Will Wade\u2019s<\/a> messy exit from NC State to LSU this week, Brind\u2019Amour was asked about his opinion on the situation in his media availability Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\u201cI know the program pretty well. I didn\u2019t know Will. I\u2019ve got a good relationship with [Athletic Director] Boo [Corrigan]. I\u2019ve got a good relationship with [NC State baseball] coach Elliott Avent; he\u2019s a great family friend,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour told reporters. \u201cThey need to hire a guy like Coach Avent. That\u2019s what you need to do. Get a guy that gets it, a guy that\u2019s a good people person, that\u2019s in it for the right reasons. That\u2019s what they need to hire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Avent, whose bond with Brind\u2019Amour has been well-documented over the years, is in his 30th season at the helm of the NC State baseball program. He\u2019s a Wolfpack lifer, someone who grew up in love with the program from a young age.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And as Brind\u2019Amour looked at it, NC State needs to find a basketball coach that wants to be in the city for the long haul. After all, Brind\u2019Amour is a perfect example as he\u2019s spent his entire coaching career with the Canes, rising from assistant to head coach in 2021 \u2014 10 years into his tenure behind the bench with the franchise.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t include the 10 seasons he spent on the ice for Carolina during his playing career, including as the captain of the 2006 Stanley Cup championship-winning team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn today\u2019s college atmosphere. I don\u2019t know \u2014 it\u2019s different. There\u2019s no loyalty anymore, clearly,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019d be nice if you get that feeling back. That\u2019s what was so great about college. You go to a school, and you\u2019re part of it forever. And what are we doing? And this [is] a prime example.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s subtle shot at Wade was clear. The 43-year-old arrived in Raleigh with an oozing bravado looking to \u201cwin big at NC State,\u201d but in reality, he bolted for the first opportunity to go to LSU that he had.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wade\u2019s departure rubbed the Wolfpack fan base the wrong way. Brind\u2019Amour is the latest example of that. Though Wade left after just 366 days on the job, the Hurricanes\u2019 coach looked at the coaching change as something that could be spun into a positive for the future with the next hire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure there\u2019s a guy out there that still has that attachment to the place. I think that would be a start,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cIf we want these kids to stick around, how do you \u2014 I don\u2019t know, it just blows my mind that that\u2019s how that all went down. But I think he did them a favor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour might have gone to Michigan State for a year during his hockey playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-526228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116302711707100616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}