Note: This entry was originally posted to SFN on Sunday/Monday. Due to this entry’s quality we wanted to re-surface it to the top of the blog because it was easy for a large portion of our readers to miss it due to the holiday weekend and because so many new items were posted to the […]
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Dare to Dream – Making the Pitch For NC State in the SEC
A few weeks ago, the college sports internets were all aflame with talk of SEC expansion and what it would mean for everyone left in its wake. Just when things calmed down a bit, Texas A&M is in the news again. Whether anything is imminent with the SEC and the Aggies, it’s clear that Texas […]
Directors’ Cup Final Standings – 2011
The final 2010-2011 Directors’ Cup standings are out for Debbie Yow’s first year as Athletic Director at NC State. Last Year – 2010 For comparison, let’s first take a quick look at NC State’s performance in last year’s standings. NC State finished 89th in the final 2009-2010 standings, which ranked last in the ACC and […]
WRAL: Yow confident in direction of Wolfpack (Video)
WRAL.com: “First year goals were a lot about listening and learning, to be candid,†Yow said. “Learning about our culture, listening to our employees both administrators and coaches about what their needs were. That took weeks and weeks and weeks, but it was well worth the time.†Yow has also sat down with just about […]
Conference Title Drought
With the heat wave that has been in the Raleigh area as well as most places in the Southeast over the last week or so, it brought up another area where a major drought is occurring. Now that baseball is down to the College World Series, all conference tournaments have been completed in all sports […]
NC State gets new S&C lead
Discussed by clicking here. From 1984-93, Alejo served as strength and conditioning coach at UCLA, where he worked with 23 men’s and women’s teams, including the men’s basketball squad, which won the 1995 NCAA Championship. During his tenure in Westwood, the Bruins racked up 25 national championships and produced more than 100 All-Americans. Another big […]
Will it be Rick Barnes this time around?
 Despite the warning by BJD95 in his “Tin Foil Hat” theory, and despite the fact that every indication suggests the wholly competent Debbie Yow is keeping the usual insiders out of the loop this time around, Saturday’s rumor mill is churning: SFN community member, ‘Strutter’ posted on the forums today that an offer has […]
A Reminder of SFN’s Role
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a mini-tsunami of ignorant analysis from the national and regional media. SFN has chronicled same here, here, and here (likely a few others I glossed over). As much as I subscribe to the “don’t feed the media trolls” philosophy, it’s hard to completely ignore such nonsense. It’s gotten […]
Debbie Yow interview on Sidney Lowe and other topics
NCSU AD Debbie Yow today was interviewed on 99.9 ESPN Radio by Adam Gold and Joe Ovies. Several topics were discussed, most notably the men’s basketball program and the head coach, Sidney Lowe. She reiterated that she would review Coach Lowe’s job status at the conclusion of the basketball season. You can hear the entire […]
Happy New Year! After a Surprisingly Good Wolfpack 2010
Well, we only have about 5 hours left in 2010, at least in NC State’s (and my) home time zone. This isn’t going to be a long “recap” post, but I do think we should spend a few moments reflecting on the first steps we took towards ending our 2+ decades of wandering in the […]
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