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Financing College Sports – Part Two
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...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...NC State Athletics Year In Review Summary
7. July 2010
Thought I would share a brief summary of NC State’s performance in the 2009-2010 school year as well as a few observations. For each ACC sport (as well as gymnastics and rifle) I have listed State’s finish in the standings, overall record, ACC record, the ACC champion, the national champion and the finish and points [...]
Continue reading...So This Is the Way Baseball Season Ends…
5. June 2010
…not with a bang, but a whimper. That said, I still tip my cap to the team for a compelling ACC run. You have to imagine that the Pack Nine were physically and emotionally drained after that. And this was always a flawed team, just one that had a well-timed hot streak late. Omaha was [...]
Continue reading...Myrtle Beach Regional Preview
2. June 2010
We’ve gone over a lot of NC State baseball in the last months; I’m quite impressed by the baseball conversation that has gone on this year. It appears interest has really picked up since I penned my first entry 2 seasons ago. We’re going to take this entry to briefly introduce the competition we’ll be [...]
Continue reading...A fantastic ending to the best week
9. May 2010
What in the world is going on? Let’s go back and look at what has transpired this week. 1. CJ Leslie re-commits to the Wolfpack and signs his LOI. 2. Chancellor Randy Woodson announces that Lee Fowler will no longer be the athletic director after June 30, 2010. 3. So much enthusiasm and positive energy, [...]
Continue reading...Baseball drops game, series to Tar Heels
11. April 2010
UNC scored six runs in the seventh inning Sunday to put NC State away and take the rivalry series two games to one. NC State is now 21-12 overall and 6-9 in the ACC but still remains just outside the Top 25 in many college baseball rankings. State’s schedule gets considerably easier following the weekend [...]
Continue reading...State takes Weekend Series vs. #1 Virginia
4. April 2010
State won its weekend series at Doak Field at Dail Park versus #1-ranked Virginia 2-1 to improve to 18-10 overall (5-7 ACC). I was at the game Friday and it was a beautiful evening and a great crowd, and obviously the last few innings were exciting. It was my first game of the season and [...]
Continue reading...Flying under the radar – Wilson to return? Baseball’s struggles
29. March 2010
NC State’s unexpected success on the hardwood in the Atlantic Coast Conference and National Invitation Tournaments served to drive a lot of focus away from a couple of developing stories that we didn’t want to ignore. (1) Russell Wilson returning to the gridiron? Buried in this little recap in the N&O/Charlotte Observer a couple of [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Women earn NCAA berth, will face UCLA in first round
16. March 2010
While the men’s basketball team may have been relegated to finishing its season in the NIT, the Wolfpack Women earned a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will face off against No. 8 seed UCLA in the Kansas City Regional. State’s first game will be in Minneapolis and a victory would likely set [...]
Continue reading...Misplaced Praise? Did SFN make a big mistake?
23. February 2010
Yesterday’s entry highlighting the Wolfpack Women’s big win in Chapel Hill over the weekend reminded me of a recent conversation that I wanted to share with the community to see if any of our community members had any insight to share. It started last October when I wrote this entry actually complimenting and praising Lee [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Women Takedown Tarheels
22. February 2010
The happiness that NC State sports generated this weekend was so surprising that it took a little bit for it all to sink in! In addition to the Wolfpack’s big win over Wake Forest in the RBC on Saturday, NC State’s Baseball team set a record for runs in a series with a three game [...]
Continue reading...Shocker in Raleigh! Charita Stubbs released (noon update with records)
1. December 2009
Link to GoPack Two questions remain: (1) First, will Stubbs repeat her previous behavior of playing the race card when things don’t go her way? (2) Second, will Lee Fowler be allowed to hire Stubbs’ replacement? You see, Fowler has ALREADY fired & hired a volleyball coach at NC State — and, he CHOSE CHARITA [...]
Continue reading...The Relevancy of Irrelevancy – Is Lack Of Athletic Success Limiting The University?
20. November 2009
Some of the comments on the recent Monday Morning entry got me to thinking about the possible effects of our lack of athletic success on the university as a whole. I have to believe that athletics is a big component of the marketing and identity of a university (and you can make a fair case [...]
Continue reading...Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR (Updated @ 1:15pm)
19. November 2009
NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming basketball season continuing a [...]
Continue reading...Monday morning in Wolfpackerville or NC State is 8-35-2 in all fall sports
16. November 2009
Hello Monday, Wolfpackers! About a month ago, we took a quick view of NC State’s weekend sports performance on our message boards that included the following: Rifle team falls to Nebraska Volleyball swept by Duke Soccer loses to Wake Football dismantled by Boston College [snip] Our ACC record in volleyball in the ten seasons while [...]
Continue reading...State Soccer Stuns in Semis \ Falls in Championship Game
14. November 2009
Sunday Update The run is over and the drought continues as the Wolfpack soccer team was shut out by the Virginia Cavaliers, 1-0, in today’s ACC Championship game. State’s soccer team last appeared in the Championship game and won a title in the 1990 season. A third of the Wolfpack’s team this season – that [...]
Continue reading...NC State Beats UNC on Penalty Kicks to Advance in ACC Tourney!
11. November 2009
#20 NC State won a crucial 1st round matchup versus #2 UNC in the first round of the ACC Men’s Soccer Championship in Cary, NC. In brutal weather conditions, the teams played two regulations and two sudden death overtimes without scoring a goal. In the shootout, senior NC State goalkeeper Christopher Widman of Greensboro, NC [...]
Continue reading...State actually wins a team championship in an ACC sanctioned event (ie: not Bass Fishing) [Updated noon]
3. November 2009
As resident SFN Statistician, WV Wolf, posted much fo the following on our message boards this weekend: NC State’s Men’s Cross Country team won the ACC Championship this weekend. (Link to ACC.com) This is State’s first ACC Title since winning the ACC Wrestling Championship on March 3, 2007; spanning a stretch of 973 days. In [...]
Continue reading...The best thing Lee Fowler has done at NC State
22. October 2009
We catch a lot of flak for our criticisms of Lee Fowler and the manner in which he runs the NC State Athletics Department; and much of that criticism comes from people that are too spineless or too stupid to actually publicly stake their own opinions. But, we choose to educate ourselves on issues and [...]
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19. July 2010
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