Your “Show of Hands…Who’s Still Here?” U*NC Game Thread

In spite of a boatload of distractions over the past several days (none of which I plan to talk about in this entry, because there are plenty of other places where those things are being discussed), the reeling Pack (14-12, 3-10 ACC) welcomes their non-rivals to the PNC tonight.  Carolina (21-5, 9-3 ACC) is coming off a loss at Duke.  Let’s at least TRY to slap 2 in a row on ’em???

The Wake Forest game….review at your own peril.

(may cause eye twitching, uncontrollable swearing,  or seizures…if any of these symptoms occur, treat with alcohol)

Let’s Take This In a Different Direction

It’s Carolina.  Regardless of what may or may not be going on in our own house, I STILL hate these guys and I STILL want to beat the stink off these guys.  So for a few hours, on this thread at least, let’s try to direct the hate properly….

UNC-Battered-Ram

Here’s your target.

So, Carolina jokes….

  • Q:  How do you neuter a Carolina fan?
  • A:  Kick his sister in the jaw.

 

Feel free to pick it up with more in the comments.

U*NC at NC State

Tipoff:  Wednesday, February 15, 8pm

Coverage: ACCNetwork (WRAL5 locally)

Pack Hosts Rival UNC-Chapel Hill on Wednesday (GoPack.com)

Pack Tracks
– NC State dropped an 88-58 decision at Wake Forest on Saturday. Freshman Dennis Smith, Jr., led the Pack with 17 points. it was the 13th time this season and eighth time in 13 ACC games that Smith has led the team in scoring. Sophomore Torin Dorn came off-the-bench to record his third double-double of the season – first in ACC play – with 14 points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
– Home court shooting: NC State has shot 50 percent or better in nine of its 14 games at PNC Arena this season, including four of its six home ACC games. For the season inside PNC Arena, the Pack is shooting 50.5 percent from the field and averaging 87.6 points per game.
– Senior Terry Henderson and sophomore Maverick Rowan combine to make over seven three-pointers per game (7.33 per contest) in NC State’s six ACC home games this season. They have each made 22 three-pointers in the Pack’s six conference home games this year. Henderson enters the game Wednesday against the Tar Heels having hit 9-of-his-last 12 three-point attempts at PNC Arena.
– In six league home games this year, Dennis Smith, Jr., is averaging 21.3 points, 10.0 assists, 7.0 rebounds and 2.5 steals per outing.

 

Lucas: Pack History Ignites Williams (GoHeels.com)

It’s NC State week, so you know what that means for Roy Williams.

“He gets fired up every time we play them,” Theo Pinson said after the last time the Tar Heels faced the Wolfpack, a 51-point victory in Chapel Hill. “There’s a certain spark he has when we play NC State…You can just tell by his voice. He wants our execution to be perfect because it’s NC State.”

That approach has worked, as Carolina has enjoyed significant success against NC State in the Williams era. The last NCSU win in the series in Raleigh came in 2013, and Carolina has won 20 of the last 22 meetings between the two Triangle squads.

With such a dramatic edge in the series, why does Williams still get so amped to play the Wolfpack? It’s because his formative years as a Tar Heel came in a very different time in Carolina-State history.

Williams arrived in Chapel Hill as an undergraduate in the fall of 1968. Those were good Tar Heel basketball times, as Dean Smith directed the program to three straight Final Fours. Carolina eventually stretched out a 10-game winning streak over the Pack that was snapped in December of 1970. This was an era when it wasn’t unusual for Carolina and State to play three times during the regular season, with a pair of ACC meetings plus a Big Four Tournament contest in Greensboro.

That’s where the series turned, as the Pack took a victory in December of 1970. And after four more Carolina wins, Norm Sloan’s team won the final UNC-NCSU game of Williams’ undergrad career, an 85-84 upset in Reynolds Coliseum of the fifth-ranked Tar Heels, and then proceeded to win a total of nine games in a row against their hated foes from Chapel Hill.

 

Frankly, I like that the overblown little Huckleberry Hound looking [insert your profane insult here] dislikes us.  The whiny cheating little [insert additional profane insult here].

One Last Shot at Random Wolven Song

Go Pack!!!!!

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  • #117969
    ryebread
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    Roo: I think Schroyer was hired for defense as well as recruiting. He was known for running the defense at UNLV, and as a head man at Tenn-Martin his teams won on defense. Yes, he is supposed to be a good recruiter as well but I could see Gott saying that he made a hire aimed at his weakness (defense).

