Tip of the hat to a poster on Pack Pride. Really interesting stuff in this article by Bob Valvano. The following is just the beginning excerpt of the piece: It is the late 1960’s and the college coach gets a call from his brother, who is a high school coach. The call concerns a player […]
Jim Valvano
The Valvano approach to the Final Four
I friggin’ love YouTube for finds like this, an ESPN preview of the 1983 National Championship game: Check it out. You’ll see glimpses of Valvano’s love for life, his passion for the game as well as his perspective about the relative importance of basketball in life, his pre-game instruction to “have fun” (something that the […]
Jimmy V Coaching…Northwestern?
(Expect this to be on Pack Pride and The Wolfpacker’s Message Boards momentarily without a remote mention of us providing the link). From the Chicago Tribune via Sports Illustrated: Exceptional Tale: Valvano Wanted to Coach Northwestern
ESPN: State’s ’83 Run
It’s always nice to highlight articles focused on NC State’s tradition. Pat Forde of ESPN pulls a great one out that is focused on the 1983 run to the National Championship. (Link) Don’t be misled by the title of the piece and the first part of the article – it is about the entire 1983 […]
Happy 4th of July
You can click on this link for a host of July 4th multimedia links, or you can click on this direct link to YouTube to see Jimmy V’s speech (that we have also embedded below). On February 21, 1993, NC State honored the 1983 NCAA Championship basketball team in Reynolds Coliseum. Jim Valvano was working […]
