NC State University

Sunday Expansion Thoughts

I’ve long-believed expansion/re-alignment wouldn’t end until there were four 14- or 16-team superconferences controlling the football universe, i.e., TV/BCS revenue. The proliferation of college football on TV over the past 20 years has shifted the landscape such that traditional cultural and geographical alliances simply don’t matter, and conference names have little to do with affiliated […]

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Chancellor Woodson gives “State of State” address

As we entered 2010, North Carolina State University’s academic and athletic rankings had never been worse.  The University’s overall performance and perception amongst its large alumni base was in as deep of a valley as possibly could be imagined. Enter new Chancellor, Randy Woodson…followed by new Athletics Director, Debbie Yow and you immediately have a […]

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Lee’s Last Shot at an ACCeptable Achievement?

Since the beginning of the 1992-1993 athletics season, NC State University is the only full-time BCS affiliated institution that has failed to win single conference championship in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball or baseball. Today marks the start of the 57th Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament, and perhaps the last of almost 57 attempts for […]

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Please welcome Chancellor Woodson!

The UNC Board of Governors made it public today that the new Chancellor at NC State will be former Purdue Provost and administrator Dr. William “Randy” Woodson. Please look here for a small statement from Chancellor Woodson from this morning’s BOG meeting. “I think the most important thing going forward is to get to know […]

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Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR (Updated @ 1:15pm)

NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming basketball season continuing a […]

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