CoSIDA E-Digest April 2013 • 1
CoSIDA E-Digest April 2013 • 1
CoSIDA E-Digest April 2013 • 1
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A rare road win over nationally<br />
ranked Kentucky in Rupp Arena on<br />
Valentine’s Day the year prior also<br />
stands out. “I’ve never heard that<br />
place as quiet as it was on that day.<br />
We nearly played a perfect game to<br />
beat the Wildcats on national TV that<br />
night.”<br />
But it isn’t only great successes<br />
that stand out in Rosinski’s mind.<br />
A memorable March night in 2008<br />
at the Georgia Dome may have been<br />
the most frightening of his life. MSU’s<br />
SEC Tournament game against rival<br />
Alabama went into overtime when a<br />
Crimson Tide player hit a three-pointer<br />
at the buzzer. That was a prelude to<br />
the Georgia Dome roof rippling and<br />
swaying in the force of a tornado that<br />
struck downtown Atlanta.<br />
“If not for that game going into<br />
overtime, a lot of the fans might have<br />
been out on the streets,” Rosinski<br />
stated.<br />
At East Mississippi Community<br />
College, life is quite different. No<br />
longer part of a multi-person shop,<br />
Rosinski is the school’s entire sports<br />
information department since being<br />
hired there in 2008.<br />
Never having had a chance to<br />
experience a national championship<br />
among the NCAA ranks, the 2011<br />
EMCC football team earned him a ring<br />
with the school’s first-ever national<br />
title. He’s also accompanied EMCC<br />
basketball teams to five straight trips<br />
to the national tournament in Kansas.<br />
In summing up his 25-year athletic<br />
communications experience, a grateful<br />
Rosinski said that “I’m very privileged<br />
to have experienced so many great<br />
memories and honored to have been<br />
associated with so many great people<br />
both at Mississippi State and now here<br />
at East Mississippi.”<br />
Rosinski’s love of statistics may<br />
have earned him a career but also<br />
contributed to his enjoyment of sports.<br />
Along with his old school statistical<br />
knowledge, one of the learning<br />
experiences of his young life was<br />
manually keeping score of bowling. He<br />
has, however, had five games in that<br />
sport that couldn’t have been easier to<br />
score – perfect 300s. He has carried a<br />
200-plus average on the lanes for the<br />
past decade.<br />
Whether in the SEC or NJCAA,<br />
Rosinski’s love for sports has earned<br />
him an outstanding career.<br />
Rosinski, who will turn 50 in August,<br />
has been married to the former Nadine<br />
Jackson, of West Columbia, S.C.,<br />
for 25 years, and they have one son,<br />
14-year-old Jackson.<br />
<strong>CoSIDA</strong> E-<strong>Digest</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>2013</strong> <strong>•</strong> 71<br />
GEORGE CUTTITA<br />
Continued from Page 54<br />
Donna talked about working for<br />
the Walt Disney Company. Cuttita<br />
promised that if she took a job with<br />
Disney, he would leave the SID field<br />
and join her. She was hired at Disney<br />
in 2005. He kept his promise, leaving<br />
Union after 25 years.<br />
When they review their careers,<br />
many SIDs would look fondly at three<br />
areas: the individual honors earned by<br />
athletes, the victories by the teams,<br />
and the coverage from the media.<br />
Cuttita has three more important<br />
facets.<br />
“Meeting (and marrying) Donna,”<br />
he said. “Working for Dick Sakala<br />
when he was the athletics director, and<br />
my son, Danny. He was my confidante<br />
and my unofficial assistant.<br />
“Those are the parts that mean the<br />
most to me.”<br />
As they should.<br />
<strong>2013</strong><br />
<strong>CoSIDA</strong> CONVENTION<br />
at NACDA Affiliates Convention<br />
June 12-15<br />
Orlando Marriott World Center