If you happened to walk into the Starbucks at the intersection of Wilmot Road and Speedway on Thursday morning, you were greeted by a room overflowing with Tucson sports success.
UA assistant coach Jay John, left, gives an earful to freshman Richard Jefferson during their game against ASU in Tempe on Jan. 14, 1999.
Gathering to talk about old times was a group that included Tom Joseph, a Salpointe Catholic grad, who coached Mesa Mountain View to the 2002 state football championship and 175 career victories at several schools; Pat Welchert, a Salpointe grad who coached the Lancers to the 1991 state championship football game; Randall Moore, a first-team all-state basketball player at Pueblo High in the ’70s, who went on to be the head coach at Pima College and Pueblo High School; Jay John, a Salpointe grad who was part of Lute Olson’s 2001 Final Four coaching staff and the first Tucsonan to become a Division I head basketball coach, at Oregon State; Dennis Palmer, a Salpointe grad who has been the pro/GM at such Tucson-area golf courses as Quarry Pines, 49ers Country Club, Arizona National and the Tubac Golf Club, a man who has attended the last 39 Masters golf tournaments; and Bob Logan, a Salpointe grad and Pima County Sports Hall of Famer who coached football under Larry Smith at Arizona and for the 2013 Salpointe state championship team under Dennis Bene.
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If you were there, you might've said "those guys look familiar." Yes, they sure do.

