Tag Archive | "Sidney Lowe"
O’Brien v. Lowe
Maybe it’s unfair, but I have routinely compared Sidney Lowe’s performance with Tom O’Brien’s performance, at least within my circle of Wolfpack faithful. The debate can often become colorful and I usually, and admittedly, find myself on the outside looking in on the popular response. Now that we’re more than a few years in to [...]
Continue reading...Sidney Trying To Lowe(r) Expectations For Next Basketball Season
Friday, July 2, 2010
Sidney Lowe must be talking to former NC State football coach Lou Holtz, a man who was infamous for effusively praising even the lightest of opponents as being world-beaters while talking about his own team as though they were elementary school scrubs picked last in PE for a game of kickball. For example, in the [...]
Continue reading...Remember – The Hard Work is Just Beginning
Monday, May 10, 2010
Now that a few days have passed, and the initial euphoria is starting to wear off – let’s put everything into perspective. Chancellor Randy Woodson is off to a great start. And by removing a clear, absolute impediment to athletic success (Lee Fowler), he is giving us a fantastic opportunity to move forward. But we [...]
Continue reading...NC State vs NCAA Tournament teams
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Now that the season is over, and Duke has won the national championship for 2010, we can fully take stock of the Wolfpack basketball team and see how well they performed against NCAA Tournament teams. As many of us know, this year’s team was 7-7 against NCAA Tournament teams. How does that compare to past [...]
Continue reading...Fowler Comments On Rumors About Lowe & His Own Job Status
Friday, April 9, 2010
The rumor mill heated up fast and red-hot this morning with whispers that NC State head coach Sidney Lowe would be relieved of his duties sometime today. It looks as though those rumors are false. According to NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler, in an article by ESPN’s Andy Katz: “It started in the coaching [...]
Continue reading...Statistical Analysis of Player Development under Sidney
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
…from one of our All-Star message board posters… “I was curious to see how players developed under Lowe looking strictly at their numbers from each season under Lowe. Some players that played for both Lowe and Sendek I included their last season under Sendek just for information purposes, Grant was the only one to play [...]
Continue reading...Comprehensive ACCT Thoughts
Sunday, March 14, 2010
I decided to hold my thoughts on State’s ACC tourney performance until it was all over (and since I had stuff going on last night, I waited until today). So here goes: 1) State’s half-court defense against Clemson and Florida State was as good as I’ve seen us play in many, many years. Even against [...]
Continue reading...The Sidney Lowe Rebound
Thursday, January 21, 2010
As a 2004 NC State graduate, there wasn’t really much to write home about when it came to sports. A few years of Philip, a Gator Bowl win, and a few really disappointing ACC Tournament Championship games… I moved to the midwest after college and was in a small bar watching Julius Hodge take on [...]
Continue reading...Sidney Speaks
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Asking for some forgiveness from you guys as I have been down for the count sick the last couple of days. Was feeling guilty about not updating the blog, so wanted to quickly throw a couple of interviews with Coach Lowe up for your review. Dave Glenn interviews Sidney and Coach Lowe does an excellent [...]
Continue reading...Mays and Smith Say Some Players on Last Year’s State Team Were Selfish
Monday, October 19, 2009
One of the oldest cliches in sports is that there is no “I” in “team.” Like most cliches, there is a solid kernel of truth in the center, albeit one that becomes so overused the people start looking past it. According to an article on WRALsportsfan.com’s website this morning, there was a lot of “I” [...]
Continue reading...Katz: “NC State Working Back To Good Times”
Friday, October 16, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Headscratching Hire – Strength and Conditioning Coach
Friday, August 21, 2009
As I alluded in the comments section of this thread, Robbi Pickeral penned an interesting article last Sunday, noting that Sidney Lowe had named a new strength and conditioning coach. Lowe’s choice? Wright Wayne, Lowe’s coach in 1983, who had been reassigned to other programs within the athletic department for the last 12 years. If [...]
Continue reading...[Updated 5:30pm] #119 in the country – Is NC State Basketball going to be this bad?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
![[Updated 5:30pm] #119 in the country – Is NC State Basketball going to be <i>this</i> bad?](http://www.statefansnation.com/wp-content/themes/freshnews/thumb.php?src=http://www.statefansnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nc-state-scorers-table.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=90)
CollegeHoops.net is counting down their preseason ranking of every college basketball team and unfortunately for us the Wolfpack’s preview popped up three full months before the season is slated to tip-off. This link will take you to CollegeHoops’ preview for the #119 ranked NC State Wolfpack, who the site selects to finish last in the [...]
Continue reading...Lorenzo Brown – Another One Bites the Dust
Sunday, July 12, 2009
I apologize for not being more timely – I’ve been on vacation and out of the loop. But yes, what you may have heard is indeed true – Lorenzo Brown is headed to prep school and will not suit up for the 2009-10 Wolfpack squad. No matter how down the ACC may be, this is [...]
Continue reading...From the Comments – An Outside View of NC State Hoops
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Long-time commenter (and very gracious guest in Wolfpack Blogistan) nycfan gave a very detailed assessment of our basketball program under the “stewardship” of Fowler and Lowe. Many times, a knowledgeable outsider can give a more honest, objective assessment – since emotion doesn’t get in the way. I just wanted to highlight this comment for the [...]
Continue reading...NC State Basketball in the News
Friday, June 19, 2009
Apparently there was a press conference yesterday, here is some coverage from WRAL: - Lowe looking to put his own stamp on the program: This offseason, coaches like Tom Izzo and Tubby Smith told Lowe this was his season to put his own stamp on the Pack program. “No question about it,” said Lowe, who [...]
Continue reading...Sidney Lowe 2.0
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Interview on 850TheBuzz. NC State basketball coach Sidney Lowe dropped by the morning show to catch us up with his offseason. The man has been busy golfing at the Rex Hospital Open, checking out the Carolina Hurricanes, making the rounds for Wolfpack Club caravans, and quietly putting together an exciting recruiting class. After a 3-year [...]
Continue reading...Fox Sports places Coach Lowe on hotseat (again)
Monday, June 1, 2009
I am sure that some coo-coo for coco puffs ‘hater’ of SFN will somehow blame us for this article, but please note that we are only linking to stories in the national press while generally stating the obvious. There is not much that we can do about the fact that a real world revolves out [...]
Continue reading...SFN is ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
SFN would like to thank the great folks from the ACC Sports Journal for inviting us to partner with them on their weekly ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’. They posted the feature to their website last night and it can be read by clicking here. Over the last 12 months the blog has generated more [...]
Continue reading...Lowe in the Media; State playing in Hawaii
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The following is some biting criticism from one of the more prominent national college basketball blogs: Let’s run through the challengers for Duke in the state of North Carolina (NC State left out for Sidney Lowe obvious reasons). Ouch! It is very painful to continue to be ridiculed for our complete irrelevance as a competitive [...]
Continue reading...
Loading ...
Monday, August 9, 2010
56 Comments