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LRM - who has written 31 posts on StateFans Nation.
Charter member of the Lunatic Fringe and a fan, loyal to a fault.
Cheap Seats Basketball Introspective
After that debacle within Carter-Finley last weekend, the timing for this just seems eerily appropriate, especially since I’m not at all hopeful about the upcoming basketball season. My original intent was a more comprehensive basketball retrospective similar to the one I did for football back in the summer. But I decided that nothing [...]
Continue reading...Philip Got Paid
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The greatest quarterback in college football history, Philip Rivers, signed a six-year contract extension with the Chargers worth $92 million ($38-39 million guaranteed). “This is a great day for the Chargers and Chargers fans,” team president Dean Spanos said. “Philip has proven he has all of the necessary qualities to be a successful quarterback in the [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part V, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
This is the final part of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part IV, 2007-Present
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
This is Part IV of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of us [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part III, Philip Rivers
Friday, July 31, 2009
This is Part III of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part II, 2000-06
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
This is Part II of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part I, The 1990s
Monday, July 27, 2009
Back in March of this year, any column I would’ve written could’ve only been titled “Why I should’ve gone to [insert SEC school here].” As I left Tobacco Road on Glenwood Avenue after watching yet another State basketball season mercifully end – like so many years before it – on the Thursday of the [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats – Scandal spooks State supporters
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The N&O touched briefly on a subject I’ve been curious about for a while: How the recent events revolving around State’s leadership have affected its revenue stream from donors. “If NCSU can afford to give Mary Easley an $80,000 salary increase, it no longer needs my support.” Beyond the obvious issues of inadequate accountability and the even [...]
Continue reading...2009 NC State Football Schedule Released
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The ACC released the 2009 football schedules today, so if you’re like me, you’re already planning your tailgating menus. Key notes: *8 home games *Open with South Carolina on Thursday Night ESPN. It will never be the Red River Rivalry or the Cocktail Party, but this is a great regional rivalry and I think it should be [...]
Continue reading...Laugh. Think. Cry.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
V himself had said that team wasn’t very good. After a 6-8 conference record, State was seeded sixth for the 1987 ACC Tournament in Landover. But somehow – not unlike a few years earlier on an even bigger stage – Jim Valvano’s Cardiac Pack had survived and advanced to the title game, where they would [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
Sunday, November 30, 2008
College football is great because it offers its fans the most exciting week-to-week regular season of any sport. I spend nearly every Saturday during the fall either tailgating outside Carter-Finley or watching far too much SEC – and, this season, Big XII South – football on TV. But unlike college basketball, which builds [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
Thursday, August 21, 2008
In a few days we’ll renew our rivalry with South Carolina after a nine year hiatus, which is a real shame because it’s a fun rivalry that should be played annually. It would never be the Red River Rivalry or the Cocktail Party, but it’s a mutually-beneficial opportunity to capitalize on a spirited and [...]
Continue reading...Save Tuffy!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
This is personal for me. According to my folks, the roots of me becoming a loyal State fan (to a fault) stemmed from my fascination as a toddler with the Strutting Wolf. The Tuffy of my childhood was rugged and vicious, leading us to a national title and two ACC titles. In the mid-90s, they tried [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
Monday, July 14, 2008
Dear Heather Dinich, Good for you, having been to all of the ACC stadiums – it’s something I can’t say for myself. And kudos to ESPN for hiring an Indiana graduate and a Maryland resident to write a regular blog about the ACC. I’ll be honest here, Heather. I’m provincially prejudiced and I don’t intend to change [...]
Continue reading...A Little Nostalgia
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
ESPN Classic will air the 1983 national championship game between North Carolina State and Houston from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET on Friday, April 4. At 8 p.m., ESPN Classic will present a half hour original documentary “ESPN Classic Remembers: NC State Upsets Houston”, which will chronicle the 1983 Wolfpack season. The documentary will [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Ya’ll know this is all our fault – mine and yours – right? It’s simple, really. There is a profound dichotomy to the average State fan, a great paradox that makes each of us our own worst enemy: we are intensely loyal…to a fault. As long as we continue to feed this monster, improvement won’t come [...]
Continue reading...State Guys to Watch for in MLB in 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Yeah, I was in the show…You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, someone else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains. (Crash Davis in “Bull Durham”) These [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
Thursday, January 10, 2008
My extreme, near-sinful hatred for Carolina could only be eclipsed by the even more intense jubilation of beating those Bastards Born & Bred and then enjoying every fleeting moment of it until it is our time, as dictated by some malevolent, forbidding destiny, to lose to them once again. I can recall with striking accuracy – [...]
Continue reading...Evaluating ACC Expansion Part II: Measuring Success
Thursday, December 20, 2007
To most of us, the ACC is inherent to our culture, and we’ve seen it go through exceptional changes over the past twenty years. Following is the second of a two-part discussion (Part I: Evolution) focusing on how college football, and the ACC in particular, has changed and how this recent evolution of college football [...]
Continue reading...Evaluating ACC Expansion Part I: Evolution
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
There is no question that the college football we all enjoy now is not the same college football we enjoyed as kids, evidenced primarily by the excessive number of bowls and the intense debate over the need for a playoff system. Personally, my favorite football season as an 11-year old kid was the ridiculous 1990: [...]
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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