It’s finally raining in the deserts of Raleigh once again. That’s good news for homeowners, some who depend of wells for water for their homes, others who are trying to care for parched grass, for farmers tending dusty fields, and for nearly everyone. We’ve needed this rain for a long time. Unfortunately, however, it comes […]
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NC State Ticket Office Gives Additional Tickets To Students
If Carter-Finley is a little louder tomorrow night, Wolfpack fans can thank the NC State ticket office. That’s because there will be students rather than visitors in Sections 31 and 320 of the stadium, an area nominally reserved for visitors. This will mean that student Wolfpack fans will be filling otherwise empty chairs and lending […]
Financing College Athletics – Part 5
CONTINUING WITH A LOOK AT NC STATE FINANCES Part 4 focused on a number of good things concerning financing athletics at NC State: – $180M of facility improvements since 1999 – Outstanding attendance for both football and basketball, even though the product on the field/court leaves a lot to be desired. But one area where […]
Financing College Athletics – Part 4
RECAP OF PREVIOUS ENTRIES – The US Dept of Education collects information on financing college athletics from colleges/universities and makes this information publically available at Equity in Athletics (EIA). Most articles you see on this subject take their information straight from this website with an unstated assumption that this information is uniformly prepared and provides […]
Closer Look at the Directors’ Cup
The Directors’ Cup is defined on their website as “A program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by NACDA and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA.†All-Time (1994 to 2010) […]
Debbie Yow’s message already resonating with Wolfpackers
This entry was originally posted on Friday afternoon (August 13th). We wanted to send it back to the top since the blog typically has slower traffic on Friday afternoons in the summer — This key thread was opened on the message forums earlier in the week, but we wanted to bring this to the main […]
Tailgating Unlimited, Part 1
It may not seem like it right now, while we drown in the North Carolina Heat Index and wish that merciless August sun deeper into the southern hemisphere where it belongs, but college football season is once again upon us. And with it the triumphant return of tailgating. The following is the first part of […]
Debbie Yow brings ‘Wolfpack Unlimited’ in her first day
What a difference one person can make. As we discussed in this thread that you should take the time to read, all of a sudden many of the points that SFN and others were making while Lee Fowler was employed are finally acceptable to be made by many in the media. Amongst the points – […]
Financing College Sports – Part Two
Written by VAWolf, posted by SFN: In the first installment of this series, we set the framework of how to look at financial reporting in college athletics with the following statement: Information is only as accurate and complete as what the individual schools choose to report. There is NO consistent set of standards or normalizing […]
SFN defends Wolfpack Fans & talks history with Zarzour
We wanted to make everyone aware that Jeff will make an appearance on “The Sports Drive†with Taylor Zarzour on 620AM Thursday morning (July 15th) at 10:00am. Click here to listen live. The appearance will be SFN & Jeff’s third of the last three months on Zarzour’s program. The first appearance from May can be […]
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