Last night we updated you on some of the credibile information in the high volume of things that we have been hearing. As we mentioned last night, The Wolfpacker reported on their message boards that a couple of coaches that had informal contact with NC State during this process have been told that State’s job […]
The Best of the NC State Coaching Search
The Best Fit of the Search: Rick Barnes The Best Dream of Pissing Off Everyone Else: John Calipari The Best Resume: Mike Montgomery The Best “Unique Idea”: Dereck Whittenburg and Sidney Lowe as a package The Best Hair Product: Steve Lavin The Best Sendek-Clone: Lon Kruger The Best Potential Future Fit: Frank Haith The Best […]
Quote: We Compete with Carolina & Duke Every Day
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, the Fayetteville Oberver ran a story that inlcuded the following quote that we failed to highlight at the time. It deserves attention and we wanted to chronicle the quote: “Everybody comes out and says, ‘You’re Carolina’s and Duke’s little brother and you can’t compete with those guys.’ Ya know what? […]
Is the Coaching Wave About to Crest? (1:00 am)
IT IS NUTS TODAY!!!! SOMETHING IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!!?!? Oh yeah…Will Willis and Tripp Maddux are cool and owe us a lot of money for this. This morning, Jeff asked you to hold off on the growing criticisms of Lee Fowler that were based largely on the fans frustration of having no apparent movement on the […]
Vitale: State Needs Enthusiam The Way it Used to Be
“N.C. State has to look for someone who has charisma, someone who can get that energy back. [Former coach] Herb Sendek was a terrific X-and-O guy and did a good job doing what he was supposed to do, but State needs someone who can get that enthusiasm back to the way it used to be.” […]
Media on Kruger
As the Lon Kruger talk in Raleigh escalated yesterday, we opened an entry on Kruger to encourage people to share information and research that they may have on the gentleman. We didn’t get quite as much as we had hoped from the community, so we decided to go one step further and run some searches […]
April 18, 1996 – Sendek Announced as Coach
Herb Sendek was announced as NC State’s 5th Head Basketball Coach of the ACC-era. State begins Sendek era New Wolfpack coach is serious about his work Author: A.J. Carr Staff Writer The News & Observer April 18, 1996 RALEIGH – Herb Sendek is young, the youngest basketball coach in the ACC. At 33, he even […]
Monday Night Coaching Update
We hope that you had a great Easter. It’s hard to put together coaching updates when news is so spotty. But, we’ve evolved our ‘coverage’ much more along the lines of commentating and analyzing what we hear than sharing “scoop” over the last week. We want to re-affirm our caution regarding the discussion of some […]
New Comments Policy @ SFN
To begin with, please read this entry. SFN’s primary goal is NOT to generate as many “clicks” and “hits” as we possibly can for our blog. Our focus is genuinely aimed at creating an archive/history of high-quality entries in hopes of building a highly-respected community that we don’t think exists in many/any other fanbases. Therefore, […]
The Lon Kruger Entry
Coaching Update coming later today/tonight. We will have a more comprehensive coaching update coming later this evening. But, over the weekend, the name Lon Kruger popped up on quite a few radars, so we thought that we would dedicate an entry to Kruger. (If you are going to leave comments in this entry, please note […]
