I’ll make this short and sweet and let you add in your thoughts in the comments: What if NC State’s athletics were graded and a GPA built using essentially the same standards that each student at NC State faces in their classes? I think that overall, the Athletics Department’s GPA would hover around a 1.0 […]
Brown Delivers in the Senior Bowl
(above: a montage of great Andre Brown moments in college.) NC State’s Andre Brown helped his draft stock considerably last night in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, and now heads towards the NFL Combines with the eyes of NFL talent scouts firmly upon him. FalconInsider.com Players who helped themselves: 2) North Carolina State RB […]
Brown Turning Heads at Senior Bowl Practices
Looks like Andre Brown is starting to get noticed in the run-up to the Senior Bowl: Wednesday Practice Notes: Brown had a very solid afternoon. He ran well inside the tackles, hitting the holes with authority. Also showed good speed getting to the edge and picking up some yardage outside the hash marks. As for […]
Fowler Speaks, ‘Feels good about program.’
99.9 FM Interview with Lee Fowler His first comment about basketball is that had Horner made the three-pointer he took with the Wolfpack up four with about 6:20 left, the game might have been different. Maybe. But then Fowler says it was back and forth the rest of the game. Hmmm. I seem to remember […]
WRAL’s Ken Medlin: Starters Need To Thaw A Frigid Offense
WRAL’s sports site has a couple of articles of interest: Ken Medlin: Starters Need To Thaw A Frigid Offense The Pack actually played better with their starters on the bench. Brandon Costner, Ben McCauley, Trevor Ferguson and Farnold Degand – all four of them starters — combined to score a grand total of five points […]
FSU – NCSU Game and Post-game Thread
1 2 T Florida State (14-3) 35 43 78 NC State (9-5) 32 33 65 Another night of futility as NC State has a lead coming down the stretch and only scores two points the last five minutes. Unfortunately for the Wolfpack, Florida State scored nineteen in the same time span. Inexcusable. Best players of […]
Derrick Favors Set To Announce, NCSU Not In His Finalists???
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Derrick Favors Set To Announce his College Choice South Atlanta center Derrick Favors, the No. 1 basketball recruit in Georgia, will announce is college decision Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., according to his high school coach, Michael Reddick. His finalists are Georgia Tech, Georgia and Memphis. This is the first mention in the […]
CBS Sports: Sonny Vaccaro Working To Get ’09 Recruits To Europe
Potential Negative Effect on NC State’s ’09 Class? In my opinion, Sonny Vaccaro is no friend of college basketball, and even in his retirement, Vaccaro continues to work against the interests of collegiate hoops: Europe Still An Option For Recruits Vaccaro said he had breakfast Monday morning with a table of people working on behalf […]
Site Note: We Just Passed 100,000 Comments This Week (Updated)
Sometime over the weekend, Statefans Nation recorded its 100,000th comment from you, our readers. I’m not sure which one of you clicked the odometer over to six digits, but it speaks well for all of you folks that this site has such a lively community. Back in November we ran an entry focused some of […]
NC State – Florida State Notes and Links (with BJD95 Analysis)
The Wolfpack men’s hoops team takes back to the hardwoods tonight to battle Florida State in an ACC contest. Confidence in State is not high right now in the fanbase, which has been conditioned to expect sub-par play (to put it kindly) from the backcourt and certain lack of fire from upperclassmen front-court players. In […]
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