Europe Trip Details
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"85 was a great season to be a Redmen fan. Being beaten 3 times by the Hoyas was one thing, but losing to Niagra was a big letdown. I was there in Mullin's first year when we got trounced by the Hoyas losing 41-9 at the half in the Garden; the "Sweater Game" with Louie pinning a string of towels together and coming out on the court, to be upstaged by Big John Thomson who had a replicat Louie Shevron sweater on. The Mullin years, with Walter "The Truth" Berry, Bill Wennington, Mark Jackson, those were great years. And now, our new coach is taking this team in the same direction. Believe me, this team will return to greatness.
westchesterjoe
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1985 was a historically great year for the Redmen. One that may never be repeated, although we all hope it will be some day.
That team of Mullin , Berry, Wennington, Glass, Mark Jackson. 4 of them became 1st round NBA picks.
That team of Mullin , Berry, Wennington, Glass, Mark Jackson. 4 of them became 1st round NBA picks.
beast of the east
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Willie Glass, I believe was a 2nd round pick. Shelton Jones, also a 2nd round pick, played in the NBA, and as he told me at a Red-White event, finished 4th the NBA slam dunk competition one year.
Reallyoldfan indeed! I climbed a 4000' mountain and rode the bob run at Lake Placid last week. What did you do?
Nice to see Gonzalo in the photos from Spain; connections like that is what makes this redmen site great.
BTW, from the limited look I have had of this team from Europe, I will predict 21 wins this season and will hope for two more. They are good. It's been years since I saw real rebounding and put backs; and, it's fun to see a confident 3point threat and a D'Angelo who is happy and wrapped tightly once more. We're gonna be good......real good.
Nice to see Gonzalo in the photos from Spain; connections like that is what makes this redmen site great.
BTW, from the limited look I have had of this team from Europe, I will predict 21 wins this season and will hope for two more. They are good. It's been years since I saw real rebounding and put backs; and, it's fun to see a confident 3point threat and a D'Angelo who is happy and wrapped tightly once more. We're gonna be good......real good.
I predicted 21 last year, so with the additions that we have (without losing anyone but Amir) I am predicting 24 regular season. I'm not sure yet what the BE tournament format will be but we should win one or two there.
(My post was in response to Oldfan's prediction). Matt snuck his in there before I could post it)
(My post was in response to Oldfan's prediction). Matt snuck his in there before I could post it)
Spent the week looking into either taking a vacation next year to India and Nepal or China and Tibet.
Relax Oldfan. I climbed most of the Osorno Volcano in Chile also last year which is the picture I have as my avatar close to the top of the volcano
My mentioning you was more of a testament to how long this site has been around and how long we have all been posting. I think you were on the site as Oldfan back when I started posting which was like 13 years ago. Kudos on riding the bob run. That's something I definitely want to do
Re: the Niagara game on 12/15/1984...................I missed it, thank god. Living upstate NY for many years, sometimes the only games I could get to see live were the Niagara and the Syracuse game so I looked forward to them. On 12/15 of that year we had a snowfall of epic proportions and I gave up trying to drive in it about 40 miles short of the Falls in Batavia NY.
I got a motel room but found that the game was not televised!
I woke up at midnight and , feeling certain that StJ had been victorious, I call the sports desk at the NY Times to get a score .I had the guy check it twice before I began the sleepless portion of the rest of my evening.
They still celebrate that night in the Falls and anyone who has a button marked "62/59 Dec.15,'84" wears it proudly to their gym.
In retrospect for a position almost 40 years later, I almost understand it better today. Basketball was different then. You could get a good game out of any team in the eastern USA. Earlier that year we had lucked out wins by ONE point against Fordham and St, Bonny's. Guys who seem like pigeons today were threats then. As great a group of talent we had then, we played half a dozen or so 1 and 2 point games against Providence, BC, Syr., etc. It wasn't until March, after our first loss to the Hoyas, the "greatest college team of the second half of the century", that we got hot and really took charge from the tip off. Much of the early part of the season was trailing at the half or sometime with 10 to go,and hanging in in the last three minutes to snag a win
That season aged a lot of us prematurely. As great as the season was, the kids didn't make it easy for Looie and the fans for the first 20 games save for the 1 point win over G'town in the Garden on January 26, 1985. That was all of our most memorable moments of the Garden, of StJ and of that wonderful team.
