Obviously, it's a sad day for Wolfpack fans, but for those who may not know. And for those who do know, can you put into perspective, coach's place in Wolfpack football history. So when coach Harridan arrived here in 1980 late 85 for the 86 season, NC State had not been to a bowl game since 1978. They had gone through three consecutive three and eight seasons. Things were just not the way they were in the seventies, the excitement of Lou Holtz and where the program was at that time, Coach Sheridan restored that excitement of NC State football. The way NC State basketball was going at the time 1986 season when he was, when he first came here from Furman was the most exciting season, not to mention one of the most successful seasons in NC State football history. Every game came down to the wire. I always like to talk about the come from behind tie against Pittsburgh where they scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to tie the game, uh, the Carolina game, um where they won the game because Carolina missed the two point conversion at the end, uh, the Clemson game, which was, um, an overwhelming victory at Carter Finley Stadium followed immediately by the, uh, um, the Rodi game ever at Carter Finley Stadium when Eric Kramer hit Danny Peebles to win the game on the final play of the game against Coach Sheridan's Alma mater, South Carolina. It was just a game after game like that and that success and that excitement continued for his entire seven seasons here. You know, one of the things that I like to tell people, which is kind of amazing when you look back at it in the late eighties, he turned down jobs, job offers to Georgia. I believe LSU was one of them. I hate South Carolina is, it could have gone back. I mean, just how, how incredible was it that or just how respected was he nationwide that he was getting those calls? And what was it about here that made him want to stay? So I think there was a definite relationship between him and Jim Valvano who was the athletics director at the time on the first day that Jim Valvano became the athletics director. He had a staff meeting, he called everybody in and he had heard some of the things that had been said about the football program and what they could do, what they couldn't do. And he just said, I want everybody at this table who's been doing this to coach Sheridan all these years to start doing this. And from that point on those two guys were bonded as uh colleagues, friends, uh and people who were here to um to make NC State athletic successful and they forged the friendship that kept him here. And also when Coach Valvano left here, um is one of the reasons including some health reasons that Coach Sheridan left NC State. So, you know, I remember at the time whenever he resigned, I was stunned, apparently he hadn't worked out that he wanted to wait. And so, you know, Mike Cocaine or someone on the staff to get the job, he could stay intact and everything. But you know, how big of a shock was that for those outside of the program, it was one of the most shocking and biggest things that's ever happened in the summer time like that. Coach Edwards, Earl Edwards had resigned in the summer of 1970 as well. Kind of a shocking thing. Coach Sheridan did the same thing 20 years later. Uh Coach Sheridan's um departure was a lot more surprising because he had just come off a really successful season. And that was not the case with coach Edwards when he left in 1970 but it was still a big shock. You know, his legacy made six bowl games in seven years when it was an automatic, you gonna make a bowl game by any means, he had to get 78 wins. Uh, and what about his legacy also is his success against Carolina. Well, his success against teams from inside the state of North Carolina. He was 23 5 and one in seven years against against in state teams. That's a remarkable record for any football program in a state that's as competitive in football with five division one programs. At the time that he was here, he always played good schedules against, uh, the teams around the state. Uh, and he was successful against them. His first year. He was five and oh against in, in state competition. His second year, he was one and three, but he only lost two more games the rest of his time here uh to someone from inside the state of North Carolina. Um also part of his legacy, you know, maybe a little bit divisive amongst fans, but the diamond logo as well. So when, um Dick Sheridan was the athletics director and head coach at Furman, uh down in Greenville, South Carolina, they had a diamond f on their helmets. It was a nationally recognized symbol when he came to NC State. Soon after he became the head football coach here, he developed a version of that that had the NC S on the helmet shaped in a diamond. And for the time that he was here and the time that his successor, Michael Caine was here, that was the football program logo and it comes back every now and then people see it, people tend to like it and enjoy seeing that. But, um, the classic block s is something that is here to stay beyond say, the 86 season and success against Carolina. What, what else about coach Sheridan's legacy, whether it's the talent that came through or other big wins that he had this year. So, the, the one thing about coach Sheridan has always been true is that he never went out to recruit big name talent. He recruited the players that fit into his option offense, his 50 defense, uh and that they were never lead the nation with the biggest and best recruits. He got great recruits like Garner's Anthony Barber to come to NC State to set records and that was a huge deal on the recruiting trail. But his thing was that he always wanted to get players that he thought could be successful in what he wanted to do and he never wavered from anything. In fact, the thing about coach Sheridan is he never wavered in anything, whether it was discipline of his players, uh, recruiting, uh, trail. Uh He was one of those guys, uh certainly old school by today's standards who would never, who would never take a shortcut and uh it hurt him and at times, uh people will remember that Nas and his all American receiver um was suspended for the only losing season coach she had ever had as a college football coach in 1987. But he did what he thought was right. And Nas Worthen will tell you was the right thing at the time. I, I do think about some of those teams and, you know, you know, Nas the Danny Peebles, Eric Kramer, all those guys, Charles Davenport. But, you know, to me what I think it's coach share and those teams I think of those, like those defensive. So like, you know, the and green were, were, were, what did you say with the, they were like tops in the nation? Oh, absolutely. You know, Sebastian Savage and Vincent. So sorry to, to, to stop the flow. I, I tried, I was trying to come up with names. It was the, um, the strong safety, um, Jesse Campbell. So can, can you cut this back? So if you look at the defenses of the late nineties, Snake Vincent, um, uh, Jesse Campbell, uh, all those guys that he brought in here to create, what were the best defenses in the nation and certainly the best defenses in the AC C at that time. Um That's what established him, you know, he, he ran an offense that could get the job done. He had some really good players. He had great receivers when he got here. He had the all AC C quarterback when he got here too and Eric Kramer, but he made them into something special and he made them into a team that could challenge for the AC C championship, which NC State had not done in the years prior to him. Getting here. Good deal. Anything else you wanna add? I believe it out here. No, just that the one thing I will say about coach Sheridan is that he maintained really close contact with every player who ever played for him. Whether it was Orangeburg High School Furman NC State. I got a half dozen different notifications from folks saying, hey, did you hear about coach Sheridan? We just got this message from his sons. Um He stayed in close contact with all those guys. I talked to coach Ocain um recently or just right after I heard this news, you know, Coach Ocain was coach Sheridan's first quarterback at Orangeburg High School down in South Carolina and they followed each other during that time. They were very close. Um All of the Coach Sheridan player community is really, you know, saddened by this news, but they also knew that they had a special relationship that they carried, not just from the time that they played with him in the seventies or the eighties or the nineties while he coached, but throughout the rest of his life.