Er...89-88

20 wins

ElDuque wrote:

First, I hope Ritter understands that I'm not posting this to poke him. 

Pittsburgh Sports Now just became the go-to, de-facto, and default place to go for coverage of the Dukes.

Our guy Zac Weiss has joined PSN.

Looking forward to more great coverage!

Zac has interest in Dukes, plus he is a good writer.

High hopes for Duquesne this year, this should be fun to watch.

Judge Jack McVay Jr wrote:

PS I remember Norman playing a rover type position for the Suppicators and just running down everything and stealing base hits from the opposition. Gumby aka The People's Choice aka The Maharaja and numerous other self proclaimed monikers was a good all around athlete too who I later had on one of my flag football teams!

I worked with Gumby for a number of years, he never lost that swagger . For all his bluster he is a really nice man.

When we had so little up front TV played his heart out, best of luck to that young man,.

apluski wrote:

Lived those days when we jeered the tiny Pitt crowd at the Steel Bowl and so intimidated the Pitt band with a loud Eat ** Pitt yell during the key time in their fight song that they stopped playing the song.We were the basketball news at that time but as you say it's a "what have you done for me lately" time in regards to media coverage. But then again, at least we don't have to deal with Bob Smizik's trash.

We indeed hated Smizik, I once stopped him in the Arena and said, “Bob, can’t you be a little more fair when you write about Duquesne?” , he said he always was, so in my mid-twenties cool said. ” Smizz , just don’t be a jagg off!”

SkepticAl wrote:

INTERESTING thing about Rich Cotten - Cinicola used to "start" him for a while -  Hoped he would win the opening tip -  FIRST whistle -  COTTEN OUT - GAMBRIDGE IN -  scenario repeated at start of second half (as this was before the alternate possession rule.

Drove me nuts thought Rich was a much better player than Gumby - but it was Cinicloa's pay check on the line not mine.

Richard had great games in practice but didn’t perform as well during the games that counted, Donnie came on in his Senior year and played a lot of tough minutes against some strong power players, Lewis Brown of UNLV (Steel Bowl) Corodizine  and Roboczine of DePaul. Gumby also used the Mike Rice Dirty Tricks like standing on rebounders feet and many other annoying things to throw off their game! Both fun guys to watch of that NCCA team......

It keeps getting better all the time!

I keep remembering after the a bad loss Coach saying “ I got to recruit my a$$ off” and “We need better players “

Maybe the good old days are returning.........

Hilltopper wrote:

Sign of KD going for the Jugular?

After Davidson loss KD said “we have to recruit out a$$ off”

Judge Jack McVay Jr wrote:

Thanks for the updates everyone and I especially appreciate Duke81 and Jim Tucker reference! Maybe the most underrated great old Duke! Congrats to Aaron and in my top 5 guards  that I saw  play since the 60s!

Judge,

That’s a long list to draw from, Somerset, Stromple, theBarr’s, Zoph, Nixon, Dixon, OJ Jackson and so many more from old times as well as from the 80’s on.

Duquesne was always a rich source for great guard play......

CLK wrote:

Question answered....Sincere Carry is on athletic scholarship, not a walk on.

http://www.goduquesne.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041018aag.html

Looks to me like a potential under recruited gem ‘ a la Eric Williams, Jr. ‘

WashPaRick wrote:

Coach is pretty close to having a team of all his own recruits.

Hey Rick,

The kind way to run off last coach’s players , recruiting better players.