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Message: [QUOTE="jekelish, post: 54034, member: 82"] There are some other solid centers who came from the college ranks, but yes, this is a far cry (national reputation-wise) than even just 10 years ago. And Jeremy McNeil was literally one of the first people I met at Syracuse our freshman year, so I'll always have a soft spot for the kid. I was leaving a math placement test, since I hadn't signed up for a math course (didn't know I was required to do so), and about 10 seconds after I leave this big dude comes out and asks me where I'm headed. We end up walking to Schine together, he introduces himself as Jeremy from Texas, and I say, "Jeremy McNeil?" He was completely stunned that I knew who he was, since he wasn't a particularly big time recruit. We wound up having lunch together, and while we never actually became friends or anything, he was always super friendly whenever he saw me on campus. Whenever he came into Konrad's and spotted me he made it a point to come over and give me one of those handshake/hug deals. Freshman year, when he knew how much of a fan I was and that I had thought about trying to become a manager, he told me he had talked to Bernie about opening up another spot for me, and apparently Bernie had agreed to do so. For whatever reason, I politely turned it down. One of my biggest regrets of my time at Syracuse, since if I had stuck with it, I would have most likely been one of the senior managers running out onto the court in New Orleans and jumping on the pile after the National Championship. (Note: I have no idea if Jeremy actually did convince Bernie to get open a manager spot for me, but that's what he told me...I really wish I had followed up on that. I had wanted to look into it for awhile, since a kid my brother played AAU ball with, along with his brother, were both managers at Duke and eventually walked on...they even had a CBS piece about them during the tournament) [/QUOTE]

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