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 [...]
Getting Nasty Out There for A Coach
We work hard for the analysis and commentary that you find on SFN to be accurate. But, whatever is blogged here will almost always be blogged with uncompromising emotion because we are fans. In case you didn’t notice, the name of the site is StateFANSnation. In today’s N&O, Chip Alexander highlighted most of the key [...]
UNC Search: Rodriguez’s Comments
There were some interesting comments made yesterday by two of the potential candidates for the Carolina coaching job. When I saw the comments I noticed the same thing that Tom Suiter noticed in this entry but I didn’t have time to type anything. Thanks to Mr. Suiter for highlighting his observations. Kragthorpe, whose Tulsa teams [...]
UCLA Coaches “Feeling the Heat”
From the LA Times through SI: “After eight games last season, UCLA was undefeated and ranked No. 5 in the BCS standings. This year, the Bruins are 4-4 and heading south with a three-game losing streak. Karl Dorrell, co-coach of the year in the Pacific 10 Conference last season, and his staff have been feeling [...]
Trestman Follow-up x3
It was only a few weeks ago that it seemed as though NC State’s Offensive Co-ordinator, Marc Trestman, was really coming into his own as a play caller and leader of the Wolfpack’s offense. We talked about it in this great entry. But it doesn’t take long for that tune to change after a couple [...]
Technician: Something Has To Change
Even the students are starting to get antsy. “We haven’t beaten anyone this year.” “It doesn’t matter who we play, we’ll lose anyway.” “N.C. State is way better than us.” Before Saturday’s football game, that is all I heard from Virginia fans. Well, Virginia fans, you just beat N.C. State. Sure, it’s not a huge [...]
Basketball Approaches
We had a quite a weekend of despair on the gridiron, so we ask that you spend time scrolling through some of our football entries on your own without a lot of linking from us. We’ll get back to a lot more commentary on the Pack’s spiraling season later in the day. But, while hope [...]
Trouble on the horizon
Image: An unidentified NC State lineman demonstrates the fine art of pass protection. Many of you may recall the series of articles I posted in the preseason ranking the offensive line units of the Amato Era. The verdict is in, and I can say, unequivocally, that this year’s offensive line is indeed the worst of [...]
ECU 2 NC State 0 / Wake Wins “State Championship”
East Carolina East Carolina defeated Southern Mississippi tonight in Hattiesburg. That gives the Pirates a 2-0 record against teams that have defeated NC State this season – Southern Miss and Virginia. Less than one and a half years ago, ECU was easily one of the ten worst football programs in all of America. Almost immediately [...]
Painful: UVA 14, NC State 7 (Updated 4:20pm)
Boxscore | Recap | Drive Chart Quick Thoughts: • Is Amato on the hot seat? Could he survive a loss to UNC and/or ECU? • Pack musters a measley 7 points after laying ANOTHER goose-egg for the entire first half. • For the year, NC State has managed 12 combined points in the first quarter [...]