Dancing to St. Louis!!

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About BJD95

1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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76 Responses to Dancing to St. Louis!!

  1. cooldrip 03/18/2012 at 6:24 PM #

    PRIDE. I haven’t felt that nearly enough in the last 25 years (God bless Rivers, Hodge, Holt and Wilson), but today that is the best way to describe my feelings as a WOLFPACKER. Today I’m proud! GO PACK!!!

  2. Jediwolf 03/18/2012 at 6:24 PM #

    We’ve got the talent and the coaches to beat any team in the nation.
    GO PACK!! GO GOTT!!

    FEELS LIKE 83!

  3. Hawkeye Whitney 03/18/2012 at 6:30 PM #

    Looks like the Holes are moving on too. Too early to talk about how sweet that rematch would be? We owe them one.

  4. BJD95 03/18/2012 at 6:32 PM #

    I think it feels like a completely new and unique experience. Which is fine and jim dandy by me.

  5. BJD95 03/18/2012 at 6:35 PM #

    With Henson, I’m not sure anyone can beat them other than Kentucky. But I would be damned proud to give it our best shot a week from now.

    Now that they’ve handled Creighton…I’m not optimistic in the least that Ohio or USF can even act as a speed bump.

  6. ncst8zr1 03/18/2012 at 6:38 PM #

    Speaking of telephoning your dad (^Wuf and Tex), starting with the first game of the ACC Tourney in 1983 (which I attended in Atlanta with my wife), I called my dad after every victory, and at the end of each, my dad said he would be expecting a call after the next Wolfpack victory…and…I better do what I could to make sure that the calls would continue. The rest is history, and as you know the BEST call was just after the Houston game, when I had to inform him it would be my last call for awhile! What a memory we often shared until his passing in 1992. I wish that I could have called him today, we would have been equally excited about the Pack…I hope he was watching. As an aside, enjoy the good times with your dads (etc.) while you have the opportunity. I’m glad I did.

    My wife and I watched the game on TV today. For the last 10.4 (?) seconds, we locked arms like the players on the bench frequently do. When the Hoya missed the last shot, our shouts so startled our cat that we probably won’t be able to coax him out into the open for days.

    Congratulations to the players and coaches. Also, thank you!

    While at the Red and White BB game this year, my wife remarked about the good sized crowd in attendance–the lower bowl of the RBC was almost full. Feeling the excitement in the air, including recruiting expectations, I told her at that time to WTNY, that the crowd would be even larger. The excitement IS back after a long absence, which is very meaningful to us fans who have been runnin’ with the Pack since the days of Case, Sloan, Valvano, Thompson, Burleson, Towe, Lowe, Whittenburg, Bailey, Carr, Corchiani, Monroe, Gugliotta, et al.

  7. Wulfpack 03/18/2012 at 6:45 PM #

    If Zeller, Henson, and Barnes move on, I surmise we will be the ACC’s top vote getter. Gott is certainly starting off with a BANG!

  8. MARinRVA 03/18/2012 at 6:46 PM #

    See, this is what happens when the administration panders to “the most destructive fan base in history.” State fans could be relaxing on the back 9 this glorious afternoon, but instead we’re glued to the TV set and scrounging under the sofa cushions for more Xanax. Guess we have no one to blame but ourselves! 🙂

  9. Lsquare 03/18/2012 at 6:48 PM #

    What an awesome day for the Pack!! I am hoarse and my dog just came out from under the bed a few minutes ago!!

    Jimmy V. and Lorenzo Charles are smiling down on the Pack tonight!!!!Still can’t believe that none of the announcers have picked up on the “LC” on our uniforms, or if they have commented on it, I have missed it. The spirit of Lo and Jimmy V. are with us!!!

  10. Packster 03/18/2012 at 6:50 PM #

    For those of you younger fans, you cannot imagine the pain that has been endured for the last 23 years. Today a door to a new world opened. It was such a great great feeling. I knew our time would come again if I lived long enough. It is here now and there is more to follow.

  11. MickQ 03/18/2012 at 6:56 PM #

    The Cardiac Pack is BACK. GO WOLFPACK!!!!!!

  12. Texpack 03/18/2012 at 6:59 PM #

    I’m glad some others got to share this with their families as well. I do cherish the calls with my Dad. I’m just hoping for one more magical run to BEGIN the Gottfather era.

    I had knee surgery on Wednesday and my oldest son kept telling me after the game when I finally got out of the recliner, “Don’t blow out your knee Dad, don’t blow out your knee.” I didn’t jump up and down, but I did celebrate for all the good knee would handle.

