Councilman Robert Cornegy

A Redmen and a Crimson Tider! I know his bio said UAB grad but he first transferred to Bama as he remains a trivia question as to who was Bama's first 7 footer. Remember he had small hands and had great difficulty catching passes and holding on to the few rebounds he almost got to.
 
A Redmen and a Crimson Tider! I know his bio said UAB grad but he first transferred to Bama as he remains a trivia question as to who was Bama's first 7 footer. Remember he had small hands and had great difficulty catching passes and holding on to the few rebounds he almost got to.
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Stumped!
 
Tree grew up in Queens and was a graduate of Andrew Jackson High School.
 
A Redmen and a Crimson Tider! I know his bio said UAB grad but he first transferred to Bama as he remains a trivia question as to who was Bama's first 7 footer. Remember he had small hands and had great difficulty catching passes and holding on to the few rebounds he almost got to.
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Boy that's an understatement. I remember watching practices where Louie just had him standing 2 feet from the rim and having him lightly tossing the ball off the backboard and "catching" it. What an exercise in futility
 
Tree grew up in Queens and was a graduate of Andrew Jackson High School.
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My HS was in their division, back in the days of Sundance Rand. The guys on the team would shudder about visiting that school, near Baisley Park (where bodies and guns were fished out) and the school that had bullet holes in the doors.

On the bright side, it's really awesome that Cornegy has become an alum SJU can be proud of. We should be celebrating and utilizing guys who have had success post basketball as a recruiting tool and as foundation pieces of this program
 
Tree grew up in Queens and was a graduate of Andrew Jackson High School.
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My HS was in their division, back in the days of Sundance Rand. The guys on the team would shudder about visiting that school, near Baisley Park (where bodies and guns were fished out) and the school that had bullet holes in the doors.

On the bright side, it's really awesome that Cornegy has become an alum SJU can be proud of. We should be celebrating and utilizing guys who have had success post basketball as a recruiting tool and as foundation pieces of this program
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Beast, don't know who Sundance Rand is/was but you have the wrong school or location. August Martin was the school near Baisley Park and Kennedy Airport. Depending on when you graduated, it might have been called Woodrow Wilson H.S. Andrew Jackson was located on Francis Lewis Blvd. just north of Linden Blvd. It is now called Campus Magnet H.S.
 
Tree grew up in Queens and was a graduate of Andrew Jackson High School.
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My HS was in their division, back in the days of Sundance Rand. The guys on the team would shudder about visiting that school, near Baisley Park (where bodies and guns were fished out) and the school that had bullet holes in the doors.

On the bright side, it's really awesome that Cornegy has become an alum SJU can be proud of. We should be celebrating and utilizing guys who have had success post basketball as a recruiting tool and as foundation pieces of this program
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Beast, don't know who Sundance Rand is/was but you have the wrong school or location. August Martin was the school near Baisley Park and Kennedy Airport. Depending on when you graduated, it might have been called Woodrow Wilson H.S. Andrew Jackson was located on Francis Lewis Blvd. just north of Linden Blvd. It is now called Campus Magnet H.S.
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Probably wrong location. I do remember going to a football game once (thought it was AJ, could have been AM) and walked THROUGH Baisley (inadvisable at night). After my friend's description, I wouldn't go to a basketball game there. AJ always had tough teams. My school almost had them beat at home, when Rand got them the late lead, and dribbled out the last 3 minutes of the clock almost by himself. No one could touch him.
 
Andrew Jackson High School (later to become Campus Magnet in 1994) was coached for forty- five years by the legendary Chuck Granby. He coached them from 1969 until he retired last year at the end of the 2014 season. During that time Granby amassed 722 victories, the most wins ever for a PSAL coach.

I attended Jamaica High School in the mid-seventies and Jackson was by far our toughest rival. Granby’s Jackson teams were always athletic, skilled, quick and disciplined. They were tough to beat especially on their home court. In fact Jackson did not lose a home game from 1972 through the 1985 season.

In addition to Councilman Cornegy, you can count current Orlando Magic player Kyle O’Quinn among the many hundreds of players Granby coached in his illustrious career.

