RIP Lou Carnesecca

[dixiehack]

Made it to 99. Hell of a run.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/sports/st-johns-legendary-coach-lou-carnesecca-dead-at-99/

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Ugly sweater manufacturers are in mourning.

As a kid, watching Big East basketball in the 80s was just an incredible experience. It was such a different era back then, and one that won’t be duplicated ever again. Back when you could name each coach and the star players for each team were there for all four years; and build up actual rivalries instead of manufactured ones.

Louie was one of a kind. To a kid, he made college basketball seem fun. RIP

 

[Slacker]

Flagrant foul for misspelling his name up top!

RIP Lew.

 

[HanSenSE]

U gly sweater manufacturers are in mourning.

As a kid, watching Big East basketball in the 80s was just an incredible experience. It was such a different era back then, and one that won’t be duplicated ever again. Back when you could name each coach and the star players for each team were there for all four years; and build up actual rivalries instead of manufactured ones.
Louie was one of a kind. To a kid, he made college basketball seem fun. RIP

God I loved Big Mondays in the 80s. Going home after getting the paper out, making some dinner and was just discovering ESPN. Yes, longevity made a difference and the lack of it as well as the constant coach worshipping has soured me on college hoops. Georgetown and Ewing, St. John's and Mullin. Villanova, BC and Seton Hall. Great hoops.
RIP Louie.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Lou always looked like the game he loved pained him so much.

Hell of a coach, though. RIP.

 

[MTM]

x.com

 

[Gutter]

Time for a rewatch of Requiem for the Big East.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Interviewed him once. He was awesome.
Honestly, I assumed he had died years ago and that I had missed it.

 

[swingline]

Big Monday was appointment viewing.

SEND IT IN, JEROME!

 

[Webster]

He was never a competent in game coach, but seemed like a great guy.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

College basketball was much better when the Johnnies were relevant. RIP Lou and your sweater.

 

[Songbird]

Big Monday was appointment viewing.

SEND IT IN, JEROME!

The best sports thing ESPN has done along with LSU football Saturday nights from Death Valley.

But they don’t do things like that anymore.

Sports nuts that have been with them for 40+ years don’t matter anymore.

 

[playthrough]

Flagrant foul for misspelling his name up top!

RIP Lew.

Fixed. Big Monday forever.

 

[dixiehack]

I love college football, but I hate the way it eventually undermined the nine-team Big East of the 1980s. For a kid growing up at the edge of Appalachia, having a league in all those big northeastern cities just seemed so glamorous, even as the basketball itself often resembled short track stock car racing.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

College basketball was much better when the Johnnies were relevant. RIP Lou and your sweater.

They're going to be relevant again very soon, but look at the price...had to align themselves w/one of the worst people in the country to try and make their first F4 since Gentleman Lou was on the sidelines. As noted earlier, there'll never be another slice of life like the Big East at its ascent and apex. Huge personalities on and off the court who were lifers at their institutions and will loom large there forever. RIP Looie.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I love college football, but I hate the way it eventually undermined the nine-team Big East of the 1980s. For a kid growing up at the edge of Appalachia, having a league in all those big northeastern cities just seemed so glamorous, even as the basketball itself often resembled short track stock car racing.

For a couple of years, my Dad and I would talk about skipping school and work and going down to MSG for the first full round of the Big East Tournament. It seemed like a novelty for there to be four games in one day on a weekday.

However, all we ever did was talk about it. Never went.

 

[maumann]

With no disrespect to the Big East, imagine if there had been national coverage of the epic ACC battles of the 1960s and 1970s. I've heard many residents of Tobacco Road talk about teachers wheeling TV sets into classrooms for the Thursday and Friday tournament games. On the west coast, we had nothing close to that level of basketball with the exception of the team in Westwood.

 

[micropolitan guy]

With no disrespect to the Big East, imagine if there had been national coverage of the epic ACC battles of the 1960s and 1970s. I've heard many residents of Tobacco Road talk about teachers wheeling TV sets into classrooms for the Thursday and Friday tournament games. On the west coast, we had nothing close to that level of basketball with the exception of the team in Westwood.

The 1974 ACC tournament final between NC State and Maryland might be the great game of the last 50 years.

 

[BTExpress]

The 1974 ACC tournament final between NC State and Maryland might be the great game of the last 50 years.

There was also that little N.C. State-UCLA double overtime NCAA semifinal that same year.

 

[Webster]

My favorite thing is that Bill Raftery got a job as a studio analyst for the NCAA tournament because Seton Hall was so uncompetitive in the Big East.