The RBC Center has (unfortunately) never really ‘caught fire’ as big home court advantage for Herb Sendek’s basketball program. Theories and rationalizations on the topic range from the arena’s off-campus location to a growingly apathetic student population to just bad teams. Surely, many of the opinion’s of the RBC’s environment are framed against a backdrop […]
Cremins Factoid & Quote
Montgomery Advertiser January 14, 2005 Factoid: Cremins retired in 2000 after 19 seasons at Georgia Tech, where he compiled a 354-237 record. His overall record was 454-307. At the time of his retirement, Georgia Tech had been invited to the NCAA tournament 11 times. Cremins coached 10 of those teams. Quote: “I know the ACC […]
Why Does the NFL Have Instant Replay?
…if they get all of the calls WRONG?
NC State 87 Georgia Tech 78
State used a very balanced attack to hold off a very spirited Georgia Tech today in Raleigh (boxscore). Feel free to discuss today’s game in the comments section of the this entry. Some quick hits: ===> The same two keys that we have highlighted for every game thusfar continue to be the primary two things […]
Will Hewitt Follow Braine Out the Door?
NC State hosts Georgia Tech today in the RBC Center today at noon, but there is a lot more going on in Atlanta than just a game today. We discussed GT Athletics Director, Dave Braine’s retirement earlier in the week, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Jeff Schultz weighs in with some interesting Hewitt-related thoughts today. […]
Quoting Wednesday
The N&O’s ACC Blog continues to impress me. I thought that I would just hit some quotable highlights from what’s over there right now for the archive: ===> Dave Braine is retiring as Athletics Director at Georgia Tech. I’ve always respected what Braine was able to do in Atlanta. Consider this…just in the 2004-2005 Athletics […]
Sports and Banking
Althought not hugely NC State related, this had some local relevance that I thought I would share. Click here for a previous, related entry.
Pack Back on Track in Mass
Despite what I am sure were their best efforts, the Boston College facilities crew responsible for watering the artificial turf to slow down NC State’s football team was not successful in turning the lights off in the gym for last night’s basketball game. 🙂 In a no pressure atmosphere (somebody needs to teach those fans […]
YOU Guest Blog for BC
Back during football season, BC Eagle in Atlanta and Statefansnation participated in a “Guest Blogging” exchange in preparation for the Wolfpack’s match-up with the Eagles. You can see some of the exchange by clicking here. BC Eagle has emailed asking for guest blog exchange for Tuesday Night’s basketball game. Unfortunately, our time is kind of […]
Fowler & HSSS Crew Wrong, State Not Capitalizing on Carolina’s Exodus
Last basketball season when Carolina, Duke, and Wake Forest were spending the entire season ranked in the Top 5 of the country and NC State was struggling to squeeze into the NCAA Tournament for the 3rd time in our “great” 4 straight appearances, one of the more credible members of the Pack Pride community posted […]
