Gary Hahn To Have Story In Next “Chicken Soup For The Soul”

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A future edition of the popular series of books “Chicken Soup for the Soul” will feature the play-by-play man of the Wolfpack, Gary Hahn.  The Chicken Soup series, originated by Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield features inspirational stories ostensibly for the reader to use for discovery and experience.

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“Hahn thought of former N.C. State Coach Les Robinson, whose role in the early 1990s was to make the players more students than athletes. As a result, the team’s record tumbled.

“Les is sort of a hero of mine in a way, because he really sacrificed his college basketball coaching career for the good of N.C. State,” Hahn said.”

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40 Responses to Gary Hahn To Have Story In Next “Chicken Soup For The Soul”

  1. Greywolf 04/04/2009 at 11:20 AM #

    “Our own self imposed penalties and wanting to appear as an Ivy League school by those in charge started us on the path to turning our backs on those hoops achievements in days past. We can be great in academics and athletics, but we haven’t figured that out yet. I hope we get there one day soon.”
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    Reversing 9 or 10 years of not graduating a single Valvano recruit is now reconstructed as “wanting to appear as an Ivy League school.” Have you done any research on what you are talking about? It doesn’t appear that way.

  2. redfred2 04/04/2009 at 11:34 AM #

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  6. tractor57 04/04/2009 at 2:19 PM #

    Or none of us know anything different (which could be the same thing).

  7. JeremyH 04/04/2009 at 3:17 PM #

    Gary Hahn, kiss my chicken soup ass! I put up with alot of crap sticking for nc state during those years, I cannot thank Les for that, sorry.

  8. redfred2 04/04/2009 at 8:06 PM #

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  9. Greywolf 04/04/2009 at 9:23 PM #

    JeremyH
    April 4th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
    “I put up with alot of crap sticking for nc state during those years”
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    Well, that’s different, then. You had to put up with a lot of crap not abandoning the Pack. That’s awful. That is really the worst part of the having a basketball program with restricted scholarships, you, JeremyH, having to put up with a lot of crap.
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    Can we have a moment of silence for poor JeremyH?

  10. Gene 04/05/2009 at 6:40 AM #

    I graduated from NCSU in 1996. I remember Les talking about what was needed in the Athletics Department to make sure student-athletes got the academic support they needed, such as tutors, to catch up for travel related to sports and he made sure that infrastructure got put in place.

    Les also set aside money from the shoe contract he got to make sure any NCSU basketball player, who wanted to come back to get their degree, would be able to get it free of cost. He could’ve been like every other coach in the country and pocketed it.

    Les was also the lowest paid coach in the ACC, while he was here. Sendek’s initial offer was something like three times what Les got paid.

    Now, with that said, how can you look at NC State’s athletic incompetence as a whole, even back during, and even before the Valvano time period, and not say that NC State itself, had a huge hand in, or rather a huge “hands off”, in the events that led their own demise in the 1990’s?

    Excellent point. Even under Sloan, academics weren’t emphasized. David Thompson still hasn’t gotten his degree…

  11. old13 04/05/2009 at 9:56 AM #

    David Thompson still hasn’t gotten his degree…

    DT and his daughter received their’s together in 2003.

  12. Wolf Dog 04/05/2009 at 5:03 PM #

    For those that think Les couldn’t coach. Ponder this he had the highest winning percentage against UNC among BB coaches starting with Sloan and after.

    David Thompson got his degress for NCSU.

  13. highstick 04/05/2009 at 6:23 PM #

    I’m surprised a State fan didn’t know about DT’s degree. That was so well publicized and was a great tribute for him to do that and at the same time as his daughter was even more inspiring.

  14. JeremyH 04/05/2009 at 6:36 PM #

    GreyWolf, the Depends on a bit tight today?

  15. newt 04/05/2009 at 8:04 PM #

    It’s funny how the negative comments about Les’ coaching ability prove Hahns’ point further.

    And no, you can’t have both student athletes first and great athletics programs, but you can have great athletics programs and great sports marketing departments that make people think you have both.

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