I got a motel room but found that the game was not televised!
I woke up at midnight and , feeling certain that StJ had been victorious, I call the sports desk at the NY Times to get a score .I had the guy check it twice before I began the sleepless portion of the rest of my evening.
They still celebrate that night in the Falls and anyone who has a button marked "62/59 Dec.15,'84" wears it proudly to their gym.
In retrospect for a position almost 40 years later, I almost understand it better today. Basketball was different then. You could get a good game out of any team in the eastern USA. Earlier that year we had lucked out wins by ONE point against Fordham and St, Bonny's. Guys who seem like pigeons today were threats then. As great a group of talent we had then, we played half a dozen or so 1 and 2 point games against Providence, BC, Syr., etc. It wasn't until March, after our first loss to the Hoyas, the "greatest college team of the second half of the century", that we got hot and really took charge from the tip off. Much of the early part of the season was trailing at the half or sometime with 10 to go,and hanging in in the last three minutes to snag a win
That season aged a lot of us prematurely. As great as the season was, the kids didn't make it easy for Looie and the fans for the first 20 games save for the 1 point win over G'town in the Garden on January 26, 1985. That was all of our most memorable moments of the Garden, of StJ and of that wonderful team.
I almost needed her to carry me I was getting so tiredMt. Orsono in Chile?????? OK but did you have to carry your girlfriend on your back as I did In Lake Placid? Only kidding!
BTW Havent been to placid yet but just drove past it 2 weeks ago on our way to montreal. A real nice drive up that way from long island up 87.
I think we are definitely going to check it out up there for a long weekend in the next year. Everyone I know who has gone there has loved it in the summer and winter
I have clients that went from importing a lot of textiles from china who now are putting factories over in Vietnam and Cambodia due to lower labor costs and they especially have raved about Vietnam when they visited
Have you been over there ?
Have a client doing 3 week africa right now. And a friend in Kenya on business-vacation. I'm freaking jealous
Good story about your eventful trip. I can remember calling a sports line to get Johnnies scores (whenever their games weren't televised on the national networks) when I was in school. I was able to listen to some of their games on radio during those days, as well. I believe their games were on WCBS, and I would be able to pick up a feed down in my area.
Actually, I listened to the game versus Niagara during Malik Sealy's and Robert Werdann's freshmen season. Yeah.... We lost that one, too.
By the way, we beat G'town in Landover in the '84-'85 season.
L J S A
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I spent three weeks in Vietnam in 2005. Stayed in Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Hue, and Hoi An, and took day trips from each. Wife didn't want to do Cambodia because a co-worker who had been all over the world told her it was the poorest place she'd ever seen, and wife didn't want to be depressed. That pissed me off. And we could have taken a bus from Vietnam to Vientiane, Laos, for something like $6 and we didn't do it for some stupid reason. But Vietnam was awesome and Halong Bay was probably the most amazing place I've ever seen.
Liked Hue and Hoi An a lot but thought Hanoi was a bit crazy with the million scooters and almost no traffic controls. Spent several days on a slow boat down the Mekong in Laos and then several more in Luang Prabang in Laos and we loved the country. China is doing its best to modernize it and capitalize on the opportunity so I recommend getting to Laos before its too late.
Class of 72
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You should have visited when it was a really exciting place to visit around 1973. You could pick up a wife for six dollars.
beast of the east
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And I thought our fans were pathetic for holding sacred our one failed trip to the Final Four over the past 60 years. I guess we all cherish things that for others of greater means, hold little value.