Granby won his only PSAL title in 1985 and that team was led by future St. John’s point guard Boo Harvey. I attended that championship game at Alumni Hall when Jackson beat John F. Kennedy 80-71. Harvey was magnificent on both ends of the floor, completely dominating the game with 29 points, five assists and five steals. Boo was probably the most successful High School player Granby ever coached. Harvey led Jackson to the PSAL title game in three of his four seasons as their star point guard.

However the most talented player that Granby ever coached was probably not Harvey, but the troubled Lloyd Daniels. Daniels high school career was marked by controversy, substance abuse, academic turmoil and transfers but he was spectacular in his one full season at Andrew Jackson. During that 1986 season Daniels averaged 31.2 points, 12.3 rebounds and 10 assists before dropping out as a junior. Some considered Daniels to have been the best NYC talent since Lou Alcindor and his versatile skillset led to comparisons with Magic Johnson.

With that said the most successful player to graduate Andrew Jackson High School came years before Granby’s tenure. That would be the legendary Hall of Fame Celtic Bob Cousy. The amazing Cousy (known simply at the Boston Garden as Mr. Basketbal) was a thirteen time NBA all-star, six time NBA champion and named the league MVP in 1957. Cousy’s ball handling wizardry and passing skills generally defined the point guard position in the fifties and sixties. In 1996 he was named to the list of the fifty greatest NBA players.

FYI I posted a link here from a NY Times article marking Granby’s 700th victory in 2011.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/s...-first-psal-coach-to-700-victories.html?_r=1&
 
Saw Lloyd "Sweat Pee" Daniels play a high school game at Nassau Coliseum (think it was a Martin Luther King Tournament) and he reminded me most of Rick Barry whom I saw numerous times play for the Nets in the same venue. Man, kid could ball, was dying for Lou to get him!
 
Andrew Jackson High School (later to become Campus Magnet in 1994) was coached for forty- five years by the legendary Chuck Granby. He coached them from 1969 until he retired last year at the end of the 2014 season. During that time Granby amassed 722 victories, the most wins ever for a PSAL coach.

I attended Jamaica High School in the mid-seventies and Jackson was by far our toughest rival. Granby’s Jackson teams were always athletic, skilled, quick and disciplined. They were tough to beat especially on their home court. In fact Jackson did not lose a home game from 1972 through the 1985 season.

In addition to Councilman Cornegy, you can count current Orlando Magic player Kyle O’Quinn among the many hundreds of players Granby coached in his illustrious career.

Granby won his only PSAL title in 1985 and that team was led by future St. John’s point guard Boo Harvey. I attended that championship game at Alumni Hall when Jackson beat John F. Kennedy 80-71. Harvey was magnificent on both ends of the floor, completely dominating the game with 29 points, five assists and five steals. Boo was probably the most successful High School player Granby ever coached. Harvey led Jackson to the PSAL title game in three of his four seasons as their star point guard.

However the most talented player that Granby ever coached was probably not Harvey, but the troubled Lloyd Daniels. Daniels high school career was marked by controversy, substance abuse, academic turmoil and transfers but he was spectacular in his one full season at Andrew Jackson. During that 1986 season Daniels averaged 31.2 points, 12.3 rebounds and 10 assists before dropping out as a junior. Some considered Daniels to have been the best NYC talent since Lou Alcindor and his versatile skillset led to comparisons with Magic Johnson.

With that said the most successful player to graduate Andrew Jackson High School came years before Granby’s tenure. That would be the legendary Hall of Fame Celtic Bob Cousy. The amazing Cousy (known simply at the Boston Garden as Mr. Basketbal) was a thirteen time NBA all-star, six time NBA champion and named the league MVP in 1957. Cousy’s ball handling wizardry and passing skills generally defined the point guard position in the fifties and sixties. In 1996 he was named to the list of the fifty greatest NBA players.

FYI I posted a link here from a NY Times article marking Granby’s 700th victory in 2011.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/s...-first-psal-coach-to-700-victories.html?_r=1&
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Great summary of AJ basketball and Coach Granby. Do you recall/know of the kid named Rand? they also had another great guard in the backcourt (around 73) but I can't recall his name.
 
