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 [...]
Wiz: The Rise & Fall of Bobby Lowder
Sundays in the off season are made for personal interest and feature stories…so, when I ran across this link from the Wiz I couldn’t ignore it. Long time college football fans recognize the name of Bobby Lowder as perhaps the ‘most powerful booster in college football’. I first remember learning about Bobby Lowder by reading [...]
Rutgers Back in the News; Grobe interviews for Auburn Job
Since we are playing Rutgers in a few weeks, there might be some NC State fans interested in what is happening with our bowl opponent: Rutgers president Richard L. McCormick told the school’s board of governors and trustees in an e-mail last night that he has asked Mulcahy to leave his position by the end [...]
The bye-week coaching conversation entry
As a follow-up to this interesting entry from earlier in the week, I think that the Wolfpack’s off-week provides us a perfect time to discuss some interesting coaching developments across the country. It isn’t as if there aren’t any interesting match-ups this weekend; the college football schedule is full of great games. Of particular interest [...]
Fowler and Avent agree on new contract
In the past few days, NC State baseball coach Elliot Avent’s name had been linked to the open Auburn head coaching position. However, it appears that Lee Fowler and Avent have reached an agreement on a new contract just nine days after coming within one win of reaching NC State’s first College World Series since [...]
2 Tigers & Tarheels Having a Bad Day
Today is just one of those bad days, I guess. (At least we will spare Duke lacrosse any other mention.) Let’s start local and work our way up to the bigger national stories. First, one of UNC’s finest, Marion Jones has been linked to a fraud ring in Norfolk, VA (Link). Ouch! A man implicated [...]