ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson) (07/19/85)
>From: msy@siemens.UUCP >Subject: SIXERS (Billy C.) >Last night, I heard on the news that Billy Cunningham will be resigning >as the couch of the Philadelphia 76ers. >Billy C. was a very good couch, although he was not an EXCELLECNT one. >All during the time when Billy was couching, the sixers had very good >chance at the NBA title... >Plus, Sixers only won NBA championship only once (with a somewhat better >couching, they could've had at 3 or more in the last 7-10 years). > >>From: ccc@bu-cs.UUCP >>BM: Hi, I'm Brent Musburger, live from the locker room of the Philadelphia >> 76ers, to bring you player reaction to Billy Cunningham's >> resignation as couch. Here with me now is Julius Erving. Tell >> me J, what is the overall mood of the team after hearing >> the news... Maybe the Sixers should've tried to get Rollie Massimino away from Villanova--it sounds like he'd be just the man for the job: (Sports Illustrated, July 1, 1985. Page 20) "Massimino is the rumpled couch of a coach who led Villanova to its stirring 1985 NCAA championship." -- Cameron C. Carson Distributed Systems Group Boston University ACC UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!ccc ARPA: ccc%bu-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa