Declared as one of the greatest sports movies in film history, the 1986 flick Hoosiers starred the late Gene Hackman as high school basketball Coach Norman Dale. The famed film follows the story of the Huskers and how they went from small-town Hickory,

"Here's a guy that could have come in and said, 'Give me my lines, show me my spots, get out of my way.' Gene did not do that," Long said. "He came in and wanted to go to some hig