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Still alive, but dropped off the radar after he left Pitt.
RIP Lou Carnesecca
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Still alive, but dropped off the radar after he left Pitt.
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As has Jamie Dixon.
My lasting memory of Looie is not a fond one as I happened to witness it in person at MSG. SJU stormed (no pun intended) back from a big deficit in the 1986 BET final and went ahead by one on a Ron Rowan baseline jumper with about five seconds to go. Pearl then drove the length of the court but was rejected at the rim by Walter Berry at the buzzer. Looie gave JB a rather exuberant high five at the conclusion. That loss hurt as we led the whole way and then we went on to get blown out by Navy in the NCAAs at the Dome.
Evans brought his Navy team into the Dome in 1986 and beat us soundly in a NCAAT game. Pearl's last game. Didn't hurt Evans that he had a guy named David Robinson on his team.
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He coached Jerome Lane and Charles Smith and had Calapari on his staff at one time. One of a slew of great coaches with roots in Upstate/Northern New York. They could do an entire wing in the HOF. And yes, he is still alive.
I'm not saying he wasn't a very good coach. He actually parked in front of me at a Syracuse P.C. hoop game back in the day. Just that along with Dr Tom Davis, he was just another guy to the B.C. faithful. He was there a long time ago.
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The only time I really disliked Louie, and it was all heartbreak related, was after the 1986 BE Championship game when he did his little dance after Walter Berry blocked Pearl’s end to end layup. That play was legendary, but damn it should have been a Pearl highlight. I was absolutely crushed.
I still have Walter Berry’s autograph to remind me of the pain. LOL.
RIP Louie. Thank you for leaving an indelible mark on CBB history and showing the nation that the OGBE was the one true basketball conference. You were an original.
I still have Walter Berry’s autograph to remind me of the pain. LOL.
RIP Louie. Thank you for leaving an indelible mark on CBB history and showing the nation that the OGBE was the one true basketball conference. You were an original.
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Pitt didn't join the BE until the early 80's...'82-83.
The coach was Roy Chipman,
The coach was Roy Chipman,
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Besides being a great coach, Looie was a great guy.
I've mentiond this before but it bears repeating:
A million years ago (1977) he brought SJU into Manley Fieldhouse and the Orange blew them out by 24.
After the game he was talking with reporters on the court.
You could do that back then.
A WAER student reporter did an interview with Looie and then stepped away to check his cassette tape (that's the way interviews were done in the pre-digital era).
He had nothing.
For some reason the interview didn't record.
The student, embarrassed and apprehensive, had to get something.
So he went back to Looie.
Student: Coach, I'm sorry I...
Looie: What's a mattah, kid? Ya -k up? (Putting his arm around the student's shoulders)
C'mon. Let's do it again.
Can you imagine any coach doing that after his team just got destroyed?
But that was Lou Carneseca...a great man.
I've mentiond this before but it bears repeating:
A million years ago (1977) he brought SJU into Manley Fieldhouse and the Orange blew them out by 24.
After the game he was talking with reporters on the court.
You could do that back then.
A WAER student reporter did an interview with Looie and then stepped away to check his cassette tape (that's the way interviews were done in the pre-digital era).
He had nothing.
For some reason the interview didn't record.
The student, embarrassed and apprehensive, had to get something.
So he went back to Looie.
Student: Coach, I'm sorry I...
Looie: What's a mattah, kid? Ya -k up? (Putting his arm around the student's shoulders)
C'mon. Let's do it again.
Can you imagine any coach doing that after his team just got destroyed?
But that was Lou Carneseca...a great man.
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7 original teams and coaches in the Big East 1979-1980
BC-Tom Davis
Georgetown - John Thompson
Providence - Gary Walters (gone next year)
Seton Hall- Bill Raftery
St John’s - Lou Carneseca
Syracuse- Jim Boeheim
UConn - Dom Perno
BC-Tom Davis
Georgetown - John Thompson
Providence - Gary Walters (gone next year)
Seton Hall- Bill Raftery
St John’s - Lou Carneseca
Syracuse- Jim Boeheim
UConn - Dom Perno
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JB is the last of the originals, I believe. But Calhoun, PJ, Barnes, Gary Williams, Pitino are all legendary coaches that shot to prominence in the Big East.
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Bill Raftery and Dom Perno are still alive of the 7 original coaches besides Jim Boeheim. Wow just checked, Gary Walter’s who coached just the first year for Providence is also still alive.
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Painful loss. My parents were at that game, and I remember the heartbreak of being a kid watching it on TV with Cuse crazed family.
Gary Walters was the Head of the selection comm that screwed us one year
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The Knicks just did a nice presentation in memory of Louie during their pregame
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06-07. 1st time a team won ten games in the BE and didn't go dancing. Walter's also was a teammate of Bill Bradley at Princeton, coached at Union College in Schenectady from a few seasons and eventually became the AD at Princeton where he served on the NCAA committee and the head that one season. Yup, screw him.
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Although Louie was well known for his results at MSG, I'm sure the Nets will do something nice as well as he coached them for a few ABA seasons when they were not good. Ironically the best player Louie coached in college came from Brooklyn.
What's interesting is SU beat Navy soundly during the regular season I believe.
Thanks for the memories Lou.
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He once pinched my cheeks in the St John’s locker room.
It’s OK, it was a good thing. It was Louie being Louie.
It’s OK, it was a good thing. It was Louie being Louie.
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Which cheeks?
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We rained what would now be threes on them in the Carrier Classic. Michael Brown left, Raf Addison got hurt and Pearl took over and we became a 'take it to the hole' team - with the Admiral guarding the basket. Navy got fast break after fast break.
He also coached football at St Lawrence - receivers coach I think.
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