Daily News | Take it from a La Salle alumnus who loves the place: It will take more than Fran Dunphy to save it | Mike Sielski
, a posthumous gift by an alumnus, to help fund the renovation of Gola Arena. As a La Salle grad myself, as someone who has covered Philadelphia college basketball for 25 years, I count Dunphy as a friend, and I respect the hell out of him as a person and a coach.
But once someone graduates from La Salle, he or she tends not to maintain close ties to the school. The university doesn’t inculcate its alumni with enough loyalty to compel them to keep their connections to La Salle strong, to draw them back, and its setting — amid a dense urban trapezoid of duplexes, storefronts, and small-rise apartment buildings in Olney – isn’t much of an attraction on its own. St. Joseph’s, a comparable university in size and mission, has City Avenue.
The easy precedent for Dunphy’s return is 1968, when Gola — Dunphy’s coach, mentor, and hero — came back to coach the Explorers after Jim Harding tarnished the program and the school with NCAA violations. But the more relevant piece of Gola history here is from 1990. The team had just gone 30-2 under Morris and was in the midst of a six-year stretch in which it reached the NCAA Tournament four times and the NIT twice.
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