In my never ending drive to mix insipid views of world affairs with solid reporting of what I get to see on my TV set, it is a particularly big day - even if the sun is not up yet as I am likely late for work - when there is a report in the NYT on Big East basketball. I do not follow the NBA. I do not care a whit for it. But I really like NCAA college b'ball, which is not to be unexpected from someone who was 6 foot 2 at 12. I knew the ways of the orange ball once, let me tell you. Then I stopped but that is another matter. The other, more specific Orange, is ranked third going in:
Coming in third in the coaches’ poll, Syracuse may need a big season from the freshman Paul Harris, who was named preseason rookie of the year. He will be called upon to provide some of the offense lost with the graduation of Gerry McNamara.I don't know if the games will be on the local northern NY radio but I will check that out soon. There...I just did. It states we should tune to 103.1 but I am thinking that 100.7 FM actually has the SU broadcast deal for Watertown.
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gr - October 26, 2006 1:02 pm
Football program headed one way, basketball the other. If you listen to SU football on the radio, their retired coach MacPherson, originally of Maine, is worth every penny it costs me to tune in. I have to wonder who does their basketball broadcasts.
Alan - October 26, 2006 1:04 pm
The broadcast is gold. Yet I keep snoozing to it. Why can't SU play a Thursday night game once in a while?
gr - October 26, 2006 2:19 pm
Coach Mac is Hollywood's ideal college football coach. I wish he was my uncle and had extra tickets for games.
Scott - October 26, 2006 11:31 pm
Maybe Andy Rautins will emerge as a superstar in his second season. Yet, he doesn't have Tony "Red" Bruin, Erich Santifer, Gene Waldron and Rafael Addison as a surrounding cast like his pops.
We went to the '83 Big East tourney (and we seemed like the only ones cheering for the canucks on the SU squad). They got eliminated early by Ewing and co., but I can always remember when we were walking out of MSG on saturday, Billy Goodwin climbed up on the rim and sat there leading the cheers. Classic moment for a young kid from the maritimes.