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 [...]
Cowher TV Feature
Bill Cowher is being featured on “Aaron’s Football Saturdays in the South” that is running in syndication on local channels throughout the south this weekend. (Link) The show is produced by “Lincoln Financial Sports” which is the old Jefferson-Pilot Sports. (Lincoln Financial Group bought Greensboro-based Jefferson-Pilot months ago). Super Bowl Champ Bill Cowher, NC State [...]
NFL Notes: Mario, Manny, McCargo & More
Give The News & Observer some credit for doing a good job of following the Wolfpack’s “6 Pack” of draftees. The N&O ran this summary of 2006 Wolfpack football alums as NFL training camps are opening. Mario Williams earned rave reviews in Houston during his first NFL practice. (Link) The Houston Texans’ No. 1 draft [...]
Recruits Dropping at Local Programs
Earlier in the week, Chris Culliver, NC State’s top 2007 football (not so) ‘committment’ finally officially withdrew his word-isn’t-really-his-bond this week. At least we weren’t the only ones. The focus this afternoon will most certainly be on Carolina losing their #1 football recruit from last year. (Link) But, he’s now the only former recruit with [...]
ECU on BBall Schedule?
We discussed the basketball schedule yesterday — at least the part of it that we have been able to piece together from other announcements, etc. The discussion generated (what sounded to be) some educated responses that the ACC will release its entire basketball schedule simultaneously in mid to late August. One topic that arose in [...]
Scoop’s Rape Scene & Peter King
Scoop has clearly convinced Page 2 editors that proofreading is a form of racism. Earlier in the month we told you about the great new blog, Kissing Suzy Kolber. Earlier this week KSK hit a friggin home run for the 99% of the readers out there that hate Terrell Owens &/or “Scoop” Jackson. This entry [...]
4 Reasons Big 4 = Bottom 4
Link to Dave Glenn’s blog entry on the four reasons why the Big 4 = The Bottom 4 in football over the last 25 years. 1. Snowball Effect/Expansion. 2. Bad Demographics. Here’s the breakdown of how many Division I-A signees the traditional ACC states produce on an annual basis, relative to the number of I-A [...]
BBall Scheduling Talk
Since we were talking football scheduling on Tuesday, I figured that we might as well also take care of some basketball scheduling. BJD beat me to the topic of scheduling back in May, so I wanted to piggyback his thoughts before NC State released the 2006-2007 Basketball Schedule. New Director of Basketball Operations, Quentin Jackson [...]
Fascinating Idea (Update @ Noon – New Football League
In the same vein of mixing sports and business and The Big 12 Network comes a new football league that are going to be connected to, and play at college campuses. We’ve heard rumblings about folks at NC State being a little fearful of having a little too much debt connected to renovations at Carter-Finley [...]
State vs Gamecocks Series Close
Those of you that just can’t breath air without making sure that NC State has the toughest football schedule in all of America are one step closer to getting your wish. The Charlotte Observer is reporting an update on some things that we discussed last month about NC State’s future football schedule. (Link). If the [...]