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SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
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...Putting the Blame Where It Lies
19. October 2007
Harsh, but spot-on. The source is really surprising, but apparently nobody in the Triangle market had the stones to call it like it is. One simply indisputable fact about N.C. State football became obvious this week. After spending the team’s bye week giving the third team (mainly expected-redshirt freshman, low-value scholarship athletes and walk-ons) as many [...]
Continue reading...Quick ACC/Big East Thought
13. September 2007
Much has been made over the ACC’s recent struggles on the gridiron, especially in light of the Big East’s recent success (SFN is still skeptical such will be sustained, long-term). This will likely be on display for the nation tonight, as Maryland battles West Virginia. As a friend of mine noted today – how wide [...]
Continue reading...For Your Own Good
24. April 2007
Those are words that no kid want to hear when things are not going well. Now that I am on the flip side of the parent/child relationship, I appreciate people that have both the guts and compassion to tell someone else what they NEED, but not necessarily want, to hear. [...]
Continue reading...NFL Draft Around the Corner
21. April 2007
Draft day will be much less eventful for Wolfpack alums this year, but it’s still a wonderful, gluttonous weekend for the football junkie. I always get ready with my draft preview from The Sporting News, which is always the best issue of the year. Here’s what they say about the Pack’s likely draftees: - [...]
Continue reading...NCAA Revokes Moronic Clock Rules
15. February 2007
It’s a rare and beautiful thing – a victory for common sense. * Sunday Morning Quarterback: Rules committee comes running back fans, sanity * The Wizard of Odds: Link In place of the nonsense, drama-killing clock rules of 2006, we get a more tailored set of measures that seem eminently reasonable and don’t fundamentally alter [...]
Continue reading...SFN Garners #2
6. February 2007
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the web. Virtually every [...]
Continue reading...Final Poll
10. January 2007
1. Florida 2. LSU 3. Ohio State 4. Southern Cal 5. Louisville 6. Michigan 7. Wisconsin 8. Auburn 9. Boise State 10. Arkansas 10. West Virginia 12. Oklahoma 13. Texas 14. Wake Forest 15. Tennessee 16. Georgia 17. Rutgers 18. California 19. BYU 20. Virginia Tech 21. Notre Dame 22. Penn State 22. Boston College 24. Oregon State 25. South Carolina Wire to Wire No, not Ohio State. The SEC went wire to wire as the nation’s toughest football conference [...]
Continue reading...Interesting Pack Gossip From Annapolis Paper
8. December 2006
Here’s some Pack-related stuff from this article regarding Paul Johnson’s extension to stay at Navy. Key excerpt: Johnson had been considered a leading candidate to replace Chuck Amato at N.C. State. Sources told The Capital that Chuck Neinas, a coaching headhunter working on behalf of the Wolfpack, contacted Johnson on Sunday to gauge his interest [...]
Continue reading...Florida or Michigan?
3. December 2006
OK, so who should play Ohio State for the BCS Championship? First some rules: 1) Mandatory Required Reading before responding: - Dan Wetzel’s thoughts and summary - Sagarin Rankings 2) No mention of a playoff allowed! 3) Act your age or IQ (whichever is higher) 4) No arguing…state your case and move on. I’ll go first: I vote for [...]
Continue reading...You Can’t Say We Didn’t Warn You…
27. November 2006
In the spirit of looking back to prior SFN football/Amato posts, I remembered this “State of Wolfpack Football” entry from last February. Jeff and I spent a considerable amount of time sifting through information and framing the wording to be informative (but not unfair or unsubstantiated), and re-reading it in the wake of Amato’s [...]
Continue reading...Official: Wolfpack Releases Chuck Amato (Updated 9:22pm)
26. November 2006
The News & Observer is reporting that a public statement regarding the future of N.C. State football coach Chuck Amato’s will be announced tonight, but at this point there is little reason to wait. The NC State Football team was called for a team meeting tonight at 9pm at the Murphy Center to be officially told [...]
Continue reading...Damn. Sorry About This.
26. November 2006
Take a look back at this entry from January 26, 2006 and tell us what your pre-season football thoughts were when the 2006 schedule was announced. The following are a few comments that we made at the time: * A seven-win or six-win season in 2006 will indicate the program has AT BEST stalled. [...]
Continue reading...ECU Fallout Articles
26. November 2006
Andre Brown vows to return to Wolfpack| Amato on staying at State: ‘Why not?’| Chuck Amato quotes Support Dwindling For Amato | Pack Pride Recap
Continue reading...Party like it’s 1959
26. November 2006
NC State’s loss to East Carolina was the Wolfpack’s seventh in a row. That’s a level of awfulness that hasn’t happened in Raleigh since 1959. There’s only one way to mark this momentous occasion, folks. We gotta do it in song form. Hit it, Coach! (Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s) 1959By Chucked Amato I was dreamin’ [...]
Continue reading...Open Thread – Amato’s (Probable) Last Game
25. November 2006
Feel free to ruminate on tonight’s action, or the end of the Amato era in general (best and worst moments of the era, etc.). From what I have pieced together, I am 97% certain that Amato has already been informed of his pending termination. There is no evidence of support from any corner [...]
Continue reading...3pm Football Update: Amato This Is A Season Of Inches
20. November 2006
2pm Every Monday two NC State players and Coach Amato have a press conference. A local beat reporter just sent us the following via blackberry: •NC State Press teleconference threatened to be cut short if any questions were asking about the NC State coaching situation. •Press asked not to ask any questions regarding “hypothetical” questions or the interview would [...]
Continue reading...Rutgers, My Ass (and other angry, drunken football thoughts)
18. November 2006
I am getting great pleasure from watching Rutgers get shitcanned by a pedestrian Cincinnati squad. At least I won’t have to hear any more nonsense about how they did what they had to under the current rules and “deserve” a shot at Ohio State, which would kick them into next week. I mean, [...]
Continue reading...Breakfast With Oblinger
18. November 2006
Hopefully, a voice mail is being left in the NC State football office right now – “Hey, Chuck, this is Jim Oblinger. It’s been awhile since we got together – could you meet me for breakfast on Monday? Oh yeah, please ask Lee if he can join us, too.” There is no reason to [...]
Continue reading...So, today’s our annual Rival Game
18. November 2006
How many of us longsuffering Wolfpack fans feel like this on rivalry game days lately? Is there any question why? It’s not just because of our last two losses in football to two terrible Tar Heel teams (team that we should have whipped like everyone else did). It’s also because of the previous basketball [...]
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