Jim Hunt As Chancellor? Not On My Watch!
Today’s Triangle Business Journal features NC State “booster” Steve Stroud doing a little “boosting” for someone else: former four-term governor Jim Hunt. Stroud, it seems, thinks Hunt would be a dandy occupant for the vacant chancellor’s chair at NC State: “Jim Hunt would do a great job bringing the university back together.” In fact, says [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Finally Finds “Way To Win”
Monday, March 17, 2008
RALEIGH, NC – Just days after a loss in the first round of the ACC tournament ended NC State’s basketball season with a nine game losing streak that ensured a losing record for the year, jubilant Wolfpack basketball players emerged from a players-only meeting and announced that they had finally found the “way to win.” “Man, [...]
Continue reading...Mr. King Speaks
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Fans and alumni of most universities worry – in the sports context – about won-loss records and recruiting. Media gaffes aren’t really on the radar screen. Not so NC State alumni, who endure a seemingly unending cascade of embarrassing press about their alma mater. Some of this press is reactive, such as the bumbling search for [...]
Continue reading...With Friends Like This…
Sunday, December 3, 2006
As habitues of SFN are well aware, our writers (including your obedient servant) get occasional rhubarbs from those decrying the site’s alleged “negativity” – cliched shorthand for, “writing things about NC State that fail to display blind optimism worthy of MAD’s Alfred E. Neuman.” Our “negativity,” these posters claim, causes harm to NC [...]
Continue reading...Fowler Hits New Low: A Call To The Board Of Trustees
Friday, December 1, 2006
We’ve all seen (as VaWolf82 summarized) numerous examples of Lee Fowler making thoughtless and insulting statements about the people who, in the aggregate, pay his salary. Fans unhappy with the 8-38 Periclean Age of Herb Sendek, for instance, were a “lunatic fringe” consisting of “50 people on the Internet.” Just yesterday, when asked to name the [...]
Continue reading...No Contract For Neinas? Say It Ain’t So, “Coach”
Thursday, November 30, 2006
I may be overreacting, but a comment reported in today’s News & Observer causes some real concern about the coaching search. NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler, who stumblebummed through the Sidney Lowe hiring some months back, told the newspaper that, “[h]e has talked with Chuck Neinas, a Colorado-based headhunter who helped North Carolina hire Butch [...]
Continue reading...Guest Writer: Billy Tough
Monday, November 20, 2006
Many State fans are familiar with Ur-Fan BillyTough, perhaps the most loyal member of our Wolfpack family. Mr. Tough’s adminitions to “not throw the team and coach under a bus!” have warmed our hearts and stiffened our resolve. Mr. Tough contacted SFN and asked us to run the statement below. It appears, at Mr. Tough’s [...]
Continue reading...Pack Rugby – NC Champions!
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
For an ex-high school and college rugby player like me, this is great news: The N.C. State Rugby Club has won the North Carolina state championship. Even better, they did this by beating perennial NC rugby powerhouse UNC, who led them at halftime per a fine article in The Technician (linked below). It’s interesting – and [...]
Continue reading...Ain’t That A Kick In The Head?
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
It’s tournament time again for the ACC soccer programs. As a State fan, can you feel the excitement? Well, I guess not. And I can’t blame you. N.C. State soccer accomplished a rare double dip of pathos this season with its men’s and women’s soccer teams each being the bottom seeds, based on their conference records, [...]
Continue reading...… And Yet Another Flub
Thursday, October 12, 2006
As if the previous report isn’t embarrassing enough, this morning’s N&O highlights yet another flub by NC State’s athletic powers that be. It seems the ACC has a new program in which non-revenue sports contests are shown via webcast. This is a good idea. Non-revenue athletes labor in near-complete anonymity compared to their football and basketball [...]
