Original June 15th, 2009 entry: The deadline for withdrawal is 5:00 p.m. today, and ESPN’s Chad Ford is tracking the late deciders’ status. So far today, the ACC is 50/50 – Gani Lawal will return to a loaded Yellow Jacket frontcourt, and Jeff Teague likely knocked the Deacs out of every pre-season Top 25 list. […]
1974 NC State – ACC’s All-Time Best Hoops Squad (and more glory years items)
We ran across a couple of recent news items that take us back to a happier time… First, this article takes a pretty fascinating look some of the greatest recruiting classes in NCAA Basketball history by using John Calipari’s current recruiting class at Kentucky as a launching pad. Some interesting candidates are proposed in the […]
College Basketball Notes
ESPN has two pieces of note this morning. First, the NCAA alleges that Derrick Rose might not have taken his own SAT (if one reads between the lines). It sounds like the only punishment being discussed is vacating Rose’s Final Four, but even that would suck for Memphis, a program whose best days are behind […]
Provost Larry Nielsen Resigns
WRAL’s report: North Carolina State University Provost Larry Nielsen resigned abruptly Thursday morning, citing repeated questions over his hiring of the wife of former Gov. Mike Easley. Our initial take is that Nielsen’s departure is the first fallout from this front page story in the News & Observer this weekend, citing the Easleys’ relationship with […]
Giglio: Pack is Pre-Season Atlantic Favorite
Giglio neatly and concisely summarizes 83% of my thinking on the ACC’s Atlantic Division race. You can make a compelling case against all five other teams, but I think one can make a compelling case against State as favorites, too (basically, I think we are a year away from being a serious title contender). That […]
Offseason Respite – Sports Rant of the Year Nominees
As NC State fans, we are quite familiar with the rant. It’s pretty much our last remaining defense mechanism, after decades of futility and embarrassment. But others in the sports world have to vent, too – and I share with you this epic rant from the top-notch NFL humor blog Kissing Suzy Kolber: It’s fitting […]
More Immediate DL Help On the Way?
If this Athens Banner-Herald article is correct, the defensive line for the 2009 and 2010 Wolfpack will soon get even tougher: Lemon, who has attended Georgia Military College after being booted off the team at Georgia and suspended by the university, expects to continue his football career at North Carolina State this fall, according to […]
Pack Signs Aussie Center
I have been waiting for a news article on Jordan Vandenberg to link to, but it doesn’t seem forthcoming. So, here’s a link to The Wolfpacker, with very little information. My take is that Vandenberg is a 7-foot center project. However, that is not a criticism. He’s not a bad fallback option when you miss […]
Lowe in the Media; State playing in Hawaii
The following is some biting criticism from one of the more prominent national college basketball blogs: Let’s run through the challengers for Duke in the state of North Carolina (NC State left out for Sidney Lowe obvious reasons). Ouch! It is very painful to continue to be ridiculed for our complete irrelevance as a competitive […]
Wolfpack Week in Review
Last week’s results are a perfect microcosm of the athletic department’s ineptitude under “Coach” Fowler: Baseball: 1-4 (defeated Wofford, lost to ECU, swept by FSU) Softball: 0-4 (lost to ECU, swept by FSU) Men’s Tennis: 1-1 (ACC Championships beat GT, lost to Miami) Women’s Tennis: 0-1 (ACC Championships lost to FSU) Men’s Golf: 4th of […]
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