O’Brien Goes Against Conventional Wisdom With 2-Deep Chart For Wolfpack Opener
NC State kicks off its 2010 football campaign this Saturday evening at Carter-Finley Stadium and there will be some new and to some, some surprising starters and first reserves will be manning key positions for the Pack: To much surprise, running backs Curtis Underwood Jr. and James Washington were nowhere to be found on the [...]
Continue reading...The Illogical Hilarity of UNC Fans Making Excuses
Monday, August 30, 2010
To say that the last few weeks have been quite entertaining on sports radio, or on message boards and blogs where UNC fans gather would be an understatement along the lines of saying that the weather has been warm the past few weeks. Like the 95 degree-plus weather we seem to see day after day [...]
Continue reading...The Hits Just Keep Coming: UNC-CH presser tonight — 9 UNC players had papers written for them — By Butch’s nanny!??
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Link to 99.9. Ovies and Gold about to interview IC’s Greg Barnes. Literally starting right now(4:10 pm). Inside Carolina is reporting that Officials from North Carolina uncovered the academic issues in its own review, pertaining to a tutor, and self-reported the findings to the NCAA. Sources report the various players involved were relegated to the [...]
Continue reading...Cupcake Recipes For Starvin’ Marvin Austin
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Here in the interest of public service, we thought that we here at Statefans Nation would post a few cupcake recipes for that fast-rising Travel Network AND Food Network star, Starvin’ Marvin Austin, soon to be formerly of UNC’s Tar Heel football team. First of all since he’ll almost certainly not get to play in [...]
Continue reading...ESPN’s Joe Schad: NCAA Investigation Into UNC Concerns Agents
Friday, July 16, 2010
Joe Schad, ESPN’s senior college football writer, has been updating what he discovers about the NCAA’s visit to UNC via his Twitter feed. Here’s his feed, newest from the top: UNC DL Marvin Austin was asked why he was seen driving the vehicle of 49er Kentwan Balmer and if he stayed at Balmer’s apartment about [...]
Continue reading...BREAKING NEWS: NCAA INVESTIGATING UNC FOOTBALL
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Obviously, much much more to come on this breaking story: UNC is under NCAA investigation for its football program. While not much regarding the substance of this investigation has yet come to light, for some time, murmurs have surrounded the Carolina football program and the practices of some of its coaches. Apparently, these are not [...]
Continue reading...The Years Are Taking Their Toll On Dean Smith
Thursday, July 8, 2010
For us as NC State fans, for most of our lives, Dean Smith was the Man We Hated The Most, and the guy who caused us more grief than just about anyone. But the years have taken their toll on the former coach, and he is now slipping fast into one of the worst kinds [...]
Continue reading...Sidney Trying To Lowe(r) Expectations For Next Basketball Season
Friday, July 2, 2010
Sidney Lowe must be talking to former NC State football coach Lou Holtz, a man who was infamous for effusively praising even the lightest of opponents as being world-beaters while talking about his own team as though they were elementary school scrubs picked last in PE for a game of kickball. For example, in the [...]
Continue reading...My View: Dr. Debbie Yow Is Experienced And Successful
Friday, June 25, 2010
On May 5th, shortly after it was announced that Lee Fowler was leaving NC State I wrote a lengthy list of my idea of the requirements of who would have the best chance of success leading NC State’s athletics into the 2010 decade: In short, State should hire someone who meets this basic set of requirements. Quickly, [...]
Continue reading...NC State is Nation’s Fifth Most Profitable Hoops Program
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Financial statements of the nation’s 344-odd Division I NCAA teams are out and and NC State’s hoops program is among the nation’s best in terms of profit margin. Looking at the numbers above, you will see that UNC-CH generates almost twice as much revenue as NC State, but that it’s matching expenses are more than [...]
Continue reading...Pomeranz: Emails About Fowler Didn’t Make a Difference
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
In a followup to the Ken Tysiac story from the weekend where the Observers’ headline writer claimed that 29 emails made the difference in the status of Lee Fowler’s job, former Technician sports editor and sometime NC State blogger Jim Pomeranz makes sense of it all and injects some much-needed reality: In reality, the idea [...]
Continue reading...Is Lebron James Taking Over Basketball?
Monday, May 17, 2010
Lebron James is one of the two marquee players in basketball today: perhaps only Kobe Bryant is bigger, considering his longer tenure and multiple championships in the NBA. But without doubt, Lebron James is almost as big, and unlike Kobe, he plans to extend his influence in basketball to something bigger than championships: Lebron plans [...]
Continue reading...N&O: NC State Hopes To Name New AD By Mid-Summer
Monday, May 17, 2010
Ken Tysiac of the Raleigh News and Observer (and its sister publication the Charlotte Observer) posted an update on the start of NC State’s search for a new athletic director: The school hopes to name a new AD by the “middle of summer” It has retained Parker Executive Search of Atlanta to assist Chancellor Woodson [...]
Continue reading...Let’s Put Our Money Where Our Mouths Are!
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Almost to a reader, everyone here wants NC State’s sports to be competitive and successful where ever it is that they compete. Many of us wanted change to come to the management of Wolfpack athletics, and now that change has come, with a new Athletic Director — a CEO, if you will — on the [...]
Continue reading...My View: The New AD Must Be Experienced and Successful
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Now that change has come to the leadership of NC State’s athletics programs, it’s fair to take an objective look at the state of the program as it really is, and what qualities the new Athletic Director should have in order for NC State to be more successful than is the current state of affairs. [...]
Continue reading...Tracy Smith submits name for NBA Draft (His Mom says he’ll be back)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports listed the official underclassman entrants into the NBA Draft this morning, and much to many Wolfpack fan’s surprise, rising senior Tracy Smith’s name was among the players planning to see what their worth is in the upcoming league draft. He’ll have until next Saturday, May 8th, to finalize his decision [...]
Continue reading...What CJL Means To The Coaches
Thursday, April 29, 2010
There’s an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” For NC State’s coaches, these times are indeed interesting, and those coaches are not just the ones who lead the basketball program. Yesterday’s word of heralded recruit C.J. Leslie’s re-commitment to play hoops for NC State and head coach Sidney Lowe will have an [...]
Continue reading...How NC State’s Sports Information Department Really Works
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
One of things you hear Wolfpack fans howling about the most is the way that NC State and its teams are covered in the media. They say that NC State never gets a break in the local paper, the Charlotte paper, the television media or many of the online columnists that help shape the country’s [...]
Continue reading...Comeback Story Of The Year: Nate Irving
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Much has been said about the accident that Nate Irving had last year, and also about its effect on the NC State defense in 2009. While we cannot overlook the leadership skills and playing abilities of Irving, all too often we overlook on the effect that Nate’s accident has had on him personally. Put bluntly, [...]
Continue reading...Russell Wilson Will Play Football in 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
NC State’s starting quarterback will play football in 2010. Tom O’Brien, the Wolfpack’s head coach made the announcement today after football practice when he said bluntly, “write it down: [Wilson is] coming back.” So let it be written. Wilson, a two year starter, was thought to have played his final football season for the Wolfpack in 2009, [...]
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