Savannah's swan song
Speaking of nostalgia, Savannah State closed out its basketball season last night at 0-28. That takes me back to Curtis Hunter's final season as N.C. A&T coach when I covered an Aggies team that started the year 0-25. They won at Norfolk State to end the streak before I had a chance to do a retrospective on the 1991-92 Prairie View team that was the last to go winless for an entire season.
Savannah State might be a cautionary tale for any Division II program that is making, or thinking about making, the jump to D-I. Like Winston-Salem State, the Tigers of Savannah would like to join the MEAC, A&T's league. Savannah State's athletics department operates on a $2 million budget. Successful MEAC programs are in the $6 mil-$9 mil range.
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Technically, the Whalers have retired 3 numbers. Rick Ley's 2, Gordie Howe's 9 and Johnnie McKenzie (MacKenzie?)'s 19. This year they raised Ulfie's 5, Dineen's 11 and Ronnie Franchise's 10 to the rafters, but those numbers aren't technically retired. Bring Back the Whale!!
Posted on February 25, 2006 5:16 AM