I received an email last night from a friend promoting the idea that these two “martyrs of sorts” should be honored or at least recognized before our game on Tuesday. At first I chuckled at the idea as it’s fantastic on its face for the most simple reasons. However, to honor these guys would be […]
Debbie Yow
Debbie Yow setting the standard
Some great discussion to send you into the weekend with. We’ve been talking about Debbie Yow’s policy to hand out anonymous surveys to student athletes prior to the high profile scandals running rampant through the world of college sports. Has to make you feel good to have such a great representative of this University and […]
Q & A with TurtleDroppings.com
Chris over at Maryland fan blog TurtleDroppings.com contacted SFN this week about exchanging a Q & A about Saturday’s season finale. We were glad to oblige. Below are the SFN questions (bold) that Chris answered (unedited). Go here to see the questions SFN answered for Chris. Talk about those uniforms. The uniforms have been an […]
Thursday Compendium
August 18, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Chip Alexander (N&O) Wolff and Bishop lead the Pack At first glance, Bishop and Wolff seemingly have little in common. Bishop is from Boca Raton, Fla., a tiny spot in Palm Beach County, and played at Boca Raton High. Wolff is from Raeford, a product of Hoke County High. […]
Sunday Samplings
August 13, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL JP Giglio (N&O) State’s depth chart written in pencil Watching football, instead of playing, was an adjustment for Tony Creecy last season. The N.C. State running back redshirted in 2010 but will play this season. The question now is how much will Creecy play, and how good will State’s […]
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 […]
Gregg Doyel calls Gary Williams “a little bity tiny coward runt of a man” (and worse)
Readers who want to keep abreast of the mushrooming Gregg Doyel-Gary Williams feud really should read this piece from WRAL and this one from the Washington Post. Below is a picture of model employee Gary Williams.
A View of the Search from the Cheap Seats
I don’t author much here on SFN and there’s a good reason for that. I’m not an insider. I don’t have any inside sources. I don’t pretend to. And when I am given a nugget of info from well connected friends, I don’t go and spout them off on the interwebs. What I saw and […]
We’re Back! And By The Way, We Have a Coach
SFN has been overloaded with traffic the past few weeks. We’ve hit records that have TRIPLED our previous record. Over the past month, we’ve had nearly 400,000 unique visitors. We had a single day record of 28,161 unique visitors yesterday (reporting for today isn’t yet over – but I expect our prolonged downtime will not […]
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