String of interesting random seat mates ... continues...

[cto]

I seem to get interesting random seat mates. Last season, on separate flights to Syracuse, I sat next to Sean McDonough and Gary Parrish. Yesterday, on a Metro North train into NYC I sat next to Steve Keating.

Okay, you ask: "Who is Steve Keating?" Actually, I did not know that either... until the young man sitting next to me says: "Aren't you Joyce who is Mike Hopkins' friend?

Anyhow, it turned out Steve Keating was an SU walk-on in early 1990's when he was a team mate of Mike's... and still a close friend. So we spent the entire trip to NYC reminiscing about those good old days of probation, having to play UMass at Worcester, the joys of being a walk-on and all that other fun stuff. (Steve is now a very successful businessman who owns his own company.. and who, it turns out, lives about three blocks from me).

 

[MSOrange]

I didn't know his first name, but I do remember seeing a guy with Keating on the back of his warmups several years ago. I wonder if I have a problem if I can remember walk-ons from the 90's.

He finished with a 100% career shooting percentage! Can't get much better than that.

http://www.orangehoops.org/SKeating.htm

 

[SUMBA]

I seem to get interesting random seat mates. Last season, on separate flights to Syracuse, I sat next to Sean McDonough and Gary Parrish. Yesterday, on a Metro North train into NYC I sat next to Steve Keating.

Okay, you ask: "Who is Steve Keating?" Actually, I did not know that either... until the young man sitting next to me says: "Aren't you Joyce who is Mike Hopkins' friend?

Anyhow, it turned out Steve Keating was an SU walk-on in early 1990's when he was a team mate of Mike's... and still a close friend. So we spent the entire trip to NYC reminiscing about those good old days of probation, having to play UMass at Worcester, the joys of being a walk-on and all that other fun stuff. (Steve is now a very successful businessman who owns his own company.. and who, it turns out, lives about three blocks from me).

You are the most interesting woman alive!

 

[OrangeXtreme]

First Row (Sitting L-R): Jim Boeheim (Head Coach), Adrian Autry, Anthony Harris, Michael Edwards, Dave Johnson, Mike Hopkins, Vinnie Cohen, Lazarus Sims, Scott Hicks (Asst. Coach)
Second Row (Standing L-R): Bernie Fine (Asst. Coach), Wayne Morgan (Asst. Coach), Lawrence Moten, Todd Barlok, Scott McCorkle, Dave Siock, J.B. Reafsnyder, Conrad McRae, Glenn Sekunda, Luke Jackson, Steve Keating, Tim O'Toole (Grad Asst.), Josh Osborne (Manager)

 

[HoustonCuse]

One time I was walking through an airport and am pretty sure I saw Fran Fraschilla off in one of the gate areas. That's all I got.

 

[MSOrange]

One time I was walking through an airport and am pretty sure I saw Fran Fraschilla off in one of the gate areas. That's all I got.

You should have run over and started jumping up and down while making the traveling signal.

 

[BrookhavenCuse]

Not the most famous Scranton guard to wear the ole' #3.

 

[cto]

Not the most famous Scranton guard to wear the ole' #3.

Funny thing is... Keating was quick to tell me that he was the FIRST guard from Scranton to wear #3 at SU!

 

[Hoo's That]

You are the most interesting woman alive!

Whose beer commercials will she star in?

 

[Fireball Jr.]

Whose beer commercials will she star in?

 

[VaBeachOrFan]

I was headed home from Rochester to Huntsville, AL, one Christmas vacation (1971, as I recall) only to find out my flight connection from Baltimore had been overbooked. United flew me to Baltimore, but booked me on a special flight to Atlanta that turned out to be a charter flight of the Baltimore Bullets and Atlanta Hawks. Sat next to Pete Maravich, by chance, and of course the plane was filled with lots of very tall guys (I remember Walt Bellamy distinctly, for one). I sort of remember outhustling Pete for the stewardess' attention, but that could be fantasy hardened into fact over time. Got into Atlanta ~1 a.m. and had to bench-sleep until the first Piedmont connection to Huntsville the next morning. No, I didn't ask The Pistol for a cast-off pair of floppy socks; you'll just have to take my word for it. Stay thirsty, Joyce.-VBOF

 

[Lawrinson14]

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[cto]

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Hey, Lawrinson, I like that.

 

[Lawrinson14]

Hey, Lawrinson, I like that.