Daily News | Phil Martelli remembers sparring with Billy Packer, who died Thursday
Billy Packer, who died Thursday, age 82, may have been the most famous college basketball analyst who ever lived, pre-Vitale. Maybe Packer, who was lead TV analyst at 34 straight Final Fours, stayed too long in the chair. At his height, Packer could analyze a game with precision, logic, and fearless insight. The game of the week in the 1970s, featuring Dick Enberg, Al McGuire, and Packer — as good it ever got.
“Being perfectly blunt, Billy Packer can kiss my ass,” Martelli yelled to a packed-in, cheering Fieldhouse crowd that day. HIs Hawks were awarded a top seed after an undefeated regular season and a first-round loss to Xavier in the A-10 Tournament.Talking Friday on the phone, Martelli can see what several decades offer, as opposed to several hours.
Packer had grown up in Bethlehem, the son of Lehigh’s basketball coach . Packer was an all-state guard, then an all-Atlantic Coast Conference guard at Wake Forest.If Martelli felt his own rebuttal was a bit of “Don Quixote fighting the windmill,” he knows Packer had a right to his opinion.
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