I had a chance to speak with new Union County College head coach Jim Lane '92 yesterday afternoon. Lane takes over as head coach of the Owls after four seasons at Westfield High School in northern New Jersey. A transcript of our conversation follows. - JS
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Tell me about what you've being doing before getting this job. What let up to this?
I've been coaching in the Westfield, New Jersey school system for the past four years. I was actually an assistant to my high school coach [Neil Horne, Jr.], who is not of Coach Carril's notoriety, but he's very well known in New Jersey. He won four state championships with a lot of guys who can't run and jump like me [laughs].
I had been doing that and got to the point where you're either going to step up and become a head coach or not coach. Once you've being coaching with someone who is that strong of a teacher, probably like many of the guys who coached directly for Coach Carril - at some point you've learned what you can learn, you buy into it but you want to put your own stamp on your own situation. Whereas Coach Carril's offensive brilliance, I learned so much from that when I played at Princeton because it enables guys like me that can't really run and jump to play and to compete against much better athletes, what I learned in high school and the last four years of coaching was very man to man defense-oriented. This is the opportunity for me to put those two things together.
I better do it well, because unlike the other people in Coach Carril's coaching tree, they were all really good players [laughs]. I was just a guy who worked really, really hard. Whether you're talking about Chris Mooney or Joe Scott or Howard Levy, these were guys who got a lot of playing time because they were very, very good basketball players. I knew going into Princeton that I was a borderline Division I player - if that - but I knew that in that system, that sort of brought me over the line. Our success in my new situation is going to be dependent on getting guys to buy into that, guys who were stars on their high school teams. I don't think it is going to be that hard to get them to buy in, because we're trying to get from the best basketball high schools in New Jersey, the fourth, fifth and sixth-best players.
Princeton recruit Ian Hummer scored 12 points and grabbed seven rebounds for the East as his team fell to the West 92-79 in the 2009 Feinberg Academic All-American Classic. Hummer also had four assists, two blocks and three steals.
The San Diego Union Tribune asks Chris Young for his thoughts on the suspension of Manny Ramirez.
Will Venable was ejected in the seventh inning of Portland's 6-5 win over Salt Lake on Friday night. San Diego GM Kevin Towers says Venable is a likely candidate to play right field for the Padres, despite 29 strikeouts in 107 at bats.
Jeff Peterson, the Princeton commitment who eventually opted for Iowa after much vacillation has announced he will transfer to Arkansas.
C. Young (2-1) 6.0 IP 5 H 3 ER 4 BB 6 K 4.76 ERA. 98 pitches, 60 strikes.
Another no-decision for Chris Young, who left after six innings with the Padres and Diamondbacks knotted at three. San Diego won 4-3 in 10 innings.
Former Princeton center Jimmy Lane is the newest branch of the Carril coaching tree. Lane has been named head coach at Union County College. I'll be doing a Q&A with Lane on Monday for the site. If you have any questions you want me to ask, let me know.
Steve Mills '81 is leaving Madison Square Garden to take a position with Magic Johnson Enterprises.
Tigers head coach Sydney Johnson and princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon met in the rafters of Jadwin Gym this afternoon to record a lengthy Q&A made up almost entirely of questions from subscribers to the site.
This wide-ranging conversation touches on the postseason banquet, the six members of the Tigers' 2009 recruiting class, games on the 2009-10 schedule, what is expected of returning players and much more. The interview is 36:00+ in length, by far our longest to date.
Thanks to the subscribers who submitted excellent, interesting questions for this discussion. I tried to get as many of your queries as possible answered. Great thanks as well to Coach Johnson for making himself available on a regular basis for the second straight season. It is greatly appreciated.
C. Young (2-1) - 7.0 IP 6 H 1 ER 2 BB 5 K 4.81 ERA. 94 pitches, 63 strikes.
Chris Young rebounded from his poor showing five days ago with seven innings of quality one run ball against the Dodgers, but San Diego could not provide him with a lead. The Padres fell 2-1 in 10 innings.
Young answered five non-baseball questions, most about the NBA playoffs, from the San Diego Union Tribune.
Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson spoke at the Corvallis Boys & Girls Club's Ninth Annual Celebrate Kids Breakfast.
CBS 2 caught up with Robinson while he was in town.
Princeton recruit Ian Hummer will suit up for the East All-Stars on May 9th for the Feinberg Academic All-American Basketball Classic in Ontario, CA.
Will Venable hit his 5th home run of the season in Portland's 5-4 extra inning loss to Reno last night. Venable also had a tie-breaking double that helped the Beavers to a 7-4 win over Salt Lake earlier in the week.
C. Young (2-1) - 7.0 IP 7 H 8 ER 5 BB 3 K 5.74 ERA. 85 pitches, 45 strikes.
Chris Young could not get out of the fourth inning at Coors Field, allowing a career-high eight earned runs along with seven stolen bases by Rockies basemen as San Diego fell 12-7.
Oregon State will host Colorado on December 4th as part of the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.
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Sat. 11/16 at Butler
Wed. 11/20 vs. Lafayette
Sat. 11/23 at Rice
Tue. 11/26 vs. George Mason
Sat. 11/30 at Bucknell
Sat. 12/7 vs. FDU
Wed. 12/11 at Rutgers
Sat. 12/14 at Penn State
Fri. 12/20 vs. Portland*
Sat. 12/21 vs. Pacific*
Tue. 12/31 vs. Kent State
Sat. 1/4 at Liberty
Sat. 1/11 at Penn
Sun. 1/26 vs. Kean
Fri. 1/31 at Harvard
Sat. 2/1 at Dartmouth
Fri. 2/7 vs. Columbia
Sat. 2/8 vs. Cornell
Fri. 2/14 at Brown
Sat. 2/15 at Yale
Fri. 2/21 vs. Dartmouth
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Fri. 2/28 vs. Yale
Sat. 3/1 vs. Brown
Fri. 3/7 at Cornell
Sat. 3/8 at Columbia
Tue. 3/11 vs. Penn
2,503 - B. Bradley, 1962-65
1,625 - I. Hummer, 2009-13
1,550 - D. Davis, 2008-12
1,546 - K. Mueller, 1987-91
1,451 - P. Campbell, 1959-62
1,441 - C. Robinson, 1979-83
1,428 - B. Earl, 1995-99
1,365 - B. Scrabis, 1985-89
1,321 - G. Petrie, 1967-70
1,292 - H. Haabestad, 1952-55
1,277 - G. Lewullis, 1995-99
1,239 - B. Taylor, 1970-72
1,207 - S. Goodrich 1994-98
1,133 - F. Sowinski, 1975-78
1,130 - R. Hielscher, 1991-95
1,122 - C. Thomforde, 1966-69
1,099 - T. Manakas, 1970-73
1,090 - J. Wallace, 2001-05
1,088 - C. Belz, 1956-59
1,079 - B. Hauptfuhrer, 1973-76
1,076 - B. Roma, 1976-79
1,071 - C. Mooney, 1990-94
1,064 - A. Hyland, Jr., 1960-63
1,062 - L. Brangan, 1957-60
1,057 - A. Hill, 1973-76
1,054 - D. Mavraides, 2007-11
1,044 - S. Johnson, 1993-1997
1,031 - J. Hummer, 1967-70
1,010 - W. Venable, 2001-05
