Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out

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The above is, of course, a famous quote by Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary was a 1960s counter-culture icon who promoted the use of LSD as somthing positive for mind and spirit.

No, I’m not suggesting that you use drugs to numb yourself to the continued futility of all things regarding NC State (especially its embarrassingly incompetent athletics department). In fact, quite the opposite. I encourage you to break the hallucinogenic chains of enabling idiocy while hoping for the best. NC State’s athletics department doesn’t deserve one more dime from any of us. Not in Wolfpack Club donations, ticket sales, LTR fees, parking or concessions revenue. Nothing.

Will that change anything? Probably not. Will you be able to stop caring and watching completely? Probably not. But at least you won’t have to suffer the disgrace of enabling this freaking nonsense.

I will lead by example. I will continue my automatic monthly payments through the end of December. After that, they can kiss my ass.

About BJD95

1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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54 Responses to Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out

  1. Scooter 10/31/2009 at 6:33 PM #

    Now that we are certain to finish last in the ACC in both football and basketball, me too.

  2. Wulfpack 10/31/2009 at 6:40 PM #

    We have to win out to go to another crappy bowl while Duke University needs 1 win to become bowl eligible. Obviously we missed with PJ. But Cutcliffe is making TOB look rather pedestrian.

  3. wesley 10/31/2009 at 6:47 PM #

    Mattes out for year with ACL tear.

  4. LRM 10/31/2009 at 6:48 PM #

    Don’t sell Duke short — they control their own destiny in the Coastal.

  5. Gene 10/31/2009 at 6:58 PM #

    Pity we never played Duke pre-Cutliffe after the expansion. We never got to savor in their sorrow, by beating them, unlike Dukies getting to savor in our sorrow as the worst football team in the ACC now.

  6. BassPacker 10/31/2009 at 7:04 PM #

    In two years Cutcliffe has Duke contending for an ACC Championship…must be the talent, right?

  7. Wulfpack 10/31/2009 at 7:08 PM #

    Same goes for PJ at GT.

  8. sautz 10/31/2009 at 7:19 PM #

    Please no one drag out the old “if you don’t give money things will get worse” excuse. Things can’t get worse at this point. We need a huge shakeup in the was this AD is run and the only place left to try to get their attention is their coffers.

  9. BJD95 10/31/2009 at 7:38 PM #

    How could it get worse? Fowler meets you at the entrance gate and pisses on your foot?

  10. Clarksa 10/31/2009 at 7:46 PM #

    If you would just adopt the Clarksa Zero Expectations for NC State Sports philosophy then you wouldn’t get so upset after games…I formulated the plan after the famous Clemson Thursday night game when we booed Coach Amato on the big screen…it has worked wonders for my life and I no longer get upset after losses and I’m much happier when we win.

  11. GAWolf 10/31/2009 at 7:58 PM #

    This is why I will no longer tolerate TOB: (there’s no honor… certainly not military-worthy honor… in this sort of thing)

    Tony: “The inability to call a timeout sooner at the end of the first half and the fumbled interception, are those 2 things that could have changed this game?”

    TOB: “The fumble certainly had an effect on the game.” He went on but he never said a thing about Tony’s question about the clock management at the end of the first half.

  12. harrisek 10/31/2009 at 8:02 PM #

    Reconnected with an old college friend this week. We used to get together for games and travel to a few road games as part of our staying in touch. In the hours that we spent catching up on the last 9 years, not once did either of us mention the Pack. My read is that we are both are equally fed up.

  13. LRM 10/31/2009 at 8:16 PM #

    “How could it get worse? Fowler meets you at the entrance gate and pisses on your foot?”

    I have mixed feelings about this, because at least then I’d have a good excuse to hit him in the mouth.

  14. tuckerdorm1983 10/31/2009 at 8:30 PM #

    its not all that bad. the sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar on tomorrow, tomorrow! tomorrow! your only a day away.

  15. Wulfpack 10/31/2009 at 8:36 PM #

    I guess BYE was a little more physical than I thought they’d be. We just couldn’t recover.

  16. VaWolf82 10/31/2009 at 9:00 PM #

    If you would just adopt the Clarksa Zero Expectations for NC State Sports philosophy then you wouldn’t get so upset after games…I formulated the plan after the famous Clemson Thursday night game when we booed Coach Amato on the big screen

    Les combined with MOC lead me to this philosophy a long time ago. Amato and Herb threatened that philosophy…but the urge was gone long before either of those coaches.

