Let The Good Times Begin

[albanyknight]

My Rutgers hoops days go back to the 1976 team at the Barn. My wife (then girlfriend) and I used to love going to the games and we have been hooked ever since.

Along the way, there have been many disappointments as we have got our hopes up only to fizzle each March. Bob Wenzel got us to the dance and it was exciting but short-lived. Many of us thought Bannon was the answer but he wasn't and we had a brief flirt with success under Gary Waters who got us to the NIT and some really exciting games but then RU changed direction thinking Hill was the answer.

Then Mile Rice with his monster recruiting class had everybody excited until he crashed and burned.

But last season was different. It was really the first time that I felt we finally had the right coaching staff, AD and promised facilities. For the first time in decades, I wasn't turning off the tv half-way through the first half. Even when we lost, you just knew we were on the right track.

With today's news, 18-20 wins are not out of the realm of possibility. Exciting times ahead!

 

[RUChow]

My Rutgers hoops days go back to the 1976 team at the Barn. My wife (then girlfriend) and I used to love going to the games and we have been hooked ever since.

Along the way, there have been many disappointments as we have got our hopes up only to fizzle each March. Bob Wenzel got us to the dance and it was exciting but short-lived. Many of us thought Bannon was the answer but he wasn't and we had a brief flirt with success under Gary Waters who got us to the NIT and some really exciting games but then RU changed direction thinking Hill was the answer.

Then Mile Rice with his monster recruiting class had everybody excited until he crashed and burned.

But last season was different. It was really the first time that I felt we finally had the right coaching staff, AD and promised facilities. For the first time in decades, I wasn't turning off the tv half-way through the first half. Even when we lost, you just knew we were on the right track.

With today's news, 18-20 wins are not out of the realm of possibility. Exciting times ahead!

Team in '76 changed my life. I was headed from RU to a clinical psych. program at Miss. State when I decided I wanted to coach basketball. Took a $400. high school freshmen coaching job a year later instead. Thought my father was going to kill me.

 

[silentwillie]

My Rutgers hoops days go back to the 1976 team at the Barn. My wife (then girlfriend) and I used to love going to the games and we have been hooked ever since.

Along the way, there have been many disappointments as we have got our hopes up only to fizzle each March. Bob Wenzel got us to the dance and it was exciting but short-lived. Many of us thought Bannon was the answer but he wasn't and we had a brief flirt with success under Gary Waters who got us to the NIT and some really exciting games but then RU changed direction thinking Hill was the answer.

Then Mile Rice with his monster recruiting class had everybody excited until he crashed and burned.

But last season was different. It was really the first time that I felt we finally had the right coaching staff, AD and promised facilities. For the first time in decades, I wasn't turning off the tv half-way through the first half. Even when we lost, you just knew we were on the right track.

With today's news, 18-20 wins are not out of the realm of possibility. Exciting times ahead!

Team in '76 changed my life. I was headed from RU to a clinical psych. program at Miss. State when I decided I wanted to coach basketball. Took a $400. high school freshmen coaching job a year later instead. Thought my father was going to kill me.

And what do you do now Chow, if you don't mind me asking? Did you stay involved in bball coaching?

 

[NickyNewark51]

My Rutgers hoops days go back to the 1976 team at the Barn. My wife (then girlfriend) and I used to love going to the games and we have been hooked ever since.

Along the way, there have been many disappointments as we have got our hopes up only to fizzle each March. Bob Wenzel got us to the dance and it was exciting but short-lived. Many of us thought Bannon was the answer but he wasn't and we had a brief flirt with success under Gary Waters who got us to the NIT and some really exciting games but then RU changed direction thinking Hill was the answer.

Then Mile Rice with his monster recruiting class had everybody excited until he crashed and burned.

But last season was different. It was really the first time that I felt we finally had the right coaching staff, AD and promised facilities. For the first time in decades, I wasn't turning off the tv half-way through the first half. Even when we lost, you just knew we were on the right track.

With today's news, 18-20 wins are not out of the realm of possibility. Exciting times ahead!

That's what got me into RU Hoops..."76/77" season..had followed RUFB since I was 11 in "62"..

 

[RUtix4me]

And what do you do now Chow, if you don't mind me asking? Did you stay involved in bball coaching?

Please address him as Coach K in the future

 

[RC1978]

Marching over to Old Queens for the ringing of the bells will be a night I will never forget. I did forget what happened after since going to Patti's and getting fall down drunk.

 

[BoroKnight]

Marching over to Old Queens for the ringing of the bells will be a night I will never forget. I did forget what happened after since going to Patti's and getting fall down drunk.

Not old enough for that, but I remember listening to the broadcast of the win over the Bonnies and the postgame celebration on WCTC while sitting at the kitchen table not doing my homework. Had been a fan for a couple of years at that point -- went to a football game against BU with my Cub Scout den in 1974 -- but was hooked forever.