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 [...]
Dick Sheridan coaching tree?
Bruce Fowler has been hired as Furman University’s 22nd head football coach. This made me wonder, how big is the Dick Sheridan coaching tree? I listed the person and their most recent position or two. I know I missed people, if you name some others I will add them to the list! Bruce Fowler (Head [...]
Benchmark Tom O’Brien: The Race to Perceived Success
First, something for the liberal-arts lovers: “All our knowledge has its roots in our perception.” -Leonardo da Vinci. I wonder if da Vinci ever tried quantifying perception? Every college program has coaching dynasties that we view, or perceive, as “good programs”. To back this up, we have all of the records, stats, and bowl trophies to [...]
Comprehensive (But Scattered) Thoughts on the Pitt Game
When I think about today’s game, I recall the first glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel. I had been going to NC State football games my whole life (in fact, one of my earliest memories is of the eerie silence settling over C-F when Penn State beat us on a last second [...]
Coach Sheridan Returns to Raleigh
Coach Sheridan was at practice the other day after visiting friend and Wolfpack family member David Horning who is dealing with some complicated medical issues. First and foremost, our best wishes and prayers go out to David Horning and his family. Back in 2007 O’Brien had Sheridan come speak to his first High School Coaches’ [...]
Wednesday NC State Links
Follow this link for comments from TOB about yesterday’s situational scrimmage (including text and audio): STATS Offense Passing: (Mike Glennon and Russell Wilson) 20-40, 232 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTs Rushing: 22 rushes, 76 yards, 1 TD Defense LB Audie Cole: 9 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack LB Sterling Lucas: 8 tackles, 1 [...]
Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part I, The 1990s
Back in March of this year, any column I would’ve written could’ve only been titled “Why I should’ve gone to [insert SEC school here].” As I left Tobacco Road on Glenwood Avenue after watching yet another State basketball season mercifully end – like so many years before it – on the Thursday of the ACC [...]
Rivals: If ND Fires Weis, Irish Might Make a Run At TOB (Updated 7pm)
Final Update: Irisheyes.com, the Scout Notre Dame football franchise, reports that Charlie Weis is set to return for 2009. The discussion below is not for nothing, however, as the fact is that Tom O’Brien will become a person of interest for bigger programs looking to improve their coaching situation. While O’Brien has said that NC [...]
Dick Sheridan interview on WPTF
While we are talking about coaches in the state of South Carolina, then it is great time to link this interview with Dick Sheridan (with special appearance by Bobby Purcell) Click here for link to interview.
Good Luck, Clemson
The Clemson Tigers take the field tonight in the Chick-Fil-A bowl in what I think will be the ACC’s ‘defining’ bowl game of 2007. The Tigers game tonight against Auburn will only count as one game – the conference is currently a respectable 2-1 in bowls thusfar – but the magnitude of this battle with [...]