College basketball
Xavier has memorial for former coach Prosser
Sunday, August 5, 2007 3:52 AM
Skip Prosser
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Skip Prosser will always be "Coach" to Pat Kelsey.
"I believe that one of the greatest honors a player can bestow on a coach is to call him 'Coach' -- forever," Kelsey said yesterday while delivering the eulogy during a memorial Mass for Prosser at Xavier.
Prosser, 56, who coached at Xavier before becoming men's basketball coach at Wake Forest in 2001, died of an apparent heart attack in his office July 26. Former players and other coaches attended his funeral Tuesday in North Carolina, remembering Prosser as a teacher who molded the lives of those he knew.
Prosser was remembered again yesterday in a banquet room overlooking the basketball arena in the Cintas Center, which his successful Musketeers teams helped get built.
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