Tacy threw the dinger under the bus for losing Hammonds when everybody knew that his lack of interest in recruiting was a major impediment at his time at Wake. Nice.
Tacy sounds like a pretty shitty guy.
Yeah, I'd never heard that either. Hammonds was awesome, one of my all time favorite non-Wake players.
I don't think that he was. Despite all BKF's hyperbole about it, Tacy was really working in an almost impossible situation. I think by the end he was just completely frustrated and fed up.
Yeah, you stupid morons really believe all that about Tacy don't you. No of that is true and it was just abunch of whiny, spoiled players who didn't like a coach who teached discipline and didn't kiss their ass 24/7, that got him fired. Our AD gave in to those stupid brats and brought in Boob Staak and the rest was history.
UNC's 1982 Championship team was loaded as they had GOAT Michael Jordan, HOFer James Worthy, 15 year NBA player Sam Perkins among others ; that UNC team went 32-2. One of those two losses was to WF coached by Carl Tacy at UNC. UNC was #1 in the nation, and 13-0 when WF beat the Heels. That win, and the 1995 win at UNC (Scooter Banks clinching dunk with about a minute to go) were among the best regular season wins in my time as a WF fan.
When I was a kid I had an album, yes played on a record player, that was abunch of songs about Wake Forest football and basketball. I think there was one for State, UNC and Duke too. Anyway, one of the songs went "Coach Tacy, drives the other coaches crazy, they all wish that they could do what he has done." Anybody, remember that?
Damn. Never heard that. That's as big of a gut punch as hearing that Odom got beat for Matt Harpring in the last minute.
Nice walk down memory lane in this thread. Tom Hammonds coached a team I played summer ball on - awesome guy and an experience I'll never forget. Plus I played against Matt Harpring - Marist was our #1 rival in high school. Not sure how that could be considered a last minute win for Cremins - I remember he basically said Harping probably wouldn't play, would essentially get a walk-on role, etc... Nobody believed Harpring was going to be able to play at the college level.