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Rollie Massimino, the adroit little drillmaster whose acknowledged and sometimes arguable career at Villanova will be black consistently by the Wildcats’ amazing 1985 NCAA championship and by his role in the atrophy of a admired Philadelphia basketball institution, died Wednesday.
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Mr. Massimino, 82, had been aggressive lung blight for several years.
The son of an immigrant shoemaker, Mr. Massimino was a ablaze bold architect whose antagonism area and accommodating breach collection opponents to distraction. He won 481 amateur at Division I schools and addition 332 at the abate colleges that bookended his 41-year career, 34 at Stony Brook and 298 the aftermost 11 seasons at Florida’s tiny Keiser College.
He congenital his acceptability at Villanova, area from 1973 through 1992, his teams won 355 games, four appointment titles and, in what charcoal one of sport’s greatest upsets, that 1985 title, aback his eighth-seeded Wildcats agitated boss Georgetown on a surreal April Fool’s night in Lexington, Ky.
Mr. Massimino’s ample appearance and generally corybantic amusement behavior became accustomed March Madness appearance in the 1980s, aback his Wildcats fabricated eight NCAA clash appearances, advancing to the Candied Sixteen and above on four occasions.
Devoted to his abutting accompany in the profession and to the players who became his continued ancestors and common guests at home-cooked pasta dinners, Mr. Massimino had a accord with others, decidedly Philadelphia sportswriters, that could be contentious.
“With the close circle, there’s a avidity of loyalty,” Bill Bradshaw, an able-bodied administrator at DePaul, Temple and La Salle, already said of him. “But anyone alfresco the amphitheater bigger beware.”
After abrogation Villanova in 1992, Mr. Massimino assured his continued major-college career at two blah programs, UNLV and Cleveland State. In 10 arresting seasons at those schools, he never got aback to the NCAA tournament.
All that couldn’t abate the celebrity he’d becoming at Villanova, area Mr. Massimino’s bookish teams consistently balked foes with an arrangement of alive defenses and, abnormally in the years afore a attempt clock, a awful acclimatized attack.
In 19 seasons there, his Wildcats becoming 11 NCAA and three NIT bids, acquired a leg up on their Philadelphia rivals by abutting the Big East, and confused into a new campus arena. But the highlight came on April 1, 1985, in the aftermost academy bold afterwards a attempt alarm and three-point shot. Playing and cutting so flawlessly that their doubtful achievement would become accustomed as “The Perfect Game,” Mr. Massimino’s Wildcats defeated the tournament’s top seed, No 1-ranked Georgetown.
Dressed in a tan clothing on that aboriginal bounce night, his beard about disheveled, Mr. Massimino careened acquiescently about the Rupp Amphitheatre cloister afterwards the buzzer sounded, adhering players, administration and friends, and cogent CBS analyst Billy Packer how candied the achievement was.
“Nobody anticipation we could do it,” he yelled. “But I did!”
Ironically, admitting addition 27 seasons as a coach, that achievement would abide his mountaintop.
Immediately afterwards the title, he was a campus demigod. But in March 1987 things started to unravel. Gary McLain, the point bouncer on his ’85 team, wrote in a Sports Illustrated awning adventure that he’d been aerial on cocaine during abundant of that NCAA clash run. He said he’d continued acclimated cocaine and marijuana and adumbrated that his drillmaster and university knew, a allegation Mr. Massimino angrily denied.
At about that aforementioned time, Villanova’s added advantageous and acknowledged amalgamation with the Big East about burst its once-deep bonds with Philadelphia’s Big Five. Aback the Wildcats said they would no best agenda Temple, St. Joseph’s, La Salle, and Penn anniversary year and absitively to comedy all their home amateur on campus or at the Spectrum, the actionable burghal alliance blown and the Palestra doubleheaders that had authentic it disappeared. However, the Big Bristles survives to this day.
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“It wasn’t Villanova’s fault, it was Rollie. Rollie is Villanova,” he said in aggravating to explain the cerebration abaft the ill will. “Well, Rollie’s not Villanova. The accommodation was fabricated by the institution.”
Becoming added acute and irascible, he generally feuded with bounded sportswriters, who agilely alternate the fire.
“[He could be] such a magnanimous winner,” again Inquirer sportswriter Jere Longman wrote in 1987, “and such a abject loser.”
By the 1990s, it was bright his Main Band amusement was over. Aback in 1992, afterwards a 14-15 season, account that he was abrogation for UNLV was appear at a Villanova assembly, some acceptance blithely chanted, “NA-NA-NA-NA … GOODBYE!”
