In honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1977 NCAA Championship men’s basketball team, Marquette Today is answering the question: Where are they now?
In our first installment, we looked at the 12 players who suited up for the Marquette champions. Now, we look at the coaches and support staff.
Coaches
Unfortunately, all members of the Marquette coaching are deceased in the last 25 years. What happened after the national championship for head coach Al McGuire and his staff?
Al McGuire
McGuire famously announced his retirement from coaching in the middle of the season, with the championship game serving as his send-off after 13 years at the helm of the program. His next act was a 23-year broadcasting career. He remained in the area, residing in Brookfield before he died in 2001.
Hank Raymonds
Raymonds predated McGuire’s arrival, joining the staff in 1961. He would then succeed him as head coach after his retirement. In six seasons as head coach, Raymond’s Marquette teams averaged 21 wins per season. His squads made the post-season each year with five NCAA Tournament bids and one trip to the NIT. He also stepped into McGuire’s shoes as athletic director in 1977, a position he held until 1987. He lived in Wauwatosa until his death in 2010.
Rick Majerus
Majerus joined the coaching staff as a Marquette undergraduate and remained an assistant until taking the reins from Raymonds in 1983. He would lead Marquette for three seasons and, after one year as a Milwaukee Bucks assistant, he embarked on a prolific college coaching career. He had stops at Ball State, the University of Utah and finally St. Louis University. He led the Utes to the 1998 Final Four. Between coaching stints, he spent three seasons as a broadcaster with ESPN. He died within weeks of retiring from SLU in 2012.
Support Staff
Kevin Byrne
Byrne is a 1971 graduate of Marquette, and he served as sports information director in 1977. He is credited with conceiving and coordinating the iconic team photo with the 1934 Packard. He left the department later in the year, beginning an award-winning public relations career in the NFL with the then-St. Louis Cardinals. At just 26, he was the youngest PR director in league history. He later joined the Cleveland Browns in 1981 and remained with the team through their move to Baltimore before retiring in 2020. He was honored with the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Award of Excellence in 2023, and the Ravens’ press box is named in his honor.
Managers
Greg Stack
Stack was a senior manager with the program in 1977. He graduated that spring and earned his MBA from the University of Minnesota. He is now the senior vice president at Speech-Soft Solutions, and he resides in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Tom Hayden
Hayden graduated from Marquette in 1979. He currently lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and is an account manager at Liberty Banc Mortgage.
Dave Du Chateau
Du Chateau also graduated from Marquette in 1979. He joined Ring & Du Chateau, an engineering consulting firm, prior to graduation, and he is now a partner at R&D. He resides in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Medical Staff
Bob Weingart
Weingart served as the school’s head athletic trainer for 38 years from 1946-84. A 1943 graduate of Marquette, he is a member of the ‘M’ Club Hall of Fame. He served as the president of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, was the trainer for the USA track team in the 1972 Olympics in Munich and is a member of the Citizens Savings Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame. He resided in Greendale, Wisconsin, after retirement, and he died in 2012.
Dr. Charles Eichenberger
Dr. Eichenberger served as Marquette’s team physician for over 40 years, all in a volunteer capacity. He was lettered one year as a football player at MU before graduating in 1936. He then graduated from Marquette’s School of Medicine in 1940. He went on to be inducted into the ‘M’ Club Hall of Fame in 1988.
Mark Paget
Paget was Weingart’s student trainer in 1977. He would graduate in 1979 with a degree in speech and went on to a career in marketing. In 2006, he embarked on a 20-year tenure as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Dental Association. He currently resides in Hartland, Wisconsin, and serves as business development ambassador for Edge Advisors.
