NC State Ranked #17 In Blue Ribbon Pre-Season Poll

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GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina heads up a list of four ACC teams ranked in the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook Preseason Top 25 rankings. In addition to the top-ranked Tar Heels, Duke is ranked 14th, NC State 17th and Clemson 21st.

I know. I know. I am just as perplexed as you after Lee Fowler and the folks at NC State stoked their professional reputations to the ‘FACT’ that it takes at least six years for a coach to build a potential NCAA Tournament team. Didn’t you feel like a Holocaust denier if you didn’t drink the kool-aid? If you are in a basketball mood, then you can click here and scroll through recent pre-season entries discussing the upcoming season.

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79 Responses to NC State Ranked #17 In Blue Ribbon Pre-Season Poll

  1. redfred2 09/21/2007 at 6:54 PM #

    “Despite the disarray of the coaching search and the player personnel losses in 2006, State’s program in substantially better shape when Lowe walked in the door than it was in ‘96.”

    “there’s no question”

    You can say that now but only after the season and *after the fact*. Those facts are that Sidney Lowe came in and took over a team before a season that most people were dreading (AND OPENLY SAYING SO RIGHT HERE ON SFN) and he made that unbalanced and outmanned group of kids play like the basketball players that they were all along. When those kids got back to NC State they were no longer playing under who is comfortable with just being fairly competitive or happy with moral victories, they started a whole new collegiate basketball with someone who knew they could play with, and beat anyone around.

    This debate over who had the players coming in and so on, could only be answered if Sidney Lowe had coached Les Robinson’s kids too. BUT, HE DIDN’T, that group was coached by the coach that Sidney Lowe will eclipse in short order. So, in reality, this debate is really unfair to those former players, no way to determine how good they might have been with proper coaching.

  2. packgrad93 09/24/2007 at 10:06 AM #

    “I truly dont think K is a great coach. ”
    “This program was NOT BETTER AFTER 10 YEARS of HWSNBN.”

    credibility zero

  3. packgrad93 09/25/2007 at 4:35 PM #

    ” they were no longer playing under who is comfortable with just being fairly competitive or happy with moral victories”

    not true

  4. redfred2 09/30/2007 at 5:05 PM #

    ^You’re right there pg93, in reality, everyone wants to win and excel at whatever they do. It’s just that some aren’t able to read the writing on the wall and adapt when it becomes blatantly necessary for them to do so. As with any leader, say your own boss, someone who is stubbornly unwilling to adapt for the good of others, say like yourself, that person/boss gives off a negative vibe that pretty much permeates the very ground they walk on, along with everything, and everyone, they come in contact with. Therefore, less is to be expected, and less is what you get.

    Not to say that that “less” won’t be openly embrased and more than good enough *for some,*say maybe even the people above, the ones making the big decisions and holding all the cards, as happened to be the case here.

    For whatever reason the former didn’t have “it” in Raleigh. Maybe he can now continue his search and still try to find “it” by way of the next big recruit. Just one more big one, the next big fish in line that oddly doesn’t pan out for one reason or another. Or, maybe he’ll change his own way of thinking and become successful that way.

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