Over the years, many different debates on NC State Message boards have traveled so many tangents that it became hard to remember the original premise & topic. In light of NC State’s historical propensity to hire coaches that seem to struggle to deliver success on par with our peers, and desire to retain these coaches […]
All-Time Best: NC State vs Michigan
ESPN’s Page 2 is running an interesting feature – “The Greatest College Hoops Tournament” where the supposed All-Time best of 32 different schools are matched in a fantasy hoops match-ups. Unfortunately for us, the #10 Michigan Wolverines is predicted to wax #23 NC State in both predictions. The Blue and Gold give the partisan crowd […]
Lail: Welcome Back to Earth
I give Pack Pride a lot of grief sometimes for the lack of originality, creativity, and significant dearth of opinion and analysis. Even though today’s piece from Matt Lail is quite tame, it is still nice to have something a little unique to read and doesn’t focus on a 14 year old potential water boy […]
Wolfpack Hoops ‘Not Hot’ (Not Really)
ESPN.com has listed NC State Hoops as “Not Hot”. (sarcasm) Somebody pull ESPN’s press passes and let’s disregard everything that they say…or don’t say…from this point forward. Obviously, they have a personal problem with Herb Sendek because of his personality and cannot be trusted!! (realism) I don’t think ESPN was really indicting the Wolfpack’s program […]
Quote: Basketball Passion
From Fayetteville Observer’s NC State Basketball Preview: As hard as it is to believe now, especially for anyone born since 1983, N.C. State was once the program UNC and Duke wanted to pattern themselves after, instead of the other way around. The Wolfpack won two national championships and enjoyed an undefeated season during a glorious […]
Basketball issues for the upcoming year
After the performance on Saturday I do not want to think about football right now, so I thought I would address some challenges that I believe the basketball team will face this year. (1) The loss of Julius Hodge – Besides being responsible for 23% of the points, 20% of the rebounds and most importantly […]
Another Pathetic Performance
I had hoped my first entry to SFN would be on a happier occasion, but such was not to be. After State’s abysmal performance Saturday night, there is not a lot to be happy about. However, anyone who was truly surprised by State’s performance hasn’t been paying close attention over the last two seasons. How […]
Pack Gets Beat Down in Beantown, 30-10
Bad QB play, and terrible OL play make for a long night.
EARLY Bowl Talk
The News & Observer had a nice summary today to help form some EARLY thoughts about this season’s ACC Bowl picture. About NC State, JP Giglio says: Even if the Wolfpack — 4-4 after last week’s win at Florida State — stumbles at Boston College, it still finishes with home games against Middle Tennessee and […]
O versus D
A lot of nonsense has been written about Pac 10 offenses versus SEC defenses over the last few weeks. I have my own opinions on this debate, but I think it’s necessary to first introduce some facts into the discussion rather than throwing out a bunch of unsupported theories. The one assumption that I’d like […]