Potential Negative Effect on NC State’s ’09 Class? In my opinion, Sonny Vaccaro is no friend of college basketball, and even in his retirement, Vaccaro continues to work against the interests of collegiate hoops: Europe Still An Option For Recruits Vaccaro said he had breakfast Monday morning with a table of people working on behalf […]
Basketball Recruiting
Media Watch: The Pulse Of The Wolfpack Fanbase; CNNSi Cheerleader of the Week
A couple of interesting things in the media for you: Dessert before dinner: we don’t often talk about the cheerleading or dance squad teams here at SFN, but these folks work hard to represent NC State well, and in the case of the cheerleading team, are former national champions. In short, there’s a lot more […]
Wiederer: ‘State Doesn’t Need Wall’
Dan Wiederer of the Fayetteville Observer has an intriguing must-read column regarding the latest GlaxoSmithKline Holiday Invitational. Even if you are not interested in prep sports or college recruiting, take the time to read Dan’s impressions of incoming State and UNC prospects.  Regarding Lorenzo Brown and John Wall: “Sure, it’d be nice to snag the […]
Dan Werner takes center stage
In our preview article focused on NC State’s HUGE trip to Gainesville today we opened the topic of Dan Werner. Instead of dominating that entry we thought that we would follow-up with more insight on the topic in this entry. Similarly, please try to keep the conversations here focused on this topic and don’t dominate […]
Lip Service Or Getting Tough? NCAA Watching Hoops Recruiting More Closely
In the multi-billion dollar business that is college basketball, high stakes games are played between college programs looking for success, players looking to play their way into the NBA gold mine, and hangers-on looking to latch onto the next big thing so that they too can line their pockets.  Thing is, few fans are truly […]
Some Hoops Recruiting News
A Pack commit squared off Saturday against a player NC State would love to get… Lorenzo Brown scored 19 points and dished out eight assists but Centennial fell to No. 16 South Atlanta 88-77 Saturday at the Elite 8 Thanksgiving Hardwood Classic. In that game, undecided player Derrick Favors scored 29 points, nabbed 12 rebounds and […]
Coach Lowe’s radio interview + some recruiting
I generally skip any and everything that is related to Bomani Jones…but, I forced myself to listen to this interview because it was with Coach Lowe and I found it worth my time. So, I didn’t want to call it to your attention if you hadn’t heard it. Additionally, ACCSports.com/ACC Sports Journal is allowing free […]
NC State News – 11/12 (updated with football game article)
–Wake game story from Winston-Salem Journal “I would be surprised if our guys see North Carolina State as anything but a really good football team in the ACC — and you’d better go play if you’re going to win,” Grobe said yesterday. “I don’t think it’s going to be the trap game in the sense […]
John Wall to visit Duke this week
A couple of days after we told you that Duke was going to make a big push for John Wall… John Wall, the No. 1 basketball recruit in the nation, will likely take an unofficial visit to Duke later this week, possibly when the Blue Devils play Lenoir-Rhyne in an exhibition Wednesday.The 6-foot-4 Wall showed […]
Bob Gibbons Has a “Gut Feel” That John Wall Picks NC State
Speaking of carousels, there’s always the basketball recruiting one, and it never stops spinning. N&O/CO NC State beat writer Ken Tysiac posted a pair interesting quotes from hoops recuiting super-guru Bob Gibbons: Gibbons said he has a “gut feeling†that Wall will choose N.C. State rather than Memphis or Baylor. But he said even if […]
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