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Alumnus Michael Gorman wrote a great letter which appeared in today's New York Post on page 68
To say the late Archbishop Molloy baseball and basketball coach, Jack Curran, was loyal to his school and his players is a gross understatement. I played baseball for Curran in the early 1960's, and I never saw anyone who was as much a winner and man of principle.
If you left evrything on the field, win or lose, Curran would give you his full support. Although I had a pretty mediocre baseball season in my last year at Molloy, I found out later that he put in a good word for me when I went on to St. John's University. Loyalty was his middle name.
In the 55 years he coached at Molloy, Curran had a number of lucrative college offers that would have paid him many times his salary, but he turned them all down, choosing to stay with the same school that gave him his first coaching job.
I last saw him looking fragile but menatlly sharp as ever at a St. John's alumni baseball game in 2012.
Talking about his long and continuing coaching career, he said with a laugh: "I guess I'm just a survivor."
His success and reputation will live on for many years after his death, and if he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, it really would be permanent.
But I'm sure he would say, "I'd rather be coaching."
To say the late Archbishop Molloy baseball and basketball coach, Jack Curran, was loyal to his school and his players is a gross understatement. I played baseball for Curran in the early 1960's, and I never saw anyone who was as much a winner and man of principle.
If you left evrything on the field, win or lose, Curran would give you his full support. Although I had a pretty mediocre baseball season in my last year at Molloy, I found out later that he put in a good word for me when I went on to St. John's University. Loyalty was his middle name.
In the 55 years he coached at Molloy, Curran had a number of lucrative college offers that would have paid him many times his salary, but he turned them all down, choosing to stay with the same school that gave him his first coaching job.
I last saw him looking fragile but menatlly sharp as ever at a St. John's alumni baseball game in 2012.
Talking about his long and continuing coaching career, he said with a laugh: "I guess I'm just a survivor."
His success and reputation will live on for many years after his death, and if he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, it really would be permanent.
But I'm sure he would say, "I'd rather be coaching."