In the biggest series of the year, the 13th ranked Wolfpack heads to Tallahassee looking to prove they belong as they take on the #1 ranked Seminoles of Florida State. The Wolfpack comes into the weekend having won five consecutive weekend series, while the ‘Noles dropped 2 of 3 against Clemson last weekend en route […]
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The Latest News From FSU Only Underlines The Disaster That Is John Swofford
Seems that this time there really is fire beneath the smoke coming from blogs and message boards: Florida State is not happy with its current situation in the Atlantic Coast Conference, something that had been rumored for years. Even worse, there is some very real sentiment in Tallahassee to leave the ACC – possibly making […]
Tournament Factoids Part 4: Universal Truths
Some time ago I wrote a brief entry outlining a few factoids about NC State’s history in post-season, post-conference tournament play. When you look at the rich history and tradition NC State has, it becomes quickly apparent that a quick-and-dirty review of NC State’s tournament past really doesn’t do NC State’s basketball program justice. NC State […]
A Lifetime ACC Fan’s Perspective on ACC Officiating
It’s a sad thing : the ACC apparently doesn’t even realize that it is killing its own brand. The ACC is a basketball conference first and foremost, and despite expansions designed to enhance football, the heart and the soul of the nearly seventy year old league is hoops. And the ACC is killing hoops, little […]
Tournament Factoids Part 2: Prepare For Glory!
Some time ago I wrote a brief entry outlining a few factoids about NC State’s history in post-season, post-conference tournament play. When you look at the rich history and tradition NC State has, it becomes quickly apparent that a quick-and-dirty review of NC State’s tournament past really doesn’t do NC State’s basketball program justice. NC State […]
Mythbusting the Wolfpack Sore-Loser Stereotype
The past few days there has been a lot of talk on local sports-talk radio and elsewhere on the ‘interwebs’ about NC State’s irrational obsession with officiating particularly in the wake of a tough loss against UNC in the ACC tournament. Granted, we all have our mini-meltdown moments after tough loses, and quite frankly the […]
Referee Comparison by School
Earlier I looked at how the ACC referees called ACC compared to other conferences. Now I would like to look at how the referees call games within the conference. I compiled some statistics that I would like to share. Here is my attempt at a chart to make it easier to see. A few things […]
Rational Letter to Commissioner Swofford
Commissioner Swofford, The Atlantic Coast Conference has a deep and rich tradition full of many instances of honor and pride for it’s member institutions. Â From it’s foundings as one of the first major, modern conferences in the country, it has represented over a hundred national titles, a total of 15 major institutions and over a […]
2 media report ACC referee tells Coach Gottfried “Shut your fucking ass up” during UNC game
Around 3:05pm on Saturday afternoon – deep in the the second half of the ACC Tournament semi-final game that saw significant national criticism befall the Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew who called 42 phenomenally inconsistent fouls – I got a couple of strange tweets come through our SFN Timeline. Someone had re-tweeted a tweet from […]
ACC Tournament Game 1 refs pay tribute to Karl Hess
I am not making this up. According to alert reporter J.P. Giglio, the three officials working the Maryland-Wake game have “KH” on their left shoes. Full story. Hess’ absence is not a form of punishment for the incident at the N.C. State-Florida State game on Feb. 18, Clougherty said, but the three officials who worked […]
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