Beast of the East wrote: Great summary of AJ basketball and Coach Granby. Do you recall/know of the kid named Rand? they also had another great guard in the backcourt (around 73) but I can't recall his name.

I am sorry Beast but I do not recall Rand. Much of the PSAL information from that time does not seem to be documented anywhere that I can find. Perhaps the archives of the Daily News would have something.

I do recall the 1973 season pretty well because I attended some exciting playoff games involving my school Jamaica HS. Jamaica met Andrew Jackson in what I remember as being for the Queens championship. They met at Jackson after Jamaica advanced when they beat Forest Hills by one point at the Forest Hills gym.

Forest hills was coached by Irwin Isser and their star player was Ernie Grunfeld. Grunfeld was as good a High School player as I ever saw and was totally dominant (he scored more than thirty points in that playoff game) but Jamaica had a much better team. Jamaica won the game (48 to 47 I believe) when their guard Frank Mock hit two free throws with a few seconds left on the clock. Forest Hills then tried to inbound the ball to Grunfeld who was quadrupled teamed and Jamaica stole the ball to seal the victory.

Jamaica then met Andrew Jackson for the Queens championship. Jackson did have a very good guard (unfortunately I do not remember his name) but their best player was a forward named Stanley Wright. Wright battled on the inside with Jamaica's best player Robert Blyden in a back and forth affair which Jackson won by two points. I believe, but am not positive, that Blyden was tragically murdered a couple years later while attending John Jay College.

Jamaica sadly closed its doors this year. It won its only PSAL championship in 1955. That team was led by Alan Seiden. Seiden went on to star at St. John's and led the Redmen to back to back NIT titles in 1958 and 1959. He averaged better than twenty points a game for those years and is an all-time St. John's great.
 
I remember the Tree from my days at SJU. I recall seeing him traverse the hallways of Marrillac Hall decked out with solid gold neck jewelry depicting a Tree.

He would almost always have the companionship of a dazzling co-ed.
 
Beast of the East wrote: Great summary of AJ basketball and Coach Granby. Do you recall/know of the kid named Rand? they also had another great guard in the backcourt (around 73) but I can't recall his name.

I am sorry Beast but I do not recall Rand. Much of the PSAL information from that time does not seem to be documented anywhere that I can find. Perhaps the archives of the Daily News would have something.

I do recall the 1973 season pretty well because I attended some exciting playoff games involving my school Jamaica HS. Jamaica met Andrew Jackson in what I remember as being for the Queens championship. They met at Jackson after Jamaica advanced when they beat Forest Hills by one point at the Forest Hills gym.

Forest hills was coached by Irwin Isser and their star player was Ernie Grunfeld. Grunfeld was as good a High School player as I ever saw and was totally dominant (he scored more than thirty points in that playoff game) but Jamaica had a much better team. Jamaica won the game (48 to 47 I believe) when their guard Frank Mock hit two free throws with a few seconds left on the clock. Forest Hills then tried to inbound the ball to Grunfeld who was quadrupled teamed and Jamaica stole the ball to seal the victory.

Jamaica then met Andrew Jackson for the Queens championship. Jackson did have a very good guard (unfortunately I do not remember his name) but their best player was a forward named Stanley Wright. Wright battled on the inside with Jamaica's best player Robert Blyden in a back and forth affair which Jackson won by two points. I believe, but am not positive, that Blyden was tragically murdered a couple years later while attending John Jay College.

Jamaica sadly closed its doors this year. It won its only PSAL championship in 1955. That team was led by Alan Seiden. Seiden went on to star at St. John's and led the Redmen to back to back NIT titles in 1958 and 1959. He averaged better than twenty points a game for those years and is an all-time St. John's great.
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Found this online about a guy named "Sundance Rand" playing for Kansas City Blue Devils in a college game in 1974:

http://newspaperarchive.com/us/kansas/hutchinson/hutchinson-news/1974/01-12/page-65

Had to be the same guy from AJ

Also was a blog comment on Fly Williams blog spot page referring to Carl "Sundance" Rand on an All Star squad of city hs players.
 
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