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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 4856042, member: 285"]
Grew up in Syracuse...how could you grow up in Syracuse and not be an [COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][B]Orange[/B][/COLOR] Fan???

But might have been as a kid being taken to the Inaugural Carrier Classic in 1977.    I got to see SU thump LeMoyne!!   And then listened to SU beat Michigan State with Magic Johnson the next night on the radio.      What a lineup of players in that year's classic..... Marty Byrnes, Dale Shackleford, Louis Orr, Rosie Bouie and freshman Danny Schayes who would have a LONG NBA career but had a hard time getting on the floor for that squad.

Or a year or two later when my elementary school principal and phys ed teacher (ohhh, ok back then it was Gym) took a group to the Open SU Basketball Practice at Manley.   I still have the autographs to prove it..... Shack, Bouie, Headd and Payton.

Don’t remember Roy Danforth and I don’t count Hop’s 2 game fill-in.  I’m not a young fan by any means and yet JB is really the only SU Coach I’ve ever known.  Is it wrong for me to want him back??

Back in my early days as a fan I kept up on the Orange by listening to Joel Mareiniss broadcast them on WSYR Radio.    Ohhhh those were the days!!
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