Over the past few years, there has been plenty of discussion of the Wolfpack’s out of conference strength, or lack of strength, of schedule. Even as Sidney Lowe upgraded the top end teams that the Pack played, such as Arizona, Syracuse, Florida, etc., it was the other games that drug the OOC RPI down, way […]
Mark Gottfried
Gottfried makes big splash; Torian Graham chooses the Pack
How fitting is it that our Monday morning topic for discussion was this entry on basketball recruiting? Full link “It’s close to home and there was just something about it,” Graham told Scout.com. “It’s local and my family will be around. I can be close to my mom. She’s sick and that’s important to me.” […]
Poll Translation
In yesterday’s N&O, Ken Tysiac penned an article about a Public Policy poll suggesting that Wolfpack fans are apathetic about Gottfried. Now I’m not a professional pollster but I have reviewed enough of them to know there are several variables that go into a poll to produce the results: sample size, target group, what questions are […]
TBJ: Gottfried’s contract comes to light
Nothing of surprise in this article about new NC State Basketball coach, Mark Gottfried’s contract. Nonetheless, there are some interesting data points. A copy of the coach’s new contract (download PDF), which was approved by N.C. State’s Board of Trustees on Friday, shows that Gottfried can earn up to $1 million in bonuses annually. That […]
Get to know Coach Gottfried
Great ten minutes of conversation here. Coach G comes off as calm, yet energetic. Cool, yet competent and confident. He’s ready to fight and prove to the world that he’s learned from his mistakes.
WSJ: Gottfried works at keeping recruits
We have a whole gaggle of Mark Gottfried and NC State article and discussions in our Basketball Message Forum that can be viewed by clicking here. Look around and do some catching up. This article from today’s Winston-Salem Journal focuses specifically about NC State commitment, Tyler Lewis. Coach Mark Gottfried, in only a week, has […]
Where Do ACC Basketball Coaches Come From?
Now that the recent NC State coaching search has concluded and more discussion of the decline of coaching in the Atlantic Coast Conference has continued, I wondered to myself — where did ACC basketball coaches come from? (Other than being delivered by the stork). There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth that State didn’t […]
Alabama Perspective: Gottfried will turn around Wolfpack
From The Capstone Report: Many were hoping that VCU’s Shaka Smart would take the job. Seriously? No disrespect to Coach Smart, but if you were to spin the clock back to mid February, and I was to ask you who Shaka Smart was, most of you would probably not have a clue. If Shaka Smart, […]
Iowa starting PG to transfer to State?
Is new NC State Head Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Gottfried already making waves nationally? Cully Payne was the starting PG at Iowa before suffering a season ending injury. Yesterday morning, Payne was released from his scholarship and announced plans to transfer. Payne is a Chicago guy, putting Illinois-Chicago, Loyola, and Northern Illinois in the mix […]
A View of the Search from the Cheap Seats
I don’t author much here on SFN and there’s a good reason for that. I’m not an insider. I don’t have any inside sources. I don’t pretend to. And when I am given a nugget of info from well connected friends, I don’t go and spout them off on the interwebs. What I saw and […]
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