George Raveling passed away
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Raveling reportedly to accept Seton Hall job - UPI Archives
George Raveling, head basketball coach at Southern California, reportedly has accepted the vacant head coaching job at Seton Hall. The Newark Star-Ledger...
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Oh, I know we went after him. A friend of mine (SHU grad) lives in SoCal told me at the time USC fans would rejoice if we hired him.Raveling reportedly to accept Seton Hall job - UPI Archives
George Raveling, head basketball coach at Southern California, reportedly has accepted the vacant head coaching job at Seton Hall. The Newark Star-Ledger...
Perhaps a poor choice of words--didn't mean to imply anything nefarious, just that most would be quite surprised today if coach of USC left for SHU.
Would have loved to have Raveling as HC because he was a great recruiter.Blaney nice guy but past his prime.Raveling reportedly to accept Seton Hall job - UPI Archives
George Raveling, head basketball coach at Southern California, reportedly has accepted the vacant head coaching job at Seton Hall. The Newark Star-Ledger...
Hall of Fame basketball coach George Raveling dies at 88
Raveling coached his way to the Hall of Fame with stops including Washington State, Iowa and USC
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In those days there was always the cast of characters being bandied about, and his name was in it, but never thought too seriously. Bob McKillop, Seth Greenberg, Pat Kennedy were also often mentioned. And I thought about this recently: if PJ left right after the Michigan State loss in '94, would we have hired Blaney? I know he was pals with the then A.D.; also recall he wanted out of Holy Cross and "showed interest" in Iona, but they had no interest in him.
Pat Kennedy was the first favorite and I was disappointed when he said no. After that the search became a huge mess as I remember, with me hoping just about every rumored name was not gonna get our job. When I read in the Record (Jon Rowe, great SHU reported back then imo) that Blaney was gonna be the guy, I thought Rowe had to be dead wrong...was on the ground floor of Port Authority, just off my bus to NYC, grab the paper and read the article and could not believe we could possible replace PJ with Blaney.
Always wondered if PJ left earlier if we got either Gillen or Willard Sr. PJ's timing really hurt is.
