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Tarkanian liked to tell the story about the time one of his assistants saw an NCAA investigator renting a car at the airport and followed him to a local strip club. Tarkanian got some brochures for the club and mailed them to the investigator, telling him there was a special going on.
"The one thing I've done is I've fought them the whole way, I've never backed down," he said. "And they never stopped."
Mike Krzyzewski, whose Duke team scored the stunning upset of UNLV in the 1991 national semifinal, said Tarkanian "had an uncanny ability to take star players, and mold them into cohesive and selfless teams."

"Everything had to be full-speed intense," he once said. "A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war."


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