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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1742887, member: 716"]
This is what I've been trying to think of for the past couple days. Great overall post, by the way.

I'm too young to have had any substantive memory of the Pearl era -- I recall bits of watching him play, but it didn't matter like it would even a couple years later; Wendell Alexis was my favorite player on those teams.

Haven't really cared to share this, but we've got a nice minor family connection to Pearl. My father was a professor of Pearl's during his freshman year and Pearl (who liked most everyone anyway) seemed to like my dad, both Downstate guys, my dad's closer in age to Pearl than many of his other professors probably were. In spring of 1986, my dad was surprised to get a memo or call from the basketball office - Pearl was itching to leave and Bernie wanted my dad to have a sit-down with Pearl, go over the pros and cons of declaring early from more of a life-planning (rather than basketball) perspective. I wouldn't be able to do justice to the details of the talk, especially in a typed format, but apparently Pearl put a lot of thought into his decision and was characteristically excited about the move but also eager to consider the risks involved. Seems that he was an interesting and interested guy.

Sad couple days.
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