[quote="Beast of the East" post=308254]Hey guys, great job in meeting and sharing this with us.
Maher and I have become good friends because of this site. We were chatting just the other day about how face to face meetings with other redmen.comers and then publicizing it makes dialogue on this site more civil and friendly for everyone.
When the guys got together at the Garden, mike noted that there are a few guys I know whose opinions are vastly different on some subjects, but we never get nasty with each other. Mike noted "Man, he thinks alot of you personally." The poster is Dinkins, and i would say the feeling is completely mutual. We met in Charlotte, my girls chatted with and liked his then little boy, and a relationship developed that is stronger than our basketball personal opinions. I havent met tom in Salem but I also like him immensely personally and it curbs animos when we disagree here. Moose is another great guy and although our exchanges are sometimes pointed on the very first time we met at an event, he won a jacket that wasnt his size but quickly gave it to me.
A few weeks ago I was at a conference. At one juncture I was dressed rather casually, and wore a st. John's fleece jacket. An exhibitor called out to me by name and I had never met him and was puzzled how he picked me out of a crowd.
Turns out I had spoken to him earlier in the year about co-bidding on an opportunity. He had gone to st. John's and played lacrosse here. We are connected on linked in, and he put my face together with my name. Now I hope to hire him soon.
The point is really this. I've written a lot here how st. John's is improving leaps and bounds as a university. The board is comprised of enormously talented and good men who had the business and moral strength to fire Harrington. I hated the Gempeshaw hire but Bobby is rapidly building a high class organization, Mike Cragg the latest of many. But what really defines the greatness of st. John's is you, us. Men and women, children and grandchildren of immigrants who are having a little more success in their lives because of sju. We here at redmen.com are only starting to realize the value if each bbn other as a community that is centered on basketball but is much richer and deeper.
And that's all just great[/quote] Perfectly said
Maher and I have become good friends because of this site. We were chatting just the other day about how face to face meetings with other redmen.comers and then publicizing it makes dialogue on this site more civil and friendly for everyone.
When the guys got together at the Garden, mike noted that there are a few guys I know whose opinions are vastly different on some subjects, but we never get nasty with each other. Mike noted "Man, he thinks alot of you personally." The poster is Dinkins, and i would say the feeling is completely mutual. We met in Charlotte, my girls chatted with and liked his then little boy, and a relationship developed that is stronger than our basketball personal opinions. I havent met tom in Salem but I also like him immensely personally and it curbs animos when we disagree here. Moose is another great guy and although our exchanges are sometimes pointed on the very first time we met at an event, he won a jacket that wasnt his size but quickly gave it to me.
A few weeks ago I was at a conference. At one juncture I was dressed rather casually, and wore a st. John's fleece jacket. An exhibitor called out to me by name and I had never met him and was puzzled how he picked me out of a crowd.
Turns out I had spoken to him earlier in the year about co-bidding on an opportunity. He had gone to st. John's and played lacrosse here. We are connected on linked in, and he put my face together with my name. Now I hope to hire him soon.
The point is really this. I've written a lot here how st. John's is improving leaps and bounds as a university. The board is comprised of enormously talented and good men who had the business and moral strength to fire Harrington. I hated the Gempeshaw hire but Bobby is rapidly building a high class organization, Mike Cragg the latest of many. But what really defines the greatness of st. John's is you, us. Men and women, children and grandchildren of immigrants who are having a little more success in their lives because of sju. We here at redmen.com are only starting to realize the value if each bbn other as a community that is centered on basketball but is much richer and deeper.
And that's all just great[/quote] Perfectly said
