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<blockquote data-quote="jojatk" data-source="post: 939683" data-attributes="member: 2627"><p>Nobody, except Bark Madley, disliked Bobby Cremins because he was so genuinely a nice man. He cared about the people around him even if they were on the other end of the court. The Cremins years in the mid-late 80s were absolutely magical. I grew up in Maryland a HUGE ACC basketball fan. I loved watching the Terps with guys like Buck Williams, Albert King, Len Bias, and Adrian Branch. And when I saw Mark Price play for the first time when he was a frosh I was transfixed by this little guy bombing long jumpers and then when I saw his jersey said Georgia Tech, and I knew I wanted to go to school to major in aerospace engineering, I started some serious research into GT and from that day it was my top choice.</p><p></p><p>When I arrived on campus in the fall of 1984 it was the PERFECT time for an ACC basketball junkie to be a GT fan. Beating the mighty UNC THREE times. Beating Duke twice. Beating Maryland twice with Len Bias and Adrian Branch, both of whom I idolized. PS Len Bias may be the second best basketball player I ever saw close up, live, in-person (Michael Jordan is number 1 on my list of guys I saw play live multiple times). Winning the ACC Tournament for the first time in school history. Oh my goodness I am getting chills even typing this. I can't even put into words what that was like.</p><p></p><p>It took me 5 years (I co-oped) to get my AE degree and for the 1988-1989 season one of my friends who wrote for The Technique asked if I wanted to go cover a football game for him (we were pretty bad). I said that sounded like fun so my buddy and I went to the game. We had so much fun that we went to all the away football games that year. By the time basketball season rolled around we were in good graces with our editor so we got to do the majority of the coverage of the basketball team. And it was indescribably amazing. We got to sit down before the season and talk, 1:1, with Bobby. He was so wonderful to us. He treated us very differently than outside press. He trusted us that we understood that we held a different place than outside press because we were GT students just like the players. And he shared insights and info with us that he didn't share with other members of the press and we made sure he knew we appreciated that and several times he forgot to say "off the record" but we knew he meant it and wouldn't share those things in our articles. He quickly realized he didn't even need to tell us what was off or on the record. Sitting on press row at the UNC home game where Dennis Scott hit that 3 pointer was probably my second favorite moment in my GT basketball history (second to winning that first ACC tournament) because it happened right in front of us and I can tell you it felt like slow motion.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I can wax lyrical about those years all day but I've already bored you enough, I'm sure.</p><p></p><p>BTW, Bark Madley is a jerk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jojatk, post: 939683, member: 2627"] Nobody, except Bark Madley, disliked Bobby Cremins because he was so genuinely a nice man. He cared about the people around him even if they were on the other end of the court. The Cremins years in the mid-late 80s were absolutely magical. I grew up in Maryland a HUGE ACC basketball fan. I loved watching the Terps with guys like Buck Williams, Albert King, Len Bias, and Adrian Branch. And when I saw Mark Price play for the first time when he was a frosh I was transfixed by this little guy bombing long jumpers and then when I saw his jersey said Georgia Tech, and I knew I wanted to go to school to major in aerospace engineering, I started some serious research into GT and from that day it was my top choice. When I arrived on campus in the fall of 1984 it was the PERFECT time for an ACC basketball junkie to be a GT fan. Beating the mighty UNC THREE times. Beating Duke twice. Beating Maryland twice with Len Bias and Adrian Branch, both of whom I idolized. PS Len Bias may be the second best basketball player I ever saw close up, live, in-person (Michael Jordan is number 1 on my list of guys I saw play live multiple times). Winning the ACC Tournament for the first time in school history. Oh my goodness I am getting chills even typing this. I can't even put into words what that was like. It took me 5 years (I co-oped) to get my AE degree and for the 1988-1989 season one of my friends who wrote for The Technique asked if I wanted to go cover a football game for him (we were pretty bad). I said that sounded like fun so my buddy and I went to the game. We had so much fun that we went to all the away football games that year. By the time basketball season rolled around we were in good graces with our editor so we got to do the majority of the coverage of the basketball team. And it was indescribably amazing. We got to sit down before the season and talk, 1:1, with Bobby. He was so wonderful to us. He treated us very differently than outside press. He trusted us that we understood that we held a different place than outside press because we were GT students just like the players. And he shared insights and info with us that he didn't share with other members of the press and we made sure he knew we appreciated that and several times he forgot to say "off the record" but we knew he meant it and wouldn't share those things in our articles. He quickly realized he didn't even need to tell us what was off or on the record. Sitting on press row at the UNC home game where Dennis Scott hit that 3 pointer was probably my second favorite moment in my GT basketball history (second to winning that first ACC tournament) because it happened right in front of us and I can tell you it felt like slow motion. Anyway, I can wax lyrical about those years all day but I've already bored you enough, I'm sure. BTW, Bark Madley is a jerk. [/QUOTE]
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