Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on March 5, 2008 - 12:47pm.
What does it mean when you say that UNC and Duke didn't get caught? To a certain degree that win in 1983 just made Valvano do stupid things to try to stay at the top. Chris Washburn and Shackleford. Those players didn't even try to help with the crap they pulled. Every fall semester Kelsey Weems, or whatever the point guard's name was back then, would be ineligible to play, but come second semester he would be playing. He won the championship with Norm Sloan players, recruited players that had no business being on campus at State. It took Les and Herb nearly 20 years to pull State out of the crap that Valvano put that program into. Valvano was a great person, great inspiration, and motivator, but a questionable coach. It just really highlights the greatness of UNC and Duke and the programs that were there during the 80's and how low Valvano took the program to keep up with those teams and the fact that it's taken nearly 25 years for State to become an almost "relevant team," shows the depth of the problems that came out of that success in 1983. To think that seven years after winning the national championship, Valvano would be out of coaching.
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What does it mean when you say that UNC and Duke didn't get caught? To a certain degree that win in 1983 just made Valvano do stupid things to try to stay at the top. Chris Washburn and Shackleford. Those players didn't even try to help with the crap they pulled. Every fall semester Kelsey Weems, or whatever the point guard's name was back then, would be ineligible to play, but come second semester he would be playing. He won the championship with Norm Sloan players, recruited players that had no business being on campus at State. It took Les and Herb nearly 20 years to pull State out of the crap that Valvano put that program into. Valvano was a great person, great inspiration, and motivator, but a questionable coach. It just really highlights the greatness of UNC and Duke and the programs that were there during the 80's and how low Valvano took the program to keep up with those teams and the fact that it's taken nearly 25 years for State to become an almost "relevant team," shows the depth of the problems that came out of that success in 1983. To think that seven years after winning the national championship, Valvano would be out of coaching.