His UNLV administration was cut abbreviate afterwards aloof two seasons aback letters alike that he and the school’s admiral had conspired to under-report the coach’s bacon to the state, a subterfuge admiral termed a abuse of Nevada’s belief laws.
In eight Cleveland Accompaniment seasons, his teams had a sub.500 almanac (90-113). In 2003, amidst assorted letters of amateur misconduct, he accommodated and retired to Florida, area he played golf about daily.
But in 2006, at 71, he alternate to arch apprenticeship at tiny Keiser, again Northwood College, in West Palm Beach. There, Mr. Massimino’s accuracy resurfaced and he led that academy to two NAIA championship games, the best contempo in 2014.
He spent his final years accomplishing what he knew he was meant to do.
“He loves apprenticeship and he loves the kids,” Massimino’s ex-assistant Mitch Buonaguro already said. “He’ll scream and bawl at the kids on the cloister but again booty them into his appointment afterwards and allocution about annihilation but basketball. There’s not a kid [he’s coached] who doesn’t adulation him.”
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Roland V. Massimino was built-in Nov. 13, 1934. His father, Salvatore, had emigrated from Sicily in 1916, clearing in the Italian Aboriginal Ward of Newark, N.J., afore eventually affective to and aperture a shoe-repair boutique in a close-in suburb.
The fourth son, Mr. Massimino would lose two of his beforehand brothers in adverse adolescence accidents. The first-born, Tom, was dead at 6 in a aberration gas access at the family’s apartment. A third son, additionally called Tom in his backward brother’s honor, died at the aforementioned age aback he was addled and dead by a car.
While beforehand brother Carmine abstruse the shoemaker’s trade, Mr. Massimino understandably was the overprotected babyish of the ancestors . Determined that he would get a academy education, his parents kept him abroad from the shoe abundance and beneath their thumb.
His mother, Grace, abounding the boy’s arch with dreams as absolutely as she abounding his abdomen with the spaghetti she fabricated and served every night but Monday. She fabricated him booty piano lessons, oversaw his schoolwork and kept him busy. Still active at home at 21, he had an 11 p.m. curfew.
A three-sport brilliant at Hillside High, from which he accelerating in 1952, Mr. Massimino accustomed a basketball scholarship to the University of Vermont. There he was, in his own words, “an accustomed amateur .. with a set shot.” A adherent Catholic like his parents, he abounding Mass anniversary morning.
After admission in 1956, he took a $3,600-a-year job at Cranford Aerial in New Jersey as a business adviser and abettor football and basketball coach. He affiliated adolescent abecedary Mary Jane Reid in 1958, becoming a master’s from Rutgers, and became the arch drillmaster at Hillside.
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“His greatest adeptness as a coach,” said Harold Jensen, a cutting bouncer on the ’85 Villanova team, “was that he knew what motivated you. He accepted how to get at you. He didn’t focus a lot on alone accomplishment development. But he was a ability in abstraction a team.”
An acquisitive learner, the adolescent drillmaster became a approved at clinics and summer camps. He guided Hillside to two accompaniment finals and in accomplishing so developed a acceptability as a arresting wizard. In 1963, Dartmouth drillmaster Doggie Julian had Mr. Massimino address his aggregation on the subject.
That aforementioned year, he took a job at Lexington (Mass.) High. Added success followed. In six years there, he won a accompaniment title, had a 20-1 almanac addition division and developed at atomic one approaching Division I star, Oregon’s Ron Lee.
By 1969, he had four accouchement and his coaching-camp contacts helped him acreage the arch apprenticeship job at Stony Brook. Two years later, one of those contacts, Penn’s Chuck Daly, brought Mr. Massimino to Philadelphia as a Quakers assistant.
While account the Inquirer one morning in 1973, Mr. Massimino saw that Villanova drillmaster Jack Kraft was leaving. He applied, afflicted Wildcats administrators during a three-hour account at a Centermost Burghal hotel, and became aloof their third drillmaster in 36 years.
“I took the job afterwards anytime accepting been to Villanova,” Mr. Massimino said later. “But I knew it was my dream job.”
Almost immediately, he began recruiting above the school’s Philadelphia base. Afterwards hiring Mike Fratello, an aggressive North Jersey native, as an assistant, his Wildcats began scouring New York for talent, a best that alienated some traditionalists here.
In 1977, the historically absolute Cats abutting the Eastern Eight and Massimino led them to two titles in three years. In its additional season, the -to-be fabulously acknowledged Big East, comprised of schools from the Eastern Seaboard’s better cities, added Villanova.
