You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
Thursday Compendium
NC STATE BASKETBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Leslie leads NC State to 81-66 win over Wake Forest Leslie’s 19 points and 10 rebounds helped N.C. State throttle Wake Forest 81-66 for the Pack’s sixth win in seven games and third straight at home by double-digits. N.C. State closed out its home schedule with a 16-1 record, [...]
Friday Farrago
NC STATE BASKETBALL R. Cory Smith (N&O) Purvis at the point for NC State “It’s going to be different because I haven’t played as many minutes as Zo,” Lewis said. “But not a lot of freshman are in this situation right now, so I have to take advantage of it.” Lewis said this might give [...]
Wednesday Woolgathering
NC STATE BASKETBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Life after Duke, UNC wins hasn’t been so kind to Wolfpack Lorenzo Brown is happy that N.C. State knocked off No. 1 Duke on Saturday and that the Wolfpack is 3-0 in the ACC, but he’s also tired of talking about the last game. A road game with Maryland, [...]
Wednesday Woolgathering
NC STATE BASKETBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Stung last season, Wolfpack warily prepares for Yellow Jackets N.C. State avoided most of the pitfalls on the ACC schedule last season with a notable exception. Georgia Tech beat N.C. State 82-71 in Raleigh last January. It was one of only four ACC wins for Georgia Tech last season [...]
Wolfpack: 2012 Year in Review
As we all know by now, the Mayans were not correct and the world did not end. Since that day has come and past, we can look back on the highlights of the past 366 days (this year was a leap year people). In David Letterman fashion, here is this year’s top 10 list of [...]
Doeren’s coaching staff complete!
We’ve been following Coach Doeren’s football staff hirings on both the main SFN blog as well as in real time on our message forums. With this report that Dunn native and former NC State linebacker, Clayton White, is returning to Raleigh, Coach Dave Doeren has completed his new coaching staff. Other than White, Dave Huxtable [...]
Doeren makes key staff moves – hires Offensive & Defensive Coordinators
NC State’s new Head Football coach, Dave Doeren, made some key moves that starts to bring his assistant coaching staff into some focus. As we previously reported here, Wisconsin offensive coordinator Matt Canada was offered the same position at NC State. He has accepted. Matt Canada only had a few minutes to talk Saturday before [...]
Report: NC State offers Offensive Coordinator job to Matt Canada
We opened up a broader conversation regarding the construction of Coach Doeren’s new coaching staff at NC State – including a suggestion of an attractive candidate for the staff – in this entry that I definitely encourage you to check out. This morning it has been reported that University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator, Matt Canada, [...]
Bielema hires Chaney, provides Doeren a blue print – hire Andy McCollum!
Arkansas’ Brett Bielema hired Tennessee’s Jim Chaney today (link here). As we reported last week, Chaney was a candidate for NC State’s Offensive Coordinator position. Bret Bielema is coming to Arkansas without any prior experience in the conference. That fact alone won’t hold him back; guys like Nick Saban, Les Miles, and Urban Meyer came [...]