credit to Pack Pride:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/arash_markazi/03/14/the.beat/1.html

thats pretty cool even if you hate him:


Ever wonder how much Dick Vitale makes on those obnoxious Hooters ads? Well, the Dayton Daily News reports that Dickie V makes nothing of them. Instead, Vitale asked Hooters to donate $500,000 to the Jimmy Valvano cancer fund if he did the commercials. In the words of Vitale, "That's awesome, baby!"

3/19/2007 12:08:25 PM

i can dig it

3/19/2007 12:10:26 PM

maybe he can also donate his voice box to a needy kid.

3/19/2007 12:10:38 PM

kudos to him for that.

3/19/2007 12:10:40 PM

i don't know why anyone hates vitale

sure he's loud but no one else is as passionate about college basketball

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 12:11 PM. Reason : ]

3/19/2007 12:11:13 PM

I like Dickie V.

Yes, he gets a little overzealous sometimes, but he's always been supportive of NCSU, and especially Jimmy V/V Foundation.

The guy loves what he does.

3/19/2007 12:11:14 PM

I hate the fact that our university acts as if Valvano never existed, and that Dickie V hates us for that. Plus the fact that Dickie V loved Herb and hated the fact that we made him leave.

3/19/2007 12:21:56 PM

well dickie v really just stepped up in my eyes

3/19/2007 12:26:29 PM

ive never hated him i just hate his broadcasting ways

3/19/2007 12:27:35 PM

I understand if you don't like him because he is so "flamboyant" and "over the top."

But if you don't like because you think he loves UNC and Duke too much....then you are just an idiot. First, Duke and UNC are pretty fucking good. Second, Dickie V "loves" whoever is good. Its what makes him who he is. You can't have his personality and give his commentary if you're talking shit....it's almost impossible (IT'S AWEFUL WITH A CAPITAL AAAAAAA!!!!).

3/19/2007 12:41:49 PM

Quote :

"well dickie v really just stepped up in my eyes"

3/19/2007 1:16:46 PM

Quote :

"But if you don't like because you think he loves UNC and Duke too much....then you are just an idiot. First, Duke and UNC are pretty fucking good"

is that why you love UNC and Duke

3/19/2007 1:18:24 PM

they need to restructure the names for the donor recognition levels within the Jimmy V foundation

maybe something like this

Diaper Dandy
PTPer
Super, Scintillating, Sensational
AWESOME, BABYYYYYYYYYYYYY

3/19/2007 1:26:57 PM

I actually did recently gain a little more respect / less hate for Dickie V lately

Anybody have that audio clip of him on hold with the sports radio station talking about where Horston will or won't get drafted? Theres an audio clip of him talking shit to some UNC fan since they lost...here I'll try to find it

3/19/2007 1:28:46 PM

please do. i wanna hear

3/19/2007 1:30:22 PM

ahaha hear it is

http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/sportspage/0226dickvitale1.mp3



its right around the 1:20 mark that he talks shit to the carolina fan

before that he's saying he'd take Horston over Noah

3/19/2007 1:39:23 PM

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"well dickie v really just stepped up in my eyes"

Um, Dickie V has been a staunch advocate of the V foundation since 1992 when it came to fruition, so why did he just step up??? What he has done for the foundation and what he did for Valvano is nothing short of amazing. Any time I see a state fan crashing on Vitale for anything I know one of two things to be true. You didn't go to State, or you were not a fan until after V passed (which is maybe stretching since Les didn't exactly put us on the map). So in essence, no true State fan can honestly say a bad thing about Vitale. Yea, you can call him overwhelming or slightly annoying, but to call him "idiot, moron, etc" means you aint a State/Valvano fan.

3/19/2007 1:48:35 PM

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"maybe he can also donate his voice box to a needy kid. "

That would mean that his voice would survive for another generation instead of being gone for good in another decade or so

Quote :

"well dickie v really just stepped up in my eyes"

Yeah, that puts him at step one.

[Edited on March 19, 2007 at 1:53 PM. Reason : seriously though, gg Dick V]

3/19/2007 1:52:09 PM

almost every broadcast he brings up how much he misses his 'dear friend jimmy v'

i can't hate him for that. plus when we're brought up he usually has nice things to say (as rare as that may be).

3/19/2007 2:21:50 PM

gg to Dickie V

3/19/2007 2:39:07 PM

those hooter commercials have something different about them.. they look really good, i don't know if the framerate is really fast but something is different about the picture, looks cool

3/19/2007 2:41:07 PM

anybody who hates Dickie V should have heard the interview w/ him on Jim Rome last week

it was awesome and I no longer hate him

3/19/2007 2:46:21 PM

^ what happened?

3/19/2007 3:26:35 PM

explain this interview

3/19/2007 3:28:06 PM

Vitale talks about NC State whenever the ACC is mentioned. I've heard him talk us up during the Herb/Hodge era when there wasn't even an ACC team playing in the game he was covering. He has always been a huge State fan--we just haven't given him as much to talk about as Duke and UNC in recent years.

3/19/2007 3:55:53 PM

Hooters and baahsketball...

It's a naahtural.

3/19/2007 3:58:57 PM

I heard Jim Rome talking about Dickie V on his radio show one afternoon. Rome had nothing but good things to say about him. He talked briefly about Vitale's work with basketball players, particularly in giving them guidance on making the most out of their college career. Truthfully, you'd be hard pressed to find a bigger Vitale fan than Jim Rome.


Vitale haters have always annoyed me, nice to get some ammo to shut them up with...

3/20/2007 12:28:29 PM

The ONLY downside to Dickie V is his broadcast style.

Other than that he's always done great things, for State, the ACC, the sport, and the athletes.

He's been one of the biggest supporters of the V Foundation, and this latest contribution is only part of that.

/tiphat to Dickie V.

3/20/2007 12:33:17 PM