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 […]
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Ratcliffe: Wise AD’s Have Short Lists
This entry originally ran on SFN on April 11, 2006 at 10:23pm Jerry Ratcliffe, Sports Editor, The Daily Progress. “A wise, old AD once told me, any athletic director worth his salt always carries around a short list of coaching candidates (for football and basketball), just in case something happens.”
Bonner: Blue Chip Recruiting
“When you are a school like NC State, maybe you can’t recruit all the blue chip guys in the United States. Maybe those guys are going to places like Duke or North Carolina or Connecticut or UCLA or Kentucky. And so the foreign soil is a good place to go to get some guys to […]
Chronicling the Criticism
We need your help! As you are well aware, a significant number of national and local media members have been openly critical of Sidney Lowe’s hire as Head Basketball Coach at NC State. Although this criticism is very relevant, we have chosen not to dwell and focus on it. But, we don’t want to ignore […]
Quote: We Compete with Carolina & Duke Every Day
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, the Fayetteville Oberver ran a story that inlcuded the following quote that we failed to highlight at the time. It deserves attention and we wanted to chronicle the quote: “Everybody comes out and says, ‘You’re Carolina’s and Duke’s little brother and you can’t compete with those guys.’ Ya know what? […]
Fowler’s Comments, One Year Ago
I’ve been holding onto this entry for a year. I never had the opportunity to finish them off, so I decided to wait to our one-year anniversary. One year ago this weekend, NC State was participating in our first Sweet 16 in sixteen years. On the NC State pre-game radio show (pre-Wolfpack’s embarassing egg-laying against […]
Lavin: Don’t Lose in the First Round
“You don’t want to lose in the first round at UCLA because your whole offseason is miserable. Talk Radio. Letters to the editor. Wooo!” Former UCLA Head Basketball Coach, Steve Lavin on ESPN Television talking about the standards of the great programs. Related Kentucky quotes here. Similar Carolina quotes here. Lavin was 5-1 in first […]
Quotes: (Lack of) Intensity is Obvious (Again)
With 4:38 to go in the Carolina @ Duke game on Saturday night the television camera focused on a fired up Roy Williams who was sweating, clapping, and barking instructions to his team of youngsters that he has been molding and coaching all season. At that time, Dick Vitale was quoted as saying: Look at […]
Quote: UNC BBall Standards
“This is North Carolina Basketball – high standards yield high expectations…they never reconfigure when it comes to the expectation to win” November 4, 2005 Fox Sports Basketball Preview
Leitao: ‘No Excuse Program’
He’s going to need more than just the attitude to raise Virginia’s struggling program out of the bottom tier of the ACC…but, it is nice to see this. “If our mentality is, ‘Hey, we only lost by a few tonight and that’s a good thing,’ that’s not where I’m trying to go with this program. […]
