really great read about Coach Case
http://www.metronc.com/article/?id=424
sample...

Quote :

" Making the Case for Everette Case By Jim L. Sumner On February 17, 1946, the North Carolina State College basketball team lost to Duke 44-38 in half-empty Thompson Gym to end a dispiriting 6-12 campaign. State averaged only 39 points per game for the season. Fortunately, few noticed because few cared. One year later, on February 25, 1947, Raleigh Fire Marshall W.R. Butts canceled a game between the State basketball team and the University of North Carolina. It seems that fans were spilling onto the floor and more were climbing into Thompson Gym through the restroom windows, endangering players and creating a fire hazard. The next week, Southern Conference officials hastily moved the post-season tournament from 3500-seat Raleigh Memorial Auditorium to 9000-seat Duke Indoor Stadium because of a dramatic increase in ticket demand. What happened between the winter of 1946 and 1947? In the space of that single year, a diminutive Indiana transplant named Everett Case had permanently and irrevocably transformed the world of North Carolina sports. This is why I feel Everett Case--not Dean Smith, not Michael Jordan, not Richard Petty, not Charlie Justice, not Wallace Wade--is the most important figure in 20th -century North Carolina sports "

11/8/2007 10:34:46 AM

nice find!

11/8/2007 10:47:09 AM

gg

11/8/2007 10:48:46 AM

Quote :

"W.R. Butts "

11/8/2007 10:49:01 AM

Case was great...I remember that press conference when he blew up at that reporter, shit was priceless.

11/8/2007 10:52:38 AM

What's the reporter story?

11/8/2007 10:59:06 AM

The man, the myth, the legend.



And the basketball cathedral he built for people to come worship at.





[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 11:20 AM. Reason : ]

11/8/2007 11:13:43 AM

Case is responisble for the "cutting down nets" tradition

11/9/2007 9:58:16 AM

^ Technically it was an Indiana high school tradition. Case brought it to college basketball though.

11/9/2007 11:32:01 AM

you guys are such homers

11/9/2007 11:34:37 AM

Check out the smoke in Reynolds! I bet you could catch black lung disease in there back in the day.

11/9/2007 11:40:13 AM

awesome

11/9/2007 12:12:09 PM

Bump. Coaches Corner Case statue.

[Edited on June 18, 2014 at 8:39 PM. Reason : Much better than the shitty Yow one. Hope they re-do that one.]

6/18/2014 8:39:02 PM