that's exactly what I was thinkingMike, you're going to need to drink a lot before this game if you are attending. You should go.
Providence (MSG), Sat., Feb. 11, 12 Noon, FOX
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Billy Schaefer was a senior my freshman year at St. John’s. Basically idolized him as that year he averaged 24.7 per game still the highest single season average in St. John’s history. Followed him to Nets and always thought he deserved more time as he still had that sweet shooting stroke of his and was deadly from 15-18 feet out along the baseline.
I was a big fan of Schaefer.......beer
APROPOS of comments here, and random thoughts.
We could be 0-20 and I would still want to beat Providence and Cooley, I have nothing against the school (except seeming to beat us in the early rounds of the BET year after yer;, but with Cooley as their coach and knowing he doesn't like my alma mater, I always want to beat him. {disclaimer: he has done a damn good job there, and I'd take his results over ours during those corresponding years any day of the week}
Billy Schaefer had a great NYC High School Career, I watched him play in high school and he was Mullin before Mullin, two guys with the sweetest strokes on their jump shots I'd ever seen. He once played in our local public playground Heaven is a PlayGround's Foster Park in Flatbush and annihilated anyone that tried to guard him (It might have been Fordham's Kenny Charles). It was a thrill. His corner jump shot was magic. At St. John's his FG% was outstanding, 50-60+ %. {disclaimer bamafan, I thought Billy's range was further out than 15-18 feet; my memory may be off but I thought a lot of his shots would be borderline college 3s these days, maybe not if his FG% was so high; guy could rebound too.!}
We could be 0-20 and I would still want to beat Providence and Cooley, I have nothing against the school (except seeming to beat us in the early rounds of the BET year after yer;, but with Cooley as their coach and knowing he doesn't like my alma mater, I always want to beat him. {disclaimer: he has done a damn good job there, and I'd take his results over ours during those corresponding years any day of the week}
Billy Schaefer had a great NYC High School Career, I watched him play in high school and he was Mullin before Mullin, two guys with the sweetest strokes on their jump shots I'd ever seen. He once played in our local public playground Heaven is a PlayGround's Foster Park in Flatbush and annihilated anyone that tried to guard him (It might have been Fordham's Kenny Charles). It was a thrill. His corner jump shot was magic. At St. John's his FG% was outstanding, 50-60+ %. {disclaimer bamafan, I thought Billy's range was further out than 15-18 feet; my memory may be off but I thought a lot of his shots would be borderline college 3s these days, maybe not if his FG% was so high; guy could rebound too.!}
I heard it was Pitino bobblehead day
Johnny Rapper
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Went to school with Billy Schaeffer, he was and is a great guy. I remember seeing him shoot on his own in Alumni Hall when I went there to get some exercise for the intramural BB team I was on. I retrieved some BBalls for him and we shot around. Then we played a little one-on-one. I must say I made Schaef look like the world's best defensive player. To my credit, I was able to get one shot off (hit the rim). I hope his wife Linda, a former SJU cheerleader, is able to attend with Billy and enjoy the day.
That's next year's.
Ray Morgan
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After their freshman games at Alumni Hall, Schaeffer and Mel Davis would go into the stands and talk to fans and sign autographs on the programs that were either given out or sold. I should have saved them. They went in the scrap heap along with a fortune of Topps baseball cards from the 50s and 60s. Attendance was good for the freshman games because of all the talent on that team. Both were personable and patient with fans. Contrast that with Tiny Archibald, who I watched curse out a kid who asked for an autograph after a summer league game held at Alumni Hall long before it became CA.
He made the transition from playing center, at Holy Cross, to small forward at SJU. His junior year, when Cross beat Molloy for the CHSAA championship, there were nine division 1 college players , in the starting line-ups.
I beg that we at least try this defense:
Lol he’s been doing that all year. I think they were tracking it at one point at least early on and it had a really bizarre success rate.
I met Billy at alumni gatherings before games years ago. He is one of the nicest men I have ever met. Never full of himself. He always greeted me at games and took some time to talk to me. He once awarded me a prize for the fan who travelled the furthest for an away game. I came from Long Island to Tampa, Florida, to watch our Redmen play the USF Bulls when the Bulls joined the BE back in 2005. We beat up on them. I think that the final was 69-45. (I could be wrong about that). He was always incredulous that any fan would travel that far just to watch this team play.
Billy is such a great ambassador for this team.
anyone looking to sell one ducat to the Providence game?
I shall be there tomorrow. Why? I don't know. maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. But I'll always root for our guys on the court.
And I have no freaking idea what this first digital collectible thingee is about tomorrow.
And I have no freaking idea what this first digital collectible thingee is about tomorrow.
MugCostanza
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Been a bad stretch here but this is still college basketball but the oddsmakers and analytic sites have this pegged as a one possession game so wouldn't be a shock at all if we were to win it.