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 [...]
WRAL Is Really Dropping The Ball As The Internet Police
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted some apparent recruiting violations committed by UConn students in this post. In the entry we focused on the disconnect between WRAL’s omission of coverage of substantial recruiting issues at UConn when compared to their historical coverage of making monstrous mountains out of molehills when NC State fans “FaceBook’d” [...]
Get Well Soon Nate
We thought we would pass along the “Get Well Nate” group on Facebook. Pass the link around to all your FB friends!
Maybe the lightning strike can help finish the Belltower?
Lightning struck NC State’s Memorial Belltower this week. (Link) With graduation two days away, N.C. State University is scrambling to fix the crown on a campus jewel. It’s bringing in a platform lift to hoist a 1,500-pound hunk of granite back into place atop the bell tower after a bolt of lightning knocked it loose. [...]
University Asks Student To Take Down Facebook Group “John Wall PLEASE Come to State”
NC State’s Director of Compliance asked a student Thursday to shutter his ‘John Wall to State’ group on Facebook. Michelle Lee, the Interim AD for Compliance, feared that the appeal violated NCAA recruiting rule 13.02.13: From the front page of today’s News & Observer: Thursday morning, N.C. State asked Taylor Moseley, a freshman, to shut [...]
Site Note: We Just Passed 100,000 Comments This Week (Updated)
Sometime over the weekend, Statefans Nation recorded its 100,000th comment from you, our readers. I’m not sure which one of you clicked the odometer over to six digits, but it speaks well for all of you folks that this site has such a lively community. Back in November we ran an entry focused some of [...]
Are You on Facebook?
I know what you more mature readers are asking and saying right now Facebook? Is this a joke? What college student has taken over SFN? Well, this is not a joke. After reading dozens of articles in the past year in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and other business magazines SFN (and [...]