A couple of interesting pieces of news have hit the wires over the last 36 hours involving the Atlantic Coast Conference’s future bowl relationships and alignments. The news is informative across many fronts and provides us some interesting insight into how the future of the ACC’s bowl system may work. First, it is being reported […]
Horning Highlighted in ‘The Scheduling Game’
Today, College Sports Television’s website posted an interesting article that features NC State’s Associate Athletics Director, David Horning and UNC-CH’s Steve Kirschner commenting on “The Scheduling Game”. You’ll probably need to read it before going through my comments on the story tomorrow. Quotes from the article will be shown in italics in this entry. For […]
Q&A With Herb Sendek
Since the folks at Pack Pride seem to have abandoned the old daily “Webrun”, I would have missed this quicke in the Charlotte Observer if not for ACCSports.com’s “Cyberwire”. Not much to the comments, but appreciated nonetheless.
Hodge Update & Links
Isn’t it nice to FINALLY have some reasons to pay just a little bit of attention to the NBA? It has been a long while since the late 80s when NC State had more players on NBA rosters than any other college program in the country (except for UNC-CH). In addition to the big waves […]
Pitt Dates Now Firm on Future Schedule
About 6 weeks ago we talked about the addition of the Pitt Panthers to NC State’s future football schedule. On Friday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran an article that discussed Pitt’s future football schedule and stated, “N.C. State, will host Pitt in 2009 and visit Heinz Field in 2013.”
Nate McMillan Moves On
Like Julius Hodge, Nate McMillan is somewhat of a throw-back…but, a different style of throwback than Hodge. Always poised and professional, McMillan has always been steady and consistent and has been one of my 5 Favorite Wolfpackers of all-time since his days in Raleigh in the mid-1980s. McMillan’s entire NBA career (playing and coaching) has […]
Hyman: “Nobody has ever heard of ECU”
“I’m not trying to be disrespectful to any schools, but nobody has ever heard of schools like East Carolina.” —Eric Hyman Texas Christian University, Athletics Director discussing TCU’s recent move to the Mountain West Conference Houston Chronicle July 7, 2005
VPI Out of Conference FBall Schedule ‘Boring’
David Teel expresses his opinion that Virginia Tech’s long-term out of conference football schedule is “Booooooring”. The article and VPI’s schedule can be found by clicking here. (In multiple parts of the article, Teel is particularly harsh on the Hokies for scheduling weak, East Carolina) “If I’m anyone associated with East Carolina, I’m doing the […]
Quotes of Note: A Different Shade of Red
On Sunday, July 3rd I changed the pace a little and shared an interesting article from the Houston Chronicle that focused on the University of Houston’s athletic program and the new opportunity provided it through recent conference re-alignments. When I read the article, I found it chocked full of interesting quotes that I thought I […]
CFN’s 2005 ACC Football Preview
CollegeFootballNews.com has unveiled their 2005 ACC Football predictions. Link In summary: Atlantic Division (1) Florida State (2) Boston College (3Tie) Clemson, Maryland, NC State, Wake Forest Coastal Division (1) Miami (2) Virginia Tech (3) Georgia Tech (4) Virginia (5) North Carolina (6) Duke NC State’s participation in CFN’s predicted four-way tie is understandable and doesn’t […]