    My concern is that our defense looked better in the two exhibitions than it did the rest of the year. Granted we were playing over matched opponents, but in those games we played the match up zone, looked quite aggressive and went very deep into the bench (fresh legs). The season started and we immediately went back to playing our awful version of man and playing a short bench. How much can an assistant do if the culture from the top doesn’t stress defense? When the assistant is putting in his defense and then the head coach seemingly ditches it in game one, what message does that send the players and staff?

    This is part of why I don’t agree with the people who say to “hire Keats and then hire a defensive assistant.” Commitment to defense starts at the head man, and if he doesn’t value it, it’s not going to be fixed by hiring an assistant.

    I have been disappointed in the hires this year though. I guess even great recruiters (which Butch Pierre and to a lesser extent Schroyer are supposed to be) have to have something to sell.

    #117970
    PackerInRussia
    Participant

    We must document the atrocities. Perhaps there will be a streaker? Perhaps GOTT will be the streaker??

    I always watch the games in the mornings here after they’ve been played. Today it took forever on espn3 for it to get moved over from Live to Replay. I joked with a friend that maybe Gottfried went running around with no clothes and they had to corral him and it made the game last forever. What’s the deal with thinking of Gott running around naked on the court?

    #117971
    MISTA WOLF
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    Anyone be against Whittenburg finishing the year as the head coach? I’m sure someone has brought it up and I’m just repeating it. I think the kids would play hard the rest of the season listening to someone else.

    #117972
    JeremyH
    Participant

    I say throw it to Schroyer, and see if his defenses stick given he’s the head guy.

    #117978
    ryebread
    Participant

    Don’t throw it to anyone. That is only done if one thinks there is a season to salvage, or that the person who it is thrown to might be a potential successor. This should be a complete flush with everyone involved (outside of the S&C coach) gone.

    #117979
    StateRed44
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    Don’t throw it to anyone. That is only done if one thinks there is a season to salvage, or that the person who it is thrown to might be a potential successor. This should be a complete flush with everyone involved (outside of the S&C coach) gone.

    I agree with this. As tempting as it is to chop off a head midseason, it will not make the search go faster. At least now there is plausible deniability. The media will try to sabotage anything. They will write negativity about the school when we have played by the rules for 30 straight years. Blow them off and say we have a coach. Begin the prelims now but we can’t talk to anybody seriously until mid march no matter what.

    #117980
    pakfanistan
    Participant

    Why are you being an ass to him? He did nothing to you

    What are you talking about? I just want to play the, ‘Yow is a total neophyte,’ game with everyone else.

    #117981
    gso packbacker
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    IF we are concerned about how we are viewed by coaching candidates, then as much as I dislike it, we should let him finish the season.

    We already know he is gone so the only other possible benefits of letting him go at this point would be to send a message to the players in hope that they wouldn’t transfer or to promote a potential replacement and see how they do (not sure it would be a fair assessment for anyone involved).

    Anyway, we can accomplish the former in other ways (primarily though a very solid hire), and the latter I have no desire for. One of our Assistants may actually be the solution, but nobody on that bench should be under consideration (other than Anya! 🙂 )

    #117984
    MrPlywood
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    IF we are concerned about how we are viewed by coaching candidates, then as much as I dislike it, we should let him finish the season.

    Listening the Newy Scruggs Show (NBC Sports Radio) again this morning, caught an interview with Jeff Gravely who perpetuated the “Debbie Yow is hard to work for” meme. Guh. WTF is with that?

    Newy to his credit is still in State’s corner and touts State an opportunity for the right coach, and like posters here pointed out, that other ACC schools are doing well despite competing with unx and Dook.

    Speaking of Dook, Scruggs mentioned Chris Collins as a potential candidate (his idea) and his on-air partner said that no Dook player would ever coach against Dook in the ACC. Really?

    Archie is on the show at 2:30pm EST. Of course he won’t say much about any job openings, but I’ll listen anyway.

    #117985
    Whiteshoes67
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    Anyone who doesn’t take a job because an AD is reportedly hard to work with is a patsy.

    This team could do no worse if it were to carpool to the gamesite without coaches.

    Early in the season, there were multiple instances where Schroyer through up his hands in disbelief over effort, a defensive lapse, etc. The head man did nada.

    Pine time plus drills are the only ways to communicate and teach 18-20 year olds, especially of this generation. Cause there’s a good chance they haven’t had much instruction on the defensive end anyway.

    #117987
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    If I have CHOICES, I probably wouldn’t pick a place where the administration is dysfunctional. Chances are, that will impact me down the line, in some form or another.

