Deaconblue
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He seems oddly overlooked in Deacon lore of guards. I mean 18 and 15 is not shabby.
Maybe because he only played for us for 2 years, which wasn't as common then?
It wasn't just that. He was on some really bad Wake teams at the beginning of Carl Tacy's tenure as coach. They were of the "somebody has to score some points" variety. He also was sandwiched in between legendary Charlie Davis and the great Skip Brown. CD was the first player of African-American descent to be named ACC Player of the year following the 1970-71 season. Skip was all-ACC for three years. And he played on teams that were much better than those Tony Byers played on.
Jack McCloskey didn't recruit much to follow the Charlie Davis-Gil McGregor class. The fall of 1970 recruiting class at Wake was Bobby Dwyer, who was all region somewhere. NC State had David Thompson, Tommy Burleson, Tim Stoddard et al. Maryland had Tom McMillen and Len Elmore... You get the idea. Freshman games were "interesting"