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Looie puts basketball's future in perspective
Anthony Morreale, Sports Editor
Issue date: 4/22/09 Section: Editor Columns
His words seemed to make sense so effortlessly, in the way that only the words of a legend can. The same arguments that I pass off as bad excuses when they come from Norm's mouth in postgame press conferences seemed like revelations as they floated from Carnesecca's lips.
If Looie had pulled out Norm's infamous, "They're young," - a line that infuriates me for what it epitomizes - I may honestly have replied, "You're right Coach. They
are young."
And even now in retrospect, Looie is right, about some things at least.
This is a hundred-plus-year-old program and one of the most successful teams in the entire history of the sport of basketball. And in the biggest of pictures, it doesn't matter a bit whether Norm is the guy for the job during this millisecond in the history of St. John's basketball.
Things will get turned in the right direction again in the long run and the Redmen will undoubtedly be the cream of the college basketball crop somehow, sometime in the future.
To be upset because it's not going to happen before I graduate in May is too terribly short-sighted and egotistical than I wish to be in my last few weeks here.
Take it from the man that has been here since 1946. He knows better than I do.
I mean, how many years have we been in basketball?
If Looie had pulled out Norm's infamous, "They're young," - a line that infuriates me for what it epitomizes - I may honestly have replied, "You're right Coach. They
are young."
And even now in retrospect, Looie is right, about some things at least.
This is a hundred-plus-year-old program and one of the most successful teams in the entire history of the sport of basketball. And in the biggest of pictures, it doesn't matter a bit whether Norm is the guy for the job during this millisecond in the history of St. John's basketball.
Things will get turned in the right direction again in the long run and the Redmen will undoubtedly be the cream of the college basketball crop somehow, sometime in the future.
To be upset because it's not going to happen before I graduate in May is too terribly short-sighted and egotistical than I wish to be in my last few weeks here.
Take it from the man that has been here since 1946. He knows better than I do.
I mean, how many years have we been in basketball?
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