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SFN’s Twitter Followers cross 1,000!
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...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...SFN on the Triangle Radio on Friday morning
10. June 2010
Get your radios set for 10am on Friday morning in the Triangle! StateFansNation will be prominently featured in an extended interview on “The Sports Drive” with Taylor Zarzour at 10:00am (Link to ESPNTriangle) If you missed Jeff’s previous interview with Taylor Zarzour then you will enjoy catching up by clicking here.
Continue reading...A Big Thanks to the O3 Strategies Guys
8. June 2010
It’s been over a year since we’ve had the pleasure of bringing in O3 Strategies as our Web Design & Development consultants. Many of you were around in the olden days of using free WordPress Templates and the many bugs and visual glitches that came along with that. Needless to say, the new format has [...]
Continue reading...Coverage all over the place!!
17. March 2010
What a week!!! In addition to more than 30 front page blog entries over the last week, we have caught fire on Twitter at times. If you missed all of the ‘nuggets’ that were flying last night then you should check out our page by clicking here and do some reviewing. It isn’t just ‘game [...]
Continue reading...Please Support SFN
9. February 2010
Just wanted to pass along a quick plea to the community on a couple of basic items. First, THANK YOU so much for choosing to spend your time and energy here at SFN. We hope that you have enjoyed many of the upgrades we made in 2009 and we will continue to strive to improve [...]
Continue reading...SFN in 2010
6. January 2010
Before we begin, we’d like to once again thank our amazing community for the support that you have provided SFN in the past year. Although we still have a lot of room to grow, the SFN blog and message boards generated over 4.4 million pageviews on 1.8 million visits from over 330,000 unique visitors in [...]
Continue reading...Site Update – technical difficulties?
21. October 2009
The SFN authors been driving some fantastic topics and conversations the last few days. So, don’t hesitate to do some surfing of some recent entries and of the message boards (linked here) We have recently received emails bringing our attention to some problems in our registering process. We wanted to let everyone know that we [...]
Continue reading...Support SFN – Buy an Ad!
14. October 2009
SFN has provided quality commentary on NC State Athletics for the better part of a decade. And along the way, it’s been a labor of love. There’s not a single person on the editorial board of SFN that accepts a salary. We all have day jobs and families and, when it comes down to it, [...]
Continue reading...Site News
31. August 2009
Now that football season is right around the corner, I wanted to take a moment to update the community on a few things. Mobile access has returned to SFN. We had to cut it off around the time of release of the new SFN version a few months back. But it has been restored. Looks [...]
Continue reading...Introducing StateFansNation Community Forums
28. August 2009
We are very excited to roll-out another component of our growing community — StateFansNation Forums Please bookmark the following URL: http://www.statefansnationforums.com/ These forums are designed to integrate with your current logon/profile information on the blog; so, you do not need to re-register. We are hoping that the forums become a source of ‘real-time’ sharing of [...]
Continue reading...Coming soon…
25. August 2009
Something is coming soon… but you have to wait till Friday…or maybe Thursday…or maybe Saturday. Speculate away…
Continue reading...The Wolfpack Wiki by SFN
30. July 2009
It is with much excitement that the team here at StateFansNation would like to introduce you to one of our new creations – Wolfpack Wiki. The core of our author team– and many of our readers– have been a part of the ‘NC State internet community’ since the very beginning (early to mid 90s) and [...]
Continue reading...[Updated] SFN makes the New York Times & list of Top 100 FBall Blogs
30. July 2009
Updated Entry – July 30th We just ran across this link to the Top 100 College Football Blogs. Guess who is included on the list? Thanks so much! On a related note, take a moment to click on our Blogroll link at the top of the page and surf some of our links. We’ve been [...]
Continue reading...New Feature: Polling
26. May 2009
As some of you might have noticed, we have added a polling feature to the sidebar. You can expect the poll to be updated from time-to-time to gauge our audience’s opinion on certain topics. I can also see that we have some Tarheel visitors here that are hoping that we win fewer than 5 games. [...]
Continue reading...Monday Morning Bytes
18. May 2009
Good morning! Hope your weekend was nice. An awful lot is going on in Raleigh right now with the ****storm that brewing and creating heat on Chancellor statusquOblinger and the results of his (lack of) leadership from Holladay Hall. You can use Friday’s entry announcing the resignation of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees [...]
Continue reading...The New & Improved [Updated 11:00]
9. May 2009
As you can see, some pretty drastic changes have made their way to SFN. Firstly, we’d like to congratulate the winner of the banner/logo design contest, Dustin Rhodes for his contribution. As promised, a gift card has been sent to him on behalf of O3 Strategies.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Design SFN’s Next Logo
2. May 2009
We’ve been going through some changes recently as you all have no doubt noticed. One thing we will be rolling out very soon is an all-new version of the site with some new, exciting features. Raleigh-based web design and development company O3 Strategies is helping SFN out and handling the implementation of a new design [...]
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1. August 2010
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