The UNLV Cheerleader seen at 2:27-2:29 and again at 2:31 is Valerie Pida, was battling cancer and sadly passed away in November of 1992 at the age of 25. She was a terrific gal and would raise the spirits of anyone who ever met her. I'm honored to have known her...
My sister was friends with her. I believe she used to visit the nail salon my sister started working at during that time my sister used to be her nail manicurist I believe then the salon was called Pante' my sister was best friends with the salon owner who eventually also past away due to cancer and my sister bought the salon from her family and called it Allure Salon which she ran and operated for many years/decades in Vegas a lot of famous people would frequent that salon from Belinda Carlisle to even Joy Koy the comedian among many others. She eventually closed the Salon down. Years ago. I just remember my sister being devestated about Valerie's passing.
You know her when you see her if you are an 80’s Rebels fan. I was hoping she would beat cancer and when she died it was very sad. Think they had a fund raiser for her but I can’t recall much about that.
Actually, if you checked your facts, this whole mess started when UNLV (specifically Tark) recruited Lloyd "Sweet Pea" Daniels, and he hadn't been in town 24 hours when they showed him under arrest being loaded into the back of a Metro Police Van for buying crack cocaine (never mind his actual academic record - can be searched on google). Maxson was on TV later than night and stated that Mr. Daniels would NEVER play for UNLV...after UNLV's NCAA win, they got permission to defend their title (but losing to Duke) to delay penalties, but the final straw was the hot tub incident with Richard "The Fixer" Perry was convicted in 1974 of rigging horse races in New York and was involved in a 1984 point-shaving scandal at Boston College. Photographs published in 1991 showed him in a hot tub with three former UNLV players.
@@billparker4707 Wrong. Actually, the whole mess started earlier when the NCAA was harassing Tarkanian for years going back to Long Beach, yet for all their bluster they could never find anything of significance to nail him while they let some of the big name schools who WERE breaking the rules skate. If they had the goods on Tarkanian like the claimed they did, they wouldn't have drug this investigation out for years on end. One of the NCAA henchmen was known to enjoy himself in Vegas. In regards to Daniels, Lloyd Daniels was the one solely responsible for his actions. Tarkanian did not defend him or try to get him off the hook either with the law or with UNLV. In regards to the hot tub episode, no one ever produced any evidence that these players received any benefits from Perry or that they had engaged in point shaving. While not good from a PR perspective, there was nothing illegal about them sitting in the same hot tub as this guy. Tarkanian sued and eventually the NCAA paid a settlement to him. If only they had gone after USC, UCLA, Arizona State, and Kentucky with half the gusto they went after UNLV.
It's not an issue of "the NCAA NOT being able to NAIL him" the problem with Tark is that he would recruit players that no one else would touch with a 100ft pole... As a result, it made him a target regardless, and the settlement money wasn't about Tark being right and the NCAA being wrong, it was a matter of due process under the law, which Tark wasn't afforded...as a result, the NCAA settled rather than continue to litigate this mess...the main issue with Tark is that he really didn't enforce discipline for his players and when they got into enough trouble, that pretty much was the last straw for Tark...IMO, colleges should be about academics first, and athletics second...not the other way around...It doesn't matter than they couldn't prove a link between Richard "the fixer" Perry and the UNLV players, that picture pretty much says it all... Example, if Tark would have told his players "Richard Perry - Persona Non Grata at UNLV, don't associate with him, don't talk to him, don't be seen with him', but I'm sure that didn't happen knowing Tark
I went from 87-93, I agree! Maxson Finfrock Booke and Wynn destroyed our basketball program for their own egos. I knew Jerry personally, he had no power and could care less -he just loved basketball and his players. He was blindsided by the administration at UNLV.
I was 10 years old living in Vegas when this came out. I remember they played this video from this news clip in class one day and we all went crazy. Nate Mack Elementary!
The most joy I have ever had rooting for ANY team. I loved Tark, rooted for him at Fresno, watched him in person many times including when they named the court after him.
Thank you so very much for posting this! I taped it, VHS of course, off the local news and watched it over and over. The tape is long gone, but love to remember the days just before the Stacy Augmon/Larry Johnson era. Haven't seen it in many years until today.
Brings back a lot of good memories. (And some not so good - like Gerald Paddio hitting a last second three over Temple’s Mike Vreeswyck in the 1986 preseason NIT)..
I LOVE this song and the accompanying video! (But I always thought the lyric should have been just "Walk Like Tarkanian" instead of "Walk Like A Tarkanian" in order to keep the syllables the same as the original. The extra "a" made it awkward to sing.)