Continue reading...Weak Florist And Da Big Head
Monday, October 9, 2006
What a difference two weeks makes. After the Southern Miss debacle most of us were writing off the team and slitting our collective football throats. Now we ride high after the team pulls itself together for two huge victories. And we should be worried sick about the Wake Forest game this weekend. We’ve been here before, you [...]
Continue reading...EXCLUSIVE: UNC To Rent NC Central Football Team
Friday, October 6, 2006
Statefansnation has learned that UNC Chapel Hill has arranged to rent the North Carolina Central University Eagles football team for Saturday’s road game against the University of Miami, sources close to the program told SFN today. “Dick Baddour was inspired when he saw that Florida State rented Central’s band for their game against NC State,” the [...]
Continue reading...Swofford: Evans “Academically Ineligible” For UNC Game
Friday, October 6, 2006
From the Greensboro News & Record, a shocking announcement: Evans Declared Academically Ineligible For UNC Game By Steve Norton, N&R Staff Writer GREENSBORO, NC (AP) NC State Wolfpack starting quarterback Daniel Evans, the former benchwarmer who led the Wolfpack to two come-from-behind victories over ranked conference opponents, is “academically ineligible” for NC State’s upcoming game against [...]
Continue reading...New Pack Football Spokesman Talks To Media
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
SFN Note: Thanks to Cardiff Giant for his second parody home run of the week. Yesterday he chimed in with a hilarious interview with Tommy Hunt after Jeff had blogged a great one about Hunt’s recent comments. Newly hired North Carolina State Assistant Sports Information Director Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as “Baghdad Bob? from [...]
Continue reading...EXCLUSIVE: SFN Tommy Hunt Interview
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Jeff asked for it, so The Giant responds. On September 12, SFN interviewed ACC coordinator of football officials Tommy Hunt regarding ACC officiating, the NC State/Akron controversy, and other subjects. The transcript appears below: SFN: Thank you for meeting with us today, Mr. Hunt. Hunt: Eating? I ain’t eatin’ with you. It’s only 9 AM. Says here, this [...]
Continue reading...Jim Rome’s Big Break
Friday, August 4, 2006
“Calipari, come on man, NC STATE????” - Sports Radio host Jim Rome, to Memphis basketball coach John Calipari, August 4, 2006. Oh, that wacky Jim Rome and his State-bashing ways. But it made me wonder: How do these radio hacks get to their positions of dubious celebrity? I mean, it’s not like they have to pass [...]
Continue reading...Lose The Pro Look, Chuck
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
The post-Rivers mediocrity of Wolfpack football has many causes. Jay Davis wasn’t Philip Rivers and at times wasn’t Tol Avery. The team was often poorly disciplined and poorly coached. An apparent – and hopefully eradicated – “star system,�? whose poster child was the insufferably annoying T.A. McClendon, took its toll. And assistants came and went [...]
Continue reading...Gregg Doyel’s Complaint
Saturday, May 13, 2006
(With apologies to Philip Roth) Norman, Oklahoma, 1970 Greggy, age 6, is walking down the street with Daddy. Daddy is a ‘fessor of the laws, which Greggy doesn’t know about except that the janitor where Daddy works takes off his cap and says, “Morning, Sir.” All Greggy knows is that he has his new ball and the [...]
Continue reading...Lee Fowler SINGS!
Friday, May 12, 2006
SFN’s been told that at a recent Wolfpack Club meeting NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler expressed some less than happy thoughts about the Internet. Fowler, it seems, thinks only the less thoughtful fan turns to the Internet (including presumably SFN) for news. All this, for some reason, made me think of Fowler (in the guise [...]
Continue reading...Fowler Announces “All-Star” Search Committee
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
RALEIGH, NC (AP) North Carolina State University Director of Athletics Lee Fowler announced today the creation of an “All-Star Search Committee” to find a replacement for departed basketball coach Herb Sendek. Fowler announced that the committee was “yet another example” of what he called “great advice” from former Wolfpack basketball coach Les Robinson, whom Fowler consulted [...]
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