PAGE A-8/THE POST-STANDARD, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1991 PENNISI COACH MAC'S FAREWELL SEAFOODS 2For1 Dinners Mac Says Goodbye as Only He Cart Fairmount - Wed. & Thurs.l (MAC, from Page A-l) seemed Take Out Only I MacPherson was there to deliver his own eulogy, and he struggled to find all the right Burnet Ave. - Wed., Thurs. things to say. & Sat. Sit down or take-out. Several times, MacPherson's craggy Maine voice broke up and tears welled up in his smiling Irish eyes. MacPherson said telling his players, who he • COCOA* recruited to play for the Orangemen, might have MATTING been the toughest part. "It's a very, very sad time," said MacPherson. 4 FT. $495 "They're concerned about where they're com- WIPE LIN. YD. ing from, and quite honestly, the thing didn't go the way I wanted it to go. How do you tell the SCATTER HAIL people just exactly how you feel as you're walk- RUGS RUNNERS ing out the door? They want to see what you're 18' doing rather than what you're saying. It's tough Try from that standpoint. "This is the first time Sandra and I are moving SCATTER RUGS this coin trick! and the kids are staying behind, and that's a And tough move. You don't know what it's like to 27"x54" ALL $9 98 make it quick! pass that on to your kids. I told the football team REG. 59.98 *OUHD *J _ this, my daughters love me very much, and they said, Daddy, if you want to do it, we're really • AMERICAN • Turn extra items really excited for you, and we think it's a great ORIENTALS into cash— thing. So I said to my football team, I love you STEPHEN D. CANNERELLI/The Posl-Slandard With classified, guys very much, and if you really love me, you Dick MacPherson says goodbye to SU players Tuesday with a hug from Warren Prisby they'll go fast! don't think of anything else but what you think is and a handshake from Dan Conley. NOW o« 48 best for me, and if I think that's best for me, then you should, too, and be happy that I'm going. I tion. "The funny part of it was, to show you how CARPET REMNANTS can honestly say that I'm not sure if they love cruel I am, I didn't even ask her if she wanted to Over 2,OOO To Choose From ' The Syracuse me or not because there was absolutely no go or not. I just assumed that we went, and so Large Selection of Colors & Size* response from the football team. I didn't get that's how crazy this game is at times." • From 6x9'$ to 12x24'$ Newspapers anything there." Certainly, there were plenty of lighter *48»'68**88 Classified MacPherson spent s lot of time thanking moments, often at the expense of one of Mac- 4704032 administrators and local supporters. He thanked Pherson's longtime straight man, athletic direc- the media. He thanked his family. He thanked tor Jake Crouthamel. RICHMARK just about everyone he could think of. On one MacPherson has longed poked fun at Croutha- 1641 E. GEHESEE ST. 474-4693 occasion, he tried stopping himself from thank- mel, the man who brought him to Syracuse. OPEN EVES, til 7:00 SAT. til 3:00 ing so many, and then proceeded to thank a few While he lavished heaping spoonfuls of praise on more. Crouthamel, who is in New Orleans searching If there was a theme to MacPherson's mes- for his successor, MacPherson also broke up the sage, it was that he came to do a job at Syracuse tension with a few final jabs at Jake. University and did so to the best of his abili- He was mentioning the low-point of his career SAVE ties. at Syracuse, a 35-18 loss to Maryland in the He seemed to be groping for support and 1985 Cherry Bowl, when a Crouthamel stoly understanding of his decision to jump ship for came to mind. the Patriots. "The low point would have to be that great MacPherson said he's leaving Syracuse with- Cherry Bowl game that Jake is still got the books out finishing the job he was hired to do. And for out on waiting to get that money," he said. Timberland that, he leaves with regrets. Perhaps that's why STEPHEN 0 CANNERELLI/The Post-Standard MacPherson said he plans to clean out his MacPherson probed repeatedly for acceptance. Tearful daughter Janet hugs Dick Mac- office the next few days, then report to New "I don't know why I'm rambling like this," Pherson Tuesday after his farewell news England on Friday to begin rebuilding a fran- CASUAL SHOES said MacPherson. "I just feel we were here, conference. chise that lost 15 games this past season. • Non-Skld, and the thing you have to feel is this: Did you The press conference ended in dramatic "Scuppar" Sole try to do the best you could all the time you remember us that way, we're in great shape. We fashion with MacPherson asking Rev. Msgr. • Foam Padded • Leather Collar were there? The people that you worked for, fooled them if we haven't." Charles Borgognoni to sing a blessing, and the • Cushion Innersole did they think you gave it great effort? And Some of the tougher moments for MacPher- pnest did in fact stand before the room and belt • Solid Brass Eyelets were you a giver and not a taker? And quite son dealt with his family. He