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Please welcome Chancellor Woodson!
The UNC Board of Governors made it public today that the new Chancellor at NC State will be former Purdue Provost and administrator Dr. William “Randy” Woodson. Please look here for a small statement from Chancellor Woodson from this morning’s BOG meeting. “I think the most important thing going forward is to get to know [...]
Continue reading...The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball
10. November 2009
With the season officially getting underway this week, I thought I would share some historical stats on our men’s basketball program. Similar entires for football, women’s basketball and championships can be found here and here and here. Men’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 397-401 (.497) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 331-323 (.506) ACC Record Under Fowler: [...]
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...Gone but not forgotten (because they’re still ripping us off)
11. June 2009
One aspect of the ongoing scandal at my alma mater has been the revelation of an institutional culture of administrators openly enriching themselves at the expense of the citizens of North Carolina, who are — they should remember — forced to fund the university no matter what. That includes no matter how removed from responsible, [...]
Continue reading...Site Problems Are Now Solved (Mostly)
12. February 2009
Update 4: First of all, thanks to everyone for your kind words and your patience. I’ve finished rebuilding SFN from scratch, and as you can see, the site looks dramatically different as a result. As I pointed out in the comments, it is mainly because the styling code that SFN has used for quite some [...]
Continue reading...SMD: The Gap Grows Greater
3. February 2009
SFN: Long time readers may remember some of our old entries (from 2005-2006) that we named “Perpetually Disappearing Pie”. We won’t link them here since our most recent server transition removed the key graphs from the entries. Today’s entry is a special submission from one of our long time contributors, SMD, and brings with it [...]
Continue reading...Laugh. Think. Cry.
9. December 2008
V himself had said that team wasn’t very good. After a 6-8 conference record, State was seeded sixth for the 1987 ACC Tournament in Landover. But somehow – not unlike a few years earlier on an even bigger stage – Jim Valvano’s Cardiac Pack had survived and advanced to the title game, where they would [...]
Continue reading...TOB Comments on the booing; Caulton Tudor gets it right
10. September 2008
A question about the boos in Carter Finley Stadium was bound to be asked, so Tom O’Brien had no choice but to respond last night on his weekly radio show hosted at Sullivan’s in Raleigh. Coach Tom O’Brien talked about how annoyed he was with the fan’s reactions to Evans play on his weekly radio show. “It’s [...]
Continue reading...Pray for Russell Wilson
28. August 2008
I don’t care who wins or loses this game anymore. I just want confirmation that he can move his legs (Erin Andrews claims he was moving his feet). If you hear anything, please say so in the comments. UPDATE: Andrews says they are calling it a concussion. More tests pending.
Continue reading...Late pushes fall flat for Pack; Baseball represents last hope
18. May 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Postseason Drought
4. May 2008
Seems like it wasn’t so long ago that State’s football team punched America’s sweetheart in the mouth in the Gator Bowl (thanks Sean Berton), or that men’s basketball beat UConn at the buzzer to make the Sweet 16 or that Kay Yow led the Wolfpack Women to the Final Four. But much like Falls Lake, State’s postseason appearances dried up this school year. While 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.
Continue reading...SFN Voted “Best ACC Blog” of 2007
7. March 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
2. January 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]
Continue reading...ESPN’s Pat Forde on Lowe’s Miracle Run
11. March 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...SFN Garners #2
6. February 2007
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the web. Virtually every [...]
Continue reading...Clearing the Bubble
4. February 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...The N&O comes one step closer to “Understanding Wolfpack Fans”
25. December 2006
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 [...]
Continue reading...SFN Impact Update
9. November 2006
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we [...]
Continue reading...SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
30. July 2006
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just a [...]
Continue reading...Fire the Bum!
16. May 2006
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 [...]
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8. January 2010
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