We wanted to make sure that you good folks knew about the newest developments on PJ Hairston’s excellent adventure to Durham and had a place to voice your thoughts on the matter. You can refresh a little by reading this quick piece… UNC’s top scorer P.J. Hairston charged with possession of marijuana (USAToday.com) According to [...]
National Preseason Priming Bytes
College Football kicks off TONIGHT with future NC State opponent South Carolina battling Mississippi State (link to preview) on ESPN. With this said…there are SO MANY preseason articles running all over the internet that it is impossible to read them all. We’re going to cover a few preseason items “Bytes” style today. * ACC fans [...]
CLC Licensing Rankings
Link to interesting information. The University of Texas at Austin made collegiate licensing history in 2006 by generating the most royalties ever by a college or university. Last year, UT was ranked third in the final year-end tally. This marks the first year the University of Texas at Austin has been ranked #1 in the [...]
Grade Chuck Amato
As Chuck enters what could be a pivotal Year Seven – how do you grade Chuck’s tenure? Consider all aspects of his reign, from on-field results to program building. In my view, he did a great job coming in and building the program. But three below reasonable expectation seasons in a row drop his grade [...]
Daily ACC News Updates?
As we have noted before, StateFansNation does not aim to be a true “news site.” However, with the college football season getting ready to begin, our readers might be interested in a recommendation – ACC Basketblog. Despite the hoops-centric name, they do a very solid job of linking news from across the ACC football landscape. [...]
Opening Weekend TV Schedule
Download our Week One Game Watching Guide This looks like the best opening schedule in quite a while. Last year, we were excited about Boise State versus Georgia – how sad. This year we have Cal vs. Tennessee; an improved Arkansas vs. a USC team looking to replace Leinart & Bush, and an incredibly over-rated [...]
A Few Months Too Late
Remember this name (not the one in the headline, but the departing head man)? In case you have forgotten, here a few SFN posts that addressed the Monty boomlet (along with a much less concrete scenario involving Larry Brown): Link #1, Link #2, Link #3 (although this does not mention Monty by name, our “leniency” [...]
Another Hurricane Game?
Hat tip to our friend Beowolf – who is wondering whether we will get a repeat of a very soggy opening night in 1999. I was there, and damn, was it ever wet. Of course, it was one thing to sit through a monsoon to watch a game against the rival Gamecocks, and quite another [...]
Best & Worst of ACC Football
Link to Wilmington Star article. As “bad” as NC State’s schedule is supposed to be this year…it is interesting that we aren’t playing a game that is projected to be bad enough to skip when compared to so many other teams games.
Yet Another Reason to Hate ESPN
Hey, it’s bad enough that the TV network has dumbed down SportsCenter to the point of near unwatchability (if that’s a real word). But as I clicked around ESPN.com this morning to get baseball and football boxscores, I noticed several banner ads offering “the ultimate UNC ticket package.” I guess that based on the urls [...]