Jersey Jump Shot with Grant Billmeier
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So happy for Grant and how his team is doing.
Great listen!
That same season of the 2004 NCAAT comeback win over Arizona - back in the days of them flipping around between games here and there, including the start of our comeback - Grant had a big game in the 2OT win against #4 Pitt at the old Meadowlands. Remember being there. He kept is in it early against Chris Taft, if I recall.
That same season of the 2004 NCAAT comeback win over Arizona - back in the days of them flipping around between games here and there, including the start of our comeback - Grant had a big game in the 2OT win against #4 Pitt at the old Meadowlands. Remember being there. He kept is in it early against Chris Taft, if I recall.
That game is one of my favorite Pirate regular season moments, and the first time I stormed the court as a fan.
What a great game to be at back in the day, remember it well.
It was hard to finds box score from that long ago.
Chris Taft (16 points / 15 rebounds)
Grant (8 points / 5 rebounds)
Glad his team is doing well. I'll be attending the NJIT/Vermont game and looking forward to supporting him. We may need him in the pipeline if our present coach can't figure things out in a few years.
4 years ago when I had my brain aneurysm that almost took my life two SHU coaches visited me. Grant was one. I have no recollection of the visit in the hospital but I do have the many gifts he brought including a team signed basketball and a lot of SHU merchandize.
It's been my privilege to know Grant for many, many years. He is about as pleasant as anyone you would ever meet. NJIT, because of their academics is a brutal place to coach, but the success he is having this season could not happen to a better or more deserving person. He loses his star player to Rutgers and still has his overachieving team in first place.
BTW, great job by Jerry in his podcast and then his story.
It's been my privilege to know Grant for many, many years. He is about as pleasant as anyone you would ever meet. NJIT, because of their academics is a brutal place to coach, but the success he is having this season could not happen to a better or more deserving person. He loses his star player to Rutgers and still has his overachieving team in first place.
BTW, great job by Jerry in his podcast and then his story.
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I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about the big fella, and the stories are usually along these lines -- though the circumstances are never this dramatic!
Year back -- I forget when, but Grant was on the Seton Hall staff, I think just starting out -- he attended a Booster Club dinner at the Brownstone House in Paterson. I was walking across the parking lot, but not really close to the entrance, and Grant, who was standing near the door, made a beeline toward me to introduce himself and thank me for coming. Of course, I knew who he was, but had never met him, so it's not like he saw me as anything but an average fan, but that sort of greeting makes an impression. I was always a fan, but I thought it said something extra about him.
I'm very glad to see him doing so well at a tough place to build a program.
Nicest dude ever. I've spoken to him about 3-4 times. Great guy and a real competitor. Hoping he gets his break and gets a coach a team with some resources in the future.
Many years ago when Grant was playing the school had a dinner honoring the graduating seniors. I was sitting at a Booster Club table and I remember player after player coming to the podium with notes to be read. The last player to talk to the 150 or so Pirate fans was Grant. I watched him and saw he had no notes. Grant was a quiet young man and I thought to myself this was not going to go well. I could not have been more wrong. GB gave a exhilarating speech focusing on what SHU meant to him and how much he loved the school. I have covered the Hall for Rivals for over 21 years and I never once heard any player more succinctly talk about his time at the school from the heart. Not just reading words on a piece of paper.
Grant Billmeier is one of the best things that has happened to SHU for quite some time and I am proud to have known him.
Grant Billmeier is one of the best things that has happened to SHU for quite some time and I am proud to have known him.