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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.
 
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.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
Yeah, I'd never heard that either. Hammonds was awesome, one of my all time favorite non-Wake players.
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And Harpring was one of my favorite non-Wake players.
 
LilburnDeac said:
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.
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Yeah, I think Tacy was/is a really good man and was a really good coach. He had to compete in-state with UNC and NC State (who was very good then) and Duke was ascending after hiring some coach with a funny last name, toward to the end of his tenure at Wake. We played most of our home games in a run-down dump of a coliseum and our "bigger" conference home games in another city that provided a neutral court element at best and an away court element against UNC and State. The conference was getting really strong too outside of the Big Four with UVa, Maryland and Ga. Tech (who was ascending quickly). I agree he got frustrated and fed up and decided to do something else.
 
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.
 
boobknightfan said:
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.
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All of that is true about Dinger and Tom Hammonds. I was there for that and doing the practices at the time and was reffing the Saturday morning scrimmage when Hammonds visited. Tacy would not go down to visit Hammonds, leaving Dinger recruiting him mano a mano with Bobby Cremins. So who do you think will win that competition? asst coach vs head coach--Cremins every time. So yes, The Gentleman threw The Dinger under the bus! He did not like that Mark had been a head coach before and would not listen to his advice. Book it!
 
Carl won 10 games against nationally-ranked, Dean Smith-coached Carolina teams. I was lucky enough to be able to see most of those wins in person. I was fortunate enough to be sitting in the UNC student section at Carmichael (my sister was a UNC student at the time) in 1977 to see one of the most satisfying of those wins. Wake trailed the 4th-ranked Tar Heels by 15 points in the 2nd half....but came back to win 67-66 when Jerry Schellenberg (another great Deac) made both ends of a 1&1 with 10 seconds to play.

Earlier that season, Tacy beat a then 3rd-ranked UNC team 97-96 on a Larry Harrison tip-in at the buzzer in overtime of the Big Four Tournament Championship Finals at the Greensboro Coliseum.

The following season, Tacy beat Dean Smith's Tar Heels with Phil Ford by 82-77 in the ACCT semi-finals. Anyone remember the hero of that game? It was another of my all-time favorite Deacs whom most younger WF fans have probably never even heard of: Leroy McDonald. He scored a career high 21 points in that game. The other very memorable thing about that game was that there was a huge snow while the two semi-final games were being played and when they were over, every car in the Greensboro Coliseum parking lot was totally covered with snow. Took forever for people to find their cars that night.

At the beginning of the 1980-81 season, Tacy completely dismantled a Dean Smith team that had 4 NBA 1st draft picks to win his unprecedented 4th Big Four Championship. Wake raced out to a 41-26 halftime lead in that game...completely shocking the Carolina fans at the Greensboro Coliseum....then cruised to an 82-71 victory.

And who can forget the 1973 miracle 54-52 ACC Tournament win over Carolina in Carl Tacy's very first season at WF. Trailing by 2 points with only one second left to play and having the ball on the other end of the court, Tacy drew up a miracle play to score in that last one second and send the game into overtime.

All 10 of Carl's wins over the Tar Heels were great, but those are just some that come quickly to mind because I was able to be there in person to see them.
 
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Pilchard said:
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.
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Tacy's teams winning the last 3 Big Four Tournament championships was huge as well.
 
But why did he have a player fake an injury to substitute a FT shooter? Crooked Carl shouldn't have done that. Sad!
 
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?
 
liveanddiedeac said:
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?
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You can find anything on ebay, here is the record I was talking about

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wake-Forest...892644?hash=item1eaf1c6564:g:488AAOSw1DtXIjh9

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And the song itself for your listening pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLS6WqAJP4

Link to all of them
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOAYZYtmycSCt_3Y35jqP_CERJNov7CJN

I'm thinking playlist for football and basketball pre-games, I mean nothing gets you pumped up to play like a little Nashville Twang, am I right.:thumbsup:
 
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PhDeac said:
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.
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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.
 
DCDeac said:
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.
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IIRC, Harpring was more highly regarded as a HS QB, but he wanted to play basketball in college. Multi-sport stars often get under-recruited and under-valued because they don't have the same amount of time to spend in camps and showcases. To turn the subject back toward football, Clawson explained that was why Jessie Bates was under-recruited. He played football, basketball and baseball on high level in HS, and as a result, missed a bunch of the summer camps where recruits get rated.
 
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