Jim Valvano taught us to enjoy life and to cherish every moment.
As we continue this journey, we’re reminded that the Stanley Cup Final is about more than hockey. It’s about people, purpose, sacrifice, and appreciating the moments that bring us together.
Cannot emphasize how massive this move is for NC State. The roster has been built around having Paul McNeil back.
McNeil returning in the red and white to play for a third coach in three years — one that happens to be an alum in Justin Gainey? That’s legend shit.
Will was born in Nashville.
He went to college at Clemson.
He spent 12 years coaching at Clemson, Harvard, VCU, Chattanooga.
But he’s selling you that leaving State behind for LSU after one year is “going home.”
Of course he is.
Will Wade’s introductory press conference was about being a changed man, matured, how he and NC State would rise from the ashes together to relevance.
It is the single greatest betrayal in modern college athletics history, worse than Roy at Kansas and Lane at Ole Miss.
Wade basically used NC State as an insurance policy as he waited for LSU to open.
Posed like Jimmy V, called this the best job he’s had, reiterated publicly that he was locked in. And then threw the program away like a used napkin when he was done
Crazy
Kids today will never know the joy of a nine team ACC where players stayed all four years and you knew the starting five for pretty much every team in the conference.
We had it all ladies & gentlemen.
The last time NC State and UNC only played once in a season was 1919, when newly renamed NC State College beat NCU 39-29 at Raleigh's downtown auditorium in a hastily arranged state championship game.
It was the beginning of March Madness in the state of North Carolina.