Comments on: The Case of ACC basketball

By: Navigator

Navigator — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:42:32 +0000

Furman, you sometimes touch my heart with your recollections, and your right at Coach Case. We also lose sight in the ACC, that it was Duke or North Carolina that started the basketball fever, but was N. C. State. That fact has been a thorn at Carolina for so many decades that festered finally when Norm Sloan’s team went undefeated and won the National Championship, and of course the press gave the coach of the year honors to Dean Smith (NC was 18-8). I’m afraid that shame will live in state’s infamy forever.

By: Mike Mooney

Mike Mooney — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:43:01 +0000

Can I beat up a girl here?

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Test1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:29:09 +0000

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By: wreckmaniac

wreckmaniac — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:38:05 +0000

As a Georgia native and Tech grad, I spent the 70’s and 80’s in North Carolina. You don’t know what the college game is until you live there.
I heard it pretty much as Mr Bisher reported it here. Case was the pioneer. You’ve never seen a conference as great as the ACC was when
Dean Smith, Lefty Drisell, Norm Sloan, Terry Holland, Bill Foster were all coaching there at the same time. It was a golden era.

By: Allen Tothill

Allen Tothill — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:20:47 +0000

Furman, thank you so much for writing the article about Coach Case. I grew up in Winston- Salem when Bones McKinney coached Wake Forest. I was a student at NCSU when coach Case was still there. My wife and I live in Atlanta now, we read your article aloud while having breakfast this morning. You reminded us of the great times we had in Reynolds Coliseum watching Wolfpack basketball! Thank you for bringing back these great memories, and for reminding us of the great tradition Coach Case established at NCSU, and his legacy in founding the modern day ACC. Best regards, Allen Tothill, NCSU class of ’65.

By: fk austin

fk austin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:42:51 +0000

Do you have the still pictures of the Darwin Holt – Chick Granning incident?

By: Boston Williams

Boston Williams — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:47:51 +0000

In Rivals most recent ranking of top combined FB and BskB programs, only UNC (6th) and FSU (9th) from the ACC were ranked in the TOP TEN of Helmets and Hoops (combined). The SEC had none.
SEC=FB Only

By: wxwax

wxwax — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the history lesson. I wasn’t aware of Everett Case or his influence on the ACC. I appreciate it.

By: Ken Stallings

Ken Stallings — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:22:10 +0000

As an NC State alum, I know very much of the Everett Case legacy and influence. Case was abused by the NCAA who claimed he bribed a recruit — a charge Case vehemently denied to his grave. Nevertheless, the NCAA put a severe penalty on NC State using evidence that many considered dubious at best.

Given the subsequent harsh sanction involving David Thompson and then the self-imposed penalties after Valvano, NC State is still suffering and trying to recover the kind of historic role and influence that it once enjoyed.

The reason Case gets short shrift is because of the more recent rise of ESPN and the influence of television on college sports. But if people are fair, then they have no choice but to agree that Case is the father of the ACC and his NC State program made the conference what it remains to this day — the premier basketball conference in the nation.