  17. MrPerfectionest 10/31/2009 at 9:30 PM #

    I’m not giving any more of my money to the University for athletics. I’ll go out there and tailgate and watch the game in the parking lot and save my $1000 a year for 2 LTRs (still paying on them a little).

  18. Khan 10/31/2009 at 9:30 PM #

    Worse? How could things get any worse?! Take a look around you, Ellen. We’re at the threshold of hell!

  19. Khan 10/31/2009 at 9:39 PM #

    And one more thing, I don’t know if TOB is the right answer for this program or not. You can argue injuries are the problem. You can argue that he inherited an empty cupboard. You can argue that the current players just don’t have the ability to execute properly and probably never will. You can argue that we’ve gotten very unlucky at the perfect time.

    But one thing was proved to me today….no matter how much talent we have or how much depth we have or how healthy we are, we are still going to have the same problems with making the right (read “any”) adjustments, the same problems with clock management, and the same lack of composure at critical end-of-game situations. You don’t need talent to do those things well. You need quality coaching. And clearly, if that isn’t happening now, regardless of what kind of athletes we put on the field, that still ain’t gonna happen. If TOB, in all his years of coaching, still hasn’t learned how to manage the clock and still hasn’t learned how to manage critical game situations, then it’s never going to happen.

    And if we are fundamentally incapable of managing those categories well, we are never, ever, ever going to be capable of becoming an elite team, because being elite absolutely requires it.

  20. NCSU84 10/31/2009 at 10:00 PM #

    For TOB, we need not extend his contract. Give him until the end of the current contract to see if he can turn this thing around. If we were a nationally ranked team, then TOB would be history and we would have coaches lined up to take his place. But that is not where we are. I do think we need to replace Jed so that we have someone in that position who can make a wise coaching selection should TOB falter. BTW, does anyone know how many years TOB has remaining on his contract?

  21. robzucc 10/31/2009 at 10:44 PM #

    I would not give him two seconds more time to turn this program around. I want to know who are the people that would give a penny more to the university! We have no power to fire anyone or hire anyone. We can bitch
    like we do or we can stop giving money. That my fellow Wolfpack will hit home and, when no one is at Carter-Finley on 11/7/2009 what do you think will be done? He’s gone! That’s what! But, that will never happen because there will always be groups to think otherwise and the only thing I would agree with them with is the poor kids. The players don’t deserve that kind of disrespect. The rest of you can do what you want but, I will stop giving as of tonight. How fitting, Halloween night.

  22. T-FIC 10/31/2009 at 11:29 PM #

    you all are ridiculous… calm the f*** down. It takes time to build a program. If we have the same bs mistakes next year then so be it, but less than 3 years with a TOTAL rebuild of a team… give me a break!!! Take a paxil and chill!!

  23. T-FIC 10/31/2009 at 11:30 PM #

    Happy Halloween!!!

  24. BSIE80 10/31/2009 at 11:31 PM #

    I expected the game that we saw today. High scoring, possibly in the game to the end, maybe pull out a win with a few breaks, etc.

    The sad thing that I observed was the lack of our ability on defense to actually try to hit/tackle someone. It seems that most everyone is like covering their area and attempting to turn the ball carrier toward the middle or inside of their cover area.

    Our coaches must be teaching this technique- which puts the tackling requirement on a position (linebackers/safeties) that have to be in position and must make the play, otherwise it is off to the races. I think there is a fundamental flaw in this approach. Our defensive guys should be running at full speed and knocking the heck out of the guys. I don’t see it. It is one thing having a weak secondary, but we should be tackling and not waiting for someone else to make the play.

    I would guess TOB will get rid of the def coach at the end of the season, and if not, his days are numbered.

  25. BSIE80 10/31/2009 at 11:45 PM #

    Another comment: Everyone on this site last year was talking TOB up. Really giving him a pass the past 2 years stating that he has history of being successful, etc. Sid Lowe has not been given the same support and has been expected to fail because he has no experience, etc.

    Compare the records now. Both are currently failing. The difference i see is that Sid is actually recruiting better. TOB is not.

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