It’s been a long time since State made a genuinely good hire in basketball. Let’s run it back a few decades:
- Mark Gottfried
- Sidney Lowe
- Herb Sendek
- Les Robinson
- Jim Valvano
- Norm Sloan
- Press Maravich
- Everett Case
Obviously Everett Case was the font of ACC basketball. Press Maravich wasn’t successful though. Norm Sloan was and so was Jim Valvano but both saw their integrity questioned.
After Valvano, the program took a massive hit. Robinson was more or less the cleanup guy and never had a chance to really compete on even terms and it was never clear that he was up to it anyway.