As I promised in this thread discussing SI’s predictions, I received my college football season preview from The Sporting News, and we can now compare their take on the 2006-07 Wolfpack. It’s not good, but a little better. TSN picks NC State 5th in the Atlantic, and #58 overall (no record given). In 10 categories […]
Chuck Amato
All-Amato Era 50-Man Travel Squad
Have some fun with entertaining this….featuring 21 players who have either appeared on, or are on track to make an NFL opening day roster. QB: Philip Rivers, Marcus Stone TB: Toney Baker, Ray Robinson, Andre Brown, TA McLendon WR: Koren Robinson, Brian Clark, Darrell Blackmon FL: Jerricho Cotchery, Tramain Hall, Richard Washington TE: TJ Williams, […]
More CTC From DG
As a follow-up to his previous entry that we discussed here, David Glenn has more from his conversation with Chuck Amato here. “Let me tell you how close (things can be in college football). All this stuff is close. If Jamie Barnette was redshirted, when I got here (in 2000) he would have been a […]
Amato Still Needs a Title (?)
Less than 24 hours after I wrote this piece, Frank Dascenzo of the Herald Sun helps support my point (just a little bit) with a few stray statements in his article this morning, “Amato still needs a title. Don’t get me wrong, I am not offering a huge complaint here. The article is full of […]
Amato Justified in Recent Media Frustration
I have iTunes set up on my computer to download podcasts of which I am interested. One of my favorite podcasts is 850 The Buzz / 620 The Bull’s daily dose of the best interviews and conversations on their stations in a given day. These podcasts usually run anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour […]
NCSU Football History 101
Our friends at The Red and White from State ran a poll to gather opinions on which Wolfpack football coach was the best of all time. The final results look like this: – Dick Sheridan…..49% – Lou Holtz………..21% – Chuck Amato……13% – Earle Edwards…..10% Rhetorical Questions: – So who did you vote for and why? […]
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
ESPN.com Insider/Blue Ribbon NC State Preview
Some of us at the site are going into the season with the attitude of “show me something”. This means that we aren’t going to over hype the season, or get to excited until we see what is on the field. ESPN.com Insider published their NC State preview yesterday. It was surprisingly optimistic. It is […]
Fair Thought…Wrong Reason
As we stated in one of our biggest and best entries of the summer: Over the next couple of weeks SFN will have some entries focusing on the tough summer that Chuck Amato is having in the national media. Then we went on to defend Coach Amato to TSN based on the incorrect premise and […]
TSN Blogs Big on Amato…and Bombs
Over the next couple of weeks SFN will have some entries focusing on the tough summer that Chuck Amato is having in the national media. But, we are first going to turn your attention to The Sporting News’ Mike Farrell who blogged a big entry on Coach Amato at the end of last week that […]
