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<blockquote data-quote="altenberger22" data-source="post: 1599405" data-attributes="member: 747157"><p>By "crap" fellow Illini fan --- and yes, I do mean that --- I guess you mean Marcus Liberty, Kendall Gill, Lou Henson, Stephen Bardo, Nick Anderson, Lowell Hamilton, Kenny Battle, Bobby Knight, Bob Lanier, John Havlicek, Dave Debusschere, Tom Izzo, and a few other all-time greats of college basketball that I heard mentioned?</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I call that excellent "PR" for University of Illinois basketball and for our entire athletic program, from a guy who probably single-handedly made the NCAA tournament what it is today ---- elevating the annual evening event from 32 teams with a limit of just one school from each of the major conferences (plus a small handful of at-large bids), to the multi-million dollar mega event it is today. ESPN was showing nearly every game on TV from 11am to 2am, while CBS (who owned the original rights) chose to show just a few. Dick Vitale, with his zany and charismatic personality, sat at the direct center of that universe. </p><p></p><p>He's just reaping the benefits of all that today -- at age 81.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altenberger22, post: 1599405, member: 747157"] By "crap" fellow Illini fan --- and yes, I do mean that --- I guess you mean Marcus Liberty, Kendall Gill, Lou Henson, Stephen Bardo, Nick Anderson, Lowell Hamilton, Kenny Battle, Bobby Knight, Bob Lanier, John Havlicek, Dave Debusschere, Tom Izzo, and a few other all-time greats of college basketball that I heard mentioned? On the other hand, I call that excellent "PR" for University of Illinois basketball and for our entire athletic program, from a guy who probably single-handedly made the NCAA tournament what it is today ---- elevating the annual evening event from 32 teams with a limit of just one school from each of the major conferences (plus a small handful of at-large bids), to the multi-million dollar mega event it is today. ESPN was showing nearly every game on TV from 11am to 2am, while CBS (who owned the original rights) chose to show just a few. Dick Vitale, with his zany and charismatic personality, sat at the direct center of that universe. He's just reaping the benefits of all that today -- at age 81. [/QUOTE]
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