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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: jaybilaswho? on August 18, 2009, 11:49:56 AM

Title: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: jaybilaswho? on August 18, 2009, 11:49:56 AM
Al McGuire tops the list of top 25 things SI misses in basketball.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/remember-when/basketball/25things.html?eref=sihpT1

25 Things We Miss In Basketball
1. Al McGuire
McGuire was not a color man, he was a poet. He took a televised basketball game and turned it into performance art. Big centers were "aircraft carriers." A flashy, unnecessary move was "French pastry." Traveling resulted from the insensitive (but innocently phrased) "Chinese steps." You had to rely on "your seniors." When a game was out of reach, it was "curtains," and for the winners it was "seashells and balloons." If you want to make the argument that every former coach or player dropped in front of a microphone tries to be a "personality" nowadays, you wouldn't be wrong, but in college basketball, every one of them owes a debt to McGuire. He did it first, and not to make his voice louder than the rest, but just because it was him. —Tim Layden



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/remember-when/basketball/25things.html?eref=sihpT1#ixzz0OYPuR0AV
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: GGGG on August 18, 2009, 12:55:50 PM
And #13:


13. Marquette's Untucked Jerseys
The greatest sartorial flourish in college basketball history came courtesy of a player. In 1976, a few years after the NCAA banned the famous bumblebee-striped uniforms worn by Marquette for creating "a psychedelic effect" on opposing players, Al McGuire's team did them one better. Star forward Bo Ellis was taking some fashion-design courses, and one day teammate Lloyd Walton asked McGuire if he would let Ellis design the team's uniforms. Half-jokingly, McGuire agreed. But that night Ellis returned to his dorm, pulled out some colored pencils and designed a jersey that featured untucked uniform tops with MARQUETTE running across the bottom hem instead of the chest. The untucked jerseys were a hit, and they found a place in hoops history when Ellis led Marquette to the national title that season. Naturally, the NCAA banned the look a few years later. —G.W.



BTW, #3...UConn v. Tennessee????  I never watched them play when they actually did play.
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: jaybilaswho? on August 18, 2009, 01:02:31 PM
Thats what I get for not continuing to read the second page of the story.
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: PuertoRicanNightmare on August 18, 2009, 03:53:54 PM
I miss our nickname.
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: 4everwarriors on August 18, 2009, 03:59:46 PM
Me too.
Title: SI: Al McGuire the #1 "thing we miss" in Basketball
Post by: Aughnanure on August 18, 2009, 05:54:48 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/remember-when/basketball/25things.html?eref=sihpT1

Also #13 is Marquette's untucked jerseys

hope this hasnt been posted yet, just saw it and didnt see a topic or link on here yet.
Title: Re: SI: Al McGuire #1 of "Things we miss in College Basketball"
Post by: g0lden3agle on August 18, 2009, 05:55:29 PM
Already posted in the superbar
Title: Re: SI: Al McGuire the #1 "thing we miss" in Basketball
Post by: Aughnanure on August 18, 2009, 05:58:23 PM
no offense, but this deserves to be posted in the Hangin' at the Al...i don't remember the last time I saw an article about Marquette not linked on the main board....that not a board I think people regularly check anyways...thanks for the heads up though
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: Warriors4ever on August 19, 2009, 09:28:29 AM
Did you read the top 25 they don't miss?  Includes the 4-corner offense of Dean Smith.  MU took care of that in '77.
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: MU B2002 on August 19, 2009, 09:47:39 AM
Quote from: The Sultan of South Wayne on August 18, 2009, 12:55:50 PM
And #13:

BTW, #3...UConn v. Tennessee????  I never watched them play when they actually did play.


Women's teams...
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: rugbydrummer on August 19, 2009, 04:42:10 PM
Quote from: MU_B2002 on August 19, 2009, 09:47:39 AM

Women's teams...


You know, Geno Auriemma & Pat Summit???    please tell me you've heard of them ;D
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: rugbydrummer on August 19, 2009, 04:45:56 PM
Also I miss #20 too NBC's NBA theme song, Roundball Rock -- that is my favorite thing to hum to myself other than Ring Out ... good thing Nelly immortalized it in "heart of a champion" ....


I can't quite believe that it originated from John Tesh, though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h7Lm7C9Nk
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: IAmMarquette on August 22, 2009, 12:49:27 PM
Quote from: MU_B2002 on August 19, 2009, 09:47:39 AM

Women's teams...

Women play basketball...?


(Before someone jumps all over me for "sexism," I'm kidding. I know women play basketball...

It's just not fun to watch.)
Title: Re: Sport's Illustrated misses Al McGuire
Post by: Skatastrophy on September 04, 2009, 10:54:08 AM
Yahoo sports rehashed this "25 things we miss about college bball" with a focus on the untucked MU Jerseys:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/From-the-Archives-Marquette-s-untucked-jerseys-?urn=ncaab,187357
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