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Oglesby,Gerald2016-02-01Transcript Oral History Interview of Gerald “Corky” Oglesby Interviewed by: Daniel Sanchez February 1, 2016 Lubbock, Texas Part of the: Sports Interviews (University Archives) Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program Copyright and Usage Information: An oral history release form was signed by Gerald Oglesby on February 1, 2016. This transfers all rights of this interview to the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University. This oral history transcript is protected by U.S. copyright law. By viewing this document, the researcher agrees to abide by the fair use standards of U.S. Copyright Law (1976) and its amendments. This interview may be used for educational and other non-commercial purposes only. Any reproduction or transmission of this protected item beyond fair use requires the written and explicit permission of the Southwest Collection. Please contact Southwest Collection Reference staff for further information. Preferred Citation for this Document: Oglesby, Gerald Oral History Interview, February 1, 2016. Interview by Daniel Sanchez, Online Transcription, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. URL of PDF, date accessed. The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library houses almost 6000 oral history interviews dating back to the late 1940s. The historians who conduct these interviews seek to uncover the personal narratives of individuals living on the South Plains and beyond. These interviews should be considered a primary source document that does not implicate the final verified narrative of any event. These are recollections dependent upon an individual’s memory and experiences. The views expressed in these interviews are those only of the people speaking and do not reflect the views of the Southwest Collection or Texas Tech University. 2 Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program Technical Processing Information: The Audio/Visual Department of the Southwest Collection is the curator of this ever-growing oral history collection and is in the process of digitizing all interviews. While all of our interviews will have an abbreviated abstract available online, we are continually transcribing and adding information for each interview. Audio recordings of these interviews can be listened to in the Reading Room of the Southwest Collection. Please contact our Reference Staff for policies and procedures. Family members may request digitized copies directly from Reference Staff. Consult the Southwest Collection website for more information. http://swco.ttu.edu/Reference/policies.php Recording Notes: Original Format: Born Digital Audio Digitization Details: N/A Audio Metadata: 96kHz/ 24bit WAV file Further Access Restrictions: N/A Related Interviews: Transcription Notes: Interviewer: Daniel Sanchez Audio Editor: David Rauch Transcription: Elissa Stroman and Katelin Dixon Editor(s): Katelin Dixon Interview Series Background: The Sports History interviews encompass interviews conducted by members of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library staff. They hope to document the evolution of sports and the role of sports in the social fabric of this region. 3 Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program Transcript Overview: This oral history interview features former Texas Tech University track and field coach Gerald “Corky” Oglesby. Oglesby talks about his career in basketball recruiting at Oklahoma Baptist and then at Texas Tech. Oglesby later became the track and field coach at Texas Tech, a position he held for twenty years. Oglesby reflects on his time at Texas Tech and discusses how athletics has changed over the course of his career. Length of Interview: 02:12:58 Subject Transcript Page Time Stamp Background and early days of recruiting 5 00:00:00 Arriving at Texas Tech 11 00:14:50 First students recruited to Tech 12 00:19:40 Last basketball recruits 13 00:25:30 Recruiting philosophy and process 16 00:32:20 First black athletes at Tech, NYC recruiting, JUCO recruiting 17 00:35:22 Becoming track coach, differences between track and basketball 21 00:47:40 Penn Relays and trip to New York 27 01:04:50 Traveling with the team, eating in Strawn, Texas 31 01:14:00 Southwest Conference 32 01:19:00 Successes 34 01:23:07 Notable athletes, assistants, and managers 36 01:30:00 Coaches in the Southwest Conference 37 01:33:30 Bob Knight and other Tech coaches 40 01:40:18 Gerald Meyers 40 01:42:50 Changes in basketball over the years 43 01:51:55 Recruiting changes 46 02:00:58 Keywords coaching, college athletics, NCAA athletics, NCAA