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TOB: “The Goal is Always to win a National Championship”

Nice! Nothing ambiguous and immeasureable about “being competitive” or “improving” or “building great relationships”. We don’t mind if all of ^these items are a part of the mix and are discussed in the future…but, TOB laid the public groundwork for his program perfectly with this quote. “I think the goal is always to win a [...]

Change of Environment

Sitting in his fourth-floor corner office in the Wendell P. Murphy Center — with its vaulted ceiling, wall-mounted plasma TV, and panoramic view of Carter-Finley Stadium — O’Brien spoke at length Sunday afternoon, choking back the emotions at one juncture, about the reasons he decided to leave BC after 10 seasons and a 75-45 record, [...]

A Word About Saturday / TOB Staff Coming into view (Updated 4:30pm)

As NC State’s Basketball team gears up for a key home game against Boston College, Tom O’Brien’s coaching staff may be come together. * We discussed TOB’s staff in this entry earlier in the week. The N&O followed up with the following today: Although O’Brien has not officially announced new staff additions, those from his [...]

The N&O comes one step closer to “Understanding Wolfpack Fans”

It only took NC State’s hometown newspaper a couple of years for it to sink in, but it’s starting to sink in. First, a SFN Flashback to March 2005, in an entry entitled Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part 1: Today’s myth I’d like to tackle is one that we see quite frequently in the winter. It’s [...]