On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, the Fayetteville Oberver ran a story that inlcuded the following quote that we failed to highlight at the time. It deserves attention and we wanted to chronicle the quote: “Everybody comes out and says, ‘You’re Carolina’s and Duke’s little brother and you can’t compete with those guys.’ Ya know what? […]
Is the Coaching Wave About to Crest? (1:00 am)
IT IS NUTS TODAY!!!! SOMETHING IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!!?!? Oh yeah…Will Willis and Tripp Maddux are cool and owe us a lot of money for this. This morning, Jeff asked you to hold off on the growing criticisms of Lee Fowler that were based largely on the fans frustration of having no apparent movement on the […]
Resist the Urge to Criticize Right Now
I know that some of you are asking what has happened to me? After taking up for Lee Fowler last week in this entry (specifically related to John Calipari), I am back today to try to issue some calming words related to the NC State coaching search. I know that it is frustrating. I know […]
Vitale: State Needs Enthusiam The Way it Used to Be
“N.C. State has to look for someone who has charisma, someone who can get that energy back. [Former coach] Herb Sendek was a terrific X-and-O guy and did a good job doing what he was supposed to do, but State needs someone who can get that enthusiasm back to the way it used to be.” […]
Proposed Requirements for Men’s BB Coach
The Human Resources Department at NC State has spoken and Google has links to this story from a ton of media outlets all over the country. These requirements rule out several different names that people keep bringing up over and over again. So let’s hear from the HR weenies: 1) QUALIFICATIONS: A. Minimum of a […]
Momentary Football Diversion
From nfl.com: This pre-draft season has been very revealing when it comes to certain players, and if I were in a draft room this week, there are a few players I would jump up for and defend off the things I have learned about them over the past four months. The first question on my […]
Media on Kruger
As the Lon Kruger talk in Raleigh escalated yesterday, we opened an entry on Kruger to encourage people to share information and research that they may have on the gentleman. We didn’t get quite as much as we had hoped from the community, so we decided to go one step further and run some searches […]
April 18, 1996 – Sendek Announced as Coach
Herb Sendek was announced as NC State’s 5th Head Basketball Coach of the ACC-era. State begins Sendek era New Wolfpack coach is serious about his work Author: A.J. Carr Staff Writer The News & Observer April 18, 1996 RALEIGH – Herb Sendek is young, the youngest basketball coach in the ACC. At 33, he even […]
Chlt Obs Begins Criticizing Pack Search
Monday Night Coaching Update This morning the Charlotte Observer exhibited why their newspaper was so weak that they were recently purchased by a more thriving company – they have the hardest time drawing appropriate conclusions from facts and history. Tom Sorensen’s opinion is pretty lame in his attempt to be cute. He also obviously has […]
Monday Night Coaching Update
We hope that you had a great Easter. It’s hard to put together coaching updates when news is so spotty. But, we’ve evolved our ‘coverage’ much more along the lines of commentating and analyzing what we hear than sharing “scoop” over the last week. We want to re-affirm our caution regarding the discussion of some […]
