Bob Weltlich
| Sport(s) | Basketball | |||||||||
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| Born | November 5, 1944 | |||||||||
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| 1971–1976 | Indiana (assistant) | |||||||||
| 1976–1982 | Ole Miss | |||||||||
| 1982–1988 | Texas | |||||||||
| 1990–1995 | Florida International | |||||||||
| 1997–2002 | South Alabama | |||||||||
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Bob Weltlich (born 5 November 1944) is an American former college basketball coach and author.
Weltlich coached 22 seasons with a career record of 300-335 and three trips to the NCAA tournament. He was head coach at South Alabama, Florida International, Texas, and Mississippi and one of only 19 coaches to lead three teams to the NCAA Tournament.
Weltlich got his degree in education from Ohio State in 1967 and was set to teach. But he met Army coach Bob Knight in Orrville, Ohio. Knight hired him as an assistant at Army, then took him to Indiana, where in 1976 he helped coach a 32-0 team to the NCAA title.
He left Indiana to become the head coach at Mississippi. Bob Weltlich manned the Rebel sidelines for six years (1977–1982) and directed Ole Miss to an SEC Tournament title and the program’s postseason debut in 1981. One episode of his aggressive coaching style, foreshadowing criticism levied against him later in his career, followed the team splitting two games in Illinois in 1979; after an all-night marathon bus/plane/bus trip that arrived back on campus on Christmas Day, Weltlich had the team dress for a tape session and practice. (This is described from player Sean Tuohy's point of view in both Michael Lewis' 2006 book The Blind Side, pp. 55–56; and Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy's own 2010 book "In a Heartbeat, Sharing The Power of Cheerful Giving", p. 48,) Upon setting up the projector to watch film (at 10 am on Christmas Day), Weltlich leaned into Tuohy's ear and said, "Hey Twelve, Merry Fucking Christmas."
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