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Some people thrive in it. Others shrink from the pressures. Many wake up in the morning and they look at every part of their day as being involved in it. Brian Gregory was born with the passion to excel in it. He nurtured it at a young age and it [.....]
It was on April 8, 2003 that Jim Jabir began again. He was once again given the reigns to a major college basketball program. He was once again given the opportunity to do what he enjoys. He was once again given the opportunity to change people's lives. "I'm blessed with [.....]
He was a wise cracking kid from Brooklyn with a new home in the Midwest. Although he had done well in his very brief coaching career, this was a new ballgame. This was a poor team Jim Jabir was inheriting. This was not a team doing well where the former [.....]
It doesn't take you long to realize that this guy is different. Most head coaches of major college basketball teams have a certain air about them. For the most part, they talk and act like they are from a different place. They have time for you, but just not too [.....]
We all have our own view of Don Donoher. I grew up with Don Donoher being the head coach of the University of Dayton Flyers. Some of the most vivid memories of my youth were sitting in front of the transistor radio with my dad listening to UD games. During [.....]
It all started rather innocently with a rather lackluster loss to a McNeese State team that didn’t really scare anybody. It was compounded by probably the third best recruiting class Don Donoher ever recruited. “After 1986, we weren’t all that bad. There were chemistry problems. Negele was hurt a lot. [.....]
After what can easily be labeled as the greatest loss in its history, the school struggled to produce important wins. There was only one 20-win season and no trips to the NCAA. Despite the talents of such players as Jim Paxson, Erv Giddings, Jack Zimmerman, Mike Kanieski and Roosevelt Chapman, [.....]
“The 1973-74 team would have held their own with the 1967-68 teams.” That is how much Don Donoher thought of a team that had won a total of 26 games in the two previous years. This was a total that Tom Blackburn passed more than once in a single season. [.....]
At the time of Tom Blackburn’s death, the control of the athletic department was in the hands of the Athletic Board. “The Athletic Board was stacked with people that knew me." remembers Donoher. "They had one meeting to go over the situation and it was more like a political campaign. [.....]
The Korean War was in the back of everyone’s mind during the early 1950s. Trying to delay the inevitable, Donoher enrolled in ROTC. “I was having such a good time playing basketball that I did what I needed to do. At that age, you don’t think too far past today. [.....]
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