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Message: [QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 5261723, member: 1023"] 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. [/QUOTE]