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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4389382, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1572197758899228673[/MEDIA] [URL='https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctinsider.com%2Fsports%2Fuconn-mens-basketball%2Farticle%2FUConn-men-s-basketball-Emeka-Okafor-17451267.php'][B]Backdoor cut to article[/B][/URL] [B]-> [/B]"He was nothing short of tremendous," Big East executive associate commissioner Stu Jackson noted. For the past eight years, the league has gathered its incoming freshmen for a weekend in the Big Apple, a sort of orientation of what it means to be a Big East basketball player. When Jackson contacted Okafor, who lives in New York City, to serve as one of the former player panelists, it wasn't exactly a hard sell. "There was no sell," Jackson pointed out. "Without hesitation, he said he was in." Okafor seemed to get as much out of it as the young players he met. "It was cool," he said. "It was a great experience to go there and chat with incoming freshmen. It was nostalgic for me to reminisce about that time. We didn’t have that program when I was a freshman, but being there reminded me of what it was like to be a freshman." <- [/QUOTE]