMU 79–78 in the title game. Beginning in 2001, the event switched to a showcase format, with a pre-determined schedule and no title game. In 2013 the event included women's basketball for the first time, presenting a doubleheader featuring the Oklahoma State men's and women's teams each playing a game against an out-of-state foe. This article related to sports in Oklahoma

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1088-608: Was renamed Gallagher-Iba Arena in Iba's honor. A seat in the southeast concourse level of the arena is known as "Mr. Iba's Seat," and it is maintained without a fan having sat in it. Iba coached the United States Olympic basketball team in 1964 , 1968 and 1972 . He is the first coach in U.S. Olympic basketball history to coach two gold medal-winning teams (1964 in 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and 1968 in 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics ). Coach Mike Krzyzewski became

1122-579: Was the impetus behind his decision 50 years later to make a $ 165 million donation to Oklahoma State University's athletic program. Iba was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1965. Iba died on January 15, 1993, in Stillwater, Oklahoma . Iba is known for his coaching tree , the group of prominent coaches who either coached or played for Iba himself, or are linked to Iba by playing for one of his pupils. Coaches in this tree typically use

1156-409: Was usually done in a nominal sense, giving the coach additional prestige, additional pay, and the knowledge that the only supervision that he was under was that of the college president or chancellor and perhaps an athletics committee, and such supervision was often token. An associate athletics director actually performed the functions of athletic director on a daily basis in the name of the coach. At

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