“When you are a school like NC State, maybe you can’t recruit all the blue chip guys in the United States. Maybe those guys are going to places like Duke or North Carolina or Connecticut or UCLA or Kentucky. And so the foreign soil is a good place to go to get some guys to […]
Basketball Recruiting
L Davis’ HS Coach Mouths Off
Sounds like a battle may be brewing over Larry Davis’ potential release from his Letter of Intent…you know, the binding document that the kid signed with NC State University before Seton Hall hired Bobby Gonzalez and the Pirates’ program started making overtures to Davis (against NCAA rules) while he was signed with NC State? In […]
First hand views of the recruits
Dennis Horner – 6’7″ 190 lbs I watched Horner play in the Bob Gibbons tournament this past weekend. It was the first time I have seen him play and I was impressed. He is listed as 6’7″ with good speed for his size. I did not measure him but his height seemed about right. He […]
Horner Not Waivering Like Davis
We talked about Larry Davis’ situation a couple of days ago. Link . But, Davis isn’t the only NC State Basketball recruit who has been granted a conditional release from the NCAA’s Letter of Intent. (If you are interested or intrigued by the NCAA’s Letter of Intent procedures, you will like this website very much. […]
State Loses Recruiting Steam?
I kind of gave up trying to follow or care about recruiting in recent years. After about a dozen times of being told by those close to the program that players like Adam Simons, Mike O’Donnell, Trey Guidry, Dom Mejia, and Justin Flatt are real “sleepers” who are going to be able to surprise people […]
Davis Won’t Play for State
Since most of the readers of StateFansNation (“The graduate level NC State Website”) are a little more experienced in the real world than the readers of other sites…let’s play a little “real world” hypothetical this morning —- Let’s assume for a moment that you own a company. One of your account officers makes a key […]
Tudor Nails a Piece of the Success Blueprint
In addition to this piece, another of SFN’s more respected local writers penned some greath thoughts regarding Sidney Lowe today that merits some attention and discussion. The News & Observer’s Caulton Tudor compared the big gamble on Coach Lowe to the role of underdog that the 1983 National Champion Wolfpack. Tudor goes on to say: […]
Is Recruiting Improving?
I have been reading how many people think our future is brighter because recruiting is the best it has ever been. I thought it would be a good idea to look at whether this is in fact true. I pulled all of my rankings from this site. They use a point system to combine top […]
State Perspective: ‘Barnes Beats out UNC, UConn’
The headline on the 4th page (Welcome to Texas) last week’s Houston Chronicle says it all: UT stages coup by luring recruit from powerhouses Barnes beats out North Carolina, UConn for Durant The NC State Message Boards have been having some (surprisingly) calm discussions about the topic…that invariably produces the question: “Depsite NC State’s significant […]
