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UNC Press Conference: Common Sense and Institutional Control
Never have I heard a group of individuals sound so dejected and distant. Then again, I guess there is a lot of distance to be gained from the heights UNC has fallen since the beginnings of the agent-gate investigation. Chancellor Thorp, Athletic Director Baddour, and Head Football Coach Butch Davis gave a press conference today [...]
Continue reading...Closer Look at the Directors’ Cup
17. August 2010
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...A Different View of Silence
11. August 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...ACC Football Kickoff Twitter Coverage – Live
25. July 2010
We think that you will enjoy this. The following is live coverage of the ACC’s football media day starting at 3pm EST this afternoon. We also ask that you do us the kind favor of clicking refresh a few times so we can get a few extra page views. Thanks ACC Football Kickoff Twitter
Continue reading...The Years Are Taking Their Toll On Dean Smith
8. July 2010
For us as NC State fans, for most of our lives, Dean Smith was the Man We Hated The Most, and the guy who caused us more grief than just about anyone. But the years have taken their toll on the former coach, and he is now slipping fast into one of the worst kinds [...]
Continue reading...WRAL Is Really Dropping The Ball As The Internet Police
7. May 2010
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted some apparent recruiting violations committed by UConn students in this post. In the entry we focused on the disconnect between WRAL’s omission of coverage of substantial recruiting issues at UConn when compared to their historical coverage of making monstrous mountains out of molehills when NC State fans “FaceBook’d” [...]
Continue reading...The ACC’s Coaching Carousel in full orbit
7. April 2010
I was going to spend a bunch of time leading my coaching carousel entry writing about Butler’s Brad Stevens until I ran across Rush The Court’s entry on Stevens that served to save me a lot of time. You can view it by clicking here. Stevens’ profile on Tobacco Road has been elevated since the [...]
Continue reading...Wake Forest fires Dino Gaudio
7. April 2010
After three seasons and two appearances in the NCAA Tournament, it looks like Dino Gaudio has been fired by Wake Forest. A press conference is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Check back later today for more and check out the forums for more discussion. WXII: Gaudio out at Wake Forest Wake Forest University head basketball coach [...]
Continue reading...Random Day One NCAAT Observations (and Looking Ahead)
19. March 2010
First, of all – let me state the obvious, in a poorly done Comic Book Guy voice: Best. First Day. Ever! (We aren’t the only people that hold this opinion.) Those of you who’ve been reading my drivel for any length of time know that I absolutely loathe blaming losses on officiating. It’s typically the [...]
Continue reading...ACC Tournament Tickets- A Buyer’s Market
8. March 2010
Here is something you don not see everyday. Complete books of ACC Tournament tickets going for fifty cents on the dollar. You can see the ‘Pack (and Heels) play for $13 on Thursday night. Do you tink it is the economy, ACC expansion, lack of decent ACC teams?
Continue reading...On March 8, 1968…
8. March 2010
On March 8, 1968… …NC State defeated the Duke Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semi-finals by a 12-10 score in one of the more unusual games in Tournament history. The Wolfpack was primarily responsible for slowing the pace and scored only one basket in the first half, trailing Duke 4-2 at halftime. [...]
Continue reading...NCAAT: Where teams come from does matter
16. February 2010
This will be the 13th of the last 18 basketball seasons that NC State fans will turn thoughts regarding the NCAA Tournament towards other teams that we can root both for and against. Personally, I am conference/NCAAT/RPI/etc junkie. So, I thought this was a pretty good read to help set college basketball’s current landscape with [...]
Continue reading...ACC UPDATE
7. February 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...2009-10 ACC Hoops – A Jumbled Freaking Mess
31. January 2010
Over the past couple of weeks, things finally settled down enough for me to watch more ACC basketball. I leave my esteemed comrade VaWolf to give you the best ACC analysis by the numbers anywhere, but here’s how I see things. First, every single ACC team is fatally flawed. Most in multiple areas. Duke is [...]
Continue reading...How Weak is the ACC?
19. January 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
7. January 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...The Less Interesting But More Important Coaching Carousel: The Assistants
11. December 2009
The annual shuffling of coaches is well underway, of course, with coaches moving up, others moving on and schools scrambling to fill empty slots while their is time to save their recruiting efforts for the year. We aren’t making any changes here at NC State, of course, but the one thing that we as fans [...]
Continue reading...Pack doesn’t lose! while conference season develops
25. October 2009
FINALLY!! I Saturday of football passed without NC State losing a game and without one of our opponents winning ACC Player of the Week honors! Great work by Mike Archer for holding the Idle Byes to a big goose egg on the scoreboard. Speaking of the conference, we’ve got some really interesting items for you… [...]
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26. August 2010
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