Back in the Day - Off Season Thread of Things We Miss
My hope is this will be a nostalgic thread for days of yore. I hope this won't come across as a "get off my lawn" thread or "let's complain about how much better it used to be." Rather, it can be a place to reflect on the round robin ACC, home and home series with other P5 schools like Arizona and Michigan, our "rivalry" with Maryland, or whatever else might be near and dear to your hearts.
Honestly, what made me think about this was the "remember Terry Holland in the Food Lion commercials" comment a week or two ago.
Saturday afternoons used to be the Jefferson Pilot ACC double feature, at 1 and 3:30 (as best I recall). Not every Duke game was on TV in the 80s, but the ones that were had to be appointment television.
The ACC Tournament was Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Friday felt like a holiday, with four games starting at noon.
No one had ever heard of a "one and done," but every once in awhile players would go pro before their senior year. Not at Duke, of course, because we attracted players with different values.
Cutting my teeth on Duke basketball in the eighties, Coach K couldn't get over the hump and win the big one. Dean was the old guard. Lefty Jimmy V, Bobby Cremmins... Every game seemed loaded with meaning, emotion, and intensity.
I guess it is impossible to look at these things without contrasting them with the current state of the basketball universe, but my hope is that this thread will be a place to share memories and not to just trash the current NCAA environment.
Thanks in advance for participating. We have another off-season that feels much longer than it should be.
Let's go Duke!
Seeing Elvis Costello in Page
April 1987. Part of the show he had a spinning song wheel and would play whatever came up. He dedicated a song to North Carolina's own Ava Gardner. And Nick Lowe opened.