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[QUOTE="NateW, post: 2264136, member: 4210"]
I don't have any memories of Syracuse Football until 1994 so I never knew Mac as the coach of the Orange.  As a boy growing up in the Southern Tier my family did not have any connection to Syracuse or the University.  One Saturday afternoon my Dad and I were watching college football and Syracuse was playing in the Dome.  My father informed me that Syracuse is just a couple hour drive from us.  That was all it took for me to become a diehard Syracuse fan.  Our obsession with all things Syracuse escalated soon there after.

I was introduced to Coach Mac as a color commentator on Saturdays in fall of the early 2000's.  Working as a "bus boy" at a winery on Keuka Lake I listened to the Syracuse games in "The Cage" where the cases of wine were stored.  Coach Mac's color commentary was AWESOME!  He wasn't really too sharp with his call and there certainly wasn't a lot of breaking down of the game's strategy but he was a FAN!  A SYRACUSE FAN!!  And there was something about an announcer living and dying with each snap, just like me, that made me fall in love the guy.

RIP Coach
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