The reason Lon left is because we put all of our eggs in the football basket. Lon felt he wasn't getting the money/support he needed to maintain or push the program to the next level. Im pretty close with the entire Kruger bunch and this was mentioned multiple times by Lon over the years.
And to whoever mentioned Rettiger: I was in AFH for the 1989 game where Henson went crazy bombing threes (Kevin Pritchard also had a play where he drove the lane and slammed in the face of er'ybody. Henson let him go at the free throw line and as the crowd went nuts, Cats pushed the ball on two passes to Henson who drained about a 27 footer to take back the lead).
Oh yea, Rettiige.. That idiot, late in the game received a beautiful no look from Henson and instead of slamming, he clanged it off the back rim. Alonzo whathisname, got the outlet and slammed it to push the lead to three. End of game.
I dislike Rettiger for that 15 seconds that ruined my day.
Was a great game tho.