RIP Pete Carril
RIP Carril. The designer and master-mind of the Princeton Offense that sat in the core of Beilein’s motion offense passed today at the age of 92.
August 15th, 2022 at 8:03 PM ^
Great coach - RIP Pete.
The 1989 Princeton vs Georgetown was the ultimate David vs Goliath battle where the Tigers fell 1 point short of what would have been one of the great upsets of all time.
August 15th, 2022 at 9:23 PM ^
Princeton v Georgetown 1989. AKA “The Billion Dollar Game”
http://www.espn.com/30for30/film/_/page/thebilliondollargame
August 16th, 2022 at 6:47 PM ^
HOF coach, who was also an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings and architect of the offense for those great teams in the early 2000s (Webber, Divac, Peja, etc.). He changed the way teams run their offense in the NBA. True genius.
RIP, Pete.
August 15th, 2022 at 8:04 PM ^
I see what you did there - I think.
August 15th, 2022 at 8:06 PM ^
Thought you misspelled football coach Pete Carroll.
RIP Mr. Carril
August 15th, 2022 at 8:09 PM ^
Yes, me too. I thought it was "What's your deal?" Carroll
August 15th, 2022 at 10:58 PM ^
I'm glad that wasn't the case
I'd hate to see a board on this website lamenting when that guy finally buys the farm
RIP Mr. Carril
August 16th, 2022 at 8:14 AM ^
Can't imagine how Pete Carroll has gotten anyone this upset in life.
August 15th, 2022 at 8:07 PM ^
RIP. You should have given it to Beast Mode.
August 16th, 2022 at 8:19 AM ^
#toosoon
August 15th, 2022 at 8:14 PM ^
NTPC
August 15th, 2022 at 11:28 PM ^
Damnit. I should have checked the comments first.
August 15th, 2022 at 8:33 PM ^
Whoa I feel old. That USC offense with Bush/Leinart was unstoppable.
August 15th, 2022 at 9:27 PM ^
Needed a little "push" but yeah.
***And big bags of $$$.
August 15th, 2022 at 8:45 PM ^
One of my favorite Vegas memories is being in the sports book when Princeton beat defending champion UCLA in 1996. The entire building was rooting for the underdog, except for a few poor souls who had driven over from West LA.
August 15th, 2022 at 9:23 PM ^
And I see on the score scroll at the bottom, at 52:08, that Eastern Michigan beat Duke.
Niiiiiice.
August 15th, 2022 at 10:41 PM ^
EMU was a really good program in the mid-90s, led by 5’5” Earl Boykins, with other high-quality guard play from Brian Tolbert and Derrick Dial. That year, they went something like 24-5 in the regular season, beat Duke (who had lost a lot of players) and lost respectably to Ray Allen’s UConn squad in the round of 32.
August 16th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
I just looked up the box score - EMU led UConn by 1 at the half (48-47). They did lose but certainly held their own.
August 15th, 2022 at 11:45 PM ^
EMU vs Duke was an 8-9 game. EMU was the 9 but it really wasn’t a huge upset.
As someone else said, EMU then lost to Connecticut but there was no shame in that. UConn, along with UMass and Kentucky, were absurdly loaded and dominant that year (UConn bombing out to Mississippi State in the Sweet 16 remains an inexplicable game to this day).
August 15th, 2022 at 9:30 PM ^
I was in Indy for that game and can verify the whole building was pulling for Princeton. You couldn’t have scripted a better game for Pete Carril’s last Dance
August 16th, 2022 at 12:38 AM ^
I heard they are going to use the backdoor at the funeral home for visitation.
RIP Pete