A St. John's Basketball Hall of Fame Initiative

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FriendofJohnnie

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This weekend, I was curious about how our program handled jersey retirements and legacy things. I thought about it when I looked at the rafters at MSG during the Marquette throwback theme game. Yes, a few things were up like Lou's wins and such but I felt like there was definitely more that we weren't recognizing. I found this article written several years ago in The Torch well before my time as St. John's but found it very relevant even to today.

Do you think it would be beneficial if we had these formal retirements for a few numbers and had more of a mini museum Hall of Fame area on campus for the basketball program? We have a lot of tradition here from NIT championships (when it was the equivalent of NCAA many years ago) to great players and coaches like Zawoluk, Wonder 5, McGuire and Lapchick pre-Lou and Artest post-Lou in addition some other great players and teams. We have another big-time coach now, why not make this program get back to having a big-time feel for the students, alum, recruits and local basketball fans that want to see us rise again? Do you think they would invest in it?

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Playing the numbers game with former St. John’s greats

There are a lot of great numbers that hang from the ceiling of Alumni Hall. There’s 1952 and 1985, representing St. John’s advancement to the Final Four. There’s 1943, 1944, 1959, 1965 and 1989 to announce the Redmen’s title victories in the National Invitational Tournament. But for every 1986...
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Yes, I think all of those are great ideas. I also think at MSG and Carnesseca, they should recognize former players when they are in attendance. Just like how at Knicks games, they'll show a 10 second clip of a play & then show them seating, we should do that for our alum. Dwight Hardy was at the Marquette game and no one knew.
 
dk423 said:
Yes, I think all of those are great ideas. I also think at MSG and Carnesseca, they should recognize former players when they are in attendance. Just like how at Knicks games, they'll show a 10 second clip of a play & then show them seating, we should do that for our alum. Dwight Hardy was at the Marquette game and no one knew.
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1 person here knew because he brought him and 2 other Johnnie’s

Agree it’s crazy how they don’t get highlighted. Show the hard second putt shot and pan in on Dwight. The fried would go nuts
 
It would also make the team, crowd, students, potential recruits, etc. feel like they're part of a program bigger than what they're seeing on the court. With providing these references to the players that built the program, the games at MSG would have even more of a home court feeling. I truly don't understand why they can't have a grad assistant or undergrad intern just splice together 5-10 second clips of the top 100 alumni. It's an easy summer project.

The Knicks do a great job of this. It's a small thing -- and their history is pretty terrible -- but you do feel more connected to the franchise when you see that they're actually at the game like yourself (Sprewell, King, Houston [a Knicks employee] are always at games).
 
Do they not do a clip showing all our great players when they turn the lights down prior to introducing our current players. We used to!
 
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