Yup. Transferred into Syracuse into 1976. Met my wife of now 32 years on the Quad the first week I was there and I remember we used to go to all the basketball games at Manley Field House. They had a brand new, and unbelievably nerdy looking coach in Jim Boeheim, and were coming off of a Roy Danforth led charge into the Final Four the year before. It was Louie and Bouie's freshman year. They did pretty well that first season, though the team lost to a lower ranked Charlotte in the NCAA's. First of many basketball related broken hearts- but not even close to enough to over shadow the joy of following the Orange, nee Saltine Warriors, all these years.
Also remember suffering through a terrible football season that winter in what we not so fondly called, Crumblin' Old Archibold! Those were the days! We'd head to the Orange or Varsity Pizza after games where you could here such disco classics as, 'You Should Be Dancing' (Bee Gees), 'Don't Leave Me This Way' (Thelma Houston), or 'Get Down Tonight,' (KC and the Sunshine Band) playing on the jukebox. If you were into rock, a guy name Bruce Springsteen had just put out a much anticipated album, Born To Run; Peter Frampton's, Frampton Comes Alive was playing everywhere, and Saturday night at 11:30PM everyone was tuning into a brand new TV show the likes of which no one had ever seen before- Saturday Night Live. After SNL and a party, we'd head out to The All Night Egg Plant. Could go on and on, but why bore you further. Suffice it to say, those were some damn good times.
