Ever since I decided to write off the 2007-08 season as a learning experience for Sid and staff, things have continued in their perilous course. Clemson and UNC each went on huge scoring runs to finish off the Pack at home, leaving us at 4-8 and on the outside of the NIT bubble. I don’t […]
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Wake Enters NCAA Tournament Discussion; State Mired in Point Guard Mess of Our Making
We set the stage in this entry last week that unless someone started claiming some scalps that the ACC would only have four participants in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Wake Forest’s big win yesterday over the Duke Blue Devils is exactly the kind of statement and scalp that the Demon Deacons needed to propel themselves […]
Facing the Facts – BJD Writes Off 2007-08
I hate to say it, and it makes me mad as hell to do so. But 2007-08 must be written off as a “learning year” for Sidney Lowe. Despite being an ACC school with all the institutional infrastructure needed to win, NC State is employing yet another head coach who has to learn on the […]
Sid Takes on “Basketball Grobe” Tonight (VT Thread)
There’s an early (7:00) tip tonight, as the Pack takes on the Castrated Turkeys on ESPNU. Before the season started, you wouldn’t have been surprised that one team enters the contest in sole possession of third place. But nobody would have predicted Virginia Tech to be that team. After losing their best big man and […]
N&O Blog – ACC “Talent Index”
Very interesting – here’s the link. They have Duke rated higher than UNC, which makes me wonder how useful the index really is (I’d take UNC’s roster over Duke’s any day, and twice on Sunday). Also, if you look at perfoemance relative to talent, Oliver Purnell should get a huge raise – while Sidney Lowe […]
Can One Quit If They Never Started? (The ‘Coming to Jesus’ Entry)
Pack Pride’s morning webrun this morning contains that reads “Webrun: Pack Players have Quit” The highlighted quote of the entry originates from 99.9’s Dan Mason’s tell-it-like-it-is blog entry: I never thought I’d be writing this. I figured there was no way Sidney Lowe would allow his team to go to Clemson and put up a […]
Deploy the Panic Button (Clemson 70, NC State 54)
Press it, pound it, or beat the ever-loving piss out of it (my choice). But it’s time, my friends. It’s time. UPDATE: Oh, and Ben gets hurt in garbage time. Like I’ve said before – the motto of every NC State fan should be “It can always get worse – and it usually does.”
Technician: Honeymoon is Over
We would like to link to Technician more often, but we limit ourselves with a focus on quality here and unfortunately the inexperienced, usually uninformed student perspective falls a little short of our standards. But today we tip our hat Nick Jeffreys for this commentary that deserves mention. The first year and few months have […]
SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted […]
Andrew Jones said a lot; N&O added to it; SFN finishes it off
On Monday we asked why should we put ourselves through the pain of typing it when Andrew Jones’ article says it all? On Tuesday, the News & Observer chimed in with their heavy hitters. First, Chip Alexander asked, “What is going on with the Wolfpack” and then Caulton Tudor calmly opined that “The Wolfpack isn’t […]
