Episode One – Legacy: Bob Hurley
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With another financial crisis threatening to shudder the historic school at the end of this school year, St. Anthony’s needs about half a million dollars to remain open next season, Naismith Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley said Friday.
“We’ve raised over $1 million so I would say right now, between now and June 30, we need to raise about $550,000 and I think that number is a number we can reach,” Hurley said on the Boomer and Carton Show.
Hurley said the school has a couple of fundraising events planned to reach the target.
Unlike The Patrick School, which has high-profile NBA players like Kyrie Irving and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist helping fund the school and the basketball team, St. Anthony’s has no equivalent in the NBA. Kyle Anderson is the only St. Anthony’s alum in the NBA.
Paterson Eastside awaits its fate in the
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NEW YORK – The potential final season for a Hall of Fame coach and a national basketball institution will be chronicled in a SHOWTIME Sports digital documentary titled Legacy: Bob Hurley. SHOWTIME will debut Legacy: Bob Hurley in six weekly installments exclusively on SHO.com and the SHOWTIME Sports YouTube channel (@shosports) beginning Monday, Feb. 20.
Bob Hurley has led the Jersey City boys’ basketball team at Saint Anthony to a remarkable 28 New Jersey State Championships including a string of nine straight state titles in his nearly 50 years as head coach. He’s been recognized with four National Coach of the Year Awards and, perhaps more importantly, quietly boasts a 100 percent college acceptance rate for the seniors on his team. But a financial crisis threatens to shutter the inner-city private school if it can’t raise upwards of $10 million in order to keep the school open for the coming years.
Legacy: Bob Hurley, an exclusive online release, will document the 2016-17 season, the latter half in real-time, with the weekly release of 10-minute segments that introduce viewers to a man that has created a bona fide basketball factory at a modest school with an enrollment of less than 200 students.
By MIKE McCURRY & ADAM ZAGORIA JERSEY CITY,
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — One team owns the New Jersey Tournament of Champions trophy.
Their archrival wants it.
On Saturday, reigning TOC champion St. Anthony’s — winner of 41 straight games dating to March 2015 — will put its streak on the line against The Patrick School, the No. 14 team in the nation according to USA Today and the favorite to win this year’s TOC crown. The teams will square off at 5:45 p.m. in the Dan Finn Classic at the Jersey City Armory.
“It’s a St. Pat’s- St. Anthony’s game, that’s all that needs to be said,” Patrick School (7-2) co-coach Mike Rice said Tuesday night after watching the Friars (9-0) edge out the Ranney School, 51-48, at Brookdale Community College.
Bob Hurley remembers his St. Anthony’s team playing on the grand stage of the Hoophall Classic against Malik Monk and Bentonville (AR) a year ago.
Monk, who had signed with Kentucky, scored 22 points in a loss in front of Wildcats coach John Calipari, but it was St. Anthony’s junior guard R.J. Cole who really made a name for himself.
“It’s a big, big stage and when a kid plays on that stage and plays well, it’s something that you remember,” Hurley, whose team has won 41 straight games, said Thursday on The 4 Quarters Podcast. “Last year Malik Monk scored [22] points, R.J. Cole scored 23. R.J. scored the first 16 points of the game, and after that game he and his family knew he was going to get a scholarship because he had done that on a stage that’s even bigger than when you play in the state final.”
Cole ultimately chose Howard over Monmouth and Boston University, but a whole new crop of young New York and New Jersey stars will get a chance to impress college coaches this weekend at the Hoophall Classic.
