Wake Up With Highlights Of Gerry McNamara's Legendary 2006 Big East Tournament Run

I honestly don't know how many times I have watched this video, but the number is definitely higher than I can possibly imagine considering it didn't look grainy the first decade or so worth of rewatches yet now it looks like it was filmed underwater. It also somehow got to the point where every time I saw Gerry McNamara, I would instantly hear Fort Minor play in my head, and my Overrated?!? shirt was worn so many times it finally tapped out in 2020 before being placed in my memories box with old ticket stubs, pictures, and God knows what else.

I've also blogged this video more times than I can count back when Barstool was strictly a blogging factory because it was the perfect Wake Up blog back when we actually pumped those out to get the day rolling as a blogger as well as for the Stoolies stuck in the cubes. Now we have social media doing that job for us from the time we wake up until the time we go to sleep not to mention how many people just work from home now.

But despite all the changes in Barstool, college hoops, and the world as a whole, the G-Mac Big East Tournament run still passes the test of time because it was as great a run as you will ever see in sports back when conferences and their tournaments mattered as much as pretty much anything else in the sports world. Now exactly 20(!!!) years after he dragged Cuse to a tourney bid after some bozo assistants called him overrated and led to one of Jim Boeheim's greatest old man rants, Gerry McNamara coached my beloved alma mater Siena to their first NCAA Tournament in 16 years. 

When you add in that Gerry also hit six three-pointers in the first half of Syracuse's National Championship win over Kansas, you can actually make a case that he should be known as Mr. March given his resume. But I'll let that one marinate as I rewatch all those threes go through the hoop and get excited for wherever my beloved Saints end up on the bracket (I swear to God I will fight the entire committee if Siena has to play another play-in game. Show some respect to the MAAC!).

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P.S. I may be a Sienacuse fan (Syracuse fan growing up, Siena fan once I went there), but I'm also not ready for Syracuse to poach Gerry from Siena and do think there is a case to be made that they have to start looking outside of Jim Boeheim's coaching tree considering how meh the program has been for a while now. I also fully admit that is also me speaking as a Siena fan that would love to see Gerry fulfill the prophecy of becoming the Gonzaga of the East as my buddy Mooney used to say.