coffee wrote:

They need to have a Ron Everhart night at a Duquesne game some time in the future. Maybe one for Sid Dambrot too.

Maybe honor Ron, and Mike Rice the same night. Would probably have to be after Ron retires, as I don't think WVU wants to come play us anymore.
 

rosceaux wrote:

duq81 wrote:

coffee wrote:

They need to have a Ron Everhart night at a Duquesne game some time in the future. Maybe one for Sid Dambrot too.

Maybe honor Ron, and Mike Rice the same night. Would probably have to be after Ron retires, as I don't think WVU wants to come play us anymore.
 

Would be an awesome way to close out the Palumbo

If you're going to do that, then include John Carroll, the first coach to take us to a post season tourney in that building. Similar to Ron, dealt an incredibly bad hand his first year, and had the team in the NIT within four seasons, and then screwed over by a complete idiot of an athletic director.
 

coffee wrote:

Paul Zeise wrote a left handedly complimentary piece in the Post Gazette that revealed just how near-sighted he is about Duquesne's sports history and tradition. 

I guess he felt he was being satirically humerous when he offered Keith Dambrot glowing praise for resurrecting a moribund basketball program that had ended the careers of so many coaches before him without mentioning the success of Ron Everhart (who the misguided administration ineptly sacrificed without having a clue as to how to attract a better coach).

But Duquesne's tradition goes back much further than the brief restart offered by Everhart.

Keith Dambrot has a unique perspective that Zeise hasn't heard although coach mentions it often.  Dambrot, along with perhaps Jarrett Durham and Ray Goss have ties back to a greater time in Duquesne's past that has been re-awakened.  Dambrot's tie to this awesome past through his father's being part of the #1 Team in the nation is real and not fabrication as is the tie remembered by so many of his generation. 

Only a coach like Dambrot could make real the possibility of re-awakening the giant.  His emotional attachment to this historic institution that brought him here shows his character. 

He heard the echoes and with our support will make new ones... I hope you all enjoy the ride and see you at the Palumbo on Saturday!

Pretty sure he also didn’t mention a 45 million dollar renovation when he had his sort of “we are not totally out of the woods yet” sort of insuation with the beginning of the article.

Last edited by Duques102 (1/24/2019 9:34 pm)

duq81 wrote:

Well, we're not out of the woods. We'll be out of the woods when on a Sunday evening in mid March, you hear, "and in the East region, the __ seed, out of the Atlantic 10, the Dukes of Duquesne, will be playing ______"

Absolutely agree with this. In case anyone's forgotten, we started 3-0 in conference play last year, 12-4 overall, with impressive home wins over Dayton and GW, then we destroyed Fordham at Rose Hill. Then came VCU on the road. Played them tough, but ended up losing by 11. After the 12-4 start, we finished 4-12. So a huge chance to make a statement that this team is different. And of course, we've never beaten VCU in conference play before, 0-6 against them since they joined the A10.