They held the Big 5 Hall induction luncheon back on Jan. 29, with Chaney, Rollie and Speedy all getting in. We’ve already remarked on Chaney’s and Rollie’s inductions, but we felt it was worth passing along Dick Jerardi’s Daily News story about Speedy Morris, too. Speedy is a Philly Guy through and through, and his early years at La Salle were marked by some of the school’s greatest successes — well, certainly the most recent anyway. It was fascinating to learn about Speedy’s humble basketball background, but even more to to get his thoughts on La Salle’s disastrous move out of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which set the program back years:

“Why did we ever leave the MAAC?” Morris said. “I might still be there. We owned the MAAC.”

It’s certainly a question worth pondering, given the Explorers’ struggles ever since it happened. But 10 days ago, it was also worth pondering the collective impact guys like Speedy, Rollie and Chaney had on college basketball in this city. And on that day, anyway, that’s all that mattered.

After the jump, we’ve got video of a portion of Chaney’s all-over-the-place acceptance speech, which Jerardi had written about for the Daily News‘ Philly Hoops Insider blog here.

Links: Chaney is still awesome [BIG FIVE POST]
Was inducting Rollie the right move? [BIG FIVE POST]
Speedy gets his due [Daily News]
Hall of Fame induction coverage [Philly Hoops Insider]
Video: [YouTube.com]