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2010-2011 Men’s Basketball Schedule
What more appropriate topic for the first day of College Football season than…BASKETBALL!? (Do you wonder why the Atlantic Coast Conference struggles to build a reputation in Football?) We shared a pretty good preview of NC State’s projected 2010-2011 Basketball Schedule in this link last week, but today the ACC offices have released the entire [...]
Continue reading...More spin from UNC’s Kirschner
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
In response to the ongoing NCAA investigation into UNC’s football program, UNC has updated its 2010-2011 Student Athlete Handbook. North Carolina has updated its 2010-11 Student Athlete Handbook to stipulate that “each team must identify at least one coach or administrator who is responsible for having access to and regularly monitor the content of team [...]
Continue reading...N&O: NCAA’s Wilson should not be involved in UNC probe
Sunday, August 29, 2010
It appears the local media has taken off the gloves…finally. From Luke Decock of the N&O: No matter whether the NCAA eventually uncovers wrongdoing within the North Carolina football program – agent-related, academic or otherwise – there’s one conclusion that can be drawn right now about the investigation of the North Carolina football program. The [...]
Continue reading...2010-11 Wolfpack basketball schedule coming into focus
Saturday, August 28, 2010
NC State’s 2010-2011 Basketball Schedule is completed, but the ACC offices are expected to wait until early to mid September to formally annouce the entire schedule. That hasn’t stopped us from talking about pieces of the schedule as we have learned of it. For example, we’ve previously discussed the following: Wisconsin (click here) Syracuse (click [...]
Continue reading...How Did The Elite UNC Players End Up With The Same Tutor?
Friday, August 27, 2010
I was texting some of these types of questions with some friends last night. Was wondering why nobody was asking how this particular person – Butch Davis’ personal employee – just happened to get assigned to (these particular) football players. Great post from Steve Williams at PackPride. How did all of the elite athletes end [...]
Continue reading...A Glimpse at the Academic Focus of a UNC-CH Football Player
Friday, August 27, 2010
Here’s a statement that captures perfectly the academic attitude of some of Butch Davis’ UNC-CH football players: Isn’t that awesome! These guys are still posting this crap for the world to see! Seriously, do they not think they have done enough damage already? I don’t want them to stop of course, it is just amazing! Showtime20UNC is, of [...]
Continue reading...2 is 2nite’s magic number (Friday Update)
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Updated Friday, August 27 @ 2:50pm: Reports from UNC’s afternoon practice indicated that both Kendric Burney and Charles Brown were in attendance. Both were moved to the scout team along with a host of other former defensive starters. Please recognize that our authors have been hard at work and there is a lot of fresh [...]
Continue reading...Covering the Carolina press conference live
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Until the past year I completely resisted Twitter. But, the more I work with it and the more our followers grow (1,100+) the more I understand its value and can figure out ways to use it to our advantage. (You can click here for SFN’s Twitter page. We’d love for you to follow us) Since [...]
Continue reading...ANOTHER ‘mis-truth’ rears its head in NCAA’s investigation of UNC Football (Updated 10:20)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Greg Little’s father claims Little only went on a trip to Miami in March. Oops. Make that May as well. UNC proclaims multiple times that the NCAA has mandated they not speak about the investigation. Oops. The NCAA says this is not true – even if they had the legal authority to issue a gag [...]
Continue reading...D1SCOURSE: ACC AD’s Compensation
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
If you didn’t see VaWolf’s fantastic series on “Financing College Athletics” then you should click here to easily access the articles. Fantastic work that will interest a lot of people. Along those lines, of the best ACC Bloggers we know, D1SCOURSE, posted a great entry analyzing Debbie Yow’s compensation package at Maryland vs NC State [...]
Continue reading...Tobais Palmer redshirting?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tobais Palmer – 5’11″ 175 lb. Athlete Originally signed with NC State in 2008. Played for coach Brett Williams at Georgia Military College. Carried the ball 91 times for 662 yards and 10 touchdowns during his sophomore year. Also caught 10 passes for 103 yards and one touchdown. Rushed 43 times for 311 yards and [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpackers in the NFL
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
As we head into football season, it is time for a little peek into former NC State players currently competing in the NFL. This link does a great job of providing a list with some quick updates on each player. (Please note that Toney Baker was cut last night by the Denver Broncos.) Andre Brown [...]
Continue reading...Luke Cothron fails to qualify
Monday, August 23, 2010
This was an interesting ride. It has been announced (click here) that former NC State Basketball commitment and Top 50 national recruit, Luke Cothron, has failed to academically qualify for the upcoming season. You probably remember that Cothron originally committed to NC State about a year ago and then de-committed during his senior year in [...]
Continue reading...Brian Taylor will commit to Wolfpack
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The current position of NC State’s football recruiting remains a hot topic amongst Wolfpackers as evidenced by some of the questions that Jeff took from callers during SFN’s appearance on Taylor Zarzour’s radio program this Tuesday. Jeff chose to promote patience through February before judging the class, citing (1) a reduced number of scholarships available [...]
Continue reading...‘Yow Howl’ hits the net
Friday, August 20, 2010
Debbie Yow continues to impress both in the public eye and also behind the scenes (as the feedback that we continue to receive from people who have had recent interactions with our Athletics Department are nothing short of glowing.) Today, the Technician has got something that is going big out on Twitter and we wanted [...]
Continue reading...Let’s take a video viral: UNC Agent-gate
Friday, August 20, 2010
SFN Note: We originally posted this entry on Thursday, but the video in the link at metacafe was evidently experiencing technically difficulties. We think the video is so large that it works best when metacafe has low traffic. It worked last night from like 10pm-12pm. We are re-posting now and will continue to try to [...]
Continue reading...NC State to host Southern Fried Football
Thursday, August 19, 2010
After being boycotted for a couple of years…NC State is BACK!…back on the schedule for WFNZ’s “Southern Fried Football” tour. In fact, I can’t find a post on “Southern Fried Football” since October of 2006. Tom O’Brien’s annual grudge match against his old employer has made the schedule as Mark Packer and crew will roll [...]
Continue reading...TOB vs CMFBD
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Joe Giglio has been hard at work compiling a ‘by the numbers’ analysis comparing NC State’s Tom O’Brien with UNC’s Chief *# Butch Davis. The two points I can make for Coach O’Brien are: (1) I am very glad he gets to play Carolina every year! (2) Is there something we can do to get [...]
Continue reading...Debbie Yow’s message already resonating with Wolfpackers
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
This entry was originally posted on Friday afternoon (August 13th). We wanted to send it back to the top since the blog typically has slower traffic on Friday afternoons in the summer — This key thread was opened on the message forums earlier in the week, but we wanted to bring this to the main [...]
Continue reading...The Boys of Fall
Monday, August 16, 2010
I guess you can count this as another music star looking to ‘cross-over’ with a sports anthem. Fortunately, this one works. I am not a Kenny Chesney fan…but, I like this a lot more the awful ‘crap & rap’ music that pervades almost all of today’s ‘pump up’ music. Shawty get loose, anyone? (You know [...]
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
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