RIP Coach Carnesecca
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Peacock today, feather duster tomorrow.
Ray Morgan
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One line I remember Looie saying was about an opposing player we either faced, or were about to play. The guy was known as a pickpocket on defense. Looie said something like: "If you open your mouth when he's guarding you, he will steal your teeth".
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Matt Brust on Looie:
Occasionally he choked up with emotion.
“What do you say about the man who saved your life?” Brust said, his voice cracking. “My life felt shattered and he took me in and showed me nothing but love and kindness . . . and he became like my father. He taught me to survive come of the things I was going through personally.””
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Occasionally he choked up with emotion.
“What do you say about the man who saved your life?” Brust said, his voice cracking. “My life felt shattered and he took me in and showed me nothing but love and kindness . . . and he became like my father. He taught me to survive come of the things I was going through personally.””
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classof2010
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With Coach Carnesseca passing he is last of the coaches who were characters. Not made up guys, originals! Not the Tommy Devito bs. We got one more I guess you can say Coach Parcells. Guys like Billy Martin, Al McGuire, Yogi, even Bobby Knight, they’re gone.
Muere Lou Carnesecca, legendario técnico e inspiración de Antonio Díaz-Miguel para el salto de España
Dirigió a la universidad de St. John's y se convirtió en una de las grandes personalidades del baloncesto mundial
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Muere el legendario entrenador Lou Carnesecca a los 99 años
El legendario entrenador de St. John's Lou Carnesecca ha fallecido a los 99 años, según ha anunciado este centro educativo este sábado. Carnesecca es conoci...
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Gonzalo,
You are one of the most gracious, well regarded posters on here. Most of us know you are from Spain.
Your posts today remind me of a title not often associated with Coach Carnesecca, namely Ambassador.
Coach was an ambassador for basketball in general, international basketball, St. Johns, the Vincentians, and for God. He always appealed to our better nature, to act in kindness, to support our players and each other. He always praised the Vincentians for guiding him. I'll paraphrase something He said that I read yesterday:
"When I was a student you couldn't walk 5 feet without bumping into a Vincentian. Now they are mostly gone, and we are the Vincentians, to carry their mission."
Wise words.
2 Cor 5:20
"Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God"
Well done, Coach Carnesecca. Well done.
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no words.
I knew this day would come but it came too early, he was immortal in my eyes and I am not prepared for it.
The kindest and most gracious individual I have ever met. He had that unique ability to make everyone feel like royalty.
In this day and age when everyone seeks the spotlight and attention he was the exact opposite.
A truly righteous person.
There must have been a huge crowd at the pearly gates waiting to welcome Coach with open arms and multiple embraces.
I knew this day would come but it came too early, he was immortal in my eyes and I am not prepared for it.
The kindest and most gracious individual I have ever met. He had that unique ability to make everyone feel like royalty.
In this day and age when everyone seeks the spotlight and attention he was the exact opposite.
A truly righteous person.
There must have been a huge crowd at the pearly gates waiting to welcome Coach with open arms and multiple embraces.
Treasure Coast Johnny
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After a loss when the team didn’t play particularly well Looie would say “We would have lost to the Little Sisters of the Poor.”
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Matt was working as a bouncer at Casey's in Westhampton Beach one summer. That job lasted one night because someone saw him and told Coach about it.
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One of my stories about Coach: Took PeoplExpress to Pittsburgh (probably $19 of $29 each way) in January 1986 for a game, staying at the same hotel with the team (Dennis Myron told us which one). We get there but due to a fire we were switched to another hotel, same one as the team of course. Hotel has a nightclub off of the lobby, Coach sees us checking in and was annoyed even though he knew us because he was copying Hoya Paranoia at the time. Dennis told him that the new hotel was ours from the start and the only reason the team was there also was due to the fire. But he also didn't approve of the nightclub complete with waitresses just off the lobby and wanted to change hotels. Dennis convinced him that there wouldn't be much available elsewhere late on a Friday night for a traveling party of 25-30. We also volunteered, along with Dutch Ouderkirk, to guard the bar/nightclub to make sure no players came in. Tough job but we took one for the team.
We won by a point so our guard duty worked.
"Berry did all that and more today as he scored 34 points and brought St. John's from a 15-point deficit to a 68-67 victory over Pittsburgh before a capacity crowd of 6,798 at Fitzgerald Field House."
''It was a great, great comeback,'' said Lou Carnesecca, the Redmen's coach, who watched his team come from 14 down against Connecticut last Saturday. The Redmen won that game, 61-60, and now they have a 19-2 mark, 6-1 in the Big East Conference. Pitt slipped to 13-6 and 4-4."
We won by a point so our guard duty worked.
"Berry did all that and more today as he scored 34 points and brought St. John's from a 15-point deficit to a 68-67 victory over Pittsburgh before a capacity crowd of 6,798 at Fitzgerald Field House."
''It was a great, great comeback,'' said Lou Carnesecca, the Redmen's coach, who watched his team come from 14 down against Connecticut last Saturday. The Redmen won that game, 61-60, and now they have a 19-2 mark, 6-1 in the Big East Conference. Pitt slipped to 13-6 and 4-4."