You knew then that Shimon could control Hoff.

I thought the roof was going to go off. The roar was just deafening.

He was an influence. I think there would be a lot of people in this town at that time and still to this day, who would say that if Earl had been the coach, we never would have had a championship team.

Shimon was just a nice guy. He was what I would call a real gentleman, a friend of everybody's. I really missed him.