Celebration of Flyer Basketball

Last week, we helped produce "A Celebration of Flyer Basketball." More than 2,000 basketball fans joined many legendary Flyer players in celebrating the winning tradition at UD. We produced videos covering the modern era of UD basketball. We also wrote the script for emcee Jay Bilas, and we were in charge of the staging for the event.

This project combined two of my passions – video production and Flyer Basketball. What an honor it was to work with legendary coach Don Donoher. He is as classy as they come - humble, down-to-earth, nice guy with an amazing knowledge of the game.

Another guy I had the pleasure to meet was Don May. May might be the best player to ever play at UD, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to him. He was quick to deflect any praise to his coach and teammates.

I felt like I already knew Bucky Bockhorn, having listened to him on the radio for many years. And he is the same friendly, folksy personality in person that you hear on the radio. Bucky is UD’s Joe Nuxhall.

I don’t want to keep namedropping, but the list of classy people I worked with goes on – Larry Hansgen, Bucky Albers, Bill Uhl, Roosevelt Chapman, Brian Gregory. It was also a pleasure to meet ESPN’s Jay Bilas, who was a real pro as the emcee and also a very nice guy, even if he didn’t graduate from UD :-). I didn’t get to meet Bobby Knight, who was whisked in just before the event while we were busy making final preparations.

We had a short timeframe to produce the videos, given the scope of the project. But Brian worked his magic and we got them done with enough time to edit a cool intro montage that still gives me goose bumps when I see it. James Brothers and the folks in Athletics did a great job putting the event together, and it was a pleasure to play a part in such an extraordinary event!

Go Flyers!