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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2900774, member: 289"] PART 2 ESPN commentators were discussing their worst losses. Dan Dakich was coaching Bowling Green when they got beat by 46 at West Virginia. Later he was offered the head coaching job at West Virginia and asked “Didn’t you see our game?!?” Seth Greenburg , who is from Long island, had just gotten the head coaching job at South Florida and they were playing Rutgers. He invited all his relatives to come to the game and was happy when they scored the first 4 points. Then they gave up the last 34 points. Gomez asked Jim to reminisce about his worst losses. He recalled going do 0-20 at Pitt and then scoring the next 18 points, (we still lost). “Nobody wants to go through that but they do.” Gomez brought up the DePaul disaster. “We were down 30-40. (69-108) They were OK but not great.” (They were 12-15 and 5-11 in the conference.) But we went on to win the Big East Tournament. We also got killed at Georgetown one year, (39-61), then beat them in the BET – we lost to Louisville in the finals and made the Final Four. We beat Indiana and Marquette on the same floor where Georgetown beat us.” Around the ACC: “Louisville is a definite Sweet 16 team for sure, possibly Elite 8. Virginia Tech won at NC State without Robinson. North Carolina scored 113 points on NC State, (Virginia Tech only got 47). They, (the Tar Heels) have been up and down but they can be tremendous, right up there with Duke and Virginia at the end of the season. Virginia Tech and Florida will be top 15. Clemson is coming back after a difficult schedule.” In the NBA: “The Lakers didn’t get Davis and they’d already told their guys they were about to be traded.” Malachi Richardson was traded to Philly: “There might be a spot here for someone who can really shoot.” Wes Johnson went to the Wizards: “He’s hung up there a long time and made some money.” The biggest trade was “Tobias Harris, if the chemistry is right. Gasol could make Toronto a little bit better. It was mostly just moving guys around. I wouldn’t go to new York if I was Durants. There’s too much attention and not enough good players there. Stay with Golden State and win.” The Globetrotters will be in town: Do they still play against college teams? “No. We played them in the preseason years ago and they didn’t send their comedy team. They sent a real team. “ On Chris Herron Sr., the father of the current BC player, whose career was destroyed by drug use: “he was a great player. He had well-documented problems. He goes around the country speaking to young people. They did a 30 for 30 on him. People should get chances after making mistakes.” Jim wasn’t aware of the proposed baseball rule changes. Relief pitchers must face at least three batters” “That takes away the power of the mangers. They shouldn’t do that.” The Universal designated hitter: “it’s always been stupid that the two leagues have a different rule.” Lowering the pitcher’s mound: he didn’t comment but thinks they need to deaden the golf ball because courses were not designed for players to hit the ball 350 yards. Gerry McNamara will get the Vic Hanson medal at the Hardwood Club Diner in the Oncenter on March 10th. “He deserves it, does a lot of work in the community.” Jim was asked about Boeheim’s Army, which will play some games this summer at OCC. Coach speculated on who might be available. He thinks Eric Devendorf might come back, Hakim Warrick might do it another time and he hopes CJ Fair will be there. “Some guys are playing full time. It will be fun for the fans with plenty of parking at the SRC Arena.” He said that Ryan Blackwell is, as far as he knows, his only former player who is coaching at the high school level at this time. [/QUOTE]

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