    Anyway, agree that pretty agnostic about the interim coach thing. Too late to do any good now, we’ve already lost 11 and been embarrassed at home by the Holes. No dignity left to save, and he’s at least letting KH play.

    Re Collins, I’m pretty sure “K’s guys” all still ask his permission before they so much as take a bowel movement.

    Also, he’s an asshole, and I don’t allow him to turn us down.

    #117988
    gso packbacker
    Participant

    If she is hard to work for that is one thing. If it is lack of money, resources, moral support, or whatever, then that is a different story altogether.

    Either way, from the top (i.e., Chancellor) we need to sufficiently understand the true challenges we face in the coaching marketplace, make the appropriate corrections, and then effectively communicate within the coaching circles.

    Since perception is reality, let’s create a better perception. Wonder if Carolina’s PR firm has some extra time?

    #117990
    PapaJohn
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    Pack Pride on Twitter
    “NC State has confirmed that Mark Gottfried has been fired as head coach. He will coach the rest of the season.”

    #117991
    WolfWiz11
    Participant

    Bleacher Report says Gott has been officially fired, but will finish out the season

    #117992
    StateRed44
    Participant

    If she is hard to work for that is one thing. If it is lack of money, resources, moral support, or whatever, then that is a different story altogether.

    Either way, from the top (i.e., Chancellor) we need to sufficiently understand the true challenges we face in the coaching marketplace, make the appropriate corrections, and then effectively communicate within the coaching circles.

    Since perception is reality, let’s create a better perception. Wonder if Carolina’s PR firm has some extra time?

    Perception is reality but often on of the greatest human errors is the notion that things won’t change. The powerful will always be powerful etc… Things always change, always, always. They always do. We can be successful. There is no birthright to success anywhere. We just have to make it happen. We are no more inept as a university than anywhere else. It’s not like we are a bunch of retards. Everybody makes mistakes from the top to the bottom. The perception is based on history, but the future is not set.

    #117994
    StateRed44
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    Pack Pride on Twitter
    “NC State has confirmed that Mark Gottfried has been fired as head coach. He will coach the rest of the season.”

    Well, good I guess. Weird, but whatever.

    #117996
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    Combined with WRAL, this means the AD’s office is willing to admit the earlier leak’s validity now.

    #117997
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    Listening to Archie right now. Crazy that the State announcement right before Archie came on. Of course he denies contact with any school.

    #117998
    Wulfpack
    Participant
    #117999
    StateRed44
    Participant

    “It has been a privilege to serve as head coach of NC State, and I’m proud of what we have accomplished during my time here,” said Gottfried. “NC State is a special place and I appreciate the opportunity to finish the remainder of the season.” – Gott

    This is classy guys. He leaves with dignity intact IMO.

    #118000
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Classy. Who cares?

    #118004
    eas
    Participant

    Just finished the Archie interview on NBC sports. I have to say he said a lot of POSITIVE things about the Wolfpack. Of course he denied everything but I feel like his door is open for conversation. Sure made me feel good about what he said about tobacco road and how special the people at NC State were to him.

    #118008
    MrPlywood
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    Archie spoke fondly of his time at State, and the competition on Tobacco Road. He was absolutely non-committal about everything but coaching his team – as expected. Any contact at this point would have been through an intermediary anyway for plausible deniability.

    Audio here: https://twitter.com/NewyScruggsShow/status/832316532931837952

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    Things always change, always, always. They always do. We can be successful. There is no birthright to success anywhere.

    This. I am so tired of lectures from Holes who think that this situation cannot change, and that State fans should just deal with it. That coming from a school that cared so much about winning that they created an entire sham course of studies to keep athletes from multiple sports eligible. Get out.

    #118018
    gso packbacker
    Participant

    Perception is reality but often on of the greatest human errors is the notion that things won’t change. The powerful will always be powerful etc… Things always change, always, always. They always do. We can be successful. There is no birthright to success anywhere. We just have to make it happen. We are no more inept as a university than anywhere else. It’s not like we are a bunch of retards. Everybody makes mistakes from the top to the bottom. The perception is based on history, but the future is not set.

    Agree 100%. I am in the business of change. My point is to understand the perceptions of others (potential candidates) and change that.

    #118039
    StateRed44
    Participant

    And the biggest thing that ticks me off about us is this constant fear of ridicule from over the hill (media, or really over the hill). You have to be bold and go against the grain. Don’t live your life or institutional life in a fear of backlash or ridicule. Just keep about your business and go forth. This is how true conquerors operate.

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