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Post by bison137 on Oct 26, 2016 12:04:22 GMT -5
Sacred Heart picked 8th in the NEC preseason poll. SH would have been pretty good had Cane Broome not transferred to Cincinnati. Broome was the NEC POY as a soph, and SH tied for 2nd in the NEC with him.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 26, 2016 13:06:04 GMT -5
Sacred Heart picked 8th in the NEC preseason poll. SH would have been pretty good had Cane Broome not transferred to Cincinnati. Broome was the NEC POY as a soph, and SH tied for 2nd in the NEC with him. That is a tough loss. I am glad HC does not have that issue this year.
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Post by lou on Nov 1, 2016 17:59:15 GMT -5
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Post by sarasota on Nov 1, 2016 19:09:33 GMT -5
URI coached by Danny Hurley, the former long-time coach of my St Benedicts Prep.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 1, 2016 20:22:33 GMT -5
URI coached by Danny Hurley, the former long-time coach of my St Benedicts Prep. Wasn't the coach at St B.s his father?
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Post by hchoops on Nov 1, 2016 20:25:23 GMT -5
URI coached by Danny Hurley, the former long-time coach of my St Benedicts Prep. Wasn't the coach at St B.s his father? That would be St. Anthony's, JC, Bob Hurley Sr.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 1, 2016 20:44:28 GMT -5
Right...thanks. St A's, St. B's...I confuse those alphabet saints.
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Post by sarasota on Nov 1, 2016 22:01:03 GMT -5
rgs- that hurts. Some yrs ago when I lived in Springfield,MA I sat with the Hurley family at the Hall of Fame Classic at Springfield College watching Danny coach St Bens. Very nice folks, including Mrs. Hurley. Close knit family. Danny took me into the locker room and had every player line up and shake my hand as an alum. A classy guy. I think there were 3-4 future NBA-ers on that team. JRSmith, Samardo Samuels, Gregory Enchenique, Lance Thomas.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 2, 2016 6:59:24 GMT -5
rgs- that hurts. Some yrs ago when I lived in Springfield,MA I sat with the Hurley family at the Hall of Fame Classic at Springfield College watching Danny coach St Bens. Very nice folks, including Mrs. Hurley. Close knit family. Danny took me into the locker room and had every player line up and shake my hand as an alum. A classy guy. I think there were 3-4 future NBA-ers on that team. JRSmith, Samardo Samuels, Gregory Enchenique, Lance Thomas. Sorry for the pain. Thanks for sharing that nice story. You are right about the Hurleys. They are both classy and very talented. I wish there were more coaches like them in scholastic sports. St. Benedict's was fortunate to have one of them, as - of course - is St. Anthony's (who owns its very existence today to Bob Hurley Sr., who is there as "Mr. Everything" raising funds and support to keep the place going).
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Post by alum on Nov 2, 2016 7:27:38 GMT -5
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Post by sarasota on Nov 2, 2016 11:22:58 GMT -5
alum- Thanks for link. Fantastic article. I knew Danny played at the Hall but didn't know he played for Blaney. It must have been rough to play for Carlesimo. Carlesimo's father was a St Bens/Fordham alum. See below. Growing up in Newark, my father took me to Walsh Gymnasium many times to watch the Pirates play against Fordham and Holy Cross.
"Peter A. Carlesimo (September 2, 1915 – June 22, 2003) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and cross country running, and a college athletics administrator. He coached football, basketball, and cross country at the University of Scranton and served as athletic director there and at Fordham University. He is sometimes credited with being the person most responsible for keeping the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) alive in the late 1970s.
Carlesimo was born in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Saint Benedict's Preparatory School. Then he attended Fordham University, where he played football alongside Vince Lombardi. He graduated from Fordham in 1940, and from there went back to his alma mater, Saint Benedict's, to be a history teacher and assistant football coach. Carlesimo then moved on to the University of Scranton, where he was the football coach (1944–1960), basketball coach (1944–1946 and 1951–1955), cross country coach (1961–1968), and the school's athletic director from (1953–1968).
Carlesimo went on to become the athletic director at Fordham University from 1968 to 1978. As a member of the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), Fordham was part of the committee that ran the National Invitation Tournament. The tournament began to lose luster in the mid-1970s following the implementation of a rule (the so-called "Al McGuire rule") forbidding schools from declining bids to the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. This had led to a dwindling in talent and interest in the NIT, which Carlesimo sought to fix by rules changes implemented in 1977. Carlesimo proposed moving the early round games to campus sites, and having only the final four teams play at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This move is seen as the reason the NIT has survived, as more interest is garnered by the schools participating, as they now have more of a financial stake from ticket sales.
Carlesimo went on to become the first full-time executive director of the NIT from 1978 to 1988, and in 1985, under Carlesimo's leadership, the NIT began a preseason tournament which included many of the country's best teams along with teams which have used the tournament as a springboard to much better seasons. He is still considered to be one of the most influential persons in the long and storied history of the NIT. He is a member of the University of Scranton's Athletic Hall of Fame, the Fordham University Athletic Hall of Fame, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, and the NCAA Athletic Director's Hall of Fame. He also won Scranton's Pro Deo award, a Pop Warner Father of the Year award, and was a member of the Jesuit Honor Society.
Carlesimo was known as a humorous speaker, having appeared at countless sports-related dinners and conferences, and was once a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He was married to Lucy Rogan and had ten children, including P. J. Carlesimo, the eldest, who was a longtime coach at Seton Hall University and in the NBA. Carlesimo died in 2003 at his home in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.[1][2]"
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Post by rf1 on Nov 2, 2016 18:14:31 GMT -5
URI starts the season in the top 25 of both national polls - #23 in the AP Poll and #24 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 5, 2016 16:42:38 GMT -5
URI scrimmaged St.John's today. URI was up by 24 when they took their starters out.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 10, 2016 13:55:01 GMT -5
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Post by sarasota on Nov 10, 2016 15:16:01 GMT -5
Fantastic article......writing that only SI can deliver. Some glimpses into why Hurley is an exceptional winner.
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