mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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09-17-17 04:36 PM - Post#232903
In response to Mike Porter
The answer is no. While I love Frank's approach to the game, and while he did have a keen eye for talent, he was permitted to go to where the floor currently stands during his time in Cambridge and wasn't able to do much more with that than being the best non-P for a decent stretch. People will criticize Harvard for allowing Tommy to explore more of the above-floor studio space than Sullivan was allowed to at the end, but what's often forgotten is that Sullivan himself was allowed to dip lower than he was permitted at the end as well.
Many will disagree with me, but Ivy League basketball, under the AI-era, really didn't begin until Tommy showed up in Cambridge. How much Tommy's presence had to do with that is a matter for debate, but aside from a handful of Penn and Princeton teams, this league was hot garbage for the first 25 or so years of the AI era and was getting worse fast.
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