told the story of out the blessing before a stunned and moved honestly, from me and my family, I'm not sure how he left the Denver Broncos for the head audience. we ever got across the line because of what's coaching job at the University of Massachusetts "It's an exciting opportunity," MacPherson happened to us." in 1971. He recalled how the family moved into a would say, "and I think this: I'm blessed with a In fact, MacPherson did not seem to wish beautiful new home on a tree-covered street in great God with a great family in a profession I to be held accountable for his coaching suc- Amherst. MacPherson said he thought he was in love and am excited about each and every day I cesses as much as his contributions to the com- heaven. get up. That's what I tell our football players. If. munity. Then Sandra began hanging a picture that you've got that, you got something going for "I would hope my football team and every- the wives of Broncos coaches had given her, you. To be at my age, and still dream and still body here would look upon my .family and every- and she began to cry. push, is something I wish for everyone." - -•'. body here as givers, and not takers," said Mac- "Because she didn't want to leave Denver," And with that, MacPherson no longer had -Pherson, tears spilling out again. "If they said MacPherson, his voice choked with emo- any second thoughts.

N.M.W • Solid Brass Eyelets • Non-Skid Sole • Cushioned Mid-Sole MacNuggets: Coach Has the Final Say > Full Grain > Waterproof Leather > Handsewn (MacNUGGETS, from A-l) The Greatest Win' the radio and TV people ... I think And never once, in all my career 3 styles to choose from. the vice chancellor, whether he I asked this question — there are you've been great to us. here, with all the crazy damn stuff All sizes to 13, but not likes me or not, he had to say he every size in every style. guys in this room — the greatest going on, did he ever question what liked me, so it went around like win they had was Penn State when They See This Face* we were doing offensively, or that. it was 41-0 and we're 6-0 and there Sometimes you don't understand defensive or specialty teams. 88 I said this: you just got a new were six minutes left in the third the power of television, but as you Now, I've heard he's wild during Carrier Dome, Frank Maloney is no quarter. And what a great delight to go across the country, they see this a game, but I've never seen it, and NOW *29 longer here as a coach, all you think have Penn State fans accuse Syra- face and they recognize it, they he's never remarked on it to me. you need is a coach. I want you to cuse of running up the score. don't know who I am, but a lot of And he gets so excited at times, know there's something else wrong When I used to be over there and people point at it, and I want people that he's actually smoked a around here. It's a beautiful eve- the score was 42-8 and Joe to know it's because I'm the football cigarette. SAVINGS -» 65% ning. You've got a beautiful home (Paterno) would be throwing the coach at Syracuse University, and I 1 here. Nick Coyne is dying to get out ball over, and he'd say Mac, I know think everybody should know it's a This Thing WM Turn Out of here because his wife is there you understand, this is a young kid blessing and a gift. The great lesson as I tried to tell' waiting to go to a Christmas dance. and I got to get him some the players today — and people are All I want you people to understand experience throwing the football. On Opportunities scared to death of change — what Timberland * BOOTS is this: you might like me now, but And I'd say, of course I understand I don't know how you make these they have to do is understand this is suppose we go 5-6, 4-7 or 2-9 — for God's sake, would you like to decisions. I think you make the a great university and a great and I didn't realize I was being pro- have the game continue a little bit decisions maybe this way: administration, and the athletic phetic — or 1-10. Will you love longer? You've been here for a while, and department is led by Jake, who has 5 GORE-TEX® STYLES me then? • And the funny part of it is, the you're really very happy in what all the support systems in place for And the chairman of the board, guy thinks we're going to believe you're doing. Then all of a sudden, excellence. TO CHOOSE FROM Mel Holm says, Mac we'll love you. that. "I'm so, so sorry we're not you've had these opportunities and I talked to Jake at 20 after 3 this We don't know where the hell you'll playing Syracuse anymore, it's a you go to them and they just don't morning, and he's not in a very good Most sizes to 13, be coaching, but we'll love you. sad, sad time to play this game, the fit right, and all of a sudden you go mood at that time, so I called him but not every size In last one." He gets everybody to one and it fits just exactly who again from the airport at a quarter every style. On Being GO believing it. So they feel bad. He's you are and where you are and what till 7, and