With sources reporting that Oklahoma and Texas (along with Oklahoma State and Texas Tech) are in discussions to soon turn the Pac-12 into the Pac-16, it looks like the Big XII will soon become extinct. It’s hard to believe that one of the two original superconferences will become irrelevant sooner than the ACC or Big […]
State Football Stat of the Day
Last week I laid out State’s roadmap to Charlotte on December 4th. Today, I’ll add this one: Beat Carolina a fifth consecutive year. In the 116-year history of the rivalry (100 games), State has only beaten Carolina five consecutive seasons exactly once: Dick Sheridan won five straight between 1988-92.
The Roadmap to Charlotte
There seems to be a lot of confidence from the SFN faithful that we’ll cruise to a 10-win season in Tom O’Brien’s fifth season. I’ve been a State fan far too long to be that optimistic, especially considering we’ve got to figure out how to successfully traverse at least a couple of our regular obstacles. […]
SEC Votes AGAINST Expansion (8pm Update)
Dennis Dodd offers up a little insight into what happened (CBSSports.com): Note to Aggies everywhere: Before you borrow daddy’s Caddy and rent a tux, make sure you have a prom date. It always seemed strange that A&M was fast-tracking this thing. In the end, SEC presidents didn’t want to be rushed. Why should they? With […]
Saturday Expansion (3:45pm Update)
As expected, this is all moving very quickly, and there is plenty of ongoing (opinionated) discussion on the SFN Forums about the inevitable next round of college football expansion and realignment, and more precisely, how it will affect State. So go on over there and join the fun, and it’s likely you’ll even win a […]
Friday Afternoon Expansion Talk
Lots of (opinionated) discussion on the SFN Forums about the inevitable next round of college football expansion and realignment, and more precisely, how it will affect State. So go on over there and join the fun, and it’s likely you’ll even win a $100 Walmart gift card, or maybe one of the few remaining ipads. […]
Conference Expansion…again?
I wrote last November about the absurdity of the most recent series of conference re-alignments and expansion. Conference realignment and expansion is in no way a recent, or revolutionary, concept. College football over the decades has remained about as steady as the Hatteras shoreline. The trend of several small, regional conferences towards a few elite […]
MooU and the N&O allies?
About six weeks ago I argued that as the vaunted “Carolina Way” has been widely and publicly deconstructed, “the average Carolina fan has responded not with outrage but instead with passive indifference.” And today, Duke Basketball Report (the enemy of my enemy is my friend) compiled a few of the more classic responses on FireHoldenThorp.com, […]
Wilson: Looking Back & Moving On
Most of this has been written for some time, and was originally intended to be an August continuation of the Cheap Seats Football Retrospective from back in 2009. But while Russell Wilson’s separation from State was official weeks ago, yesterday’s announcement that he’ll leave the Rockies organization and transfer to Wisconsin to play out his […]
Why State Fans Care
Two decades ago, us State fans suffered the indignity of investigations into Jim Valvano’s basketball program by the NCAA, Poole Commission and even the SBI, as well as a vitriolic assault by the local media and Board of Governors. (Click here for a must read that integrates nicely into today’s entry.) As a result of […]
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