Memory Lane

Not to change the subject but I got my 50th anniversary certificate of my graduation from SJU last week. (Was on the 6 year college plan so I'm slightly older than my other fellow graduates)

I was a DJ at WSJU radio. I was a show host at the SJU TV station. I made films. I had such a great experience there.

The most amazing part of my SJU experience was that our commencement speaker was none other than Mother Theresa! You could feel that you were in the presence of someone really special during her speech. This is the one thing that I will never forget.
 
gregbodkin said:
Not to change the subject but I got my 50th anniversary certificate of my graduation from SJU last week. (Was on the 6 year college plan so I'm slightly older than my other fellow graduates)

I was a DJ at WSJU radio. I was a show host at the SJU TV station. I made films. I had such a great experience there.

The most amazing part of my SJU experience was that our commencement speaker was none other than Mother Theresa! You could feel that you were in the presence of someone really special during her speech. This is the one thing that I will never forget.
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Congrats! Fellow WSJU member here few years later
 
Beasts of the East said:
Cazzie was long term coach at SCAD, a top notch art school. Also an ordained minister. On request he once sent one of my kids a great birthday card, with a note of encouragement and faith. Great player, greater man.
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I know SCAD . Savannah College of Art and Design .
Beast , if you have been in Savannah recently
, you would see they have taken over much of the Downtown , with new Dorms , etc.
They also bought a few of the old time , 2 story Holiday Inns and converted them to dorms

For what they deliver to Students pursuing those studies , they have gotten quite popular and well respected.

Cazzie , I think is helping out with Coaching for Savannah State , a HBCU school .
 
redmannorth said:
Boo is a pretty smart guy but I was shocked Omar was on the list. Had a great freshman season , was a late first round pick. Realised his limitations and played 20 years in Europe and is now a coach on the Cavaliers. Seems he did pretty well for himself. To me he is a great success.
I too don’t get it.
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The reason why he was put on the list and following the theme of that Poster’s post is due to the fact he didn’t realize his limitations after his one year here and opted for the draft. Even after the NBA Combine when a pro scout saw Jarvis who was getting ready to leave and told him to take Omar with him (true story). When he came out he might have been thinking a 10-15 pro career but in the NBA, not overseas.

He was drafted in the 1st Round (28th pick) in 2001 but didn’t make an NBA roster let alone play in a game until the the 2003/04 season in which he played 17 games and then he played 5 more games the next season.

While I commend Omar for carving out a nice career for himself overseas and making some good coin while doing it, coming out when he did (a short guard with a terrible attitude who couldn’t shoot at all) was not a smart decision then (and that is how I felt then).
 
Not to divert but , a guy not many here saw play was Reggie Carter . He played for us , I think 2 years , transferring from Hawaii .
His final year he made most All American
Teams and drafted by the Knicks first round , I think .

Played a few years for them but , wasn’t a great shooter and that caught up to him in the NBA . I think he came back to St John’s and became a lawyer .

He was on the team in the late 70’s that knocked Duke out of the NCAA in the first round . I think he was on that team but , might be mistaken .
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Not to divert but , a guy not many here saw play was Reggie Carter . He played for us , I think 2 years , transferring from Hawaii .
His final year he made most All American
Teams and drafted by the Knicks first round , I think .

Played a few years for them but , wasn’t a great shooter and that caught up to him in the NBA . I think he came back to St John’s and became a lawyer .

He was on the team in the late 70’s that knocked Duke out of the NCAA in the first round . I think he was on that team but , might be mistaken .
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Assistant principal, Mineola hs i believe. Grad in 1980. I saw him at commencement w cap and gown.

Rencher and Caryer, our rools royce backcourt. Died at 42 in 1999 of sarcoidosis.

R.i.p.
 
SJU85 said:
The reason why he was put on the list and following the theme of that Poster’s post is due to the fact he didn’t realize his limitations after his one year here and opted for the draft. Even after the NBA Combine when a pro scout saw Jarvis who was getting ready to leave and told him to take Omar with him (true story). When he came out he might have been thinking a 10-15 pro career but in the NBA, not overseas.

He was drafted in the 1st Round (28th pick) in 2001 but didn’t make an NBA roster let alone play in a game until the the 2003/04 season in which he played 17 games and then he played 5 more games the next season.

While I commend Omar for carving out a nice career for himself overseas and making some good coin while doing it, coming out when he did (a short guard with a terrible attitude who couldn’t shoot at all) was not a smart decision then (and that is how I felt then).
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Everyone makes mistakes, especially in other people’s eyes. I think him carving out a nice overseas career, culminating in a pro coaching job, hopefully a 2nd career, far outweighs a poor decision made as a freshman in college, if it even really was that.
Shows a person who learned from his mistakes, took responsibility and grew up to be a man.
The NBA is not a be all and end all criteria to judge a person decades later, very possible not making it there was the best thing that could have happened to him.
Just my view.
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Not to divert but , a guy not many here saw play was Reggie Carter . He played for us , I think 2 years , transferring from Hawaii .
His final year he made most All American
Teams and drafted by the Knicks first round , I think .

