The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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NOVEMBER 2018 ■ 127 ■ PACK PAST representatives of Kentucky arrived at the house. Stewart and Moreland, wearing a straw hat and dark sunglasses, slipped out the back door. Casey and Bubas left in the Wolfpack Club station wagon. The Kentucky reps were furious. "I never saw a bunch of people who seemed to hate each other so much," Mo- reland's father said of the collection of coaches who had congregated deep in the piney woods of his Claiborne Parish home. Later in the day, Casey and Bubas were driving through Louisiana when they heard a radio bulletin about the kidnapping of a local boy. The assailants — which Casey and Bubas eventually realized was them — were thought to be heavily armed and dangerous. It didn't take long for them to cross the state line, forgoing the planned trip to New Orleans. "Jackie and I flew out the next day," Stewart said. "He wasn't completely sure he had done the right thing." What followed was a two-year whirlwind, whipped up by the frenzy to clean up the wild west recruiting of college basketball. Rupp hired a private detective from At- lanta to sort out what happened, and his re- port found its way into the hands of NCAA president Walter Byers. Kentucky dean A.D. Kirwan, a member of the NCAA Infractions Committee, did not recuse himself from the proceedings that eventually found both NC State and Texas A&M guilty of recruiting violations. ACC commissioner Jim Weaver, NC State chancellor Carey Bostian and Wolfpack athletics director Roy Clogston fought on behalf of Case and his staff. The NCAA handed down its harshest pun- ishment ever on the Wolfpack: a four-year probation that included a postseason ban for all varsity sports. It was this restriction that prevented the 1957 ACC champion football team from participating in the Orange Bowl and the 1959 ACC champion basketball from going to the NCAA Tournament. Moreland enrolled for one semester at NC State, but was eventually ruled ineli- gible for participation by the school, hav- ing never played a varsity game for Case's program. He transferred to Louisiana Tech, not far from his hometown, for three years of college basketball. He was the No. 4 selection in the 1960 NBA Draft, behind Oscar Robertson, Jerry West and Darrall Imhoff. He spent eight years in the NBA, and then died in 1973 at the age of 33 of pancreatic cancer. The 1950s were a tumultuous decade for Stewart, who had begun his NC State ca- reer as manager of Leazer Hall, the college dining facility. He was later hired in a joint role to manage the dining hall and raise F I N A N C I A L G R O U P 3110 Edwards Mill Road, Suite 340 • Raleigh, NC 27612 919.861.8212 • olderaleighfinancial.com WE SEE FINANCIAL BLIND SPOTS. DO YOU? Advisory Services offered through Olde Raleigh Financial Group, a Member of Advisory Services Network, LLC. Website: advservnet.com Phone: 770.352.0449. Securities offered through Calton & Associates, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. 2701 North Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607. Advisory Services Network, LLC and Calton & Associates, Inc. are separate and unrelated entities. Registered representatives of Calton & Associates, Inc. may only conduct business with residents of the states and/or jurisdictions for which they are properly registered. Therefore, a response to a request for information may be delayed. Please note that not all of the investments and services mentioned are available in every states. Greensboro Raleigh Fayetteville Rocky Mount 336-996-6060 919-782-8785 910-483-5975 252-442-1175 www.transourcetrucks.com The Wolfpack's dealer for the award-winning Hino Truck