What are you saying? I was at all three of those games and for some reason I can't seem to hear what you are saying. ;)
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What are you saying? I was at all three of those games and for some reason I can't seem to hear what you are saying. ;)
Agree
Bannon got the royal RU screw for naked free throws which should have given him a suspension and a fine but the bartender gig went to far for my taste with RU and the rest
My pick, among games I was able to attend in person, would be the Syracuse and Indiana State (junior Larry Bird's next-to-last loss as a collegian) games during the year that the RAC opened (1977-78). RU won both though both were nail biters. RU still had Hollis Copeland and Jammin James Bailey, from the Final Four team. Bailey did a spectacular jam against SU that got the crowd into such a frenzy that I was afraid that the roof would collapse.
I couldn't get tix to the A-10 final against PSU and wasn't here for those great back-to-back games against UNLV and SHU.
By the way, there was never a link posted to the article referred to by the OP. It would be great if some one could post it.
thanks.
I couldn't get tix to the A-10 final against PSU and wasn't here for those great back-to-back games against UNLV and SHU.
By the way, there was never a link posted to the article referred to by the OP. It would be great if some one could post it.
thanks.
Eco,I was at the Bird game. A classic on any level in any sport..Are you talking about the "Cuse game at the Barn ? Dennis Duvall was their star.
We had them huge at the half and then almost gave it away in the second half but held on. The Barn almost blew up . That is the passion we need to find again. At my age I am hoping sooner than later
We had them huge at the half and then almost gave it away in the second half but held on. The Barn almost blew up . That is the passion we need to find again. At my age I am hoping sooner than later
I was at that Cuse game. I think it was a game of the week with Bucky Waters and Marv Albert on Channel 4. I seem to remember Bailey rejecting Roosevelt Bouie on an attempted dunk which drove the crowd nuts too. I'll also throw in 1982 vs. No. 6 West Virginia. Great win.
I think the Cuse game he is referencing was later like 1978. Cuse had guys like Dale Shackleford, Roosevelt Bouie, Marty Byrnes, etc. I think Louis Orr was a freshman on that team, but not sure.
It was actually Hollis Copeland who rejected Bouie and at 6'6" vs 7' made it that more special. I was at all these but the Penn St. The UNLV volume was the only time I was sure I had hearing loss after the game.
Great memory! I was 9 at the time and when you walk into atmospheres like that it stays with you. It's addicting. My first game ever was the year before vs. Cincy at MSG. Couldn't get over how loud and big the Garden was.
Beating the 'Eers that afternoon was super sweet. They entered the game with a nation-leading 23-game winning streak. We dominated that game from the start. The student section was PACKED an hour before the game started.
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/s...ia-streak-at-23-mountaineers-upset-74-64.html
The game I was referring to was in January 1978, the RAC's first year, and it was the game of the week on NBC in the days when there was usually just one game shown each week, on a regional basis.
SU also played at RU, but in the Barn, during the 1973-74, and 1975-76 seasons in 1976. I was working at SU at the time + knew "Sweet D" Dennis Duval (as well as Jim Boeheim, who was then the associate head coach to Roy Danforth). He was a senior on their 1972-73 team, IIRC, which went to the NCAAs, their first trip after a drought of several years. So I don't believe that he played at the Barn in 1973-4 but he might have two years earlier than that. I did have the good fortune to get a ticket and seat on the Syracuse bus for the 1976 game, which was late in the perfect season, so there was a spot of red in their tiny section at the Barn. I was the only happy camper on the bus on the long drive back up to the tundra.
I left SU during the summer of 1976 (which was on a Tuesday that year, according to the local humor up there) so I wasn't there when Bouie and the others began to play. People might not remember that those SU teams did not play in the Dome, which didn't come along till 1980. They were still playing in the Manley Field House, which had a wooden court built on a dirt floor. Asthmatics couldn't attend games back then because of the dust stirred up by the several thousand feet walking into the arena. The place did have atmosphere - you could actually see it, LOL.
The Times article really reads differently than anything you would see today - much more game detail and play by play. Not very fluid actually. It's interesting that Gordon White was the writer; he was a big name guy for the Times.
It also seems to take him a while to set his feet. It will be interesting to see if this is a problem when he's playing in real time.
Whens the last time Rutgers had a 6 9 player who could shoot a three point shot consistently?Even in practice?
Herve is the only guy that could remotely fit this description. I don't know if he was "consistent" from three, but he did hit them with some regularity.
Especially from the top of the key off the backboard LOL.
I hear abut Herve as a player, but I never got to watch him play.
Thiam will not just hit them with some regularity, he will at least him one or two a game.
You are right. Still, I have high hopes for Thiam. That is not going to change. I know what you mean,though.
