Dear Editor,

I very much enjoyed Kevin Taylor’s article on basketball coaches Jerry Conboy and Bob Rager in the fall 2011 issue of The Point.

It took me way back. I’m a Point Park grad (Journalism and Communication 1971) and it makes me a little weepy to realize that so much time has passed.

However, the situation was just as these two great coaches described it. Coach Conboy gave Point Park legitimacy and Coach Rager, as one of Conboy’s early star recruits, was one tough player.

It was fun to see them pictured together (they both look great) and to know – with history as my evidence – these two men are indeed pillars on which the basketball program was built. There were others, of course, but they are just names on a page to people who weren’t around back then: Bill Long, Don Dudley, Larry Anderson, Al Harris, Ed Josefoski, Jim Metz. I only wish you could have seen them as young men, barely more than teens.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Cheers,

Dan Pie (COM 1971)

Chandler, Ariz.