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Early one Tuesday morning, I got up around 5am, s-s-s + coffee and headed up thru the country, getting on Hwy 29 in Lynchburg on the way to Charlottesville, Virginia for a 9:30am meeting…
I was passing Wintergreen and the Rockfish Valley on the left, when the radio went dead and then the news guys beeped in… Reports were scattered, inconsistently troubling and reporters mostly incoherent…
I drove on up to Charlottesville and stopped at the first decent place to get another cup of coffee and the TV was on there…
September 11, 2001…
Now you ought to remember that Charlottesville is only an hour or so the fast way from DC… and the connection between the folks in Charlottesville with those in DC was as thick as a bridge cable on the Golden Gate…. Fear of the unknown is the best way to describe it, I suppose….
I made that meeting and then went around town to several more as I had planned a full day of work. Everywhere, the mood of the people that day was eerie… we worked, but nobody was 100%. Fear of the unknown, I suppose….
As details of the morning’s disasters trickled in, nothing changed… Fear of the unknown, I suppose….
Around 5pm… I headed back home down Hwy29 to North Carolina. Truth is, when I crossed the state line just this side of South Boston, I felt safer. Fear of the unknown, I suppose….
Now I’ve been back to Charlottesville many times — always enjoyed the Mr. Jefferson’s quaint little village, but I ain’t forgot that September Tuesday morning either.
Now the WOLFPACK is making that same trip up and down Hwy 29 today, but under much different circumstances… Basketball heroics in no ways should be compared to 911.
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BOTB’s Keys to game…
Same as every game…
1. MAD BIGS
2. BATTS the spark plug
3. Everybody else, believing in each other and doing their job…
4. Stay out foul trouble
5. Limit our turnovers
6. BE PATIENT !!!That and a little luck…
We might surprise some people…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!In stripes tonite in HooVille…
Shawls, McConnell and Lindsay…
no-names…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 16 in the First Half…
Pack comes out a little nervous and cold….
But playing decent Defense…1 for 4 from the field and 2 TOs…
down 6 at 8-2 on the Big Board…PACK 0
Hoos 0.5Need to settle down and pick it up a notch… (not a oxymoron…)
GO PACK!
POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!PACK 0
Hoos 0.5You were being kind. Don’t know how we’re going to score.
^Heelh8r
:>}it’s early and we were only down 6pts…
if it had been 10-2… I woulda added something…the botb scoreboard is descriptive/historical not predictive…
POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 12(10:16) in the First Half…
Pack trying to figure out the suffocating Hoo defense…. shooting 3-12….
But still playing decent Defense… need to do better on the perimeterdown 9 on the Big Board…
PACK 0
Hoos 1.5Need to settle down and get some baskets…
GO PACK!POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 8 (7:23) in the First Half…
I hope Keatts ain’t waiting for the magic bullet…
the only way to beat Virginia is to beat them at their own game…when you’re down 7 and it feels like 17, fix the 7… not the 17…
PACK 0
Hoos 1.5GO PACK!
POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!What the heck kind of foul is that? Did we not learn anything about fouling 3 point shooters against Clemson? That was the worst yet!!
Yurt covered the entire court just to foul the three point shooter. The basics of man-ball-basket are completely missing. UVA is taking shots without anybody in the same zip code as the shooter.
At the Under 4 (3:43) in the First Half…
As suspected…. Hoo’s break out…
Keatts and the Wolfpack still trying to figure sh#t out…PACK 0
Hoos 2Let’s just finish this half strong and cut their lead back a bit and get in the locker room and re-organize…
GO PACK!
POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
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