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What a month!!!

In addition to dozens of highly trafficked entries on the main blog over the last week, our new followers on Twitter are growing almost faster than we can receive the email notifications. If you have not yet started following us, you can access SFN’s Twitter presence by clicking here.

Additionally, we really need to start focusing more on our FaceBook presence and would therefore encourage everyone to “Like” (or follow or do whatever it is you do) our StateFansNation Facebook Fan Page. This is a fantastic – and currently underused – way to pass our work along to your friends. We need your help here!!! (While you are on FB, be sure to become friends with the one and only ‘Everett Case’!!

Lastly, we hope that you really make use of our message forums as a central place to share articles and information for discussion. A lot of people don’t realize how many people visit the boards and choose not to post. We’ve been averaging around thousands of unique visitors every day; so, there are A LOT of people out there finding value in what is being shared on the forums even if they aren’t posting. Don’t be shy to share things you find interesting because a lot of other folks will find it interesting as well.

One random observation I have is how many people in the SFN community work. Our traffic and interaction on the forums clearly spikes during working hours of the weekday. We have a lot of lurkers/readers on the weekends but less people choosing to post.

Just wanted to thank everyone for being so supportive and all of the interest and traffic that we have had on the blog. Please keep it up…and try to bring some of your friends with you as we try to spread our wings as the primary forum for the highest quality Wolfpack conversations and coverage.

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11 Responses to Coverage all over the place!

  1. UnclePen 04/01/2011 at 8:11 AM #

    >>One random observation I have is how many people in the SFN community work. Our traffic and interaction on the forums clearly spikes during working hours of the weekday. <<

    Ha. Your site is keeping people from working.

  2. tann84 04/01/2011 at 8:33 AM #

    Today would be the best day to actually announce the head coach for NCSU, no would believe it! lol

  3. tann84 04/01/2011 at 8:45 AM #

    ^^^^ should be no one would believe it…..

  4. Packfan28 04/01/2011 at 9:02 AM #

    Hey, I just became Facebook friends with Everett Case. Cool.

  5. bleedingred08 04/01/2011 at 9:16 AM #

    it wasn’t to long ago it seems that HS resigning was the April fools joke.

  6. Howler 04/01/2011 at 9:36 AM #

    HS re-hiring – now that would be the ultimate April Fools, or else say that because obviously no one is willing to accept the position (pathetic salary, lack of basketball tradition, poor facilities, etc.), we have gone back to Sid and asked him to please stay on.

  7. wolfman 04/01/2011 at 10:11 AM #

    I would say that a good many of us, myself included, have watched the circus on the forums without posting for good reason. A lot of the stuff that gets posted there regarding the coaching search is pure lunacy, it’s pathetic, and should be stopped by the mods so sane Pack fans can save some face. Is it any wonder that the University and its fans get bad press and called out by our rival fans, when this kind of nonsense is floating around in cyberspace for everyone to see? It’s bad enough that every random rumor out there gets tweeted by sports writer slobs and talking heads who know nothing, but its worse that it becomes gospel on the forum, and that we give those bozos validation by even acknowledging their tripe. On top of that, everyone who thinks they know something is posting their supposed “insider” information, but the reality is that no one outside of the search committee truly knows what is going on, and for good reason. The AD and her committee are doing what should always be done in any search for a professional position–advertising the job through appropriate channels, collecting information on available candidates, weeding out the ones that are obviously not qualified for the position, interviewing and discussing possible terms with the ones that may be qualified or are qualified, narrowing it down to the best candidates and extending offers to those candidates, and all in confidentiality. This is how it is done in most other job searches not requiring Senate confirmation, why should we expect any different in our coaching search? We would all be very angry if the company we applied with leaked information of our interactions prior to us actually landing the job, wouldn’t we? And for good reason. The only information that is appropriate to make public is the name of the guy who gets the job and the terms of his employment, and we won’t know what that is until a presser is held to unveil the new Wolfpack coach. All else is speculation and not worthy of anyone’s time. But I suppose it is good for a few laughs, which are unfortunately at the expense of the rest of the Wolfpack nation.

  8. freshmanin83 04/01/2011 at 11:47 AM #

    Soapbox 101.

  9. Wufpacker 04/02/2011 at 2:16 AM #

    ^^ Since I don’t much care what other fanbases or so-called “journalists” think of us to begin with, the claims and rantings of a few folks on the msg boards don’t bother me much. I actually find it to be entertaining as long as they don’t feel the need to start a new thread every time they come up with a new (but not necessarily original) thought.

    Aside from that, the only other thing that bothers me about it is when folks (including some of those so-called journalists) jump on those claims/rantings by posters and confusedly believe that they are the expressed beliefs/opinions of SFN in general.

    The author team of SFN goes out of its way to NOT make outrageous and/or unsupported claims (which I suspect is why they’ve been very quiet here recently, for those who have been asking) and always have.

  10. wolfman 04/02/2011 at 12:44 PM #

    Wuf, like it or not, those idiots make us all look bad, and they make the university look bad. I don’t care what the sports writer bozos think either, but the reality is that their lunacy creates a perception in the minds of those who don’t know any better, including potential coaches and recruits.

  11. Wufpacker 04/03/2011 at 4:30 AM #

    @wolfman,
    Well, I can’t disagree that they make us look bad in the minds of those folks who don’t know any better. But we’ll have to agree to disagree about who those folks are that don’t know any better, and what proportions of those folks are made up of recruits, coaches, etc.

    Every school has fans and every school’s fans are comprised of a small percentage of folks that are, shall we say…..”overzealous” and/or “under-intellectual” (aka, “stupid”). Anyone who has been associated with any sort of athletics teams, even if it was only some sort of Little League or YMCA Youth League, will easily understand this distinction.

    Coaches, athletes (both current players and recruits), and the vast majority of the fans (both ours and “theirs”) will intrinsically understand this about fans and fanbases because they’ve experienced personally on multiple occasions.

    Of course fans of other schools can and will use these sorts of things (examples of overzealous or under-intellectual fan behavior, that is) to come up with a good insult now and again, but it certainly doesn’t cause us any real harm.

    As far as coaches and athletes are concerned, I don’t believe for a second that any coach or any recruit chooses to either attend OR avoid a school or it’s fans because said fans are rabidly supportive…even if that does mean the occasional fringe lunacy.

    Short of a personal threat, I don’t believe fans have as much negative impact on a coach or his players as many seem to believe. If I was a coach (or a player) I would WANT the fans to be rabid and heavily and intimately invested in the team succeeding (again, short of personal threats of course).

    Basically, the folks that don’t know any better (and thus would be expected to easily be swayed by erroneous reports of overzealous and under-intellectual “uncommon lunacy” from a particular fanbase) are going to be that way because they not only don’t know any better, but they don’t really care either. They are the occasional “passerby fan” who is only peripherally involved and has no significant investment in the team or school, whether it be financial, emotional or otherwise.

    And who the hell cares what THOSE assholes think?

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