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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 939696" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>There are a couple of things, and you’ve read some of them. </p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Bobby Cremins was friendly and radiated fun. Some coaches would have gotten mad when a bunch of college kids showed up to imitate him at games, but Cremins had a sense of humor. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">We think he had a sense of humor—we’re still not sure what he said most of the time. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There are 341 D1 basketball teams now, and 32 conferences now. There were 29 conferences then, and they were smaller conferences. Georgia Tech was the newest member to the ACC through the 1980s. There were probably half as many D1 basketball teams then. You weren’t competing for attention with every school in the country—there was a smaller club of big time basketball teams, and we were in it. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The arenas were smaller, and the tickets were harder to come by, and the home crowd was a home crowd. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Even though we had been in sports for a long time, we were the Cinderella story in basketball then. Duke was a basketball power, but they were also the new guard—UNC was the old guard. The ACC was filled with good teams—NCST, Duke, UNC, Wake, and Virginia. Those first few years of winning were big upsets against basketball powers. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Basketball still had recruiting, but it changed in the late 80’s—one and done players, and much more money. The Tournament went to 64 teams in the mid 80s and the excitement followed that, and the money followed the excitement. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">There was no real MLS—the fun fans were at basketball, especially college basketball. I don’t think it’s just GT—I think the in-game experience isn’t the same in college basketball as it was back then. </li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 939696, member: 282"] There are a couple of things, and you’ve read some of them. [LIST=1] [*]Bobby Cremins was friendly and radiated fun. Some coaches would have gotten mad when a bunch of college kids showed up to imitate him at games, but Cremins had a sense of humor. [*]We think he had a sense of humor—we’re still not sure what he said most of the time. [*]There are 341 D1 basketball teams now, and 32 conferences now. There were 29 conferences then, and they were smaller conferences. Georgia Tech was the newest member to the ACC through the 1980s. There were probably half as many D1 basketball teams then. You weren’t competing for attention with every school in the country—there was a smaller club of big time basketball teams, and we were in it. [*]The arenas were smaller, and the tickets were harder to come by, and the home crowd was a home crowd. [*]Even though we had been in sports for a long time, we were the Cinderella story in basketball then. Duke was a basketball power, but they were also the new guard—UNC was the old guard. The ACC was filled with good teams—NCST, Duke, UNC, Wake, and Virginia. Those first few years of winning were big upsets against basketball powers. [*]Basketball still had recruiting, but it changed in the late 80’s—one and done players, and much more money. The Tournament went to 64 teams in the mid 80s and the excitement followed that, and the money followed the excitement. [*]There was no real MLS—the fun fans were at basketball, especially college basketball. I don’t think it’s just GT—I think the in-game experience isn’t the same in college basketball as it was back then. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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