Friends, family remember coach Al McGuire
■ More than 1,500 attend
a funeral for the deceased
coach and commentator
By Arnie Stapleton
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — A1 McGuire
packed the house one last time
Monday night.
A standing room-only crowd of
more than 1,500 mourners attend
ed a funeral Mass for the former
coach and commentator whose
powerful personality and wit tran
scended the basketball court and
the broadcast booth.
McGuire died Friday at 72 after
a long illness.
“Al McGuire was a basketball
coach, and for 20 years he coached
basketball like Beethoven wrote
music, like Shakespeare wrote po
etry and like Rembrandt painted
pictures,” said U.S. Sen. Herb
Kohl, his close friend.
McGuire’s son, Al Jr., recalled a
time when his father was starting
to build Marquette into a power
house, the crowds at the old Mil
waukee Arena were getting bigger
and bigger, “and he turned to me
and said, ‘We’re doing good.’ ”
His son then scanned the over
flow crowd at Gesu Church, in
cluding 30 of his father’s former
players standing on the altar be
hind him.
“How proud he would be that
the house was another SRO (stand
ing room only),” he said. “We’ve
done good together, gang. We’ve
done really good.”
The 90-minute Mass followed a
six-hour visitation in which thou
sands of mourners paid their last
respects to McGuire, the charis
matic New Yorker who coached
Marquette to a national champi
onship and later brought his street
wise lingo to TV.
“In Al McGuire’s passing we
have lost a truly remarkable man,
colorful, unique, one of a kind,”
the Rev. Robert Wild, president of
Marquette University, said in his
homily.
“His style, even his vocabulary,
his verbal imagery, were uniquely
his own and we listened to what
was sometimes a stream of con
sciousness, yet we understood
what he meant and quite frankly
across the country we have bor
rowed shamelessly a variety of
’McGuireisms’: the ’Hail Mary
play,’ a ’cupcake’ opponent, going
’uptown,’ or ’Park Ave.,’ the list
goes on and on,” Wild said.
“Al lived life with zest, he did
things his way and we admire him
for it.”
The Rev. George Winzenburg,
who presided over the Mass, said
McGuire lived with gusto and died
with dignity.
“We remember a man who
taught us how to live and how to
die,” he said.
McGuire died of a blood disor
der, said his brother, Dick, a fellow
Hall of Famer.
Pallbearers included Utah coach
Rick Majerus and former players
Ed Janka, Jack Burke, Ulice Payne,
George Thompson, Earl Tatum and
Ric Cobb.
McGuire was one of college bas
ketball’s most successful coaches
for 20 years, leading Marquette to
11 postseason appearances,
capped with an NCAA title in
1977, shortly after announcing that
season would be his last.
When the Warriors beat North
Carolina to win the championship
in Atlanta, McGuire, who sent 26
players to the NBA, did not join
the celebration. He sat on the
bench by himself, his face buried
in his hands, crying.
Later that year, he began a broad
cast career that lasted for 23 years.
He started at NBC and in 1992
moved to CBS, where he worked
until he retired last March, saying
he had a form of anemia.
McGuire played at St. John’s be
fore a brief NBA career that ended
in the 1954-55 season. He then
made his mark on the sport as a
coach and broadcaster, earning
him election to the Hall of Fame in
1992.
His head coaching career started
at Belmont Abbey, a small school
in North Carolina, in 1957, and he
moved to Marquette in 1964. He
turned the Warriors into a national
power by recruiting the neighbor
hoods where his colleagues didn’t
dare venture.
He joined NBC in 1977, and his
constant banter with analyst Billy
Packer became a staple for college
basketball fans. “McGuireisms”
such as “tap city,” “white-knuck
ler” and “aircraft carrier” became
part of the sport’s vocabulary.
One of his favorite phrases was
“seashells and balloons,” and all
who knew him had their own in
terpretations.
“It just meant good times,” Ma
jerus said. “It is looking at life with
a positive approach through the
worst of situations.”
They were words that McGuire
lived by until his death.
Majerus, who is on sabbatical to
care for his ill mother in Milwau
kee, said he sensed a special spirit
when he visited his mentor for the
final time last week.
McGuire had removed the intra
venous lines supplying drugs and
blood transfusions, Majerus said.
“He was just so happy to be free
and he was not hindered by those
things,” Majerus said. “It was as if
he was unfettered — spiritually as
well as physically.”
Amid the dozens of bouquets
that adorned the cathedral Mon
day night was a single blue and
yellow helium balloon anchored
by a plastic bag filled with
seashells.
“Thanks, Al,” read the attached
card. “It’s been a hell of a ride.”
Sports brief
UO golf fifth after round one
The Oregon men’s golf team
opened up its spring season Mon
day with a tied-for-fifth-place
showing after the first round of
the Ping-Arizona Intercollegiate.
The Ducks, Who shot a 6-over
par 290 to tie with No. 4 South
Carolina, were led by junior
Aaron Byers, who shot an even
par 71 to finish tied for 13th
among individuals.
Oregon was also paced by
sophomores Chris Carnahan and
John Ellis and junior Brandon
Harnden, who all finished with a
2-over 73.
The Ducks are 14 strokes be
hind No. 16 Southern California, r
who is leading the pack after an
8-under par round one. Oregon is
only four strokes back from Pacif
ic-10 Conference rivals Arizona
State and California, who are tied
for fourth.
The tournament wraps up with
final round action today in Tuc
son, Ariz.
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