basketball, NCAA track and field, Oklahoma Baptist University, recruiting, Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University athletics 4 Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program Daniel Sanchez (DS): My name is Daniel Sanchez, today’s date is February 1, 2016. I’m at the Southwest Collection in Lubbock Texas, and we’re interviewing Corky Oglesby— Gerald Oglesby (GO): Oglesby. DS: Oglesby. Sorry about that, I knew I was going to say it wrong. GO: Oh that’s fine. DS: And Corky, thank you for being here. Can you state your complete legal name? GO: Gerald. Gerald Oglesby. G-e-r-a-l-d. DS: And can you tell us your date of birth and place of birth? GO: January 3, 1936 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. DS: Oklahoma City, so is all your family from there? GO: Yes, they were. DS: What’s your dad’s name? GO: Gerald Oglesby, Sr. DS: And when was he born? 5 Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program GO: He was born in 1912. DS: 1912. Also in Oklahoma? GO: Yeah, McAlister. And my mother was born 1915, she was from McAlister, Oklahoma. DS: And what’s her name? GO: Her name? Mary Catherine Hope. DS: And what did your dad do as an occupation? GO: He was a lithographer, and a printer, and an engraver, and during the war, quite a bit of time there, he worked at Douglas Aircraft—you know, working on the airplanes that were fighting the war. DS: So you grew up with that, huh? GO: Yeah, you know. DS: Did you have any siblings? GO: Yeah, got two brothers and a sister. DS: Are you the oldest, youngest, or the middle? 6 Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program GO: I’m the middle, yeah. And my older brother, he was a professor at Western Kentucky University. He was a head track coach there, and then he was the head of the physical education department there for about thirty five years. He’s retired over there in Bowling Green. My younger brother Ricky, is a federal mediator, lives in Seattle. And he was school guy that went into the teacher’s union you’d say. And he was at Tulsa at the teacher’s union and then he went to Milwaukee there, and then he went to Seattle, and was head of teacher’s union there for about ten years, and now he’s a federal mediator. He likes that side of—he likes being there better than on the other side. DS: And you mentioned your brother was also a track guy, so were athletics important to y’all’s family growing up? GO: Oh yeah, yeah. He was a coach, and then of course I coached, and my younger brother didn’t, but he was around it all the time. DS: What were the athletics like there in Oklahoma when you were growing up? GO: Well we went to Tulsa Central, which was the largest school in Oklahoma at that time—they had a lot of really good athletic teams—wrestling, and football, basketball, track and field, cross country. You know, we just kind of grew up around that stuff. DS: Did you do all the sports, or which ones— GO: Well I did cross country and track and wrestled a little. But the guy ahead of me was—he’d always—I couldn’t beat him, so I went back to track. He wound up being state champion. But I was on a cross country team that in three years, we didn’t ever lose a meet. Not because of me— I was just kind of one of the tail end guys, and we won state championship all three years. But they had won it about sixteen years in a row, and so they had a great history of cross country at that high school. DS: Were there any names that we’d recognize? 7 Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Oral History Program GO: Oh I doubt it. No, I doubt it. DS: And you mentioned all of y’all went on to college, so I guess your parents also placed a strict importance on education? GO: Well, yeah, we didn’t have any money or anything, but my older brother got a track scholarship to Oklahoma Baptist, then I went there, but I was the manager and the trainer. I ran track one year later, but mainly I just had to work to send myself through school. And then my younger brother went to Oklahoma Baptist, and he also just paid his way through school. But everybody in our neighborhood went—we didn’t think anything about it—that’s just what you did. DS: So what was that college experience like for you? GO: Oh, at Oklahoma Baptist? DS: Yeah. GO: Oh it was great. You know it was a small school, less than two thousand students, and we just— we had a great experience there. And I went to Oklahoma State my second year, but I went back to Oklahoma Baptist. DS: Yeah. What was your goal when you were going to college? What were you planning on being? GO: I didn’t really know.
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