Villanova Apologist Denies Rampant Drug Use, Attacks GLOBAL PHENOMENON
by CasualHoya on Feb 2, 2010 5:33 PM EST
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I hate to look past USF tomorrow and focus on what may be the biggest game of the year on Saturday against Nova, but when I get emails from Nova alums claiming that cocaine played only a small part in the 1985 NCAA Championship, it just makes me angry.
The actual email (name protected to hide Nova alum from shame):
coked up Villanova?...it was only one guy....no fun if you don't stretch the truth though, huh? '' (V.U. '85)
Really? Just one guy?
I may have been born at night but it wasn't last night, buddy.
Here's an excerpt from the awfully-named Villanovian, which I assume is the student paper at Nova. The excerpt references a Sports Illustrated article in which Gary McLain, the point guard for the 1985 NCAA championship Villanova men's basketball team, admitted using cocaine while at Villanova:
McLain reported that he used cocaine before basketball games, including the game against Memphis State University in the Final Four at Lexington, Ky., in which he scored nine points. Several days later, according to his story, he was high on cocaine as the Villanova championship team met with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.
Beyond his cocaine use, McLain admitted in the article that he sold cocaine at Villanova. He wrote, "So we - me and this other guy - started selling right before the [1983-84] season started."
McLain also implied that other students and basketball players were involved with drugs. He stated, "Some of my teammates and guys in my dorm knew I did drugs. Some of them did drugs with me. It was no big deal to us."
Rumors about McLain's drug use spread and eventually reached the head coach of the men's basketball team, Roland V. Massimino, and the Rev. John P. Stack, O.S.A., dean of students, who both confronted him.
McLain's article inferred that Massimino and Stack merely used threats with no actual intentions of action against him. He said "I figured that he [Massimino] had too much to lose. After all, I was the star point guard."
One guy my ASS.
I hate Nova.
Stay Casual, my friends.
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Just waiting on that yellofalltheyells comment
And then all four of the blog’s readers will have commented. Sweet!
This blog sucks.
when making fun of this blog's pathetic nerd readers...
don’t forget me!
It's not me, It's you
by SomebodyBuyAustinaSteak on Feb 2, 2010 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
"Cocaine is a helluva drug!" - Rick James
you’re welcome
High fives only on three pointers.
by TheYellofAllYells on Feb 2, 2010 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
McLain
He was so tough that he decided to go on the Today Show for the hardball questions from Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel. No word on whether he pulled a Scottie and fell down when a large Al Roker bumped into him on set.
Cocaine - the performance enhancing drug of the 80s?
And your point is?
It is bad enough that the Hoyas lost to a team where the point guard was on cocaine, which by the way is not a performance enhancing drug, how much worse is it if others were also high?
I suppose you can also argue that Massimino was on cocaine himself. It would explain his flush cheeks, sudden outbursts and eventual heart attack.
Cocaine for everyone!
Apparently Nova fans don’t know how to search them Internets
Top 10 Performance-Boosting Drugs
Number 3 – Cocaine
I guess high boosts of energy isn’t helpful when playing a BASKETBALL GAME.
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Feb 2, 2010 7:14 PM EST up reply actions
Athletic Use:
“Although cocaine isn’t typically thought of as a performance-enhancing drug, the energy boost and self-confidence it creates can aid in short-term athletic activity.”
Sounds about right to me.
80s
I believe every porn movie in the 80s and the some high flying NBA stars of yesteryear – eg, David Thompson – pretty well established that cocaine does a lot for performance.
by itsallthatmatters on Feb 2, 2010 10:58 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Lefty Driesell disagrees with you
Just ask Len Bias. Though luckily for McCLain, he never had to celebrate being the 2nd pick in the NBA draft.
trap blog
this is exactly how you lose a game you’re supposed to win. using you’re best snarkiness on team we’re playing saturday when there is a perfectly good team to trash right in front of us. lets not blame the players thursday morning. it started right here.
dammit youre right
let’s turn out attention to south florida
bulls fans, ummm, yeahh, drool
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Feb 2, 2010 8:34 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Again
This is not a USF fan, but one the FSU “cowgirls”, one Jenn Sterger (shockingly, she’s from the dirty Jerz).
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
she is wearing usf stuff though
traitor
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Feb 3, 2010 9:15 AM EST up reply actions
she looks like she has two midgets in a headlock
best hate I can muster on a hot USF fan like that.
High fives only on three pointers.
by TheYellofAllYells on Feb 3, 2010 9:59 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You mean two bald midgets...
Post of the year candidate. I’m still picking up the pork rind bits I spit out when I read it.
by vivanloshoyas on Feb 3, 2010 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
honestly
I can’t really get motivated to hate on USF…who on this blog has ever met anyone who goes to USF?
I’ll still heckle their team from my seat tomorrow night though. No trap games for elite teams at home.
High fives only on three pointers.
by TheYellofAllYells on Feb 2, 2010 9:14 PM EST up reply actions
a quick check of the internets
reveals multiple basketball violations, a football coach punching his players and several nasty remarks about casual hoya..i may have made the last part up…find the hate its there somewhere.
usf has a high rate of acceptiing syracuse transfers…they call it the snowbird program. anything yet?
while i agree about not overlooking usf
nova hate is always timely.
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Feb 2, 2010 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
No one wants to beat USF
except for Jim Leavitt. Too soon?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Gasparilla
Was just in Tampa. They have a mardi-gras wannabe festival called Gasparilla. Might be the dumbest thing I have seen. Everyone gets dressed up like Captain Morgan, and pretends to be invading Tampa on boats. Other than that, I too have a hard time getting worked up about SoFla. Not a ton of hoop tradition to mock.
Verified
My sister-in-law, a usf alum, lived down there and I was forced to go to that silly faux mardi gras. Torments me to this day
usf sucks
by itsallthatmatters on Feb 2, 2010 11:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
and doesnt Tampa
have a Salvador Dali musuem. I remember going about 10 years ago. It wasn’t awful.
Very benign city.
by bunk moreland on Feb 3, 2010 8:54 AM EST up reply actions
How??
Can a school be called University of SOUTH Florida when it lies almost directly WEST of Orlando, which is home to University of CENTRAL Florida?
Tampa is a GOD AWFUL place. As a matter of fact, the entire west coast of Florida sucks!!! It is almost like the worst parts of Georgia and Alabama oozed downward and collected there.
Blip
Tampa is an extraordinarily casual town
Bern’s and Columbia are great. Pleasant weather. Solid airport. Good beaches. No income tax. Also: an up and coming Big East team that is going to have a really nice win tonight.
they would love you in sec country.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood"
by wolfmanshowlforever on Feb 4, 2010 2:15 AM EST up reply actions
I like tampa my cousins and grand ma live there. Pretty chill(i guess we call that casual aroudn here) place.
That being said tampa is not south florida. Shouldn’t USF be like in miami?
Interesting fact last time USF made the NCAA’s they were beaten by none other than your georgetown hoyas in the first round.
there is hockey in tampa?
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood"
by wolfmanshowlforever on Feb 4, 2010 2:15 AM EST up reply actions
?????????????????????????????
Is the hoya fan life so miserable you need to resort to 25 year ago drubbings you took to try to make a point. The cocaine thing is comical, even though it is true, it isn’t steroids and would affect your play worse than better, and YOU STILL GOT BEAT. Get over it, move on, enjoy your one big win (this weekend), and see yourselves lose in the 2nd or 3rd round of the dance. The future headlines will read, ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIIGEST UPSET IN COLLEGE BBALL HISTORY, VILLANOVA BECOMES THE 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPS. Bam. See Ya.
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