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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...TOB vs CMFBD
19. August 2010
Joe Giglio has been hard at work compiling a ‘by the numbers’ analysis comparing NC State’s Tom O’Brien with UNC’s Chief *# Butch Davis. The two points I can make for Coach O’Brien are: (1) I am very glad he gets to play Carolina every year! (2) Is there something we can do to get [...]
Continue reading...Closer Look at the Directors’ Cup
17. August 2010
The Directors’ Cup is defined on their website as “A program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by NACDA and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA.” All-Time (1994 to 2010) [...]
Continue reading...Football Stat of the Day
16. August 2010
The CAPITAL SPORTS REPORT blog is becoming a nice source of information and commentary that I enjoy. You can click here for their Twitter page. In this link, the blog takes a quick look at the statistically historical nature of the 2010 NC State football season. I also was appreciative of the respect the author [...]
Continue reading...A Different View of Silence
11. August 2010
I’m often amused by commentaries that wander along the path of facts, speculation, assumptions, and theories with the goal of reaching an ultimate conclusion. All too often, they get lost somewhere along the way and end up in Oz rather than at a logical conclusion. Caulton Tudor attempted this journey but got lost today as [...]
Continue reading...Message Board Reactions on the UNC/NCAA investigation
6. August 2010
I have followed message boards of different college programs around the country for almost 15 years(mainly NC State, UNC and Wake Forest). Message boards are often ridiculed by the print/television/radio media, coaches, athletic directors, and even message board posters themselves. While sometimes these forums are criticized for good reasons, in regards to major news stories [...]
Continue reading...Ted Brown highlights ACC’s 2010 Legends Class
3. August 2010
NC State’s 4-time All-ACC running back, Ted Brown, will lead the 2010 ACC Football Championship Legends Class. The group of 12 former gridiron standouts from current ACC schools includes five former players who earned some kind of ACC Player of the Year honors, three members of the ACC’s prestigious 50th Anniversary Football Team, a former [...]
Continue reading...Offering A Helping Hand
2. August 2010
I don’t know how, but I missed this little nugget from the NCAA this past January: The Division I Legislative Council voted Wednesday to limit the practice of “over-signing” prospective football student-athletes to National Letters of Intent, a strategy employed by some coaches that had the potential of leaving some recruits without a scholarship. Proposal [...]
Continue reading...SFN’s Twitter Followers cross 1,000!
1. August 2010
I never really understood the infatuation, relevance or usefulness of Twitter…until I allowed myself to first start using the service back in the fall. Since then, I think StateFansNation has been pretty effective using the Twitter platform to gather information, share information and cross-promote our website and message boards. On Saturday, SFN attracted our 1,000th [...]
Continue reading...A Good Timeline on John Blake’$ Career
29. July 2010
Allegations about Blake’s possible role in the North Carolina agent scandals are only Blake’s most recent headlines. I’ve followed John Blake’s career with a combination of morbid fascination and interest since his days in the 1990s wrecking the Dallas Cowboy locker room and then the Oklahoma Sooner football program. And as a Longhorn and Cowboy [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part 3
29. July 2010
SFN: This entry is too good to get lost in the middle of a lot of the news that we’ve had breaking in recent days, so we are moving it back to the front of the blog to make sure that the community sees it. If your attitude going into this latest entry on financing [...]
Continue reading...RIP Two Wolfpack Greats – Dennis Byrd & Kaye Cowher
24. July 2010
It just a very sad news day in Wolfpackland. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of Dennis Byrd and Kaye Cowher. God bless you call. Dennis Byrd North Carolina State football legend Dennis Byrd, who was recently selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December, has died at [...]
Continue reading...Decock: Its time for UNC coach Davis to end his silence
22. July 2010
In light of today’s bombshell, Luke Decock penned a timely piece imploring Butch Davis to end his silence over the ongoing NCAA investigation into UNC football player’ relationships with agents. But South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has spoken freely about the NCAA’s inquiries into tight end Weslye Saunders, the son of News & Observer metro [...]
Continue reading...R&R: News and Observer Missing Golden Opportunity
19. July 2010
If you listened closely, you probably heard an odd buzz floating through the air around the state of North Carolina yesterday. I know that I contributed to it. What you were hearing was the elevated voices of the collective non-UNC-graduates in the area expressing their astonishment with what greeted them in their Sunday newspapers (followed [...]
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...BREAKING NEWS: Weslye Saunders (I spelled it ‘correctly’) questioned by NCAA
18. July 2010
If we polled NC State fans for some of their least favorite players in college football history, South Carolina’s Weslye Saunders would rank much higher than anyone would ever expect from a tight end that plays for a non-conference opponent that calls Columbia, SC home. Last August, we highlighted the following classless comment from Weslye [...]
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...A Look Back on Spud Webb’s Legacy
13. July 2010
Today’s younger generation of basketball fan is familiar with Boston Celtics guard Nate Robinson. Standing at only 5’9 in a league where players tower far above 6 and 7 feet in height, we almost can’t help but root for the “little guy.” (Except for when Nate was playing at the University of Washington during a [...]
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 [...]
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31. August 2010
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