he's right in it. He was up You'd be amazed since yesterday the one that's caused us not play- you want to become. AH of a sud- most of the night and it's amazing,, how many people in America know ing anymore, so he's sad about it. So den, all the puzzle fits. you know Jake with that ugly pencil that I'm 60.1 don't know if anybody we don't play them anymore. Been around the game long of his and how he puts things down in here'is 60, but as I traveled But then they think of going up to enough to know these opportunities and gets little lists all over the Reg. to through airports, I think I've Penn State in 1988 and beating don't come very often. And you bet- place, how he can get things $140.00 become popular. Everybody over them there. Some guys think that's ter take the bull by the horn if focused on just exactly what he's 60 is for me. "Go get 'em Mac, the game. you're going to take anything. accomplishing. you're all right." So I think some- And so, I go back to what I told I have great faith in everybody M body's for me. Trying to Get to THT my players this afternoon ... Each that this thing will turn out. I guar- The High and Low Points The other game people talk and every year, we've got to antee that they'll have that. - about is the West Virginia game. upgrade ourselves to get better 1 NOW *59 The high point was the day I got because the program never stays •We Haven't Got It Done : From a drama standpoint, trying to the job, the next high point for cred- get to 11-0, and all of a sudden the same. It either goes ahead or People ask me, did you want to ibility purposes was 1984 when we you're down by a touchdown ... goes behind ... That's what I was take that thing to a national Mel, beat Nebraska. One of the greatest men in all of talking to them about. and be up there consistently yea£ SAVINGS - 57% after year, that's what I thought • We thought when we came here, Syracuse was proven to be a 55- All of a sudden, I'm sitting up minute man — I gave him a jersey here as a coach, I'm telling them to that I could get done by '92, and this been 15 years before we'd beaten is only'91. Maryland, 15 years since we'd with 55 on it — with five minutes push on and push on — how come I beaten Pitt, had a hell of a struggle left, he gets mad, starts swearing don't do the same thing? So I did. I I thought '91 season, '92 season,' ENTIRE STOCK OF if we continue to win and go ttr trying to stay in there with Temple and left. Steve Rogers, the guy that reached for another level. And I' I SPORT & WORK SHOES ON SALE! and Navy. runs the newspapers. So we came hope they understand that. That's bowls ... I was very anxious to see back and won the game, went for what's important. what we could do on Feb. 6, and we* 1 In 1984 we got that victory. haven't got it done. I have to admit' two points, and Mike Owens I knew it was in good shape brought it in. On Jflke CrouttMrnsj that. I thought we'd get it done. I ALL SALES AT THESE DEEP DISCOUNTS ARE FINAL. because Father John J. Burke, God I think people here should know think we should have had it done by rest his soul, at St. Theresa's at the something about Jake Crouthamel. now, but we didn't. 10:30 Mass, with my family with There are so many to thank, it's We coached against each other, and me, he said there will no more wed- limitless. I shouldn't get into we decided that he wasn't going to I can't emphasize enough to you, dings on Saturday afternoons of names, but I think the big thing is coach'anymore. He was six wind that when I have a chance to go up QUALITY home football games. And he this — I think the media, how lovely and no losses and he was going to there and get» whole of a bunch of wanted to make sure he was there. they've been. I have no problems retire at the end of the year. guys that are 1-15 and how sad they OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY So I think that was the start... with anything that they do. When Jake coached, nobody won are and not feeling good about The low point would have to be Open Daily 9-5:30. Monday'/// 7 I've been places where you don't more games in a seven-year period themselves or the Patriots or foot- that great Cherry Bowl game that get anything. And I recognize how in the Ivy League than Jake Crouth- ball or anything else, to be able to Downtown Syracuse - 128 E. Genesee St. Jake has still got the books out on important it is for them to generate amel. Jake Crouthamel was the first put them together and maybe have Between Salina & Warren St. "On Historic Hanover Square' waiting to get that money. this interest in the program, and I guy signed by the Dallas Cowboys. them run down the field and get But all of a sudden, in 1986, with believe they're part of it. So I thank He was the first professional foot- happy and kick the crap out of FREE PARKING in ONBANK GARAGE- program on the rise, we go 0-4... all the newaoaoers. and I thank all ball player under contract by them. , somebody... *

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