I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
Double Fouls and Held Balls
So what fun would college sports be if there wasn’t a bit of officiating controversy? And why should the Final Four be any different? But in this case, despite downplaying the screw job handed to them in the closing moments of their semi-finals loss to Louisville, it seems to us that Wichita State has a [...]
State survives Virginia Tech, ACC officiating blunders
NC State had to go to overtime because the Atlantic Coast Conference officials couldn’t monitor the free throw lane one of the most simple and basic rules of basketball. “Players not in a legal marked lane space shall remain behind the FTline extended & behind the 3-point FG line untilthe ball strikes” — Shawn Krest [...]
Gee, why do State fans complain about ACC officiating?
Anyone who has ever watched an NC State game, please tell me how many times do you think Richard Howell would get away with this? I guess John Clougherty and the ACC officials haven’t yet identified this tendency from Miami. I can’t wait for some jack ass to tell me how State should just do [...]
1989: ‘Worst Call in NCAA Tournament History’
NC State takes the floor a few minutes after noon today for a huge NCAA Tournament match-up against the Georgetown Hoyas today. Before you go any further, we ask that you check out today’s Gameday Headlines (linked here) and SFN’s unique game preview (linked here). For a set of bloggers that pride themselves on a [...]
2 media report ACC referee tells Coach Gottfried “Shut your fucking ass up” during UNC game
Around 3:05pm on Saturday afternoon – deep in the the second half of the ACC Tournament semi-final game that saw significant national criticism befall the Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew who called 42 phenomenally inconsistent fouls – I got a couple of strange tweets come through our SFN Timeline. Someone had re-tweeted a tweet from [...]
Further proof of officiating deterioriation
The precipitous decline in college basketball officials’ ability to call the most basic violation in basketball – the travelling violation – is a topic we have discussed here for years. So, I couldn’t resist an entry this morning when I came across the video below that highlights both the utter incompetence of ACC (and college [...]
Karl Hess tosses NC State legends out of the game [4:50 pm Update]
In another slap in the face to NC State, one of the “top” ACC officials decided to throw Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani out of the basketball game. Welcome to another example of how awful the Atlantic Coast Conference has become and little league officials value NC State and our heritage and history. Can you [...]
Just Incase You Missed It: Officiating
There is a massive flurry of discussion on the boards and the blog against last night’s game against Duke. So ‘Pride, why are you writing yet another article about the game? Simple: because I found something that had been posted prior to last night’s game that was interesting. Ironically, it was sitting right under my [...]
The Curious Case of NC State Football & HBO’s “The Wire”
The Wire was a drama that aired for 5 seasons on HBO from 2002 to 2008 about drugs, police, dockworkers, politics, the school system and the media in the city of Baltimore and is considered by many critics as one of the best TV series of all time. Around 8 minutes into the 4th episode [...]