The Stipend from the Old Days

[quote="JackofVirginia" post=402050][quote="Enright" post=401991]You were able to live at home and pocket the money. The NCAA came up with an average rent plus cost of food and that was what a player received every month. Most players roomed with one or more other players and had a nice amount of spending money.
SJU, being in a nice area , resulted in what was high living costs and if you wanted to spend your meal money on beer instead of food so be it.
As far as the cars go when Tony and Leroy were attending SJU a good used car was about five hundred dollars and insurance was about one hundred. It was not difficult to finance a car with the stipend. SJU had many athletes from Brooklyn commuting by car to Jamaica in those days.[/quote]



Certainly an advantage to recruit. Remember seeing the players after the game wearing leather jackets and carrying boom boxes. A lot of them lived in cheap apartments in Jamaica. Some of my baseball teammates who also played varsity basketball got money at each traveling game. Don't know how much since it was in an envelope. We, however, only got $3.00.[/quote]

I once read that Mark Jackson used the room and board money to buy a car as he stayed at home, sharing a room with his little brother.
 
[quote="fordham96" post=402130][quote="Paultzman" post=402035]TaQuan Woodley (@T_boogi5) will be announcing his college decision tomorrow. Woodley was a former Penn State commit, but recently decommitted.

Woodley's final five are Georgia, St. John's, Temple, South Carolina, and St. Joe's.

Jake Lieberman[/quote]

Sounds like South Carolina.

https://twitter.com/jerrymeyer247/status/1328840619226259464?s=19[/quote]

As the great Paultzman told me while he was enjoying the scrimmage sprawled out across an entire row on campus- "South Carolina was runner up when he initially committed to PSU."
 
[quote="Moose" post=402132][quote="fordham96" post=402130][quote="Paultzman" post=402035]TaQuan Woodley (@T_boogi5) will be announcing his college decision tomorrow. Woodley was a former Penn State commit, but recently decommitted.

Woodley's final five are Georgia, St. John's, Temple, South Carolina, and St. Joe's.

Jake Lieberman[/quote]

Sounds like South Carolina.

https://twitter.com/jerrymeyer247/status/1328840619226259464?s=19[/quote]

As the great Paultzman told me while he was enjoying the scrimmage sprawled out across an entire row on campus- "South Carolina was runner up when he initially committed to PSU."[/quote]

I think it’s a good fit. I think we have guys that fit any role he can play and better. Need to use our ships wisely and this isn’t a fit for us.
 
[quote="BrooklynRed" post=402070]
I once read that Mark Jackson used the room and board money to buy a car as he stayed at home, sharing a room with his little brother.[/quote]

Hard to believe Mark's brother was ever little. RIP.
 
[quote="austour" post=402153][quote="BrooklynRed" post=402070]
I once read that Mark Jackson used the room and board money to buy a car as he stayed at home, sharing a room with his little brother.[/quote]

Hard to believe Mark's brother was ever little. RIP.[/quote]

At one of the games at Carnesecca Arena my youngest son was a ball boy with Mark's brother. Prior to the game they played one on one - Mark's brother had game. Nice kid .
 
[quote="JackofVirginia" post=402050][quote="Enright" post=401991]You were able to live at home and pocket the money. The NCAA came up with an average rent plus cost of food and that was what a player received every month. Most players roomed with one or more other players and had a nice amount of spending money.
SJU, being in a nice area , resulted in what was high living costs and if you wanted to spend your meal money on beer instead of food so be it.
As far as the cars go when Tony and Leroy were attending SJU a good used car was about five hundred dollars and insurance was about one hundred. It was not difficult to finance a car with the stipend. SJU had many athletes from Brooklyn commuting by car to Jamaica in those days.[/quote]



Certainly an advantage to recruit. Remember seeing the players after the game wearing leather jackets and carrying boom boxes. A lot of them lived in cheap apartments in Jamaica. Some of my baseball teammates who also played varsity basketball got money at each traveling game. Don't know how much since it was in an envelope. We, however, only got $3.00.[/quote]



One day while was visiting Louie in his office Buchanan and Terrance Mullin came in complaining they wanted out of their Jamaica apartment due to threats of crime. At the same time Jayson Williams pops in to show Louie and Mahoney his new BMW resulting from his new NBA contract.
 
[quote="JackofVirginia" post=402199][quote="austour" post=402153][quote="BrooklynRed" post=402070]
I once read that Mark Jackson used the room and board money to buy a car as he stayed at home, sharing a room with his little brother.[/quote]

Hard to believe Mark's brother was ever little. RIP.[/quote]

At one of the games at Carnesecca Arena my youngest son was a ball boy with Mark's brother. Prior to the game they played one on one - Mark's brother had game. Nice kid .[/quote]

My younger brother still talks about the time he and Troy (Mark's younger brother) were rebounding for Chris Mullin one day. As he puts it, "We didn't rebound too many misses."
 
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