Jim Larranaga
Jim Larranaga
James Joseph Larrañagais an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the University of Miami men's basketball program. Prior to his time at Miami, he was most recently the men's basketball coach at George Mason, where he coached the Patriots to 13 consecutive winning seasons and became a media sensation during the Patriots' improbable run to the Final Four of the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament...
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I didn't want him to think for a second that if we didn't get in, it was his fault. I told him one lapse of judgment would never define an entire season.
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I think it certainly has helped us. Each of our seniors is actually in their fifth year. . . . they are older guys and I certainly think their maturity and experience help us. It helped us throughout this season and particularly in the NCAA run.
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Everything that I am as a coach, it was formed there.
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I think the dome is a factor for a team that's never played in one. Lamar Butler was quoted yesterday saying he'd never even been in a dome. There's a problem developing the proper depth perception.
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The players were dancing in the aisles. The kids were screaming 'George' ... 'Mason.' The pep band was playing. If you can't get excited for this, what can you? It was great. You live for this.
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We're a bunch of no-name guys playing in the biggest sporting event in the world and loving it.
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We both agreed that this was something that doesn't represent George Mason University or our basketball program. That we needed to take immediate steps to send that message not only to Tony, but to the rest of our team and to the rest of the athletes who represent George Mason.
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When you consider we've done something for the first time in the school's history, and only the second time in conference history, you should be excited about that.
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When the horn did it at the end, and it was blaring in my ears, I put the managers on the line and made them run. How funny do you think that was to our players?