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VaWolf82 - who has written 181 posts on StateFans Nation.
Engineer living in Central Va.
One wife, two kids, one dog, one mini-van, one Honda....typical suburbanite
Graduated 1982
Financing College Athletics – Part 5
CONTINUING WITH A LOOK AT NC STATE FINANCES Part 4 focused on a number of good things concerning financing athletics at NC State: - $180M of facility improvements since 1999 - Outstanding attendance for both football and basketball, even though the product on the field/court leaves a lot to be desired. But one area where [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Athletics – Part 4
Monday, August 30, 2010
RECAP OF PREVIOUS ENTRIES - The US Dept of Education collects information on financing college athletics from colleges/universities and makes this information publically available at Equity in Athletics (EIA). Most articles you see on this subject take their information straight from this website with an unstated assumption that this information is uniformly prepared and provides [...]
Continue reading...A Different View of Silence
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
I’m often amused by commentaries that wander along the path of facts, speculation, assumptions, and theories with the goal of reaching an ultimate conclusion. All too often, they get lost somewhere along the way and end up in Oz rather than at a logical conclusion. Caulton Tudor attempted this journey but got lost today as [...]
Continue reading...Offering A Helping Hand
Monday, August 2, 2010
I don’t know how, but I missed this little nugget from the NCAA this past January: The Division I Legislative Council voted Wednesday to limit the practice of “over-signing” prospective football student-athletes to National Letters of Intent, a strategy employed by some coaches that had the potential of leaving some recruits without a scholarship. Proposal [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part 3
Thursday, July 29, 2010
SFN: This entry is too good to get lost in the middle of a lot of the news that we’ve had breaking in recent days, so we are moving it back to the front of the blog to make sure that the community sees it. If your attitude going into this latest entry on financing [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part One (Major update & additions 10:30am)
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
This piece is the first in a series of related entries that I am doing to discuss the funding behind big-time college athletics. At a minimum, I intend to break down the articles along these lines: (1) Introduction and Organizational Analysis (this entry): (2) A Closer Look at the Numbers (3) Athletic Dept finances across [...]
Continue reading...On Eternal Patrol
Sunday, May 30, 2010
A packed house of submarine veterans and their families gathered at the World War II Submarine Veterans Memorial Pavilion for a very special World War II Memorial Service Program, Nov. 7… “We always look forward to celebrating the exploits, the traditions, the professionalism and the heroism of our veterans of World War II,” Edwards said [...]
Continue reading...The Extra 31 (Who Would Have Made If It Was A 96 Team Tournament)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Dance Card is prepared annually by two college professors who have used statistical analysis techniques to analyze the at-large bids extended by the NCAAT Selection Committee. While their projections are only valid for the 65 team field, I thought it might be interesting to use their projections to see what a 96 team field [...]
Continue reading...Post-Selection Sunday Bubble Review
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I normally like to get my last bubble review up as soon as possible after the NCAAT Selection Show. Normally that means getting things pulled together on Sunday night. But unfortunately business travel means that “as soon as possible” is today. (But of course, Lake Erie is quite beautiful this time of year, so it’s [...]
Continue reading...Pre-ACCT Bubble Watch
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
As time begins to run out on bubble teams, let’s see who can coast into the NCAAT and who still has some work to do in the ACCT to avoid the two tournaments for losers. If you have missed our past discussions on exactly what it takes to clear the bubble and land into the [...]
Continue reading...ACC UPDATE
Sunday, February 7, 2010
. . The ACC teams are about half-way through the conference season so it seems like a good time to update where the teams are with respect to making the NCAAT. Note that none of the “numbers” presented in this entry include the effect of Sunday’s game…but the outcome of UNC at UMD won’t have [...]
Continue reading...How to get out of a hole
Monday, January 25, 2010
. . . If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Will Rogers . . With the current state of the US educational system, how many of the scholarship BB players in the ACC do you suppose have ever heard of Will Rogers? In any event, Will certainly identified the first step in getting [...]
Continue reading...How Weak is the ACC?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
There has been a lot of discussion (going back to last April) about how the ACC would be “down” this year. I even saw one comment this season proclaiming that this year was the weakest ACC in memory. So I thought it would be worth the time to put a little perspective on conference rankings [...]
Continue reading...Mid-Season ACC Review
Thursday, January 7, 2010
As we reach the mid-point of the regular season and move into conference play, I thought it would be interesting to take a little time and look at what has been accomplished thus far in the season. So here is a summary of State’s season to date: RPI Rank – 96 OOC SOS Rank – [...]
Continue reading...Football and Fishing
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
This entry from SFN’s forums is exactly what Jeff had in mind when the forums were started here. I am moving it here to make sure that everyone gets to see it. Many thanks to basspacker for this: Doing a re-broadcast via YouTube of an episode fishing with Clemson Asst Football Coach Andre Powell. Powell [...]
Continue reading...Monday morning in Wolfpackerville or NC State is 8-35-2 in all fall sports
Monday, November 16, 2009
Hello Monday, Wolfpackers! About a month ago, we took a quick view of NC State’s weekend sports performance on our message boards that included the following: Rifle team falls to Nebraska Volleyball swept by Duke Soccer loses to Wake Football dismantled by Boston College [snip] Our ACC record in volleyball in the ten seasons while [...]
Continue reading...Bad News for VT [Updated 6:30pm]
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Virginia Tech will have a new starting tailback in a season of great expectations after Darren Evans tore a ligament in his left knee during practice…. His loss means that redshirt freshman Ryan Williams, Josh Oglesby or highly regarded freshman David Wilson will be the starter. Only Oglesby has carried the ball in a game. [...]
Continue reading...2008 NC State Football Review
Monday, July 13, 2009
Much like our previous breakdown of the entire Atlantic Coast Conference, today we’ll take a look at the 2008 Wolfpack with a focus on trends and issues that are likely to carry over to the 2009 version. I actually starting planning this article during the 2007 season, when I was rudely awakened to just [...]
Continue reading...2008 ACC Football Review
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
It should be really easy to project this fall’s college football results. All we have to do is: - Assess what went right/wrong in 2008. - Subtract contributions from “graduating” players. - Add in contributions that we will see from new players. - Subtract lost contributions due to injuries. That should leave us with [...]
Continue reading...They Were Expendable
Monday, May 25, 2009
On Dec 8, 1941, about eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers began attacking air bases on the Philippines. Most of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet was withdrawn from Philippine waters following the Japanese air strikes. The bombing continued over the next several days, concentrating on the remaining air fields. On Dec 11, [...]
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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