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WV Wolf - who has written 29 posts on StateFans Nation.
Graduated from NCSU in 1996 with a degree in statistics. Born and inbred in West "By God" Virginia and now live in Raleigh where I spend my time watching the Wolfpack, the Mountaineers and the Carolina Hurricanes as well as making bar graphs for SFN.
Closer Look at the Directors’ Cup
The Directors’ Cup is defined on their website as “A program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by NACDA and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA.” All-Time (1994 to 2010) [...]
Continue reading...Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic – Aug 14-22
Friday, August 13, 2010
The Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic is coming up next weekend, I posted this on the message boards but wanted to share on the blog as well some brief information on all the various events that will be going on. All the events benefit the V Foundation and 100 percent of all direct donations and [...]
Continue reading...NC State Athletics Year In Review Summary
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thought I would share a brief summary of NC State’s performance in the 2009-2010 school year as well as a few observations. For each ACC sport (as well as gymnastics and rifle) I have listed State’s finish in the standings, overall record, ACC record, the ACC champion, the national champion and the finish and points [...]
Continue reading...Athletic Department Goals – Straight From The Horse’s Mouth
Monday, May 3, 2010
Back in May of 2008 I posted an entry based on these two quotes from Lee Fowler: “My goals have always been to be in the top three in the conference. If you’re in the top three you always have a chance to win the championship. That’s an obvious goal as well. Minimum goals, we [...]
Continue reading...Required Reading: Athletics Department Annual Report – Critique, Comparison, Conclusion
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A quick note — the majority of this entry was originally written around the later part of last summer (2009) after the athletics department released their annual report. For whatever reason the entry never got posted and then got lost in the shuffle during football and basketball season. So, please take that time frame into [...]
Continue reading...100 Years of NC State Basketball by the Numbers: Sidney Lowe
Friday, February 12, 2010
As we celebrate 100 years of NC State basketball tradition, it can be interesting to take a look back at our heritage and make comparisons with the current program. Over the last century, there have been 18 head basketball coaches, 13 of which coached in either the Southern Conference or the ACC. Currently Sidney Lowe [...]
Continue reading...The Relevancy of Irrelevancy – Is Lack Of Athletic Success Limiting The University?
Friday, November 20, 2009
Some of the comments on the recent Monday Morning entry got me to thinking about the possible effects of our lack of athletic success on the university as a whole. I have to believe that athletics is a big component of the marketing and identity of a university (and you can make a fair case [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
With the season officially getting underway this week, I thought I would share some historical stats on our men’s basketball program. Similar entires for football, women’s basketball and championships can be found here and here and here. Men’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 397-401 (.497) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 331-323 (.506) ACC Record Under Fowler: 66-78 [...]
Continue reading...The Unholy Trilogy and Other Groups of Distinction
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
On a blog entry on Buster Sports, author Dave Nathan has discovered what he believes to be the three worst college football and basketball teams from 2006 to 2009. There are three BCS schools that have had 3 straight losing seasons in football while also missing the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Of course, NC State [...]
Continue reading...Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
This season is the 9th consecutive where football season tickets have sold out at Carter-Finley. Here is a recent entry about selling out season tickets. For this entry, I am going to focus only on home football games. Set aside the LTRs, gas, hotel and airfare for road trips, donations to the Wolfpack Club, merchandise, [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Championships
Monday, August 31, 2009
The new school year is upon us and I still have some summaries of the 2008-2009 season to share, better late than never I suppose. This entry will take a look at conference and national titles for both the 2008-2009 school year, for the 9 year tenure of Lee Fowler as AD and for the [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Women’s Basketball
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Women’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 284-168 (.628) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 216-102 (.679) ACC Record Under Fowler: 68-66 (.507) State’s all-time ACC winning percentage has dropped 5.1% since Lee Fowler has been AD. Our ACC winning percentage in the 9 years under Fowler is 17.2% worse than the preceeding 23 seasons and is statistically significant [...]
Continue reading...Congrats to Josh Powell – NBA World Champion
Sunday, June 14, 2009
With the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA title over the Orlando Magic, former NC State forward Josh Powell has his first NBA championship ring. After playing two seasons for the Wolfpack in 2001-02 and 2002-03, Powell played two seasons overseas in Russia and Italy before making to the NBA. You can click here for [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Football
Monday, June 8, 2009
Last year I did a series of entries with summaries of ACC records and titles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5). This year I will be posting entries by sport and at the end of the school year I am planning on doing some overall summaries for the athletic department. I will [...]
Continue reading...And You Thought NC State Celebrated Mediocrity
Monday, June 1, 2009
Apparently this ad was published in Columbia’s newspaper, The State, and it celebrates the mediocrity of the South Carolina Gamecocks. Not even NC State revels in mediocrity like this (and we all know that is saying something). The plan is for their football team to be one game under .500 at the end of the [...]
Continue reading...Carolina Hurricanes Are To Thank For Golfer Matt Hill
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Faceoff for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Hurricanes and Penguins is only hours away. And I’m sure State golfer Matt Hill will be watching. CBS Sports makes mention of Matt Hill on their golf page in a column by Steve Elling (thanks to ruffles31 for sending me the link). Different game [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Wins Three Championships In One Day
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Despite NC State’s absence from the NCAA Tournament, Saturday was a good day for the Wolfpack athletics program, winning individual national championships in wrestling and diving and a conference championship in gymnastics. Wrestler Darrion Caldwell won the NCAA title in the 149 pound class, defeating Iowa’s Brent Metcalf, the defending national champion, by a score [...]
Continue reading...NCAA Tournament Teams That Get All The Calls – Carolina, Connecticut and Chattanooga?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
During our ACC Tournament viewing party, the subject came up of how much more North Carolina goes to the free throw line than their opponents. One of the excuses we had always heard was that their talent level discrepancy leads to the free throw discrepancy (and absolutely nothing to do with biased officiating…) This led us to wonder about a team like Memphis that utterly dominates Conference USA and is head and shoulders above the rest of the league, what sort of free throw advantage do they have?
Continue reading...Worst. Tailgate. Ever.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Just a little something to prepare you for the impressive pre-game atmosphere in Chapel Hill, this was taken with my phone from a parking deck (surprise, surprise) before the 06 game. But they’ve got those pine trees going for them. Which is nice.
Continue reading...Non-Revenue Sports Update; Kerrigan steps down(updated)
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Here is an update on how State’s non-revenue sports are doing so far this school year plus a few other tidbits at the bottom. Men’s Cross Country • Finished 2nd in the ACC Championships • State has finished at least 3rd in the ACC for the past 20 years, including finishing 1st or 2nd in [...]
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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