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A Different View of Silence
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...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...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...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...The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 2 (The Bad)
11. 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...Sit in the ‘dougout’ to watch ‘Wolpfack’ battle ‘Cincinatti’? [Updated 7:35pm]
23. June 2010
Will the embarrassments ever end for almost all things related to NC State University’s Sports Information Department and Wolfpack Sports Marketing? In case you missed what has become the most viewed entry of 2010 on SFN then you need to take yourself back to this link. (Hat tip to the folks at Deadspin for originally [...]
Continue reading...Required Reading: ACCSJ’s Post-Fowler Insight
14. June 2010
“No matter what you think about Lee personally, he couldn’t be trusted to run another search for either football or men’s basketball,” a source close to the situation said. “That (2006 search) was an embarrassment for everyone associated with N.C. State, and I think it will remain Lee’s most identifying moment. And that’s just not [...]
Continue reading...Pomeranz: Emails About Fowler Didn’t Make a Difference
8. June 2010
In a followup to the Ken Tysiac story from the weekend where the Observers’ headline writer claimed that 29 emails made the difference in the status of Lee Fowler’s job, former Technician sports editor and sometime NC State blogger Jim Pomeranz makes sense of it all and injects some much-needed reality: In reality, the idea [...]
Continue reading...Big Fowler Article in the Sunday Observers; headline contradicts information in article
6. June 2010
Both the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh’s News & Observer ran a large featured article this morning titled – Fowler’s exit from NC State linked to emails. There is SO MUCH here that I don’t have time to start before heading to church! But, we just had to link it and get the conversation started. (Actually…true [...]
Continue reading...Media misses mark on CLC’s top selling collegiate brands
2. June 2010
In an all-too-typical move by the mainstream media, ESPN’s Heather Dinich reported today that NC State is not among the 75 top selling brand-name schools licensed by the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC). Dinich’s blog post read: Other schools ranked among the top 75 universities were: No. 36 Maryland No. 38 Virginia No. 40 Georgia Tech [...]
Continue reading...Bill Friday, “Fowler Fan”
24. May 2010
Over the weekend, the News & Observer ran a fairly interesting piece about the rising costs of running athletic departments. As is usually the case in such analysis, there’s someone quoted for certain hand-wringing over the “big business” nature of modern college sports. And when a North Carolina media outlet runs such a piece, NC [...]
Continue reading...Couple More Wolp Fack Gems From The SID’s Office
18. May 2010
Anyone want to sit on the Wolfpack “Dougout” side at the Doak? Get your New Jersey’s before you head to the Men’s Restroom’s. (I apologize that I have no idea what the Men’s Restroom’s possess.) The awful misuse of apostrophe’s has me wondering if the great Donal Ware authored this page of the media guide? [...]
Continue reading...Credit where it’s due: The Triangle Business Journal
7. May 2010
I’ve subscribed to the TBJ for some time, and I find it to be amazingly informative as a small business owner in the Triangle. It’s a great way for me to keep my finger on the pulse of the business world around me. It seems recently, however, I’ve found it to also be THE authority [...]
Continue reading...How NC State’s Sports Information Department Really Works
20. April 2010
One of things you hear Wolfpack fans howling about the most is the way that NC State and its teams are covered in the media. They say that NC State never gets a break in the local paper, the Charlotte paper, the television media or many of the online columnists that help shape the country’s [...]
Continue reading...A not so shining moment
9. April 2010
The second most discussed item related to Monday’s National Basketball Championship game had nothing to do with what happened on the floor of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis — it was related to the awful new production of “One Shining Moment” with Jennifer Hudson. If you didn’t know that Jennifer Hudson was going to sing [...]
Continue reading...The finances behind the destruction of college basketball
5. April 2010
SFN: We’d like to thank one of our loyal readers, ‘noah’, for submitting this great piece. If you would ever like to submit an entry for the front page of the blog please just email us at statefans@gmail.com So, now that the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is over, I suppose we can say goodbye to [...]
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11. August 2010
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