It is always good news when NC State beats Carolina in anything. Particularly in light of the recent performance on Lee Fowler’s entire Athletics Department against the Heels. After the woman’s softball team sweept the #2 seeded Tarheels en route to the department’s first ACC Championship in the last few years, the men’s baseball team […]
SMQ: Premature Assessment
Sunday Morning Quarterback is one of our favorite football blogs on the internet. (For more great blogs, please take a look on the right hand side of the front page of StateFansNation and scroll down to “Football Blogs”) Last month, they ran an “absurdly premature assessment of NC State” that can be seen by clicking […]
Rivers Getting Pub
Now that Drew Brees is in New Orleans, Philip Rivers will be taking the reigns as the starting quarterback for the San Diego Chargers. (Related link from San Diego regarding the start of the Rivers era) A new era has begun. “I always hoped it was going to be right here,�? Rivers said yesterday. “Now […]
Record # Seek Admission to State
From Triangle Business Journal and NC State press releases. “More students than ever before have applied to be freshmen at North Carolina State University. NCSU received 15,236 applications seeking freshman admission this fall. The record number of applicants represents a 10.7 percent increase over the 13,762 students who applied for admission at NCSU a year […]
Rounding Out Lowe’s Staff
A couple of weeks ago we ran this entry highlighting Sidney Lowe’s rumored coaching staff. The official announcements yesterday that Pete Strickland and Levi Watkins were joining the staff (Wolfpacker article / Pack Pride article) mean that those early rumors were right on target, and also mean that Lowe’s staff will have two former head […]
Clarifying the PC Criticism
On the Thursday that it became known that Sidney Lowe was going to be announced as NC State’s Head Basketball Coach, we ran this piece highlighting and discussing the news and updates. In that piece we criticized the decision to introduce Coach Lowe at a Saturday evening press conference because of the lack of impact […]
ACC Meetings; Gboro gets Tourney Dates
Macro-level Atlantic Coast Conference information and news will be discussed more this week than most weeks because the ACC’s annual meetings are underway. Yesterday, we highlighted some of the good news related to the conference’s football television ratings that was more deeply developed in this article by the Greensboro News & Record. Today, the ACC […]
Football Construction Pics
You can click here for tons of pictures (in chronological order) of Carter-Finley’s most recent capital project.
Delong’s Delights
Just after Sidney Lowe was hired, John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal wrote an outstanding piece that we never chronicled here and wanted to take a couple of minutes to get it on the site. Good Call: In Lowe, State gets what it needs … a State guy . This piece was fantastic. It was […]
Search De-Brief Scoop: Brown’s Buyout not Surprising
ESPN is reporting that Larry Brown’s dream job may end after one season with the New York Knicks. Surprise, surprise. 🙂 Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan, who’s upset over Brown’s record and the coach’s public criticism of his players, is considering buying out the final four years of the coach’s contract, the New York […]
