We were young once…

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A bit of a reprieve from the continued disgraceful behavior of the league office and their henchmen at ESPN. This great video goes back nearly 30 years to the apex of college basketball.

NC State v. Louisville at William Neal Reynolds coliseum.

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  1. theTHRILL 02/20/2012 at 8:27 AM #

    Man, I miss Reynolds. Nothing like it.

  2. eas 02/20/2012 at 8:39 AM #

    What a great video. Man that place was loud and electric.

  3. theTHRILL 02/20/2012 at 8:39 AM #

    Oh, and Lorenzo Charles was a freakin MAN!

  4. BJD95 02/20/2012 at 9:12 AM #

    I am old enough to remember our Saturday afternoon NBC games with the likes of Louisville, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame. In my view, those got the Reynolds crowd in more of a fever pitch than even the blues.

  5. Pack85EE 02/20/2012 at 10:31 AM #

    So this was the season after we won the national championship. I remember we opened the season in the tip off classic with a rematch of Houston. We beat them again and hit the brickyard again, just to relive that glorious spring of 83.

  6. Pack85EE 02/20/2012 at 10:47 AM #

    I wanted to bring up a ref issue on a fresh blog where more fans may read it. Does anyone remember that TV used to show replays of foul calls all the time. It seems in they always did and you certainly had a better feel for the bad calls and no calls. In fact it was about like a football replay review. You saw the foul call a couple times, maybe from a couple angles. I think TV protects the refs now and only on the rare charge do they show the replay. Anybody else remember it that way?

  7. stillapackfan 02/20/2012 at 10:55 AM #

    “In my view, those got the Reynolds crowd in more of a fever pitch than even the blues.”

    It’s always about the blues with state fans.

  8. packof81 02/20/2012 at 12:48 PM #

    Spud Webb, Ernie Myers and Gannon the Cannon … that brings back memories. Wake Forest had Mugsy Bogues back then. They came to Reynolds. That was quite a game to see Spud and Mugsy on the same floor.

    I really miss Reynolds. It was so loud my ears rang when I came out.

  9. Classof89 02/20/2012 at 1:41 PM #

    Wow. What a manchild Charles was…RIP, gentle giant.

  10. moose8865 02/20/2012 at 1:54 PM #

    it’s interesting watching these and seeing the shorts and also, nobody with tattoos all over their arms

  11. Lumpy 02/20/2012 at 2:10 PM #

    I was getting student tickets for Reynolds starting in ’94. I remember seeing some good visiting teams. Kansas and UCLA come to mind. But I also remember half full houses witnessing some of the most godawful basketball and losses to Campbell and Florida Int’l(?). The place was great when it was full, crowd wise. But I also remember it having like one bathroom in the whole place and more than a few seats right behind steel girders. Would have loved to see the place in the mid-to-late ’80’s.

  12. MP 02/20/2012 at 2:10 PM #

    Early/Mid 1980’s… College basketball was light years better than it is now (not just NC State).

  13. WTNY 02/20/2012 at 2:26 PM #

    Ahh … memories.

    My freshman year. I recall seeing the ’83 National Championship banner being unveiled at our first home game that year (Western Carolina, I believe).

    ’83-’84 was a down year for State but otherwise, those were some great years!

  14. rtpack24 02/20/2012 at 2:30 PM #

    When Reynolds was rocking you could not hear the ref’s whistle. Numerous players that played for other schools including UNC have told me more than once that Reynolds was the toughest place to play. State fans used to pick out one player and go crazy everytime he touched the ball and when anyone else on the team had the ball it would be dead silence. They did it to Matt Doherty once and a friend of mine on that team said he thought Matt was going to snap at halftime. Hope everyone shows up Tues and goes crazy.

  15. Rick 02/20/2012 at 2:36 PM #

    Lorenzo was only listed at something like 230 when NCSU won the title. He seemed so huge back then. That is guard size today.

  16. Tuffy2 02/20/2012 at 2:42 PM #

    I was an usher back then under the basket I would sit on the cheerleaders blue mat. Did you see how V could talk to the officials back then? I would not change those times for anything we have done at the RBC or will do there.

  17. 74wolf 02/20/2012 at 2:44 PM #

    We need to play UNC & Duke in Reynolds even now. BTW, was there any discussion on SFN about the revised schedule going forward (ie, only playing UNC one time/year in regular season?)

  18. Wufpacker 02/20/2012 at 2:53 PM #

    No, it’s not always about the blues with State fans, at least it wasn’t back then. BJD’s remembrance of national games against top ranked non-conference teams, and the rabid atmosphere in Reynold’s for those games, is spot on.

    It didn’t have to be about the blues because we weren’t entrenched in Duke and Carolina’s shadow. We were their contemporaries, and we attracted top matchups with top teams just like them….arguably more than Duke, IMHO.

  19. GoldenChain 02/20/2012 at 3:02 PM #

    If I’m not mistaken we beat Louisville one weekend then Kentucky the next (or vice versa).
    ….those were the days.

  20. MattN 02/20/2012 at 3:03 PM #

    Nothing beats Reynolds. NOTHING! If you say Reynolds is a dump, you never saw State play UNC, Duke, Kansas, or any other big name there. The best college game atmosphere. No Skyboxes. Small bathrooms. Very tight halls. But, man, that place was LOUD and intimidating. Not cold and anticeptic like RBC.

    I would give anything to move all the games back there. It was a significant advantage over RBC. Reynolds is worth 1-2 wins/year over RBC.

  21. Tuffy2 02/20/2012 at 3:18 PM #

    UNC and Duke were big games of course. Go ask any UNC or Duke fan today where they would rather play us and I would bet the house they would say the RBC.

    I really miss Jimmy V after watching those highlights. He did everything he could each game to give those players a chance to win. He was STATE!

  22. 87stategrad 02/20/2012 at 4:28 PM #

    I was at this game, although I don’t remember it specifically. I never missed a home game, ever. Seeing this brought back great memories. Lo and Co on the inside, with Ernie, Spud, and Gannon outside. Great to hear C.A. Dillon’s voice, although I’d love to hear him say “Ernieeeeeee Myyyres!” I’m pretty sure Hess would eject several dozen of the fans on the sidelines. Me included. The closest I ever got was an evil glance from Lenny Wirtz, which let me know I was getting to him. Priceless.

  23. BJD95 02/20/2012 at 5:02 PM #

    I was at the UNC game in Reynolds, Feb 1983. When Dean got his technical, it got so loud that it woke up my baby sister. She screamed her head off.

    I only knew because I looked at her. 18 inches away from a screaming toddler…and I couldn’t hear a peep of it.

    On our way back to the car, I was so excited and stone deaf that I was millimeters from getting run over. Hey, at least I would have died happy. 🙂

  24. swamppack 02/20/2012 at 5:42 PM #

    Thanks for posting this video. Nearly brought me to tears. Serious.

    Seeing a plan unveiled to start building a true b-ball arena exclusive for Wolfpack round-ball would bring me to tears also.

  25. Ashman87 02/20/2012 at 6:48 PM #

    Hey Tuffy2, I can definitely support you on that. I had a UNC friend once tell me that he hated Reynolds just because it was so deep and that the students sectiion looked like a big mom, as opposed to the Cameron Crazies who looked like a fair size mob, but they don’t go quite so deep in CIS. He also told me that he really valued ANY win in Reynolds just because there were many UNC teams that stumbled in Reynolds, i.e. 83,85,86,89,91,92,95-96. For the record, he told me this in 2004, so it made me quite sad.

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