Fox Sports – NC State Ranked 25th for 2007-08 Season

Here’s some nice press for Lowe and company:

25. NC State
Sidney Lowe’s team loses senior point guard Engin Atsur, but look for Iowa State transfer Farnold Degand to step in and provide help running the team. Degand will have plenty of weapons as the Wolfpack return their other four starters — Brandon Costner, Gavin Grant, Ben McCauley and Courtney Fells — and welcome a pair of talented frosh — J.J. Hickson and Tracy Smith.

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07-08 Basketball General Media Sidney Lowe

108 Responses to Fox Sports – NC State Ranked 25th for 2007-08 Season

  1. brickman 04/06/2007 at 10:33 PM #

    amen red to much heart . the way coach plays off. ben is perfect fit for what he does just look at acc tour. overlooked by costner scoring. he was big reason we won . team high in rebounding . steals . blocks . and one assist behind atsur . about avrg. double double in nit he was sick for west virgina game not sure what with.

  2. WolfPup35 04/07/2007 at 6:08 PM #

    Presbyterian just lost a really really good center (7’1″, good outside shot, strong, strong rebounder, quicker than you’d think)named Johann Collins. This kid will be hard to replace! I should know, he’s a really good friend of mine, and always “takes it personally” when I score in pickup games. Picture if you will, a 6’2″ VSF (VERY small forward) trying to post up a 7′ monster like him. Anyway, the Blue Hose would probably jump at the chance to pick up Lew, just for the size. He DOES need to find a gym, though.

  3. gumbydammit 04/07/2007 at 8:05 PM #

    So the Coach Harris commentary has been (appropriately, I might add) cut off, and along with it was the off-topic discussion of the KSU LOI discussion re: Sutton and Beasley. KSU sez they will hold them to their LOI’s – why? The reason a school should let a kid go if he wants to go is that focring him to stay will only harden his resolve to leave. End of the day, regardless of what the LOI says, the kids generally sign to play for a COACH more so than the school. If the coach leaves, why force the kid to stay? Remember the Chewbacca defense – what’s a Wookie doing hanging out on Endor with a bunch of Ewoks? It don’t make sense, and if it don’t make sense, you must acquit….

  4. gumbydammit 04/07/2007 at 8:06 PM #

    THat being said, if they want to leave KSU to go anywhere OTHER than NCSU, then I don’t really give a damn what KSU does…

  5. redfred2 04/07/2007 at 8:43 PM #

    gumby

    At least one of the players who signed a LOI with KSU came right out and has already said that Bob Huggins wasn’t even a factor in why he signed a “legally binding contract” with KSU. I’m not really saying that they should be forced to play anywhere against their will, but there should be some loss of eligibility or some other penalties available, and left up to the university’s, in this case KSU’s, descretion.

    Otherwise, just forget about the LOI altogether, it’s getting to the point where it’s not worth the paper it’s written on anyway.

  6. brickman 04/07/2007 at 10:12 PM #

    yahoo sports has artical says beasly was close to coach hill and ksu hired him .ad for ksu said they would wait and see about loi after they hired a coach . as for beasly high school coach said he is still with ksu..

  7. gumbydammit 04/07/2007 at 11:09 PM #

    redfred,

    let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that a kid DID sign specifically to play for a specific coach (like, oh, HWSNBN) – the coach leaves before the kid enrolls. If he wants to go elsewhere, cut him loose or hold him to the paper? My gut says if he doesn’t want to be there, let him go. Yeah, I know what the LOI says, but it was signed with certain assumptions/promises(?). Should the kid be penalized because the promised future has changed? NCSU doesn’t roll like that, and I think that is OK.

  8. redfred2 04/08/2007 at 2:24 PM #

    gumby

    Like I said in the post above, I mostly agree with what you’re saying and fair is fair. But the way it was handled in Raleigh, or at least the way it was reported to me anyway, was that at the very second the coach left we surrendered all rights and the LOI was null and void right then and there. That is just not true at all, and the originally intended university does/did have rights in that situation. Every situation is different, but it’s not just up to the seventeen year old kids to dictate how the LOI and the system works.

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