After failed attempts to garner some kind of notable success by a couple of NC State’s non-revenue sports fell flat this week (men’s golf and women’s softball), NC State’s Baseball team remains as the last primary opportunity for Lee Fowler’s athletics department to do something special and win a “major” ACC Championship.
It is something that hasn’t happened at NC State in a LONG time. And, as you will see from the statistics below it is something that hasn’t happened at NC State in far too long when compared to other programs throughout the country.
This is a preview of Late pushes fall flat for Pack; Baseball represents last hope
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Many thanks to Rocky Top Talk for their kind words:
Continuity? Check. Their archives go back to December, 2004, which is the equivalent of being older than Adam in the college football blogosphere.
Community? Uh-huh. Comments on front page posts regularly reach into the mutiple scores. Any blogger who’s been around for awhile knows how much time and effort it takes to foster that kind of interaction.
This is a preview of SFN Voted “Best ACC Blog” of 2007
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If ever there was a “must read” article, this one is it. You can’t buy press this good. Something special is brewing in Raleigh, win or lose tomorrow afternoon. Sit back and feel the magic, and tell the kids your own stories about 1974, 1983, 1987, and every other moment of NC State’s proud basketball heritage. Tear-jerking excerpt:
As the latest upset wound to a conclusion Saturday, assistant coach Monty Towe leaned over and whispered in Lowe’s ear, “Happy birthday, Jimmy V.”
This is a preview of ESPN’s Pat Forde on Lowe’s Miracle Run
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As the college basketball season moves into the last month of the season, bracketology and bubble talk will fill the air waves and internet message boards. After the last five seasons, there is probably no fan base better qualified to discuss the minimum requirements necessary to clear the bubble and land in the NCAAT than NC State fans. So I thought that I would comb back through last season’s discussions and update everything that we’ve learned about clearing the bubble into one large entry. So without further ado…..
DEFINING THE BUBBLE
This is a preview of Clearing the Bubble
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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 the idea that NC State fans judge a coach just on his personality. It’s usually expressed in this fashion: NC State fans don’t like Herb Sendek because he doesn’t have the personality of Chuck Amato or Jim Valvano.
This is a preview of The N&O comes one step closer to “Understanding Wolfpack Fans”
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Has your favorite sports message board been overtaken by the cries of “Fire the Bum� and the counter-argument “Support our Coach�? Are you ready to drive off of the Information Superhighway to avoid the redundant drivel? Have you considered posting a warning sign for unsuspecting travelers: “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here�?
Experienced cyber-surfers are well aware of the various “Flame Warriors� that inhabit internet discussion groups. Sports message boards have a few additional species that are detailed below. Seasoned readers of sports boards will no doubt recognize many of the frequent posters on their favorite board. For the less experienced readers, you can use this list to identify the various characters that are already on your newest board….just another public service from SFN.
This is a preview of Fire the Bum!
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Just after Sidney Lowe was hired, John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal wrote an outstanding piece that we never chronicled here and wanted to take a couple of minutes to get it on the site.
Good Call: In Lowe, State gets what it needs … a State guy .
This piece was fantastic. It was the absolute BEST article that we saw in the mainstream media regarding Lowe’s hire. The piece highlighted more of the different complex different elements related to Lowe’s hire.
This is a preview of Delong’s Delights
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For those that don’t know me or haven’t read any of my entries here…..I’ll let you in on a little secret: I have been called an opinionated SOB on more than one occasion…and I have never been called bashful. I have never met Bob Lee Swagger, but suspect that we have shared some of these same incidents.
He absolutely nailed it in one of his recent columns. Here is a brief excerpt:
This is a preview of She’s Going….Going…..Gone!
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Finally! Someone in the media writes a home run piece discussing reality!! And, it ended up being a self-proclaimed Tarheel? We’ll take any dose of reality that we can get. Thank, you Matt Rehm.
Today’s piece on CBS Sportsline (not written by Gregg Doyel; Don’t Feed the Troll) is a a great read.
Some Wolfpackers have jumped off the deep end after State’s ‘misses’ on Rick Barnes and John Calipari. Some have even replied to potential candidates with comments like “I’d rather have Sendek.”
That’s absurd.
This is a preview of Why You Need to Be FIRED UP!
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The N&O’s ACC Now Blog posted Caulton Tudor’s Monday article, and it is a must read. Bravo!
(As of 9:10pm ET, the N&O’s ACCNow Blog is encountering technical problems.)
You are going to love this article! And, some Wolfpackers are going to feel compelled to apologize to Caulton Tudor for some criticisms that you have levied against him in the past.
To be fair, Tudor has done a phenomenal job supporting the general historical truth regarding NC State’s Basketball program and tradition over the last few years. This is just another example of it. We here at SFN are very appreciative of his work.
This is a preview of Caulton, We Couldn’t Have Said It Better
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BECAUSE WE’RE NC STATE, AND WE BUILT THIS HISTORIC RIVALRY
By beowolf
Several sports commentators have reacted to NC State’s ambitious coach search and fans’ expectations with anything from incredulity to outright anger. The gist of their reactions is an old chestnut now to Wolfpack fans. It basically goes as follows: “There is NO WAY NC State can compete against Roy Williams and Coach K, so they shouldn’t even try.”
I’m sure it makes sense to people outside of the Triangle, if not the Atlantic Coast Conference region. But to the rest of us, it smacks of sports commentators accustomed to hearing only themselves talk in their echo chambers of ignorance.
This is a preview of Because We’re NC State
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baseball is still in progress (and should make the NCAA tournament), the other three revenue programs failed to make a bowl game or the NCAA Tournament. That puts State in a category as one of five BCS schools to have that distinction.