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Financing College Athletics – Part 5
CONTINUING WITH A LOOK AT NC STATE FINANCES Part 4 focused on a number of good things concerning financing athletics at NC State: - $180M of facility improvements since 1999 - Outstanding attendance for both football and basketball, even though the product on the field/court leaves a lot to be desired. But one area where [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Athletics – Part 4
30. August 2010
RECAP OF PREVIOUS ENTRIES - The US Dept of Education collects information on financing college athletics from colleges/universities and makes this information publically available at Equity in Athletics (EIA). Most articles you see on this subject take their information straight from this website with an unstated assumption that this information is uniformly prepared and provides [...]
Continue reading...Tailgating Unlimited, Part 1
11. August 2010
It may not seem like it right now, while we drown in the North Carolina Heat Index and wish that merciless August sun deeper into the southern hemisphere where it belongs, but college football season is once again upon us. And with it the triumphant return of tailgating. The following is the first part of [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part Two
19. July 2010
Written by VAWolf, posted by SFN: In the first installment of this series, we set the framework of how to look at financial reporting in college athletics with the following statement: Information is only as accurate and complete as what the individual schools choose to report. There is NO consistent set of standards or normalizing [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Jerry Punch on NC State’s future
17. July 2010
It’s not often that a guy comes along that can really do it ALL in the world of sports journalism…but, imagine layering the responsibility of being an established ER medical doctor to the mix!!! Enter Dr. Jerry Punch. An NC State grad, Dr. Punch now primarily works in the sport of NASCAR. He says it [...]
Continue reading...SFN defends Wolfpack Fans & talks history with Zarzour
14. July 2010
We wanted to make everyone aware that Jeff will make an appearance on “The Sports Drive” with Taylor Zarzour on 620AM Thursday morning (July 15th) at 10:00am. Click here to listen live. The appearance will be SFN & Jeff’s third of the last three months on Zarzour’s program. The first appearance from May can be [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 3 (The Ugly)
13. July 2010
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part One (Major update & additions 10:30am)
13. July 2010
This piece is the first in a series of related entries that I am doing to discuss the funding behind big-time college athletics. At a minimum, I intend to break down the articles along these lines: (1) Introduction and Organizational Analysis (this entry): (2) A Closer Look at the Numbers (3) Athletic Dept finances across [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 2 (The Bad)
11. July 2010
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 1 (The Good)
8. July 2010
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...ACC Media Takes on Yow Hire
25. June 2010
This is great stuff. This is fantastic stuff. Hopefully because of my relationship with Debbie Yow over the last decade plus, I have a more detailed perspective than just about anybody in the media down here. I think it’s an absolutely, positively, overwelmingly great hire for NC State. You are talking about one of the [...]
Continue reading...Debbie Yow to be named NC State AD Friday
24. June 2010
10:00 PM UPDATE WRAL is now confirming that Debbie Yow will become NC State’s next AD. ORIGINAL POST About four hours ago we hit our message forums and Twitter account guiding you that something was breaking in the search for NC State’s Athletics Director. Around 8:25 pm this evening, the N&O’s Joe Giglio posted a [...]
Continue reading...Sit in the ‘dougout’ to watch ‘Wolpfack’ battle ‘Cincinatti’? [Updated 7:35pm]
23. June 2010
Will the embarrassments ever end for almost all things related to NC State University’s Sports Information Department and Wolfpack Sports Marketing? In case you missed what has become the most viewed entry of 2010 on SFN then you need to take yourself back to this link. (Hat tip to the folks at Deadspin for originally [...]
Continue reading...AD search narrows, six left standing
16. June 2010
Obviously there is much more to this story than the reports out tonight, but tonight’s development is still worth discussing, even if it’s briefly. Multiple sources confirmed to Jeff Graveley (WRAL) and others Wednesday that the list of possible AD candidates has been narrowed to six. Nevermind the fact that Chancellor Woodson asked for three [...]
Continue reading...N&O: NC State Hopes To Name New AD By Mid-Summer
17. May 2010
Ken Tysiac of the Raleigh News and Observer (and its sister publication the Charlotte Observer) posted an update on the start of NC State’s search for a new athletic director: The school hopes to name a new AD by the “middle of summer” It has retained Parker Executive Search of Atlanta to assist Chancellor Woodson [...]
Continue reading...Credit where it’s due: The Triangle Business Journal
7. May 2010
I’ve subscribed to the TBJ for some time, and I find it to be amazingly informative as a small business owner in the Triangle. It’s a great way for me to keep my finger on the pulse of the business world around me. It seems recently, however, I’ve found it to also be THE authority [...]
Continue reading...FOWLER’S GONE!!! (Updated 5:00pm, Woodson Takes to the Radio)
4. May 2010
Joe Giglio at the N&O deserves the credit for being first to break the story. PLEASE click on the link to the story so that the journalist who broke the story can get all of the traffic/credit as possible. It is only fair. Lee Fowler and N.C. State agreed to end their working relationship today [...]
Continue reading...How NC State’s Sports Information Department Really Works
20. April 2010
One of things you hear Wolfpack fans howling about the most is the way that NC State and its teams are covered in the media. They say that NC State never gets a break in the local paper, the Charlotte paper, the television media or many of the online columnists that help shape the country’s [...]
Continue reading...Chancellor Woodson: A Self-Described “Huge” Sports Fan
14. April 2010
Good read from WRAL.com A self-described “huge” sports fan, he said he’s committed to excellence in athletics as well as academics. You should click here for our “Tag” of Chancellor Woodson on our message boards for a couple of a good conversations of interest.
Continue reading...Welcome, Chancellor Woodson
5. April 2010
NC State’s 14th Chancellor officially begins work today. You can click here to view the thread from our message board from when Woodon was originally announced. More recently, this conversation discussing some of Woodson’s views received a lot of hits. The following video was taken on Wednesday, Feb. 17, when Chancellor-elect William Randolph Woodson and [...]
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31. August 2010
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