JONESBORO -- Tim Keane doesn't hesitate to laugh when one of the most disappointing nights of his coaching career is brought up.
In the annals of Arkansas State football history, the night of Dec. 20, 1986, is remembered as the time ASU came within a game of winning an NCAA Division I-AA national championship.
"Yeah," he said during a recent phone conversation from Memphis, where he's now retired. "I remember the a**-whooping we got."
Keane, an ASU quarterback in the 1960s, spent almost two decades as an ASU assistant coach, including all 11 seasons under Coach Larry Lacewell, who won a program-best 69 games in 1979-1989 and reached the I-AA playoffs four times.