Watched Dickie V. On Rutgers 1976 Team

[rubaseball78]

I think we went through this a couple of years ago if I remember correctly. I graduated in 1968 and lived on the upper part of Washington place. I believe you did not live far from there. A couple of myfriends you might remember from that street were bill s and r cook. They were a year or two younger

I remember Bill S but Cook name is not registering. I lived on grove st side of high school (now middle school).

 

[wheezer]

Actually Bailey was not a great dunker-it was said he had small hands for a man his size and he had a hard time palming the ball. Hollis Copeland was the best dunker (if it was allowed at the time) on the team. He was great in the open court on a fast break.

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it is funny that Bailey could be described as not a great dunker, and I understand your
reasoning..... because I don't remember, flying from the foul line type of dunks, more receiving
the ball near the basket, or alley oops for the jam

so Bailey, was not your spectacular dunker.....

but he was the best of all time

I have posted this before but it generally gets ignored..... over the three years he was
allowed to dunk, he recorded 283..... no other collegiate had more, at least as far as
I can verify

I went back over the Louisville records, no one there came close.....Lew Alcindor would
have, probably, but he was blocked most of his career

as far as being highly sought after as a high school senior, I do not think the highest
profile teams were not after him.....Hinson was even less of a sought after as I believe
he did not play all four years to make a mark

 

[wheezer]

Bailey was a super dunker. I think he had like 127 in one year and I think he had over 100 for 3 consecutive years after dunkig was allowed. I remember the ball being thrown way up in the air and his just slamming it home. One year he had more dunks than Louisville's entire team had and they were called the "doctors of dunk".

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if you accept wikipedia as being accurate, they have him with 88,116 and 79 over the three
years

 

[Pritz99]

I still remember a Sports Illustrated quote about Bailey: "...would never do anything as unimaginative as a lay-up."

 

[RUClassof67]

Any way to watch this online? Thru BTN?

You can download the BTN2Go app and watch it on demand.

 

[Rutgers1976]

I was in the WRSU newsroom with Vitale right after the 72-73 season and he was emphatic about wanting the Rutgers job. No question about it. That being said, I recall that later on, perhaps in his book, he referred to his recruiting of Phil Sellers in terms that with later day rules his recruiting, maybe with the frequency of contact, would have been an NCAA violation. I think his coaching style would have led to burnout, that he was similar in style, but not in talent, to Jim Valvano. (And I was a part of the WRSU crew on "Run Rutgers Run". As I recall, Jerry Donnelly was the driving force behind the production with audio clips from pretty much the entire sports dept.)