What a difference two weeks makes. After the Southern Miss debacle most of us were writing off the team and slitting our collective football throats. Now we ride high after the team pulls itself together for two huge victories. And we should be worried sick about the Wake Forest game this weekend. We’ve been here […]
EXCLUSIVE: UNC To Rent NC Central Football Team
Statefansnation has learned that UNC Chapel Hill has arranged to rent the North Carolina Central University Eagles football team for Saturday’s road game against the University of Miami, sources close to the program told SFN today. “Dick Baddour was inspired when he saw that Florida State rented Central’s band for their game against NC State,” […]
Swofford: Evans “Academically Ineligible” For UNC Game
From the Greensboro News & Record, a shocking announcement: Evans Declared Academically Ineligible For UNC Game By Steve Norton, N&R Staff Writer GREENSBORO, NC (AP) NC State Wolfpack starting quarterback Daniel Evans, the former benchwarmer who led the Wolfpack to two come-from-behind victories over ranked conference opponents, is “academically ineligible” for NC State’s upcoming game […]
New Pack Football Spokesman Talks To Media
SFN Note: Thanks to Cardiff Giant for his second parody home run of the week. Yesterday he chimed in with a hilarious interview with Tommy Hunt after Jeff had blogged a great one about Hunt’s recent comments. Newly hired North Carolina State Assistant Sports Information Director Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as “Baghdad Bobâ€? from […]
EXCLUSIVE: SFN Tommy Hunt Interview
Jeff asked for it, so The Giant responds. On September 12, SFN interviewed ACC coordinator of football officials Tommy Hunt regarding ACC officiating, the NC State/Akron controversy, and other subjects. The transcript appears below: SFN: Thank you for meeting with us today, Mr. Hunt. Hunt: Eating? I ain’t eatin’ with you. It’s only 9 AM. […]
Jim Rome’s Big Break
“Calipari, come on man, NC STATE????” – Sports Radio host Jim Rome, to Memphis basketball coach John Calipari, August 4, 2006. Oh, that wacky Jim Rome and his State-bashing ways. But it made me wonder: How do these radio hacks get to their positions of dubious celebrity? I mean, it’s not like they have to […]
Lose The Pro Look, Chuck
The post-Rivers mediocrity of Wolfpack football has many causes. Jay Davis wasn’t Philip Rivers and at times wasn’t Tol Avery. The team was often poorly disciplined and poorly coached. An apparent – and hopefully eradicated – “star system,�? whose poster child was the insufferably annoying T.A. McClendon, took its toll. And assistants came and went […]
Gregg Doyel’s Complaint
(With apologies to Philip Roth) Norman, Oklahoma, 1970 Greggy, age 6, is walking down the street with Daddy. Daddy is a ‘fessor of the laws, which Greggy doesn’t know about except that the janitor where Daddy works takes off his cap and says, “Morning, Sir.” All Greggy knows is that he has his new ball […]
Lee Fowler SINGS!
SFN’s been told that at a recent Wolfpack Club meeting NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler expressed some less than happy thoughts about the Internet. Fowler, it seems, thinks only the less thoughtful fan turns to the Internet (including presumably SFN) for news. All this, for some reason, made me think of Fowler (in the […]
Fowler Announces “All-Star” Search Committee
RALEIGH, NC (AP) North Carolina State University Director of Athletics Lee Fowler announced today the creation of an “All-Star Search Committee” to find a replacement for departed basketball coach Herb Sendek. Fowler announced that the committee was “yet another example” of what he called “great advice” from former Wolfpack basketball coach Les Robinson, whom Fowler […]
