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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 2264192, member: 1644"]
sad day today, RIP Coach Mac. I've told this story before, it's such a classic Mac story. I was asked by my boyfriend at the time to work the coat room at this giant banquet being held at Drumlin's back in 1986-87. I think I was about 22 years old and if you think working a coat room for a crowd of about 300 is easy you'd be wrong. It was raining/snowing outside so everyone had a hat, galoshes and an umbrella which they had all wanted to check into the coat room, all at once. Obviously it all went downhill for me because I was too overwhelmed to have a take a number type of method given all the extra accoutrements that everyone wanted me to check. Coach Mac is at the banquet and also checked his coat/hat.

Well the dinner ends and people start queuing up to get their stuff which I had tried to keep straight but did a miserable job at it. When the crowd started to get hostile with me Coach Mac comes behind the half door, puts on some ladies fur coat and hat that I swear had a feather in it and helped me get everyone the right stuff all the while making it an extension of the party that had just ended. And he made sure people tipped me too.

It was the only time I met him, what a great man. I'll never forget that night or going to the Sugar Bowl that year. It's what got me hooked on SU football
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