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Also I’m not sure V (or even Sloan or Case) would be so successful today as the landscape has changed much.
I can’t agree with this. V would have absolutely killed it if at NC State during the last 15 years.
What made UNC and their media lackeys hate him so much were the very things that were so far ahead of his time:
– TV personality
– National TV presence
– Tied in with SonnyV and Nike
– Fantastic interview and a sound byte a minute
– No publicity is bad publicity
– Good recruiter that could quickly retool a roster
– Fantastic in game coach
– Peaked in the postseason
They’d have made him wildly successful today.
NC State would have had the type of run that Duke and UNC have had. Now, maybe because there were three horses as opposed to two, there wouldn’t be as many absolute titles, but I think we’d have at least had what Maryland and Wake had over those awful years.
I will agree that Gott is the best coach since V. He’s brought excitement and actual tangible results back to the program.
Talent and stacked classes are what we need to push us over the top. What NC State fans have failed to realize over the years is that it doesn’t take one top 5 type class to win a title. Kentucky, Duke, UNC, Kansas and to a lesser extent Louisville, Arizona, Michigan and UCLA are pulling in top 10 classes every year. Yes, they have attrition (but we do too). What they’re left with though is deep talent at every class, not one class trying to pull up the other 2-3 classes.
This staff is starting to stack classes and that’s the key. Sorry, but no in game coaching is going to make up for a severe talent gap. Even the most recent examples that people like to point to of coaching making up a delta (Butler under Brad Stevens and Bo Ryan at Wisconsin), they still had some really good players.