Moose
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How many of our legends will actually be there. Will Chris and Mark be making an appearance? Sadly, they rarely do.
Mullin has showed up at a few games the last couple of years.
His ESPN schedule and living on the West Coast makes it difficult at times.
Doubt Mark will be there given his Golden State coaching schedule.
That said, would hope Wooden Award Winner, Walter Berry will be "in the house" among many others
Coach Carnesecca isn't getting any younger (he just turned 88) and I woud think many of his former palyers will make the trek.
That said, COACH looks much younger than the date on his birth certificate.
Do know the university has made a major effort to reach out to all basketball alumni.
I know Gus Alfieri, a starter and star on the 1958-59 team will be attending.
As a senior his team (Alan Seiden, Tony Jackson, Lou Roethel, Rich Engert) won the 1958 Holiday Festival and The 1959 N.I.T., when both were big time tournaments.
Coach Carnesecca was Coach Lapchick's #1 asssistant on that that squad, as you know.
You telling me that guys don't get days off from ESPN gigs all the time to attend functions? And guys don's fly a few hours to attend events for their alma mater? The fact of the matter is that Jackson and Mullin are probably the two most recognizable faces to ever suit up for us, and they rarely show their faces around here. Sorry, I aint buying the excuses.
Well STJ doesn't pay the bills. Forget Jax now. He's a head coach of an NBA team. You are not seeing him around. I was very critical of Mullin and during Norm years he was invisible. Ironically just like most of our fans. That's human nature. He didn't want to be around a losing depressing program. Again since Lav he has been around A LOT more. He cut a commercial for Red White too.
When you say Mullin has been around a lot more, where has he been around? Maybe others have seen him, I haven't. As for his disgust with the state of the program under Norm, certainly he could have put those feelings aside for the sake of his old coach and teammates and attended both the 25th anniversary(f84-85 team) and the arena naming. I'll agree that Jackson has an excuse now, but he didn't show his face before he got the coaching gig. I don't really give a hoot if Mullin and Jackson don't care enough about their alma mater to make the occasional public cameo for a big event and support the school/program, that's their prerogative. I'm just not buying the excuses.
Sorry but I don't have a running log of where he has been. As Beast pointed out he was GM for much of Norm's tenure. Is that not a valid excuse but Jax coaching is OK with you? The 25th anniversary he had to work the NBA All Star Game. As much as its an All Star Game and most people don't like it, its a huge event for both the League and the networks.
He's around more. As Beast again pointed out his kid transferred into STJ this year. He's around. Next time I see him I'll have him give you a call