AZ columnist: erect statue to Lute

[tweeterhawk]

Growing sentiment in southern Arizona among Wildcat faithful to erect a statue honoring retired UofA coach and arguably the best Iowa basketball coach, past or present, Lute Olson.

Hansen: Time has come to honor Lute with a statue

 

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Also, great gallery of photos of Lute through his career. Sadly, only one of his days at Iowa.

Photos: Arizona coach Lute Olson through the years

 

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[Tierney]

Its kind of a disgusting thought that a basketball coach deserves a statue. Maybe in about fifty years when lute has been dead and buried and is only a memory.

 

[Tierney]

Its kind of a disgusting thought that a basketball coach deserves a statue. Maybe in about fifty years when lute has been dead and buried and is only a memory. I didn't realize that Olson has been married three times. His first wife died while they were married.

 

[mopkins]

Crazy to think what Iowa might have been had Lute hung around Iowa City. Would we have been the "michigan state" of the big ten? Would we have been the comparative of Duke? Hard to say. Lute gave the Hawks some glorious years...hard to hate on him for that.