[quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=275175]Let's face it even before the Big East SJU was the powerhouse for college BB in NYC since the time of City College, LIU and NYU was long in the past. Fordham and Manhattan were not a big deal, then when they joined lesser conferences and the Big East was so strong, SJU was supreme.
We'e got to get that feeling back. Since the Mullin days, we've only had it in fits and starts, lately very little.
It's definitely a "pro town" and a baseball-football town at that, but we can put ourselves back on the map with Ws.
Podunk outposts like Syracuse and Storrs have nothing else going on so the entire region is riveted to the big "local" sport.[/quote]
I agree BJR
BTW NYU disbanded its Div 1 program in 1971 ("budget reasons" for this billion dollar university - same time I recall they disbanded ROTC, hmmm) made the final four 1945 and 1960 - star players included Dolph Schayes, Satch Sanders, Happy Hairston, Barry Kramer, Mal Graham; the 1960 team lost to Ohio State and Jerry Lucas and John Havilcek.
We'e got to get that feeling back. Since the Mullin days, we've only had it in fits and starts, lately very little.
It's definitely a "pro town" and a baseball-football town at that, but we can put ourselves back on the map with Ws.
Podunk outposts like Syracuse and Storrs have nothing else going on so the entire region is riveted to the big "local" sport.[/quote]
I agree BJR
BTW NYU disbanded its Div 1 program in 1971 ("budget reasons" for this billion dollar university - same time I recall they disbanded ROTC, hmmm) made the final four 1945 and 1960 - star players included Dolph Schayes, Satch Sanders, Happy Hairston, Barry Kramer, Mal Graham; the 1960 team lost to Ohio State and Jerry Lucas and John Havilcek.
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