Q: What Now? A: SFN Adopt-A-Team!
Yes, as I predicted yesterday, Dr. Kevorkian visited the Pack dressed like the Miami Hurricanes. JJ Hickson put up a lonely fight, but the 2007-08 season is finally, mercifully over for NC State.
But that doesn’t mean giving up basketball and waiting for football season! Our fun-loving SFN community can just adopt a team to follow during March Madness. One that’s likeable and culturally similar. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…the Clemson Tigers. Tough as nails. Twice screwed against Carolina, they got off the mat and fought back like we begged (in vain) for our Wolfpack to do.
Let’s try it on for size during the “real” portion of the ACCT. If we like it, we’ll cover the Tigers in the dance as if they were our very own. Game threads, live blogging, the works. If not, we’ll open the floor for nominations. But I think the Tigers fit. Reasonably classy, long suffering fans. ACC party crashers. (Those 2 only apply to hoops). A school with ties to engineering and agriculture. A team out for vengeance against Carolina. Probably the only ACC team that really matches up well with Carolina. And not a team that’s so good that we look and/or feel like front-runners.
We will update with Clemson links tomorrow, and maybe add some thoughts about today’s debacle.
Question:
“If Greg Paulus drives down the lane, and runs over Tyler Hansbrough, and both fall to the floor, who do the refs call a foul on?”
Answer:
“Clemson’s front-court”
TICKET SCAM
If you’re in or around the tourney this weekend, be careful. I was there today and Carolina fans were blowing dudes for their weekend passes. After they finished, they didn’t even want the tickets, so be careful out there.
I will adopt the Yellow Jackets and probably be stung, but I don’t care. It is March 13th and I have no more basketball to care about.
My two cents: Johnson should not see the floor next year. He is of no benefit. Better get his pom poms ready. Horner – Who’s he? Costner – I don’t know why but I feel terrible for him because he has fallen off the map and has no pro future after such a promising freshman campaign. Ben Mac – No show. Fergie – Nice D on McClinton today, good stroke, but a 2nd rate ACC player. Fells – Does anybody want to light a fire under his butt? So much talent, so little to show for. Javi – I sure hope Degand is better than you. Learn how to shoot without kicking your legs out. It’s like a five year old trying to get the ball up to an eight foot rim. Smith – Take no prisoners this offseason. The starting job is yours if you keep up the good work. Hickson – Make us proud. Grant – Sorry you had to go out like that. Thanks for the good times and the best of luck to you. Lowe, Towe, Strickland and Harris – start looking.
Totally w/ you there, BJD … I’m on the Tiger bandwagon for the rest of this season, and will cheer for other ACC brethren in the NCAA tournament as long as the schools are not located in either Durham or Chapel Hill
James Mays is a friend of mine and he and Cliff Hammonds deserve this success(an NCAAT trip) after what they’ve done for the program at Clemson. I know most of the guys on the team and they’re all pretty cool guys. for the rest of the way Go Tigers!
…this from a DieHard State fan and Alum in Grad School at Clemson…Painful watching all 4 games against UNX!
Definitely go Tigers, but I would be thrilled if we could just have a Sunday without either shade of blue.
Wife is a Clemson alum. So I’m a Tiger fan now…
I don’t care who, just make it ABC. Cover Maryland, cover Duke, cover anyone but Carolina.
F*** CAROLINA!
BTW – I grew up a Clemson fan and hating Carolina (South)…so them winning it would be the best scenario but I don’t care as long as it isn’t Carolina. East, West, North or South they are all Carolina and they can all go to heck!
I’ve adopted a team after a day of tourney ball.
ASU…yea I know, how can ya go so long without a field goal and then get f….. familiar?
Never the less…you fill in the blanks.
I can’t do it. I just can’t pull for Clempson.
Ole Miss Rebels, if only because they have by far the best looking co-eds in America. The only place they red shirt Miss Americas. We are on now play UGa.
Offtopic
Packwolf82 – I followed your link on your handle and ended up on your Flickr page. Good work – and it looks like you had exactly the same problems I had with the lunar eclipse. I completely forgot to account for the moon’s constant movement and got slightly blurry photos for my trouble.
Anyhow, there’s some very good work on that site. Heck, you should share some of the game photos with the blogosphere and get it in front of NC State fans.
Ole Miss Rebels, if only because they have by far the best looking co-eds in America.
We could have an entire thread about that. Florida, UCLA, UGA and Texas might want to get into that battle.
The guys have to go to class now and get the semester behind them. This is a very important summer for the program. They need to work on their games and get in the weight room. We were too soft this season. No excuse for that again. Good luck to GG in the future. Whoever has been pouting this season, I hope they shape up. Poor chemistry on this team. No time for that.
Ps,
I will pull for CU this weekend too.
I’ll pull for VT.
Thanks RAWFS! Never thought of that, but I’d be glad to share. How should I go about doing this? Can you private message me or something? The eclipse ones were definitely a new trial. haha.
I’ve been busy as the proverbial one legged man today, but just what was Lowe’s response in the post game radio show today? I missed EVERYTHING and I’d love to hear how he wrapped up this whole, season long, experience in basketball futility.
Lowe said the guys played hard.
No, really…he did.
Not really sure where to post this, but ACC Now has a podcast up w/ JP Giglio and Caulton Tudor focusing specifically on NC State and next year’s prospects and how Coach Lowe may fare … Here’s the link if interested:
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/index.php?title=acc_now_the_podcast_7&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Oh, is there still ACC BB this year???
I must confess that the way this season has gone that I have totally lost interest in the game. Haven’t watched a non-pack game all year to speak of. It is just too depressing to see other teams with no-name recruits just working their butts off and running up the court having fun vs what our guys do on the court.
I won’t watch a game the whole weekend unless I am totally bored or the weather is too bad for golf.
I agree Primewolf…I have loved college bball for as long as I can remember but this year’s team took the life out of me as I too just lost interest even though I have a few things left to watch. It is unbelievable how State’s lack of effort or interest in games translated into how I felt too. someone else said it best that I saw on here: “When the team quit, I too quit caring or watching.” It’s a sad day.
We should never lose because of lack of effort. period.
Noah, did he say anything about the entire season being a cluster F, or any way apologize to the fans, or possibly his players even? Or, are we seeing another coach who just doesn’t feel the need to explain anything?
NC State is THE safe haven for coaches like that ya know.
Go anybody but UNX.
EverettBeez, Your comment about Ole Miss red-shirting Miss Americas is a classic.
“Noah, did he say anything about the entire season being a cluster F, or any way apologize to the fans, or possibly his players even? Or, are we seeing another coach who just doesn’t feel the need to explain anything?”
Yes! And then he pulled out, “Coaching For Retards” and realized that he had been holding the book upside down all season. Whoops!
I don’t give a crap about the rest of the ACC tourney. I don’t even care if duke or unc win it again. If they win the tourney again, it’s because they derserve to win it. They are just better than the us and the rest of the league. Maybe one day I’ll be able to say that we are just better than the rest of the teams and we deserved to win the tourney (NCAA or ACC). I reckon that day might come when my grandkids have grandkids. Regardless, I just want it to happen.
This is a quote from Lowe from packpride.com:
“I think we didn’t have throughout the year that real leader. That guy, that Engin, who kept everything together on the floor.”
“As a coach you can only do so much. You’ve got to have somebody, one or two players, that are going to control the team”
Not just based on this quote, but I think he attributes the terribleness of the season to the lack of a good point guard (not a new concept) as he seemed satisfied with every other aspect of this game. He said defense was good and that they had a lot of wide open shots that they just didn’t hit. I guess they’re still “almost there” when it comes to winning.