Virginia Tech suffered a horrific tragedy Monday, and NC State decided to offer a symbolic tribute to the Hokies. Above Carter-Finley Football Stadium, a lone maroon flag with the words Virginia Tech in orange waves. We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not […]
Diamond Update
BASEBALL Normally, sitting third of six teams in your division wouldn’t be anything much to brag about. But NC State is now listed in the top-25 of three different baseball polls archived at yahoo sports. Here is a brief summary of where the ACC teams are currently ranked: Baseball Collegiate USA Today America […]
What Went Wrong?
I may have to update my list of Data Analysis Mistakes to include the nuances of summer football speculation. Let’s review some “notable predictions†from the last few off-seasons: – The 2003 defense was going to be just fine, even though 6 or 7 defensive linemen were graduating. The top-10 recruiting class was going to […]
Red and White From State
Our friends at RAWFS have a really nice article up with a number of links covering the spring football practices. Alpha touches on several things that perfectly matches something that I’m currently working on. If you’ve been wondering why RAWFS hasn’t been putting up entries with their normal frequency, here is a comment lifted from […]
Coaching Carousel Summary
I started wondering how the latest turns of the coaching carousel had effected salaries. While State is not shopping for a new coach this year (Thank God!), these new salaries will eventually impact State. How soon the impact hits will depend on average coaching salaries and the level of success State sees on the field/court. […]
OOC Strength of Schedule
UPDATED 4/1/2007 @ 17:00 (Scroll to Bottom) Since this is the third time that I’ve documented the OOC strength of schedule for the ACC, I couldn’t come up with anything new and interesting to put into an introduction. But I can point new-comers to the first two entries on OOC SOS and especially to the […]
Gillispie Stays at A&M
Arkansas official: Gillispie to remain at Texas A&M By JEFF CARLTON, AP Sports Writer We need to find a really good phrase to describe this trend of ratcheting salaries every off season: Texas A&M officials would not discuss the terms of the new deal or say when an announcement might come. The 47-year-old coach makes […]
How Many Ways Can You Say Choke?
Kevin Hench has quite a few: the hated Tar Heels suffered one of the most remarkable collapses in tournament history squeezing the orange so tight down the stretch that a 10-point lead with seven minutes left The Tar Heels, the deeper team that was supposed to exhaust the Hoyas with their waves of subs, looked […]
Double Standards
Note to 99% of all college fans: – You are not allowed to be unhappy with where your team finishes if they had a winning season. – You are expected to support college athletics because your money helps support alot of scholarships; not because you expect excellence in the premiere sports. – You need to […]
NCAAT Surprises?
Well, how many Final Four selections have you already lost out of your Bracket? Which upsets did you guess correctly? What did you expect from the ACC in this year’s NCAAT? Here’s how I rated the ACC going into the NCAAT: Overall: No one was playing consistently enough to go very far this year. As […]
