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VaWolf82 - who has written 172 posts on StateFans Nation.
Engineer living in Central Va.
One wife, two kids, one dog, one mini-van, one Honda....typical suburbanite
Graduated 1982
Pre-ACCT Bubble Watch
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 [...]
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 out of hole. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Lee Fowler has been AD now stands [...]
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. Evans was [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Continue reading...Random Shots
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Where do you start when building a college basketball team? Mike Huguenin’s answer: Give me the elite point guard….. Jason King’s answer: …To me, though, the biggest key to any winning team is the coach… Steve Megargee’s answer: … I’d lean toward the point guard because he’s more likely to make an instant impact and also probably has [...]
Continue reading...Women’s Basketball Coaching News (Update w/ Caulton Tudor’s thoughts)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thanks to a link on another thread, WRAL is reporting that Stephanie Glance will not be promoted to head women’s basketball coach at NC State. I don’t really follow women’s basketball, but didn’t want the BB Byte thread to be taken over by this emotional topic. UPDATE: Ronnie Brown, Kay’s brother, talked [...]
Continue reading...2009 ACC Strength of Schedule
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
It’s time once again to look and see how unbalanced conference schedules affected the ACC season. This is our fourth year with a 16-game conference schedule in a 12-team conference. Our previous looks are listed below, but some of the tables no longer look quite as nice as they did when [...]
Continue reading...Sunday Round of 32 Open Thread
Sunday, March 22, 2009
BJD95 must be tied up today, so I’ll start one. Strange schedule for today….One game at 12, 4 games at around 2:30 and then three games around 5:00. I deleted a number of comments yesterday and thought about deleting several more. It just seems like we ought to be able to discuss [...]
Continue reading...Selection Sunday Bubble Thoughts
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln As I pondered the post-selection thoughts by the ESPN talking heads, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the advice given by our 16th president. Ole Digger seems to have taken this advice to heart, while [...]
Continue reading...Pre-ACCT Bubble Watch
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
This has to be one of the most boring bubble watches that I have ever put together because the groups seem so obvious: UNC WF, Duke, FSU, and Clemson are absolute locks for the NCAAT. I haven’t done a great deal of analysis on tournament seeding, but my gut says that UNC is [...]
Continue reading...Bubble Review
Friday, March 6, 2009
I always enjoy looking at the ACC just before the ACCT starts and discuss who needs to do what to get an at-large bid to the NCAAT. As a precursor to that discussion, this looks like a good time to summarize what we have learned over the past several years about moving off [...]
Continue reading...ACC Breakdown
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Ken Pomeroy is no longer calculating the RPI for Division I basketball teams. He said that he was tired of answering questions about the RPI and that it provided virtually no useful data for the types of “more sophisticated work” that he was doing. This is especially sad for [...]
Continue reading...Duke Game Thread
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Please post comments here. SFN in the middle of the game — I just want to go on record that Les Jones is officiating this game. Just want to go on record. More later. SFN with 9 minutes in the game – why in holy hell is Javi Gonzalez in the friggin game!?!?!
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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