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Date Posted: 15:04:21 01/24/04 Sat
Author: JCard
Subject: Re: The Immortal Carroll Williams-- how about venerable?-- we traipse down memory lane
In reply to: Bronco66 's message, "The Immortal Carroll Williams" on 08:54:44 01/24/04 Sat

Carroll was a good coach, a great AD and and still is, I'm sure, a super person. He fielded solid teams fo college athletes. I think his coaching skills increased with time and experience. After a losing first season, his next few years with Stewart, Lavoroni,Spreight et al (Garibaldi players) were solid; the team almost went to the NIT (when it was still significant) in 72 or '73. I was a student at SCU from 73-77 and saw what was the nadir of the program. He didn't recruit real well initially as evidenced by his 9 and 10 win seasons in 73-74, 74-75 and 75-76. Then came Rambis, Theus and a nationally Ranked Recruiting class in 76-77.
Even with these teams and with Mc Namara the next season, Carroll played it too close to the vest, and didn't show enough confidence in his talent. Although he had a few losing seasons in the '80's , I think this is where he did his best work; he attracted and developed talent (e.g.Vanos, Keeling, Taylor and Gordon), had five 20 win seasons ,3 NITs and a tounament bid. He never won the season league title, but his teams played hard & were always tough and physical.Solid program--No scandals, likeable players who went to class. I just think he could have done more with what he had. I know this was the era of a smaller NCAA tournament and a dominant Don team, but if you had two evenly matched teams with DD and Carroll going head to head, my money would be on DD.

BTW, where did everybody go... Go Broncs, dent, Marlon, you still there?

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