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 [...]
ACC Attendance Declining
I have written several articles lately about ACC officiating bias. Here is an article that talks about how ACC basketball game attendance is dropping. IMO the two subjects are related. The article explains: As a whole, the ACC is averaging 9,406 fans through Wednesday. It would be the lowest average for the league since the [...]
NCSU is not alone in our disgust at the Duke/UNC double standard
Other people are beginning to tire of the obvious “kid glove” treatment Duke and UNC have been receiving by the ACC. It is a subject that has been discussed on our blog many, many times. In this article in the Augusta Free Press, Chris Graham makes many of the same observations we have made. [...]
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 [...]
Re-Thinking the ACC Pecking Order
As the conference season began, most folks (myself included) thought the hated blues comprised a tier all of their own at the top, with BC, GT, and maybe Wake on the bottom. The vast middle consisted of teams that looked NIT-ish, with the likelihood that a few would do better, and a few do worse [...]
More Thoughts On An 18-game ACC Schedule
Several years ago when I was talking to Jeff about becoming an author here, he said one of the big advantages of writing on a blog over a message board is that you never have to type anything more than once. If the same subject comes up again, you just link what you did before. [...]
The ACC’s best combined coaching 1-2 punch
September 9th, 9:15 pm: This entry originally posted earlier in the week, but got buried in the UNC scandal coverage. We’re going to bring it back to the top of the blog since we are getting so much traffic from various ACC blogs today. Please don’t miss out on the other big entries we’ve got [...]
NC State is Nation’s Fifth Most Profitable Hoops Program
Financial statements of the nation’s 344-odd Division I NCAA teams are out and and NC State’s hoops program is among the nation’s best in terms of profit margin. Looking at the numbers above, you will see that UNC-CH generates almost twice as much revenue as NC State, but that it’s matching expenses are more than [...]
2009-10 ACC Hoops – A Jumbled Freaking Mess
Over the past couple of weeks, things finally settled down enough for me to watch more ACC basketball. I leave my esteemed comrade VaWolf to give you the best ACC analysis by the numbers anywhere, but here’s how I see things. First, every single ACC team is fatally flawed. Most in multiple areas. Duke is [...]
J.P. Giglio and Robbi Pickeral – Summer Hoops Preview Series (7/23 Update)
Giglio won’t get down to NC State until tomorrow, but you should start reading his (with assists by UNC acolyte Robbi Pickeral) excellent “slow season” series today. First up, the overall preview: The 2009-10 ACC basketball season promises to be different. For the first time in the expansion era, there is not one, overwhelming favorite [...]