  13. Gene 03/18/2012 at 7:01 PM #

    “If Zeller, Henson, and Barnes move on”

    If Zeller doesn’t move on, there’s something really, really fishy going on in Chapell Hell 😉

  14. McCallum 03/18/2012 at 7:12 PM #

    A trip to St Louie eh?

    I can envision it now.

    1) 3 cases of beer (The Beast Light to honor the college years)

    2) 1 roll of toilet paper

    3) 7 lbs of beef jerky

    4) a Moore County phone book

    5) a gazetteer missing the Missouri/Kansas map

    Trips of this sort are the kind that bond people for life. Only a fool with lots of money (as I’m checking flights out of Atlanta) would fly when you could drive and pass gas in every county along I-75, I-40 all the way out. Having control of the power windows would make you a god!!!!

    Just think of all the cheap diners you could eat at, all the lies you could tell, the beer joints you could roll into in the middle of the night.

    Hell, I’m going.

    McCallum

  15. MARinRVA 03/18/2012 at 7:18 PM #

    @ BJD, somebody got to Kellogg. He called a game in the mid-90s where he compared a comeback that came up short to some guy rounding third on his first date, only to get gunned down at the plate. I can’t remember the exact words, but it was in this ultra-suave Billy Dee Williams delivery. My wife and I looked at each other like, WTF? Did he just say that? But he never goes off the reservation anymore.

  16. SnowPack94 03/18/2012 at 7:37 PM #

    GOTT TO BELIEVE!!!

  17. MrPlywood 03/18/2012 at 7:37 PM #

    BJD95: “I think it feels like a completely new and unique experience. Which is fine and jim dandy by me.”

    I lived 1983, my last year at State. I loved that, will never forget it, and I too have to agree with BJD on all counts

  18. MrPlywood 03/18/2012 at 7:38 PM #

    Oh yeah, I eagerly await Bilas’ assessment of the Pack’s post-game celebration. Too much? Too little? Just right? 😛

  19. graywolf 03/18/2012 at 7:46 PM #

    This team makes it interesting but I think they believe in themselves and each other. Its been since the Valvano era that I have felt this good about NC State basketball. It hard to express how happy I am for all NC State alumni like myself that have lived through Robinson, Sendek and Lowe waiting for a team and coaching staff like this.
    Even if this was our last win of the year we have far exceeded our hope for this team.
    Way to go PACK.

  20. triadwolf 03/18/2012 at 7:54 PM #

    Had to listen to the last 10 minutes in the car. If my son wasn’t in the care I probably would have driven over a bridge a couple times. Great win and I really can’t believe how good of a TEAM this has become.

    Playing with house money for sure, but there’s no reason we can’t break the house and keep it all!

  21. redwolf87 03/18/2012 at 8:08 PM #

    What a great day.

    As many of us, I suspected that we would be much improved this season, because we had too much misguided talent to justify the lousy results.

    Even I didn’t think we’d get to this. Possibility, sure.

    Just nice to sit back, enjoy this ride, and look forward to speaking with the Duke fans I know (that I can find tomorrow…they have really disappeared, haven’t they???).

  22. redcanine 03/18/2012 at 8:13 PM #

    If being proud of something makes you feel rich, then I feel like T. Boone Pickens right now.

  23. Sweet jumper 03/18/2012 at 8:17 PM #

    I think we just Gottfreed from 20+ years of BS. Suck it Poole Commission, Board of Governors, News and Disturber, Todd Turner etc……………….
    Sorry Marshall was injured, but it is his non-dominant hand. Don’t forget that Monte Towe broke his left wrist in 1973 and played with a splint and never missed a game. He was the point guard for an undefeated team by the way. Just saying, if you are tough, you play. And when we are hungry, we eat. Go Pack!!!!!!!!!!!

  24. blpack 03/18/2012 at 8:44 PM #

    This is the happiest I’ve been with Wolfpack basketball since the early nineties. This team has taken us on a great ride.

  25. phillypacker 03/18/2012 at 9:33 PM #

    Debbie Yow deserves some real congratulations in finding Mark Gottfried. The depth of the quality of his coaching, in terms of understanding the situation he found and building confidence in this team, has been remarkable. Tim Brando did such a good job today calling the game. I appreciated the comments from his conversation with Gott who said this team was incredibly talented but fragile. Every time Gott opens his mouth he is praising this team. How refreshing in this day and age to see a coach who values his players as people and how great to see how much they value him. Priceless seeing Painter lift Gott off the floor in that celebration video. Thank you Debbie for making all this possible. Where have you been the last 23 years?

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