Many thanks to Rocky Top Talk for their kind words: Continuity? Check. Their archives go back to December, 2004, which is the equivalent of being older than Adam in the college football blogosphere. Community? Uh-huh. Comments on front page posts regularly reach into the mutiple scores. Any blogger who’s been around for awhile knows how […]
Required Reading
SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted […]
ESPN’s Pat Forde on Lowe’s Miracle Run
If ever there was a “must read” article, this one is it. You can’t buy press this good. Something special is brewing in Raleigh, win or lose tomorrow afternoon. Sit back and feel the magic, and tell the kids your own stories about 1974, 1983, 1987, and every other moment of NC State’s proud basketball […]
SFN Garners #2
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the […]
Clearing the Bubble
As the college basketball season moves into the last month of the season, bracketology and bubble talk will fill the air waves and internet message boards. After the last five seasons, there is probably no fan base better qualified to discuss the minimum requirements necessary to clear the bubble and land in the NCAAT than […]
The N&O comes one step closer to “Understanding Wolfpack Fans”
It only took NC State’s hometown newspaper a couple of years for it to sink in, but it’s starting to sink in. First, a SFN Flashback to March 2005, in an entry entitled Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part 1: Today’s myth I’d like to tackle is one that we see quite frequently in the winter. It’s […]
SFN Impact Update
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that […]
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 […]
Fire the Bum!
Has your favorite sports message board been overtaken by the cries of “Fire the Bumâ€? and the counter-argument “Support our Coachâ€?? Are you ready to drive off of the Information Superhighway to avoid the redundant drivel? Have you considered posting a warning sign for unsuspecting travelers: “Abandon hope, all ye who enter hereâ€?? Experienced cyber-surfers […]
Delong’s Delights
Just after Sidney Lowe was hired, John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal wrote an outstanding piece that we never chronicled here and wanted to take a couple of minutes to get it on the site. Good Call: In Lowe, State gets what it needs … a State guy . This piece was fantastic. It was […]