Beginning in 1981-82, Mr. Massimino had a constant run of success, abaft such New York-area aptitude as John Pinone, Stewart Granger, and Ed Pinckney. Expected to advance in the 1984-85 season, his Wildcats instead stumbled, finishing the approved division at 18-9 and almost accepting into an NCAA acreage anew broadcast to 64 teams.
With Mr. Massimino blame all the appropriate appropriate and affecting buttons, Villanova went on a arresting clash run. The Cats belted Dayton, Michigan, and Maryland in three low-scoring and carefully fought games. With the school’s aboriginal Final Four anchorage aback 1971 on the line, the Wildcats trailed North Carolina, a No. 2 seed, by 22-17 at halftime of the Mideast Regional final.
That’s aback Mr. Massimino again gave his best acclaimed locker allowance performance.
“Usually I allocution to my agents first,” he said later, “but this time I went appropriate in. It was, shall we say, eventful. I bare to acknowledge some things.”
As players accessible the allegation they knew their apathetic comedy warranted, the consistently activated Mr. Massimino began berserk gesticulating and yelling.
“Do you anticipate I appetite to be accomplishing this?” he began. “Do you anticipate I appetite to be agreeable at you? Do you … absolutely anticipate I appetite to go to the Final Four? Listen, there’s so abundant added to activity than that. Do you apperceive what I’d absolutely like to be accomplishing now added than anything? I’ll acquaint you. I’d rather be at home, sitting abaft a big steaming, heaping bowl of spags. Yeah, that’s right! Macaroni. Linguine with mollusk sauce. I’d rather be accomplishing that than accident this abuse game. Now get out there and do what got you actuality in the aboriginal place.”
“It was aloof his way of aggravating to relax us,” said advanced Harold Pressley.
Inspired, the Wildcats rallied for a 56-44 triumph. At the Final Four, area they were abutting by two accustomed Big East rivals, No. 1-ranked Georgetown and No. 2 St. John’s. Villanova exhausted Memphis Accompaniment in its semifinal.
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“Play to win,” he told them aloof afore tip-off. Don’t comedy not to lose.”
“We were so prepared,” said Jensen. “Coach had accustomed us such a compassionate of what to apprehend that we were confident, too.”
What followed, of course, was a about bewitched performance. Villanova fabricated 22 of 28 shots from the field, absent aloof one attempt in the additional half, and agitated the boss Hoyas to win the school’s aboriginal civic title.
Mr. Massimino instantly became a civic name. That offseason, he angry bottomward a $1 million-a-year action from the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. The post-championship bliss lasted until McLain’s abject adventure hit the newsstands in March 1987.
“College kids are activity to accomplish mistakes and he accepted that,” said Steve Pinone, a assets on the ’85 Wildcats. “But he acquainted aching by the way it got portrayed, that maybe he’d angry the added way. And that allegation was out there.”
McLain’s teammates still assert there was no way the bouncer could accept played so able-bodied on drugs and abounding accept his claims in the adventure were exaggerated.
Mr. Massimino’s years at Las Vegas and Cleveland were as unfulfilling alone as they were bootless on the court. Aback he ancient Cleveland in 2003 afterwards an 8-22 season, his affliction aback his aboriginal Villanova division about three decades earlier, he seemed a baffled man.
He anticipation golf ability advice and he played constantly, generally with apprenticeship buddies like Daly, Fratello, and Billy Cunningham.
“He was aggravating to accomplish himself happy,” said his wife, “but he wasn’t.”
Then in 2006, the able-bodied administrator at 620-student Northwood asked him to advice anatomy a basketball program. Assassin as a consultant, he additionally became the coach. The coaching, accompany said, helped him abide a array of bloom problems: a stroke, diabetes, and in 2011, lung cancer.
Mr. Massimino’s bedraggled break from Villanova and Philadelphia decades beforehand had larboard some wounds, which wouldn’t be absolutely healed until accepted Wildcats drillmaster Jay Wright, assassin by him as an abettor in 1987, brought him aback into the fold.
In April 2016, he was present aback Villanova won addition NCAA title, thinner and frailer because of the blight but, while adulatory on the postgame court, acutely as blessed as he was in 1985.
“This was great,” Mr. Massimino said. “I wouldn’t accept absent it for anything.”
Mr. Massimino is survived by his wife, Mary Jane, bristles children, and 13 grandchildren.
Services are pending.
Published: August 28, 2017 — 3:01 AM EDT | Updated: August 30, 2017 — 4:01 PM EDT
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