According to Plan
Famed sports columnist Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe began his
Sunday column, March 22, as follows:
“Siena may be a nice, little, 3,000-student school run by the
Franciscans, but this is no ‘Miracle of Loudonville.’ This is the
culmination of a plan.”
The plan Ryan was referring to was the well-documented one put in
motion when head coach Fran McCaffery arrived on campus in April
of 2005. But Ryan could have easily been referring to a less organized
accord reached in the summer of 2008 when the Saints took a foreign
tour of Italy.
Sitting in the courtyard outside their boutique hotel in Venice on an
idyllic August evening, the Siena basketball team began to wonder aloud
about the upcoming season.
“We have the opportunity to do something special,” senior co-captain
Kenny Hasbrouck told his teammates.
They discussed the possibilities until the early morning hours, and relived
the success they achieved a few months prior in the NCAA Tournament,
after winning the 2008 MAAC Championship at Times Union Center.
As the season unfolded, they would never talk publicly about their high
aspirations, buying into McCaffery’s one-game-at-a-time mantra. But the
goals for the year would be settled upon on the banks of the Mediterranean,
some four thousand miles from New York’s Capital, and each would be
achieved eight months later.
Clarence Jackson
52 2009-2010 Siena College Basketball
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