I'm too young to have remembered him as the head basketball coach, but he seems like he was quite the character.
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Yes he was.I'm too young to have remembered him as the head basketball coach, but he seems like he was quite the character.
If you think Miles' offense was bad, you would have hated Cipriano. He was pre-shot clock era. Watching paint dry is an appropriate analogy.
In fairness to Joe and Moe, it was a lot harder to make the NCAA tournament when they coached. Not sure exactly when the field expanded from 16 to 32, but I think 32 was as large as it ever got during Cip's tenure. I think it was at 48 for most of Moe's time at NU, then went to 64 for his last couple of seasons. I believe it was at 64 for all of the Nee years.Surprisingly, Moe had a better overall winning percentage and a better conference winning percentage than both Joe and Danny.
Overall - Moe .599, Danny .572, Joe .564
Conference - Moe .536, Joe .529, Danny .431
Of course Danny took us to 5 NCAA, 5 NIT with 1 NIT championship.
You are correct. Could have swore he was older than that. Oh slippery CIP.Cip died too young. I had to look it up -- he was 49.
I sat on the floorside seats as a 14 year old kid during the Jerry Fort years. Listened to Jura, Chalk, and others at home on the radio with my Father before that.
Oh the memories, good ones, but in we always seemed to lose the important ones