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Must Listen: Taylor Zarzour begins new show with a bang! [Updated at 10:30am]
We’re sorry that it took us a couple of days to get this posted to the website…but, the comments and perspectives espoused in the following audio by local sports radio host, Taylor Zarzour are timeless. This is the very first segment of Zarzour’s brand new show, “Sportsdrive with Taylor Zarzour” heard on 620 The [...]
Continue reading...To rush or not to rush?
5. March 2010
If you tune in to much college basketball during any given season, you’re bound to see it. Thousands (or hundreds, depending on the conference) of 18-22 year old college students running on to the court to celebrate their teams victory over a team they presumably shouldn’t have beat. The immortal storming of the court. It happened [...]
Continue reading...Let’s See If We Can Blow The Final Gasket In Ole Roy’s Head
25. January 2010
Tuesday night’s game against the Tar Heels couldn’t be more critical. Not from a strategic perspective and the need to win some ACC games, but from a personal perspective. We all heard the jeers from the Tar Heel faithful during their exodus from Carter-Finely having been beaten by a single point: “Wait till basketball season!” [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Basketball Introspective
14. October 2009
After that debacle within Carter-Finley last weekend, the timing for this just seems eerily appropriate, especially since I’m not at all hopeful about the upcoming basketball season. My original intent was a more comprehensive basketball retrospective similar to the one I did for football back in the summer. But I decided that nothing [...]
Continue reading...Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?
13. October 2009
This season is the 9th consecutive where football season tickets have sold out at Carter-Finley. Here is a recent entry about selling out season tickets. For this entry, I am going to focus only on home football games. Set aside the LTRs, gas, hotel and airfare for road trips, donations to the Wolfpack Club, [...]
Continue reading...Pitt beat writer says NC State crowd won’t be a factor
25. September 2009
Finally, the game is almost here. Paul Zeise is the Pitt beat writer for the Post-Gazette and recently did a chat about this week’s Pitt/NC State matchup. Here are his comments about the impact of crowds at Carter Finley stadium: Well I suppose Bob Smizik might have been there for that game (the 1988 [...]
Continue reading...Agreeing with the Blogosphere
16. September 2009
You have probably noticed a little less activity on the front page of the blog in recent days. We encourage you to remember that we are supporting our new message boards with a little more depth and breadth of topics as opposed to diluting the front page of the blog. So, PLEASE help us out [...]
Continue reading...It Only Takes One Rotten Fan To Spoil A Stadium
9. September 2009
Unfortunately these days, some people have forgotten the simple social graces and how to act civilly to one another. Or worse, their parents never taught them (as we say in the south) how to act. Many excuse poor behavior with a dismissal that goes something like “it happens everywhere, so what do you expect?” Worst [...]
Continue reading...State Employee Sounds Off On Our Fans
3. September 2009
Sure, it seems like a rather trivial detail to get flustered over (basketball jerseys). But as one State employee joked earlier this week, “Our fans always need something to gripe about and this is just the protest of the week. The psyche of our fans is unbelievable. I’ve long been of the belief that State [...]
Continue reading...The Awesomeness of Gamecockery
28. August 2009
What is about YouTube spoofs on South Carolina that are just so fantastic!? Of course, no one can forget Hitler: Facist warmonger, number one Gamecocks fan. Now we have the following:
Continue reading...Best fans sellout season tickets – AGAIN – in midst of economic recession [Updated 12:45pm]
27. August 2009
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Shhhhh! I’ve got some secrets. The NC State football program has had only one winning season in the last five years, when the Wolfpack posted unspectacular 7-5 record in the 2005 season that we mustered more than 24 points only once (when we scored 54 points on Eastern Kentucky in the second game of the [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part IV, 2007-Present
5. August 2009
This is Part IV of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of us [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part III, Philip Rivers
31. July 2009
This is Part III of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many [...]
Continue reading...Talk about a real “StateFan”
29. July 2009
If you have ever taken the time to email us at statefans@gmail.com then you have probably experienced that it can sometimes be MONTHS before you hear back from us…if you hear back from us. There is only so much time in the day and unfortunately our mail box sits very low on our list [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part II, 2000-06
29. July 2009
This is Part II of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many [...]
Continue reading...Only 12% Of State Fans Dislike Krzyzewski
24. June 2009
In a Public Policy Polling release, some interesting numbers come to light regarding North Carolina fans and their likes and dislikes in terms of college athletics. NC State is the second in popularity in NC, with 19% of respondents labeling themselves as Wolfpack fan. Nearly twice as many respondents, 37% identified as Tar Heel faithful, [...]
Continue reading...Technician falls under the evil mind control of SFN, but some still resist!!!
12. June 2009
Flashback: March 30th, 2006 from “Kennel Delivers Annual Communique To The Masses”: Dear Chancellor Oblinger, NC State is a Great University, and you are doing an excellent job building upon the strengths of previous Chancellors and taking us even further. Sincere thanks to you. [snip] Finally, I wish to state my personal support for whatever decisions you make. I [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday Bytes
6. May 2009
CHANGE IS COMING! And we need your help. If you have any computer or creative skills then please click here and think about submitting a new banner for the site as a part of our coming re-design. Thanks so much! While we are discussing the site, we would again like to thank the good folks [...]
Continue reading...SFN is ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’
5. May 2009
SFN would like to thank the great folks from the ACC Sports Journal for inviting us to partner with them on their weekly ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’. They posted the feature to their website last night and it can be read by clicking here. Over the last 12 months the blog has generated more than 3.5 [...]
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11. March 2010
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