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Sid Takes on “Basketball Grobe” Tonight (VT Thread)
There’s an early (7:00) tip tonight, as the Pack takes on the Castrated Turkeys on ESPNU. Before the season started, you wouldn’t have been surprised that one team enters the contest in sole possession of third place. But nobody would have predicted Virginia Tech to be that team. After losing their best big man and [...]
Continue reading...Tough loss, on dealing with one — Valvano philosophy
1. February 2008
If you’re a passionate fan as I am, who believes as Vince Lombardi does that “Show me a ‘good loser’ and I’ll show you a loser,” it’s good to keep this Valvano advice in mind: Jimmy V says he’ll allow his players 24 hours to feel sorry for themselves and curse the basketball gods. Then, he [...]
Continue reading...SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
2. January 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]
Continue reading...Heads don’t nod off with Lowe speaking
11. October 2007
Coach Lowe speaks at the Raleigh Sports Club and Dane Huffman has the coverage at this link. There are so many good nuggets in this piece that we aren’t going to share any of them.
Continue reading...Coaching Carousel Summary
9. April 2007
I started wondering how the latest turns of the coaching carousel had effected salaries. While State is not shopping for a new coach this year (Thank God!), these new salaries will eventually impact State. How soon the impact hits will depend on average coaching salaries and the level of success State sees [...]
Continue reading...Coaching Carousel Update (9:30 Update – Altman Goes Cremins)
3. April 2007
- Butler’s Lickliter takes Iowa job. Analysis: Solid, sensible hire. - Creighton head man Dana Altman heads to Arkansas. Analysis: We expected him to be more of a candidate for the Iowa job, but Altman (in our view, correctly) viewed Arkansas as a better job. Altman’s Bluejay teams played a style that Hog [...]
Continue reading...OOC Strength of Schedule
1. April 2007
UPDATED 4/1/2007 @ 17:00 (Scroll to Bottom) Since this is the third time that I’ve documented the OOC strength of schedule for the ACC, I couldn’t come up with anything new and interesting to put into an introduction. But I can point new-comers to the first two entries on OOC SOS and especially to [...]
Continue reading...Gillispie Stays at A&M
30. March 2007
Arkansas official: Gillispie to remain at Texas A&M By JEFF CARLTON, AP Sports Writer We need to find a really good phrase to describe this trend of ratcheting salaries every off season: Texas A&M officials would not discuss the terms of the new deal or say when an announcement might come. The 47-year-old coach makes about [...]
Continue reading...How Many Ways Can You Say Choke?
26. March 2007
Kevin Hench has quite a few: the hated Tar Heels suffered one of the most remarkable collapses in tournament history squeezing the orange so tight down the stretch that a 10-point lead with seven minutes left The Tar Heels, the deeper team that was supposed to exhaust the Hoyas with their waves of subs, looked like the [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
23. March 2007
I was wrong. Way back in November, before teams were playing in Maui or Anchorage and March Madness was still nothing but a distant idea, I wasn’t a complete believer. I had begrudgingly offered my support for the new coach that I had, admittedly, felt was simply the guy that we knew would say yes. [...]
Continue reading...Atsur’s Parting Quote
21. March 2007
After four years, we all love and respect Engin Atsur very much. In this entry on the N&O’s Blog, he leaves us with quite a special statement. It has been great. I’m proud of my university and my team, all my teammates and coaches. I had a great career. I enjoyed it very much. [...]
Continue reading...Wild, Wonderful West Virginia Live Blogging Game Thread
20. March 2007
The Mountaineer State tourism department will like the thread title, anyway. I feel like a little live blogging tonight, with the Pack possibly 40 minutes of basketball away from Manhattan. Conference solidarity leads me to root for the Noles, but Mississippi State is up 13 at the break. Isiah Swann has 19 [...]
Continue reading...2007.03.20_ Big Dose of Bytes
20. March 2007
The last week or so has been very good for NC State. We’ve blogged a ton of items and hope that you will take some time to scroll through the blog and make sure that you haven’t missed anything that of interest. Just this weekend we had almost a dozen entries that looked [...]
Continue reading...Double Standards
19. March 2007
Note to 99% of all college fans: - You are not allowed to be unhappy with where your team finishes if they had a winning season. - You are expected to support college athletics because your money helps support alot of scholarships; not because you expect excellence in the premiere sports. - You need [...]
Continue reading...NCAAT Surprises?
18. March 2007
Well, how many Final Four selections have you already lost out of your Bracket? Which upsets did you guess correctly? What did you expect from the ACC in this year’s NCAAT? Here’s how I rated the ACC going into the NCAAT: Overall: No one was playing consistently enough to go very far this year. [...]
Continue reading...9pm Tuesday
17. March 2007
N.C. State will play at West Virginia at 9 p.m. on Tuesday in the third round of the NIT. Garden-variety ESPN will broadcast the game — not ESPNU(navailable), or the Ocho. ACCNow Blog
Continue reading...ACCNow: ‘You tell me which had more passion?’
17. March 2007
Our NC State vs Marist post-game entry is a fantastic one that is full of great current and historical comments. Click here to check it out. At the bottom of the entry we took the time to update some links to major media outlets that recapped the evening’s events. One of the links was [...]
Continue reading...20 Wins! State Advances in NIT (Updated Sat 4:30pm)
16. March 2007
“The atmosphere in Reynolds hasn’t lost anything.” - ACCNow Blog Entry NC State’s Red Coat Revival continued on a night where Reynolds Coliseum was rocking, and the officiating was even more unstable as the ‘not-good-enough-for-the-Big-Dance’ zebras lost control of the game in the in the second half. In a season where NC State didn’t have a [...]
Continue reading...Reynolds NIT Game: Live Blog
16. March 2007
Couldn’t get a ticket and I don’t hang out in sports bars. Tonight is a very special night for this team and its formidible fanbase. There is certainly an opportunity being presented at this moment to applaud the acheivements of this group, while at the same time getting swept up by the [...]
Continue reading...Lowe: ‘NC State fans will be at their finest’
15. March 2007
A subset of an entire new generation of NC State fans are going to get the opportunity to enjoy a taste of “the good old days” when NC State plays host to Marist on Friday night on Kay Yow Court in Reynolds Coliseum!! Of course…the real question becomes – does NC State roll out a floor [...]
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5. February 2008
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