Basketball seemed to start well last night for the Wolfpack, but please forgive us if we don’t spend too much time on the weekend’s lineup of Stetson (10-17 & RPI of #255 last year), The Citadel (12-16, #296), and Deleware (11-20, #233).
If you are interested, some observations about Friday night can be found by clicking here. Additionally, Ken Tysiacs of the The Charlotte Observer was in attendance and logged some byte-style observations this morning that inlcuded some of the following:
• The RBC Center is too big for basketball — especially when N.C. State plays weak opponents — and the seats are too far away from the floor. It’s a great arena for hockey, though.
• Herb Sendek didn’t go out on a limb when he scheduled Stetson, The Citadel and Delaware over three days in the Hispanic College Fund Classic. This is a good enough N.C. State team that Sendek could have scheduled stronger.
Tysiac has historically expressed various levels of sympathy/support for Herb Sendek, and you can see that for yourself in the way he tip-toed around any real criticism for this (AGAIN) embarassing opening 3-game weekend of basketball. Tysiac is one of those original thinkers that is convinced (and has made it known on multiple occassions) that NC State fans simply won’t accept or like Sendek because of his lack of personality; and conversely, Wolfpackers love Chuck Amato only because of his personality.
I wonder how that theory is working for these Einsteins now? I guess the reason that Chuck got booed this year was because his personality suddenly changed?
Related: Understanding State Fans, I
