Pack Pride is reporting that DraftExpress is reporting that NC State star center, Cedric Simmons has signed with an agent and will be inegible to play for NC State in the future. (Link) If true, Simmons’ departure would leave State’s roster extremely thin of depth and talent for next season, particularly in the post. The […]
Horner Not Waivering Like Davis
We talked about Larry Davis’ situation a couple of days ago. Link . But, Davis isn’t the only NC State Basketball recruit who has been granted a conditional release from the NCAA’s Letter of Intent. (If you are interested or intrigued by the NCAA’s Letter of Intent procedures, you will like this website very much. […]
State Loses Recruiting Steam?
I kind of gave up trying to follow or care about recruiting in recent years. After about a dozen times of being told by those close to the program that players like Adam Simons, Mike O’Donnell, Trey Guidry, Dom Mejia, and Justin Flatt are real “sleepers” who are going to be able to surprise people […]
Davis Won’t Play for State
Since most of the readers of StateFansNation (“The graduate level NC State Website”) are a little more experienced in the real world than the readers of other sites…let’s play a little “real world” hypothetical this morning —- Let’s assume for a moment that you own a company. One of your account officers makes a key […]
Rivals Gets it Right
In addition to any basketball developments that may take place in recruiting and with the new staff, the next couple of weeks will see SFN spend a lot more time focusing on football. We’ll be developing a lot of our own entries, but we will never hesitate to direct you to spend time at other […]
More Coaching Search De-Brief
Link to David Glenn’s first coaching de-brief and our comments Link to some of our information related to Larry Brown (May 14th) Link to the second installment of David Glenn’s coaching de-brief posted today Rick Barnes The Barnes chapter will be told in more detail at some point in the future, when the parties involved […]
Carter-Finley’s Best, Part I
Tim Peeler has neat piece up on GoPack.com. (Link) I’m looking for a little help. To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Carter-Finley Stadium, the athletics department is looking to identify the top seven games ever played at NC State’s home football stadium. After we have identified the top 20 candidates, we’re going to conduct […]
Focus on Football
Spring Round-Up The top priority for the relatively young Wolfpack this spring was to avoid major injury – mission accomplished. ESPN.com has THE PORTAL for all the spring football news throughout the nation that you may want. Click here. In addition to ESPN’s round-up of the ACC’s Spring Football, the ACC Area Sports Journal has […]
2006 Athlon Cover
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Post Spring FBall Top 25
Ivan Maisel at ESPN.com has listed his 2006 College Football Top 25 after taking closer looks at the programs’ through spring football). Some random comments: (1) Ohio State Buckeyes – OSU @ Texas in mid-September will be even bigger this season (2) Oklahoma Sooners – If NC State’s overall schedule was this weak, our fans […]
