Coach Keith Urgo has the Fordham Rams on the cusp of making a run toward the NCAA Tournament.
It was, as Fordham athletic director Ed Kull recalled, a punch to the gut. Just when the men’s basketball program finally seemed headed in the right direction, the rug was pulled out from underneath it.
Kull started a coaching search, interviewing 12 different candidates. But he had a pretty good idea from the onset where the search was likely headed. Keith Urgo, a coaching veteran with extended stints at Villanova and Penn State, had come in with Neptune, serving as a co-head coach of sorts. Neptune was so certain Urgo was needed for his staff a year ago he gave him a full 10 days to decide if he wanted to work at Fordham, Florida or Louisville after he left Penn State.
“You’re just so hyped up, because I’m living a dream, man,” he said. “This is not work for us. It’s a passion. You get, for lack of a better word, high off of the competition. If you don’t bring the energy, then you can’t ask them to bring the energy.”Robert Sabo for NY PostAs was the case with Neptune, Urgo’s requirements of his players are focused on effort and a positive attitude. He won’t pull a player for anything offense-related.
Entering March with NCAA Tournament dreams really is uncharted territory for Fordham and its fans. Quisenberry and Rose were asked the last time the Rams went dancing, and neither knew. When told it was 1992, when the university was a member of the Patriot League, Quisenberry responded: “Jeez, I wasn’t even [born] yet.”
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