You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
SEC Welcomes a Pearl
Just wanted to quickly archive that the University of Tennessee has hired (now, former) Wisconsin-Milwaukee Head Coach, Bruce Pearl. Pearl created a Division II National Championship program at Southern Indiana in the mid-1990s before heading to UWM. His biography (written prior to this season) on the UWM website has an interesting paragraph in it that [...]
Stepping Back — Again; What Could Have Been
Ned Barnett of the News & Observer was able to say some things that many State fans were not allowed to say on propaganda-laden message boards on Sunday in his piece, Pack Takes Step Back — again. I want to personally thank Barnett for a fantastic piece on a variety of levels and for not [...]
2004-2005 NC State BBall by the Numbers
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Article: Fingers will be pointing at Sendek again
Bob Lipper says that the fingers of discontent are already pointing at Sendek again. He also quotes the poll that PackPride ran in the middle of the season, that 86% wanted Sendek out. Would be interesting to see if that number has changed any.
Things a State fan must not say
The following was locked on the only sports forum for N.C. State fans. We are supposed to be impressed, after all. It reminds me of the mood Dmitri Shostakovich tried to evoke in the finale of his Fifth Symphony, a mood the tin-eared socialist music critics of the West completely missed, namely the dictate from [...]
Personal: Sweet 16 After 16 Years
Consider that just like in 1989, NC State is again traveling to the Northeast with a coach who is in his 9th season for a Sweet 16 game on Friday night of Easter weekend and a win would put us in the Regional Finals against another school from the Triangle who would be the favorite.
Forde: Sweet 16 & Sendek
In a week that has seen dozens of dozens of articles that proclaim that Herb Sendek has been “redeemed” for winning a single game against UConn and advancing to the Sweet 16 in his 9th year at NC State. I could spend all day trying to put the loosely-written stuff in one entry…and another week [...]
Fowler: We can be “Real Good”
“Our fans are comparing ourselves to Duke and North Carolina. Every program in the country doesn’t do well when you’re compared with those two on a day-to-day basis. I understand that our fans want to be able to compete with them; we all do. But you can be real good on a daily basis and [...]
Forde: Shadows of Twin Towers
“So State fans have a straight man coaching a straight team that can never get out of the shadow of the Twin Towers of Tobacco Road, Carolina and Duke. And now Wake Forest has shouldered past the Pack and into more prominent status as well.” Pat Forde ESPN.com March 25, 2005