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RE: Any of You Watching 30/30 on Jimmy V/NC State?
(03-17-2013 11:23 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: The early 1980's was a great time in college basketball. Jordan, Olajuwon, Ewing, Sampson, Dominque Wilkins. No one and dones. I loved that time. Made me a basketball fan. This documentary captured it beautifully.
I was thinking about that too. You could go on and on adding more names to that list. Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Bias, Manning, Worthy, Perkins, Drexler, and probably a lot more. Most of the guys from the 80's are still more of a household name than the current players.
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RE: Any of You Watching 30/30 on Jimmy V/NC State?
(03-18-2013 08:55 AM)TribeNiner Wrote: (03-18-2013 08:44 AM)VA49er Wrote: Watched it. I can how Houston fans would NOT want to watch it. I barely remember the game but seeing the video brings it all back. I had forgot about the book that came out and how the NCAA virtually cleared Valvano from most of that's book's allegations. He wasn't a saint, but he was a great coach and person. Love, think, cry.
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He was cleared of pretty much everything. The book was proven to be almost entirely a lie and Valvano was the subject of a witch-hunt. I can understand why State fans are extremely bitter. It's really a great shame. They got hosed and a great man was dragged through the mud (and to this day, many don't realize he was fully and completely cleared of almost everything). Such is the problem with incredible and wild accusations- even if 99% lies, people assume you were doing much of the wrong and/or never even hear you were cleared. That witch-hunt set them back 20 years. They had to hire Les Robinson, etc., and it's taken them years to recover. When people point and laugh at their fall, they don't fully understand how much they got screwed. While I don't have much love lost for other schools in the state, NCSU doesn't bother me nearly as much as UNC-CHeat, etc., and what happened to them was simply wrong.
A similar thing happened to us. KAjunRaider probably knows it better than I do, but we had a fairly dominant program for the OVC in the 80's going to the NCAA Tournament four times between 1982 to 1989, and then somebody came after us some of which was fabricated IIRC. Dan Beebe was the commissioner at the time and turned us in to the NCAA and they decided to make an example out of us for violations that would get you a slap on the wrist today. Our basketball program never recovered - well until now.
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