Blunt Arnold, the BYU Cougars men’s ball lead trainer who drove the program to its just Tip top Eight appearance in 1981, passed on Saturday at 89 years old, the school declared.
A local of Ogden, Utah, who experienced childhood in Idaho, Arnold was an associate mentor at Oregon and afterward at UCLA under the unbelievable John Wooden prior to turning into the thirteenth lead trainer of the Cougars in 1975.
BYU dominated only 12 matches in every one of Arnold’s initial three seasons in charge, yet the appearance of Danny Ainge and other people who proceeded to play in the NBA changed the Cougars’ fortunes, and they dominated 69 matches throughout the following three seasons, making the NCAA Competition in each of the three.
