As many of you know, I live in Houston, Texas. I moved down here in 2001 after 30 years of being a North Carolinian and living all over the state – Eastern NC, Raleigh, Charlotte, & Chapel Hill. My roommate during my first year of living in Houston was a friend of mine with whom […]
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Ability to Bounce Back
I am traveling most of today (hey, I’ve got to work sometime!!!) The weekend was quite busy on the blog, so I wanted to encourage you to spend some time scrolling down and sifting through some of the stuff that you may have missed. — We got good news on the NCAA Tournament Bubble front […]
Featherston: K Demands, Sendek Pleads
“Just a personal observation about Herb … where [Coach] K always seems to be demanding help from the officials, Herb always seem to be pleading for it. That’s just the way it comes across.” Al Featherston, former writer for the Durham Herald Quoted in Scott Vogelsberg’s, “Has baiting the Refs gone too far” ACCSports.com
Quote of Note: Close isn’t good enough
“In the second half [against Carolina], if we play like that, we can play with anybody in the country. But you have to do it for 40 minutes every game. Close isn’t good enough this time of year.” — University of Maryland Basketball Coach, Gary Williams after UNC-CH’s 85-83 win on February 27, 2005
Quote: Tudor on Wake-State
“By any definition, this regular-season finale was an artistic flop of the first degree. The play on both sides was sloppy, but the officiating was worse still. Not that the officiating directly determined the outcome. It was equally awful in both directions. And in long run, the calls and no calls weren’t much worse than […]
Games Decided by 3 Points or Less or OT
Herb Sendek Era (1996-2005) 20-31 overall Lost 11 of last 13 Lost 14 of 20 with Julius Hodge’s recruiting class 11/25/96 – 44-41 Penn State (W) 1/15/97 – 56-59 North Carolina (L) 1/25/97 – 52-53 Georgia Tech (L) 2/12/97 – 44-45 North Carolina (L) 2/16/97 – 60-59 Wake Forest (OTW) 11/11/97 – 47-45 Georgia (W) […]
Carolina is BACK…
Carolina is BACK…and I don’t mean in the sense of the overall strength of their program. I think that goes without saying. In today’s battle with Duke, you would have thought Coach K was in his second year of coaching in the conference against Dean Smith. It is pretty safe to say that the officiating […]
Hook ‘Em
Couldn’t go to bed without issuing a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Rick Barnes and the Texas Longhorns basketball team for a monster win at Oklahoma State. The win gives the Longhorns a sweep of the Top 5 ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys and gave Rick Barnes his 6th consecutive 20-win season at Texas. Before Texas’ win tonight, […]
Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part I
This is about the Wolfpack sports fan, rabidus waitilnextyearis. Despite the fact that there are countless thousands of these creatures in North Carolina alone, experts working at media sports desks still know surprisingly little about them. Wolfpack fans can be found in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturdays, are known to frequent Bojangles restaurants, seem to prefer […]
Defining SFN’s Bubbleology
With NC State’s Basketball season teetering “on the NCAA Tournament Bubble” (again), I decided that I would attempt to QUANTIFY how the bubble really looks. (It’s worth a try, right?) I get so frustrated (and confused) when talking heads on television (and fans on internet message boards) just blanketly say, “Team A is in. Team […]
