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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 141356, member: 289"] My Questions/Comments “Coach, I was touched by your tribute to Dave Gavitt at last night’s news conference. You said he was the greatest man you’ve ever known. Another great man was SU’s own Vinnie Cohen who died on Christmas day. Vinnie was the greatest Syracuse University basketball player between Vic Hansen and Dave Bing and went on to a very distinguished career in government and the legal profession. He would have been a great credit to Syracuse University if he’d never picked up a basketball. He was a great friend of Jim Brown’s and Jim was his teammate on the basketball team until Jim realized he wasn’t starting because of an “unwritten rule” that you couldn’t have the majority of your starters be African Americans, (which Vinnie was, despite the name). Vinnie and Manny Breland were in the starting line-up and Jim would have made it a majority. If Jim hadn’t quit our first NCAA team in 1957 might have made a run at a national championship. We might actually have seen a national championship game with football’s greatest player, (Jim Brown) and basketball’s greatest player (Wilt Chamberlain) on the same court. I’m glad we don’t have such an “unwritten rule” today. I don’t think we’d be ranked #1.” For the second hour: “A huge key to our success is the veteran guards we have, Scoop Jardine, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters, all of whom had good games last night. We lead the nation in turnover margin and it’s not just because we force turnovers. It’s because we don’t make them and those guys are the reason. I was wondering why you didn’t have Brandon in there at the end of the game as he is such an outstanding free throw shooter. I hope it wasn’t his thumb injury acting up.” [/QUOTE]

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