Fanblogs isn’t the only blog with multiple entries that might interest you. ACCNow continues to refine their craft and share great stuff. They’ve been following Engin Atsur‘s injury very closely and today provide us some optimistic news (linked here). I don’t know if you check 0ut Fanblogs.com very often, but most of their most recent […]
Sports Junkies
A View from the Cheap Seats
But let’s be honest, there’s not a conceivable playoff system out there that will both determine a true national champion while simultaneously filling the coffers of every BCS school (and, of course, Notre Dame).
The NCAA basketball tournament is a billion-dollar three-weekend event that crowns a true national champion with unrivaled elegance and unscripted suspense. Unfortunately, there’s just no way college football could ever replicate it.
But that’s ok, because the three-month regular season is college football’s billion-dollar event. Almost every Saturday along the way during these three months we the fans get a big game or two (or more, on those rare Saturdays) that means something to the standings. I’m good with that.
Bowl Giving and Fun Stuff
Tip of the hat to 850TheBuzz for highlighting this article at Rivals about the loot raked in by players at collegiate bowl games. Some other fun stuff that you really should spend some time enjoying this morning: * Not a Good Way to be Added as a friend (Link) * NFL’s Most Annoying Player (Link) […]
Football Stat Relevance
VaWolf will love this! Awesome statistical information for football junkies. Thanks to SMQ for the work. First counterintuitive result: the most penalized teams were slightly better as a whole than the least penalized teams. Penalty yardage, over the course of an entire season, had no discernible effects on winning and losing. You can probably think […]
Deadspin: Fun Stuff
We thought that we would start the week off with some fun items of non-NC State interest. All of the following links are from Deadspin in recent days. And all are pretty good in their own way. Riot: UMass Students find reason to riot Oregon Ducks new football helmets: It might save some money just […]
BCS Playoffs: Where you Lose Me EVERY time
It is that time of year again!! Time to whine about college football’s bowl system and lack of playoffs! I have engaged in dozens of fantastic conversations with friends in recent years regarding the topic of a hypothetical playoff system in college football. You may be surprised to learn that in the past I have […]
Bill Simmons Back Tracks on Bush v Mario Williams
Bill Simmons is probably one of SFN’s favorite writers. We are about the same age, grew up at the same time etc. His “13 Levels of Losing” is a MUST read for all NC State fans. That said, he jumped the gun on the Mario Williams/Reggie Bush debate like many of his friends in the […]
SFN Impact Update
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that […]
Tailgating Gear
Let’s try to break the current tension around NC State’s football program with this departure to the parking lot of our dreams. Of course, you can probably enter the parking lot of your dreams whenever you would like as opposed to the gates of Carter-Finley Stadium.
NBC’s Sunday Night Football
NBC will unveil the regular season’s “Sunday Night Football” (Wikipedia Link) this weekend. The game will be preceded by a studio show titled, “Football Night in America” and will feature Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Sterling Sharpe, Jerome Bettis, and Peter King. Andrea Kremer will also contribute to the studio show from the field. The format […]
