Today, College Sports Television’s website posted an interesting article that features NC State’s Associate Athletics Director, David Horning and UNC-CH’s Steve Kirschner commenting on “The Scheduling Game”. You’ll probably need to read it before going through my comments on the story tomorrow. Quotes from the article will be shown in italics in this entry. For […]
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Pitt Dates Now Firm on Future Schedule
About 6 weeks ago we talked about the addition of the Pitt Panthers to NC State’s future football schedule. On Friday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran an article that discussed Pitt’s future football schedule and stated, “N.C. State, will host Pitt in 2009 and visit Heinz Field in 2013.”
VPI Out of Conference FBall Schedule ‘Boring’
David Teel expresses his opinion that Virginia Tech’s long-term out of conference football schedule is “Booooooring”. The article and VPI’s schedule can be found by clicking here. (In multiple parts of the article, Teel is particularly harsh on the Hokies for scheduling weak, East Carolina) “If I’m anyone associated with East Carolina, I’m doing the […]
Terry Bowden – Civil Rights Activist?
Does anyone other than Terry Bowden really believe that the reason that there are not more black head coaches is because university presidents are giving in to outspoken alumni and donors who don’t want black coaches? If he said this was a problem in the SEC or in the Southeast in general, then I might […]
Mandel: Amato Most Overrated
Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel lists Chan Gailey as his worst coach in college football and Chuck Amato as the most overated. The backlash around his listings were followed-up in this article.
OOC Fball $$$; New ? for Fowler
Back in March of this year, I responded to an (alleged) request by PackPride.com to submit some questions for Lee Fowler to answer. It was a heavily viewed entry and the “Top 10 questions for Lee Fowler” can be found by clicking here. I figure that over time, new questions will arise and old ones […]
NC State Off Notre Dame’s Schedule
The (Notre Dame vs) Boston College series, set to resume in 2007 after a two-year hiatus, will likely truncate before the next decade rolls around. (ND’s) penciled-in 2009-10 series with North Carolina State has been erased. But home-and-homes with Oklahoma and Arizona State in the 2010s have been preserved.
Recruiting Analyst Bias
In the spirit of trying to stay current on interesting topics in college athletics, we run across The Mess that is Tom Lemming.
Pack to Battle Pirates
Today’s News & Observer shares the news that we already knew — NC State and East Carolina will be doing more battle on the gridiron in the coming years. “NCSU senior associate athletics director David Horning confirmed that State will play the Pirates in Raleigh in 2007 and 2013 and in Greenville in 2010 and […]
Bunting Sounds Fowleresque
From the ACC Area Sports Journal: “Our defense has really made major strides over the spring. We have a chance to be really good. I’ve challenged them. We’ve been in the hundreds (statistically) three straight years. It’s time to get below that this year. In order to win week to week, you’ve got to have […]
