Seton hall head coach and Knicks players. Served as their head coach from 2001-2006 and was part of many great games between RU under Gary Waters and Seton hall. RIP.
OT: RIP Louis Orr
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Two coaches who should have had longer tenures and the schools would have been better off if they had.
Remember him well all the way back to his Syracuse playing days... I was sitting a few rows from the floor at the RAC for the highly anticipated "Syracuse and Bouie and Louie vs RU and James Bailey" game in 1978, due to a friend in the RU band giving me his ticket because he was ill and couldn't attend. It was the only live game that I was able to see Louis Orr play in.
RU beat 10th ranked Syracuse 77-73, and Bailey had a great defensive game, but a sub-par offensive game... The game was televised nationally, and my brother back home in Ohio watched the game... When I told him I was at the game, he told me that he'd watched it, and he began repeatedly imitating Marv Albert during one of Bailey's most memorable plays that occurred under the basket right in front of me.... "Rejected by Bailey! Rejected AGAIN by Bailey!!!" Great memories.. RIP Louis Orr.
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It's shocking to me that his era at Seton Hall was over 20 years ago already. Time flies.
He was an honorable man with strong religious faith. Way too young.
The Louie and Bowie show was a big part of the brand in the early days of the Big East preceding Ewing, Mullin, etc.
The Louie and Bowie show was a big part of the brand in the early days of the Big East preceding Ewing, Mullin, etc.
Dick Gaines died today too, rough week for the Hall.
Wow surprising and very sad news. I was a student during those SHU Rutgers rivalry years with Waters and Orr. Thanks for the memories and contributing to a great intrastate rivalry
Dick Gaines teamed with Wally Choice and Hal King Lear to lead the Easton Madisons of the Eastern League. The trio were three great Afro-American players. Choice from Montclair was the team captain at Indiana, Lear one of the greatest players in Philadelphia high school history has his Jersey retired by Temple, and Seton Hall has retired Gaines’ Jersey. Arenas always sold out as fans flocked to watch these three great scorers play together. More importantly, they were recognized as three great human beings. They are now all deceased.
ECAC Game of the Week. Sat like Row 8 about the forty yard line (just to the left of the scorer's table). RIP MR. Orr.
Man it’s that long ago ? If waters would have had the same success at rutgers that Orr did at seton hall waters would have been an all time great . Instead Orr gets fired at seton hall .
Fun games during those years. RIP Louie