Two Syracuse basketball oddities ...

[cto]

1) Mark Coyle was SU athletic director for exactly one year -- the year that both our men's and women's teams went to the Final Four. (2015-16)).

2) Mark Johnson was SU's basketball announcer for exactly one year -- the year we won the National Championship. (2002-03).

Talk about two lucky "one and dones."

 

[NineOneSeven]

But the luckiest one and done of all is Carmelo Anthony

 

[eatmatsroe]

you want another oddity. i once got so wasted as a student that i wandered around skytop for almost 2 hours because i couldn't find my apartment because it's so spread out and they all look the same. i was eventually found and it was like i was adrift on a raft for 30 days.

 

[SU94]

1) Mark Coyle was SU athletic director for exactly one year -- the year that both our men's and women's teams went to the Final Four.

2) Mark Johnson was SU's basketball announcer for exactly one year -- the year we won the National Championship.

Talk about two lucky "one and dones."

Mark Johnson was with SU for more than one year. Three per his bio at Univ of Colorado. But his timing was impeccable.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

you want another oddity. i once got so wasted as a student that i wandered around skytop for almost 2 hours because i couldn't find my apartment because it's so spread out and they all look the same. i was eventually found and it was like i was adrift on a raft for 30 days.

Once, in 1987, I got drunk at Pat O'Brein's in New Orleans. We then went off to a piano bar. I spent the rest of FF weekend trying to find the piano bar to show my buddy. Turns out, it was part of Pat O'Brien's, which I had never left in the first place.

 

[cuseattle]

Once, in 1987, I got drunk at Pat O'Brein's in New Orleans. We then went off to a piano bar. I spent the rest of FF weekend trying to find the piano bar to show my buddy. Turns out, it was part of Pat O'Brien's, which I had never left in the first place.

That place is huge. Home of the hurricane! There was a guy who must have been 90 who played a tray with change on it like a tambourine. I think it has 4 or 5 separate bars at peak season.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

That place is huge. Home of the hurricane! There was a guy who must have been 90 who played a tray with change on it like a tambourine. I think it has 4 or 5 separate bars in at peak season.

Yeah, it was hurricaning that night. To make matters more odd, we stayed at my buddy's cousin's confirmed bachelor pad, and woke up to 2-3 guys in French sailor outfits eating beignets for breakfast.
Other than Keith Smart, one of my best weekends.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Yeah, it was hurricaning that night. To make matters more odd, we stayed at my buddy's cousin's confirmed bachelor pad, and woke up to 2-3 guys in French sailor outfits eating beignets for breakfast.
Other than Keith Smart, one of my best weekends.

My parents still have a VCR of me and my buddy (now my brother-in-law of 28 years) hanging off a tree on Bourbon Street, leading cheers to about 100 people. Also, Roger Springfield let us carry equipment to get into a packed bar. (Didn't know he was such a perve back then.)
As I said, a great weekend.