Played a few years for them but , wasn’t a great shooter and that caught up to him in the NBA . I think he came back to St John’s and became a lawyer .

He was on the team in the late 70’s that knocked Duke out of the NCAA in the first round . I think he was on that team but , might be mistaken .
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He and Bernard Rencher both transferred in at the same time and made up a very good backcourt for the next two years. Rencher ultimately became a faculty member for several years.
 
SJU85 said:
I don’t disagree as I said I commend him for carving out a nice career not to mention to getting a NBA assistant coaching gig.

Just commenting on why he would be on the poster’s list.
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Understand, so many stories of guys who threw it all away; nice to write about a player who did anything but 👏👏👏
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Not to divert but , a guy not many here saw play was Reggie Carter . He played for us , I think 2 years , transferring from Hawaii .
His final year he made most All American
Teams and drafted by the Knicks first round , I think .

Played a few years for them but , wasn’t a great shooter and that caught up to him in the NBA . I think he came back to St John’s and became a lawyer .

He was on the team in the late 70’s that knocked Duke out of the NCAA in the first round . I think he was on that team but , might be mistaken .
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Reggie Carter started his collegiate career at Hawaii, and his assistant coach there was Rick Pitino. (Rick was interim head coach that season for the last six games as well.)

Reggie played 3 seasons at SJU, sitting out the fall semester in 1977. Reggie was clutch like Boo Harvey when the game was on the line. The Duke game you mentioned was a second round game in Raleigh and a Reggie buzzer beater from the baseline sent us to the sweet 16.

His senior year he nailed a baseline buzzer beater again at McDonough Gym sending the Hoyas fans home is disbelief. Reggie left us way too soon.
 
espken said:
Reggie Carter started his collegiate career at Hawaii, and his assistant coach there was Rick Pitino. (Rick was interim head coach that season for the last six games as well.)

Reggie played 3 seasons at SJU, sitting out the fall semester in 1977. Reggie was clutch like Boo Harvey when the game was on the line. The Duke game you mentioned was a second round game in Raleigh and a Reggie buzzer beater from the baseline sent us to the sweet 16.

His senior year he nailed a baseline buzzer beater again at McDonough Gym sending the Hoyas fans home is disbelief. Reggie left us way too soon.
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If Curtis Redding could have kept his head on straight that 1980 team could have gone places. Curtis, Rencher, Carter, Russell and McKoy was a nice quintet. I know Plair and Gilroy started but that five would have worked. NCAA committee screwed us by having us play Purdue at Purdue after a first round bye.
 
GeorgiaRed said:
If Curtis Redding could have kept his head on straight that 1980 team could have gone places. Curtis, Rencher, Carter, Russell and McKoy was a nice quintet. I know Plair and Gilroy started but that five would have worked. NCAA committee screwed us by having us play Purdue at Purdue after a first round bye.
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Big time screw job sending us to West Lafayette. We had no answer for Joe Barry Carroll. The infamous Louis Orr non charge call at Alumni Hall probably cost us a spot in the East Region. Not winning the BET (held at the Providence Civic Center that year) cost us as well.
 
GeorgiaRed said:
I was there on the block/charge and I still can't get over the call. Lol.
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Didn’t we lose another tough game on tough call against Louisville a week later also at Alumni Hall? I remember Louisville had great backcourt of their own with Darrell Griffith and Jerry Eaves. Two very tough loses that season and both at home to boot.
 
Mean Gene said:
Didn’t we lose another tough game on tough call against Louisville a week later also at Alumni Hall? I remember Louisville had great backcourt of their own with Darrell Griffith and Jerry Eaves. Two very tough loses that season and both at home to boot.
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We lost to Louisville two weeks prior the Syracuse game. The Cards were stacked, aside from the great guards you mentioned they had Rodney McCray, Derek Smith, Wiley Brown, Lancaster Gordon, Milt Wagner, and Poncho Wright. They ended up winning it all that year. We lost by 5 but we trailed the whole game.
 
espken said:
We lost to Louisville two weeks prior the Syracuse game. The Cards were stacked, aside from the great guards you mentioned they had Rodney McCray, Derek Smith, Wiley Brown, Lancaster Gordon, Milt Wagner, and Poncho Wright. They ended up winning it all that year. We lost by 5 but we trailed the whole game.
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Got it. I was only 12 at the time. I knew I remembered we lost Louisville also.
 
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