caribbeanhen
January 18th, 2024, 10:26 AM
48 years have passed so why is CH talking about Brian Magid on AGS ? Because he is a legend!
Magid had a reputation
. As Magid was from Silver Springs and had won a state championship in 1975, Maryland fans were more than ready to see him, but he was only playing in garbage time in early-season blowout wins. He came off the bench and hit some incredible long bombs and the fans that packed Cole field house started yelling shooooooooxooooot every time he got the ball…. Magid had already become like the Rocky horror picture show of college basketball with very limited playing time. Just imagine 15,000 people yelling shoot every time you have the ball and when you passed it away things went quiet again, it was quite a spectacle especially for a bench warmer
Lefty had a problem
Magids popularity didn’t impress his head coach. The media was now pumping Brian Magid but Lefty still wasn’t playing him. He thought Magid was too slow and just not athletic enough for serious PT as a freshman. The result of Lefty’s stubbornness only intensified Magid fever
Magid goes viral
So now it’s January 1976 and the ACC games are starting up and Maryland is down on tobacco Road at Duke. I remember the very start of the TV broadcast and needless to say that this was a big game. Despite all that, the announcers were only talking about one guy, they now too we’re burning with Magid fever
They were talking about witnessing a legendary display of shooting in pre-game warm-up where Magid was launching bombs for 20 minutes strait without missing and he was having some fun with the Duke fans …. and of course, the Duke fans were having some fun with him … it involves dollar bills
A Duke fan that witnessed this shooting exhibition describes that event…
Magid?
As long as you guys are recalling the mid-70s and the Duke-Maryland games and the pre-game interaction between the Crazies and a Maryland guard named Brian Magid?
Magid played in 1976 and 1977 (he transferred out after that). For those who don't remember, Magid was a man before his time. He was a pure shooter with unlimited range ... unfortunately, he was playing before the 3-point era. He couldn't run, couldn't defend, couldn't rebound and couldn't put the ball on the floor, but, man, could he shoot. He also had a very slow release.
I think it was before the 1977 Duke-Maryland game (the one that Steve Gray lost with his cross-court pass that hit the basket), but it might have been 1976. Magid came out early to shoot -- this is long before the team's pregame warmups. As he drilled 20-plus footers, he gabbed with the Crazies. After a while, one Duke student came down and put down a one-dollar bill at about 25-feet. Magid promply went over, made the shot from that spot and stuffed the bill in his pants. Other students started coming out, placing dollar bills on the court. Magid would make the shot and claim the bill.
Somebody came down and put a $5 bill at about 40 feet. Magid ignored it for awhile, but as he got ready to leave and join the team in the locker room, he finally floated over and launched a shot from atop the bill. The shot swished, Magid grabbed the money and ran off the floor to the loudest cheers I've every heard in Cameron for a visiting player.
Not sure how much Magid played in the game, but I know he had little or no impact.
Anybody else remember that night?
Magid had a reputation
. As Magid was from Silver Springs and had won a state championship in 1975, Maryland fans were more than ready to see him, but he was only playing in garbage time in early-season blowout wins. He came off the bench and hit some incredible long bombs and the fans that packed Cole field house started yelling shooooooooxooooot every time he got the ball…. Magid had already become like the Rocky horror picture show of college basketball with very limited playing time. Just imagine 15,000 people yelling shoot every time you have the ball and when you passed it away things went quiet again, it was quite a spectacle especially for a bench warmer
Lefty had a problem
Magids popularity didn’t impress his head coach. The media was now pumping Brian Magid but Lefty still wasn’t playing him. He thought Magid was too slow and just not athletic enough for serious PT as a freshman. The result of Lefty’s stubbornness only intensified Magid fever
Magid goes viral
So now it’s January 1976 and the ACC games are starting up and Maryland is down on tobacco Road at Duke. I remember the very start of the TV broadcast and needless to say that this was a big game. Despite all that, the announcers were only talking about one guy, they now too we’re burning with Magid fever
They were talking about witnessing a legendary display of shooting in pre-game warm-up where Magid was launching bombs for 20 minutes strait without missing and he was having some fun with the Duke fans …. and of course, the Duke fans were having some fun with him … it involves dollar bills
A Duke fan that witnessed this shooting exhibition describes that event…
Magid?
As long as you guys are recalling the mid-70s and the Duke-Maryland games and the pre-game interaction between the Crazies and a Maryland guard named Brian Magid?
Magid played in 1976 and 1977 (he transferred out after that). For those who don't remember, Magid was a man before his time. He was a pure shooter with unlimited range ... unfortunately, he was playing before the 3-point era. He couldn't run, couldn't defend, couldn't rebound and couldn't put the ball on the floor, but, man, could he shoot. He also had a very slow release.
I think it was before the 1977 Duke-Maryland game (the one that Steve Gray lost with his cross-court pass that hit the basket), but it might have been 1976. Magid came out early to shoot -- this is long before the team's pregame warmups. As he drilled 20-plus footers, he gabbed with the Crazies. After a while, one Duke student came down and put down a one-dollar bill at about 25-feet. Magid promply went over, made the shot from that spot and stuffed the bill in his pants. Other students started coming out, placing dollar bills on the court. Magid would make the shot and claim the bill.
Somebody came down and put a $5 bill at about 40 feet. Magid ignored it for awhile, but as he got ready to leave and join the team in the locker room, he finally floated over and launched a shot from atop the bill. The shot swished, Magid grabbed the money and ran off the floor to the loudest cheers I've every heard in Cameron for a visiting player.
Not sure how much Magid played in the game, but I know he had little or no impact.
Anybody else remember that night?