Opinion: This is what Dick Vitale has taught me so far about basketball and life [Opinion]
and a former YMCA executive director and former basketball coach at San Diego State University. He lives in the Knolls of Del Cerro and is an emeritus member of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Community Advisory Board.
It’s times like these that you never forget how you felt hearing not-so-good news and, in this case, how emotional Dick and Lorraine were on the call.Sure, the news about the battle ahead had taken its toll on both, but Maria and I were taken back by how apologetic they were about not being able to host us during our trip to Florida.
Dick finished 17-9 during that first campaign at the University of Detroit, now called Detroit-Mercy, including going three for four against Big Ten teams with wins over Michigan, Michigan State and Minnesota and a four-point loss on the road to Illinois.Before arriving in Detroit after two winning seasons as an assistant at Rutgers, he had a 131-47 record as a high school coach, including two state championships at East Rutherford High.
While Dick was busy building a reputation, not resting on one during that first season on the job, I was doing the same as an assistant coach to Michigan High School Hall of Fame Coach Bill Norton at Birmingham Brother Rice High School while on our way to the 1974 Class A state championship. Whenever the Ceciliaville select team played at home and on the road, Dick was there. The 1974 squad featured most of the premier players in that year’s class, considered the best in Michigan high school basketball history.
It was in the summer of 1974, Dick asked me to join his staff as an unpaid graduate assistant with a promise that if an opening occurred, I would be promoted. So I turned down a scholarship to attend law school to begin a six-year joyful journey working with Dick Vitale. Our five-point semifinal loss to Michigan in Rupp Arena on the campus of the University of Kentucky was a head-scratcher for several reasons. Wolverine head coach Johnny Orr was not a Dick Vitale fan. Many found it ironic that we would need to travel to Lexington, Ky., to play a team 39 miles from Calihan Hall because Orr refused to schedule the Titans after a loss during Dick’s first season.
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