liveanddiedeac
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I'm starting this thread to post random old memories and thoughts of Wake teams from the distant past.
Anyway, last night I'm looking for something to watch on TV, so I start searching YouTube for old Wake Forest stuff. The first thing I came across was a video of all the Auburn football coaches TV shows from 1979. So, I fast forward until I find the 1979 game against us. They showed a lot of good footage of that game and not just pro-Auburn plays. Groves was filled and rocking and there was plenty of Auburn support there too. Our stadium was fine at the time, but is so much better now. Auburn's coach sounded like a country bumpkin, but was very complimentary of our team. It was funny to see a team throw as much as we did and the QB be under center and have to drop back everytime, this was before anyone much besides the Cowboys used the shotgun. Venuto had a heck of an arm. What a game that was, still hard to top that one, despite a bunch of great games since. We were down 38-20 at halftime and won 42-38, with the help of some 2nd half Auburn turnovers.
After watching that, I came across the 1980 and final title game of the old Big 4 tournament. I only watched the 1st half, but will watch the 2nd soon. Anyway, we played UNC after beating State by 30 points the night before and UNC beating Duke by 2 the night before. Our starting lineup was Frank Johnson, Mike Helms, Alvis Rodgers, Guy Morgan and Jim Johnstone. Danny Young was freshman that year. I remembered this game, but it's pretty vague, I was 10 then. Things that stood out to me were how good a starting lineup we had, how good Guy Morgan was on the boards, how quick and smooth Frank Johnson was, how underrated Carl Tacy was as a coach, how incredible long Sam Perkins arms were (almost looked deformed) and how pro Wake the crowd was (Duke and State fans were holding Wake pom-poms). Billy Packer and Bones McKinney were on color with Jim Thacker on play by play. Packer was pretty high on that Wake team, calling it very talented and the deepest Wake team he'd ever seen. When Sam Perkins first came out on the court, he didn't start, I thought he looked like Plastic-Man, a few seconds after I had that thought, Packer said "you know that Saturday morning cartoon Plastic-Man, that's who Perkins reminds me of." I honestly think the memory of Billy saying that was buried very deep in my mind from all those years ago and that's why that thought popped in my head right before he said it.
Anyway, just thought some might find this interesting.
Anyway, last night I'm looking for something to watch on TV, so I start searching YouTube for old Wake Forest stuff. The first thing I came across was a video of all the Auburn football coaches TV shows from 1979. So, I fast forward until I find the 1979 game against us. They showed a lot of good footage of that game and not just pro-Auburn plays. Groves was filled and rocking and there was plenty of Auburn support there too. Our stadium was fine at the time, but is so much better now. Auburn's coach sounded like a country bumpkin, but was very complimentary of our team. It was funny to see a team throw as much as we did and the QB be under center and have to drop back everytime, this was before anyone much besides the Cowboys used the shotgun. Venuto had a heck of an arm. What a game that was, still hard to top that one, despite a bunch of great games since. We were down 38-20 at halftime and won 42-38, with the help of some 2nd half Auburn turnovers.
After watching that, I came across the 1980 and final title game of the old Big 4 tournament. I only watched the 1st half, but will watch the 2nd soon. Anyway, we played UNC after beating State by 30 points the night before and UNC beating Duke by 2 the night before. Our starting lineup was Frank Johnson, Mike Helms, Alvis Rodgers, Guy Morgan and Jim Johnstone. Danny Young was freshman that year. I remembered this game, but it's pretty vague, I was 10 then. Things that stood out to me were how good a starting lineup we had, how good Guy Morgan was on the boards, how quick and smooth Frank Johnson was, how underrated Carl Tacy was as a coach, how incredible long Sam Perkins arms were (almost looked deformed) and how pro Wake the crowd was (Duke and State fans were holding Wake pom-poms). Billy Packer and Bones McKinney were on color with Jim Thacker on play by play. Packer was pretty high on that Wake team, calling it very talented and the deepest Wake team he'd ever seen. When Sam Perkins first came out on the court, he didn't start, I thought he looked like Plastic-Man, a few seconds after I had that thought, Packer said "you know that Saturday morning cartoon Plastic-Man, that's who Perkins reminds me of." I honestly think the memory of Billy saying that was buried very deep in my mind from all those years ago and that's why that thought popped in my head right before he said it.
Anyway, just thought some might find this interesting.