SJU missed a golden opportunity this season.
NYC was more than starved for good basketball and a team to get behind. Knicks are an awful D-League team. Who cares about the Nets who aren’t very good either and not much of a fan base.
Iona, Manhattan, St. Francis and even NJIT got ink.
The Johnnies were written about and talked about more than lots of past seasons because of the thirst for decent Basketball here.
The NYTimes took their beat writer off the Knicks and sent him around the country and world covering all different good basketball stories. Sometimes their games got an AP blurb.
The City was there for the taking. SJU had a roster and players with stories that would have captured the imagination of even casual basketball fans.
A better regular season. A better BET tournament, a win or two in the Big Dance, a season like Nova’s, fughetaboutit!
What if?
It would have been so great to see the Johnnies splashed across the back pages of the Post and News all the time. It could have happened. But we came up short, and the thirst in NYC for a better brand of basketball when unfulfilled.
Lavin would have soaked it up. As it was there was more ink and more talk on the radio than in a long time, but we couldn’t close the deal.
A real Missed Opportunity!
NYC was more than starved for good basketball and a team to get behind. Knicks are an awful D-League team. Who cares about the Nets who aren’t very good either and not much of a fan base.
Iona, Manhattan, St. Francis and even NJIT got ink.
The Johnnies were written about and talked about more than lots of past seasons because of the thirst for decent Basketball here.
The NYTimes took their beat writer off the Knicks and sent him around the country and world covering all different good basketball stories. Sometimes their games got an AP blurb.
The City was there for the taking. SJU had a roster and players with stories that would have captured the imagination of even casual basketball fans.
A better regular season. A better BET tournament, a win or two in the Big Dance, a season like Nova’s, fughetaboutit!
What if?
It would have been so great to see the Johnnies splashed across the back pages of the Post and News all the time. It could have happened. But we came up short, and the thirst in NYC for a better brand of basketball when unfulfilled.
Lavin would have soaked it up. As it was there was more ink and more talk on the radio than in a long time, but we couldn’t close the deal.
A real Missed Opportunity!
