We wanted to make sure that you good folks knew about the newest developments on PJ Hairston’s excellent adventure to Durham and had a place to voice your thoughts on the matter. You can refresh a little by reading this quick piece… UNC’s top scorer P.J. Hairston charged with possession of marijuana (USAToday.com) According to [...]
The State of State!!!
It is the day before the State-Carolina game…and, we’ll be having a lot more hit the blog regarding the game in the coming hours. In the meantime, we’ve got non-stop conversation going on over on our message forums – linked here – for anyone searching for more. On the ‘heels’ of this great entry from [...]
Proud NC State experience
I just wanted to take a quick moment to share a personal experience that I had on Monday morning at the annual “Breakfast of Champions” for the Boys and Girls Club of Raleigh at the Raleigh Convention Center. As always, this was a ‘first class’ event and served as a great opportunity to support one [...]
Vote For Ms. Wuf (aka, Current Admin. Gets It)
I received this email (quoted below) from the athletics department a little while ago, and wanted to share it here. How cool is it that the current administration knows it’s fans so well such that they know we love us a good poll skewin’? Anyone think that the previous admin. would have ever lowered themselves [...]
N&O features Yow & her novel approach of accountability
It was a good weekend for NC State in the local media. The headline in Saturday’s morning’s News & Observer proclaimed that academic fraud was found at UNC-Chapel Hill (shocker!) and the feature story of Sunday’s sports section was, “Yow’s challenge: Put N.C. State athletic department on top” (Link). After taking over as athletic director [...]
Tournament Factoids Part 3: A Generation-Long Rebuild
Some time ago I wrote a brief entry outlining a few factoids about NC State’s history in post-season, post-conference tournament play. When you look at the rich history and tradition NC State has, it becomes quickly apparent that a quick-and-dirty review of NC State’s tournament past really doesn’t do NC State’s basketball program justice. NC State [...]
A Call to Arms
If you didn’t believe it early last week, then surely you did late Thursday night. And if you didn’t believe it then…well, certainly your eyes were opened by Karl Hess on Saturday afternoon, or by the league office later that night. Now, there can be no going back. NC State is no longer a [...]
Leave the ACC. Leave it NOW! [Updated 11:50PM]
There is no fixing this league. There is no gaining respect when your level of play warrants it. It’s broken beyond repair. Somebody will take us. I don’t care who. I just want out of this bush league organization. Addition by NCStatePride… When I was at the hardware store the other day I saw [...]
Syracuse, Pitt ACCepted; who’s next?
Background from yesterday here. This morning, SportscenterU on ESPNU reported that Pittsburgh and Syracuse have officially been accepted, and that others are being considered, and Yahoo! Sports confirmed this: But USA Today reported early Sunday that the ACC presidents had already voted on Saturday morning to accept Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the league. Citing an [...]
Tom Stafford Retires!!!
You really know you’ve made an ‘impact’ in the fabric of NC State when a predominantly sports-related blog decides to highlight and celebrate the retirement of a Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. Link to announcement Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford has announced his retirement after more than 40 years with the University. Stafford, [...]