After that debacle within Carter-Finley last weekend, the timing for this just seems eerily appropriate, especially since I’m not at all hopeful about the upcoming basketball season. My original intent was a more comprehensive basketball retrospective similar to the one I did for football back in the summer. But I decided that nothing good can […]
Herb Sendek
Friday Afternoon Discussion Topics
It has been slow recently, but there were a few interesting articles/topics to highlight this afternoon. The first deals with an athletic director “think tank” that for some reason doesn’t include our own Lee Fowler. The topic of this year’s meeting in Durham, NC was athletic budgets in the recession: DeFilippo said it’s difficult for […]
BMOC: The man who doesn’t make excuses
(Wake Forest Athletics Director Ron) Wellman will soon complete his 17th year as the director of athletics at Wake Forest University. The university’s teams have flourished under him, winning conference and national championships while generally exceeding expectations for the smallest school in the Atlantic Coast Conference and one of the smallest to play major-college football. […]
Basketball Bytes – Hansbrough fouls even in celebration (11:15 updated w/ column on Roy)
So much going on out there that we couldn’t ignore it all and thought you would appreciate a comprehensive entry following-up on a lot of topics. This couldn’t be more classic. The picture to the left was taken by the N&O/Charlotte Observer’s Robert Willett after Monday night’s NCAA Championship game and served as the front […]
Pitino publicly spurns Sendek
As a follow-up to some of our comments from our most recent Carousel entry I’m not naming a coach and its not my business, but I’ll stick my two cents in, ok? For me, last time around – Billy Gillispie is a terrific coach – I would have immediately hired either John Pelphrey or Travis […]
The Coaching Carousel (6:50pm Friday Update)
Friday Update: Billy Gillispie is officially out at UK. Press conference was at 4:30 Fox Florida is reporting that Billy Donovan is going to Kentucky, but Donovan has issued a statement that he is happy at Florida. Fox Florida is out on quite a ledge! They better be sure that they have their story right. […]
NCAAT Friday Open Thread (Major update @ 11:50am)
Note: The comments in this entry are a consolidation of both BJD and Jeff. Thursday Comments * Not very many upsets so far, but those of us who stayed up late last night were rewarded by compelling endings in the VCU/UCLA and Illinois/Western Kentucky games. Clemson also fought back to make things close after 35 […]
Fowler’s Failures Manifests into a Pearl of a Jewel
Sit back and get dedicated for a moment. You can’t skim this entry. You can’t loaf through this one. This is one of those to which your mind must be committed to absorbing and investing the time to read the links and the text. In the early part of this decade our blog followed some […]
Can One Quit If They Never Started? (The ‘Coming to Jesus’ Entry)
Pack Pride’s morning webrun this morning contains that reads “Webrun: Pack Players have Quit” The highlighted quote of the entry originates from 99.9’s Dan Mason’s tell-it-like-it-is blog entry: I never thought I’d be writing this. I figured there was no way Sidney Lowe would allow his team to go to Clemson and put up a […]
Fowler Hits New Low: A Call To The Board Of Trustees
We’ve all seen (as VaWolf82 summarized) numerous examples of Lee Fowler making thoughtless and insulting statements about the people who, in the aggregate, pay his salary. Fans unhappy with the 8-38 Periclean Age of Herb Sendek, for instance, were a “lunatic fringe†consisting of “50 people on the Internet.†Just yesterday, when asked to name […]
