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 [...]
PackInsider: 2011 NC State Basketball Recruit Profiles
With the confirmed assimilation of one of the best basketball recruiting classes in school history coming on the back of the announcement of Lee Fowler’s imminent departure, perhaps NC State is experiencing some of that “hope and change” that Barack Obama talked so much about in 2008? As you know, we don’t go too far [...]
Duke’s Title Driven by Experienced Top Talent
The Charlotte Observer had an interesting item in today’s paper. Unfortunately, the web version of story does not include the graphic that helps the reader visualize the magnitude of the statistic. The chart showed the rankings of the Top 20 High School players from 2006 and 2007. From 2006, only six players remain on college [...]
Recruiting practices take spotlight
Just last week SFN highlighted the difference between local recruiting budgets in this well-received entry. Almost simultaneously, the University of Tennessee’s football program came under scrutiny for the use of its Hostess Program to ‘lure’ recruits to the University. We started talking about the news in real time in this thread on our message boards. [...]
Recruiting Rolling; Lowe Adds 2012 Prospect (Updated 2:10pm)
In a recent radio show, Sidney Lowe used the plural word “commits” when mentioning players he couldn’t mention publicly. Some people thought it might have been a mistake and that there was only one NC State commitment he couldn’t mention – 2010 recruit Luke Cothron who didn’t sign a National Letter of Intent last week. [...]
Ryan Harrow Signs National Letter of Intent (report from Sammy’s)
Today at Sammy’s Tap and Grill in Raleigh, national top 25 recruit Ryan Harrow signed his National Letter of Intent to play basketball at NC State. It was a packed house with standing room only on an otherwise dreary day here in Raleigh. On hand for the occasion were Ryan’s parents, his cousins, his high [...]
Lorenzo Brown posterizes two defenders
NC State basketball commitment Lorenzo Brown re-confirmed his commitment to the Wolfpack last week and followed up the commitment by posting a triple double in a scrimmage against Hargrave. Brown scored 26 points on 11 of 16 shooting while grabbing12 rebounds and distributing 11 assists. You can see about a minute and a half of [...]
Katz: “NC State Working Back To Good Times”
Sometimes, it’s said, it is hard to see the forest for the trees. That might be the case for NC State’s fans where its hoops program is concerned, at least in the eyes of ESPN college hoops scribe Andy Katz. According to him, the Wolfpack is working their way back to respectability, albeit with a [...]
Wolfpack adds another Top 75 power forward
Pack Pride is reporting that NC State has landed a verbal commitment from 6-foot-8 power forward, Luke Cothron. (Link) Cothron selected the Wolfpack over Tennessee, Alabama, and UCONN among others. He is rated a four-star prospect and the No. 13 power forward in the country by Scout.com. Cothron is generally regarded as a top 60 [...]
ACCSports.com interviews Alpha Wolf & other Thursday links
A couple of quick links to start today (only two more weeks!!!): For a week at least, Joe Ovies and Jim Young have decided to take the ACCSports.com Podcast Presented By FanDemon.com in a different direction. This week, they invite in the ACC’s bloggerati, or they embark on an ACC blogapalooza tour – take your [...]