If you’re a longsuffering NC State fan, you will never forget the dark days, and you will certainly long remember the national dogpile on the “delusional Wolfpack fans” for running the poor Herb Sendek (who never beat Roy Williams despite being favored in 4 out of his 6 games against him) out of town. Criminy, […]
Jim Valvano’s Room of Dreams
Found linked at PackPride, this video is inspirational. It’s awesome. (And you’ll also see future Wolfpack head coach Sidney Lowe and assistant coach Monty Towe in there.) Dreams come true at NC State. Dreams become reality at NC State. Are you a dreamer? Do you have dreams that you can make come true? Can you […]
Vote for SFN! College Football Blogger Awards
A few days ago we told you about StateFansNation being nominated for several of RockyTopTalk‘s College Football Blogger Awards. Well, the folks at RTT were kind enough to send us buttons to allow our readers easy access to voting. Here they are:
Flashback: Jim Valvano on David Letterman, 1987
Many thanks to Scott at GarageGabs for this blast from the past. Those of you who remember V will enjoy this. Heck, those of you who’ve only heard about V from the rest of us will enjoy it. This is Classic Valvano, and really, there’s no better words for it than that.
No lead is safe against Lowe’s Wolfpack
Granted, the ACC season hasn’t started yet, and granted NC State does have four losses, although none of the “embarrassing” kind against an outmatched opponent. So don’t think this is a starry-eyed rah-rah post that’s blind to the Pack’s record. Instead, it’s a trend-spotting assessment of a very thin but very young Wolfpack team with […]
Look lively, chums, Bob Lee’s reading this!
(P.S. UNC-CH still stinks.)
StateFansNation has a fan in Bob Lee Swagger, local UNC-Chapel Hill sports fan, “loud-mouth conservative,” and scourge of “message board loons,” “nutty faculty squirrels” and inept, kneejerk “politically correct” chancellors with bald heads who play organ. In his 2006 “close-out special” column — just prior to ripping UNC-CH figurehead admin John “The Voice of the […]
The N&O comes one step closer to “Understanding Wolfpack Fans”
It only took NC State’s hometown newspaper a couple of years for it to sink in, but it’s starting to sink in. First, a SFN Flashback to March 2005, in an entry entitled Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part 1: Today’s myth I’d like to tackle is one that we see quite frequently in the winter. It’s […]
Coach Lowe on WPTF: Two Football Players Joining the Team
On WPTF 680 AM this morning, Coach Lowe (who is a frequent guest, which is nice) told host Jack Boston that two freshmen, Darrell Davis and Jarvis Williams, are practicing with the basketball team and working to learn the offense. Lowe said that they were both athletic and tough, and that (he thought) Davis had […]
A BC fan takes the FTOB guys to the woodshed
A few Pack fans have bought into the Tom O’Brien “plateau” argument. SFN has already given some good statistical insight into the new coach, which I see no need to recreate now. Although they aren’t nearly as widespread as the wishful thinkers at the local Raleigh dishwipe would have you believe, there are some Pack […]
Sidney Lowe’s very familiar philosophy
In today’s News & Observer article on NC State’s loss yesterday on the road against No. 25 Virginia, new Wolfpack Coach Sidney Lowe said something very important. The N&O struck a similar note to Wolfpack fans about the performance of Lowe’s severely undermanned and overlooked squad — that the team played surprisingly well enough to […]
