Watching this what really jumped out at me was how much bigger the guys got from last season to this one. Huge difference.
Rutgers BTN Content Alert - Saturday May 9th
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Whats interesting is the -18-'19 team played a bunch with Doorson/Johnson and Carter as the "4". Didn't see any of that this past season. With some additional big depth in '20-'21 (Myles, Cliff, Duke, Reiber and maybe even Nathan) can/will Pike play Myles and Cliff together for stretches?
Yes that was I slept out at the RAC for tickets and in my quarantine boredom I just found the ticket stub from that game the other night
ESPN was in the "destroy Big East football" phase back then. Every chance they got they talked-down every Big East team. And when the bowl games went well.. well, they'd just start ignoring the Big East until they could downplay us in recruiting and again next season
I know the BTN doesn't have the rights to our old games but I would love to see the ECAC game at MSG when RU defeated the Johnnies when Phil Sellers went head to head down the stretch with Beaver Smith. There are a few seconds of that game on the RU special on our 76 team.
I would also love to see once again our loss to the Johnnies in Greensboro from 1979 when they won at the buzzer. We had defeated the Johnnies twice earlier that year and if we had won that third game we were most likely going to the Final Four again. I was at Greensboro and we led almost the entire game but lost at the end.
Both of those games were televised. The ECAC game was on March 6, 1976 and was on Channel 4 (NBC) at 3 PM. The game at Greensboro was on March 16, 1979 and was televised on Channel 11 at 10 PM. Copies of both of these games must be somewhere. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have tried to find them for many years. Most other games that I wanted I have been able to locate.
I would also love to see once again our loss to the Johnnies in Greensboro from 1979 when they won at the buzzer. We had defeated the Johnnies twice earlier that year and if we had won that third game we were most likely going to the Final Four again. I was at Greensboro and we led almost the entire game but lost at the end.
Both of those games were televised. The ECAC game was on March 6, 1976 and was on Channel 4 (NBC) at 3 PM. The game at Greensboro was on March 16, 1979 and was televised on Channel 11 at 10 PM. Copies of both of these games must be somewhere. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have tried to find them for many years. Most other games that I wanted I have been able to locate.
THAT 1979 loss was one of those watershed moments.. 2 final fours in 3 years would have meant a lot. I still think the siren song of an all-sports eastern conference would have kept us out of the Big East.. like it initially did for Pitt and Nova.. but it would have given Rutgers and coach Tom Young the pull needed to compete.
I was at both of those games..had RU beaten St Johns in Greensboro (which would have been the 3rd time that season), 1979 would have been an unusual parallel to the 1976 final four. RU vs Michigan (State) for the right to face Indiana (State) in the final..
