Why thank you TechPhi. Living in North Carolina, you are surrounded with college basketball and you know it well also. I totally agree with you that these fellow Tech Tech fans know how to analyze teams and players. I am learning a lots from them by just by tuning in. Now that I am retired, I have time to reprogram my brain to understand what most are talking about. 50 years ago when I played at Tech and then coached college basketball for five years in the late 70's early 80's, basketball teams and players were different then, yet much remains the same, even some of the jargon. I played guard but never was called a point guard nor shooting guard. We called plays by numbers, now they call players by numbers. We had to figure how to win by scoring 80 points a game and shooting over 50%, with no dunking, three pointers, not 30 second clock. We played basketball to get to college, many being the first in the family to go to college. As a coach, we recruited players by word of mouth from high school coaches and newspapers and seeing players, with few basketball academies nor performance star rating services flooding the recruiting landscape. I was talking with Bobby Cremins yesterday about how much the college scene has changed as players and coaches with NIL and transfers and how we would fit in into today's college D1 basketball. We ended that part of the conversation with an mutual agreement of "I don't know". Bobby is optimistic on how the old school will match with the new in watching the progress at Vanderbilt of two leaves from his coaching tree while at Charleston, Mark Bynington and assistant Jon Cremins, Bobby's nephew. And Bobby remains one of the most loyal Georgia Tech fans, not just because his name is on the court.
