It seems like NC State has had a fair amount of NY/NJ area players in its history, especially lately with Hodge, Grant, and Costner. Our 3 commits Larry Davis, Dennis Horner, and Dan Werner are all from the NY/NJ area. What are some other past State players from this area. Does Herb have a love affair with NY players? It'd be nice to get some of the really good NYC players that can handle the ball well to come here. Plus you never know, mabye it'd increase our popularity. Maybe a DT throwback jersey or State hat might end up in a rap video shot in Brooklyn or Queens. Enough with the damn Jordan throwbacks.

3/15/2006 4:13:45 PM

well he went to school at carnegie-mellon and coached at providence, so i would assume he has some connections up there.

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 4:16 PM. Reason : .]

3/15/2006 4:15:52 PM

Carnegie-mellon is in Pittsburgh...

3/15/2006 4:16:44 PM

i know, i meant the northeast

3/15/2006 4:17:28 PM

Remember when Gtech was NYC PG University?


Kenny Anderson, Stephon Marbury, then....


damn i can never think of the third guy... man that guy sucked. poor kid never had a chance to live up to all that hype.

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 4:18 PM. Reason : a]

3/15/2006 4:18:05 PM

travis best maybe?

3/15/2006 4:18:34 PM

no no... this guy transferred after 1 or 2 miserable seasons...


Kevin something maybe?

3/15/2006 4:22:59 PM

Naw, Best was good, and before Marbury...

I think he's talking about Tony Akins... or maybe Travis Spivey? He was there one year...

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 4:25 PM. Reason : ...]

3/15/2006 4:23:34 PM

Travis Spivey was from Myrtle Beach, SC though...


there was a PG from NYC that went to GT that wasnt good and transferred...

he wasnt ranked as highly as Marbury & Anderson but because he was also from NYC he had some buzz...

He played under Cremins...

Im trying to put together a timeline... probably around 1997. I think he was there the season "A March to Madness" was written.

3/15/2006 4:29:05 PM

Kevin Morris??

Player Yr Cl Min MPG FGM FGA FG% 3M 3A 3FG% FTM FTA FT% PPG
------------------ -- -- ---- ---- --- ---- ---- --- --- ---- --- --- ---- ----
Morris, Kevin 97 Fr 781 28.9 54 197 .274 36 131 .275 15 25 .600 5.9

3/15/2006 4:33:01 PM

^ Boom.


I love sports.



It's all coming back to me. He transferred to Georgia State (Lefty Driesell) and they put together a sick ass team and nearly pulled off an upset over Maryland (Lefty's old team) in the 2nd round of the NCAA tourney.


[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 4:36 PM. Reason : a]

3/15/2006 4:34:10 PM

I love Charlie Board's ACC (Plus!!!) Stats Archive

if only it was updated since 2003...

3/15/2006 4:35:17 PM

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E5D91039F932A25757C0A960958260

here's a story about him

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 4:36 PM. Reason : dur]

3/15/2006 4:36:15 PM

I always liked a lot of Georgia Tech's old players.

They had UNLV all but beat in 1990 with Anderson, Dennis Scott, and Brian Oliver.


People tend to forget about guys like Eddie Elisma, Malcom Mackey, Drew Barrymore, etc

3/15/2006 4:39:21 PM

drew barrymore is hot

3/15/2006 4:41:07 PM

Hey man I liked Drew Barry, he was a much better player than Jon. I never understood how Jon and Brent made it in the NBA and Drew couldn't.

^^Tom Hammonds as well. Hell James Forrest for that matter. He really baffled me when he couldn't make it in the NBA.

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 4:46 PM. Reason : ^^]

3/15/2006 4:45:06 PM

i am still baffled that they made it to the title game against UConn 2 years ago

3/15/2006 4:45:40 PM

oooh james forrest good one, he was a player.

Drew was a lot shorter than the other two guys I think...

and he wasnt deadly from NBA range like Jon.

Brent was on a different level for awhile (although he's just a role player now)... i mean he won a slam dunk contest for gods sake.

3/15/2006 4:49:09 PM

GT was always my 2nd favorite in the ACC with Cremins coaching. I always liked their team.

Shaun Fein, Todd fucking Harlicka, Matt Geiger, Martice Moore, Matt Harpring, Ira Newble all the way to Marvin Lewis. I actually liked Tony Akins too. GT was always a very respectable team.

After I think about it, Cremins put a shitload of players in the NBA.

3/15/2006 5:03:46 PM

I love the story where Bobby Cremins came into the ACC yearly meeting and started bragging about how he'd found his new point guard the day before and everyone wasnt going to believe this kid.

Then one of the coaches was like "Um, bobby you know last weekend was a dead period, right?"


And he was just like "oh shit" and had to turn himself into the NCAA for a recruiting violation. Wasnt allowed to contact the kid ever again.


Great guy, total bonehead though...

3/15/2006 5:17:02 PM

yeah he is kinda like the announcer Steve Martin

he's the man but he's dumb

3/15/2006 5:24:25 PM

I grew up a fan of most Georgia sports and always liked GT and Cremins until I got to State. Lethel Weapon 3 with Anderson, Scott, and Oliver was probably my favorite college basketball team growing up. People mentioning James Forrest and Malcom Mackey and Drew Barry brings back a ton of memories. James Forrest was blacker than tar



[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 5:34 PM. Reason : tar]

3/15/2006 5:33:57 PM

Malcom Mackey haha

i think this thread got hijacked by State fans into a GT thread lol

3/15/2006 5:34:35 PM

Brian Oliver was the MVP of the ACC tournament in 1990.


Last time the ACC championship game was played w/o an NC team in it.


tehy beat virginia with Bryant Stith and John Crotty.



Hell lets jsut name lots of old ACC players that are fun to remember.

Junior Borroughs (UVA)
Scooter Banks (WFU)
Exree Hipp (UMD)
Marty Clark (Duke)
Erik Meek (Duke)
Scott Cherry (UNC)
King Rice (UNC)
Henrik Rodl (UNC)
Terrell McIntyre (CU)
Chris Collins (FSU)


okay go!

3/15/2006 6:11:23 PM

was there a chris collins at duke back in the day?

3/15/2006 6:12:55 PM

Quote :

"Chris Collins (FSU)"

hahaha

^still is

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 6:14 PM. Reason : ]

3/15/2006 6:13:57 PM

yeah what the heck happened? the thread was originally about State and it's connection to NY/NJ area.

3/15/2006 6:16:08 PM

rally happens

3/15/2006 6:16:50 PM

haha whoops I meant James Collins not Chris.


Chris was a goat except his freshman year.

James was a baller.


I hijacked the thread, btw

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 6:21 PM. Reason : a]

3/15/2006 6:21:36 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=389076

i tried this one time

3/15/2006 6:41:45 PM

James Collins was #23. I remember he had a SICK dunk on us when we beat them in the play in game.

3/15/2006 6:42:28 PM