NC State takes the floor a few minutes after noon today for a huge NCAA Tournament match-up against the Georgetown Hoyas today. Before you go any further, we ask that you check out today’s Gameday Headlines (linked here) and SFN’s unique game preview (linked here). For a set of bloggers that pride themselves on a […]
Headscratchers
2 media report ACC referee tells Coach Gottfried “Shut your fucking ass up” during UNC game
Around 3:05pm on Saturday afternoon – deep in the the second half of the ACC Tournament semi-final game that saw significant national criticism befall the Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew who called 42 phenomenally inconsistent fouls – I got a couple of strange tweets come through our SFN Timeline. Someone had re-tweeted a tweet from […]
ACC Tournament Game 1 refs pay tribute to Karl Hess
I am not making this up. According to alert reporter J.P. Giglio, the three officials working the Maryland-Wake game have “KH” on their left shoes. Full story. Hess’ absence is not a form of punishment for the incident at the N.C. State-Florida State game on Feb. 18, Clougherty said, but the three officials who worked […]
Further proof of officiating deterioriation
The precipitous decline in college basketball officials’ ability to call the most basic violation in basketball – the travelling violation – is a topic we have discussed here for years. So, I couldn’t resist an entry this morning when I came across the video below that highlights both the utter incompetence of ACC (and college […]
Karl Hess tosses NC State legends out of the game [4:50 pm Update]
In another slap in the face to NC State, one of the “top” ACC officials decided to throw Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani out of the basketball game. Welcome to another example of how awful the Atlantic Coast Conference has become and little league officials value NC State and our heritage and history. Can you […]
Just Incase You Missed It: Officiating
There is a massive flurry of discussion on the boards and the blog against last night’s game against Duke. So ‘Pride, why are you writing yet another article about the game? Simple: because I found something that had been posted prior to last night’s game that was interesting. Ironically, it was sitting right under my […]
The Curious Case of NC State Football & HBO’s “The Wire”
The Wire was a drama that aired for 5 seasons on HBO from 2002 to 2008 about drugs, police, dockworkers, politics, the school system and the media in the city of Baltimore and is considered by many critics as one of the best TV series of all time. Around 8 minutes into the 4th episode […]
Pimp My Ride – Chapel Hill Edition
Tip of the hat to Brakk on the Pack Pride message boards for finding the website for Dreamworks Motorsports in Roxboro. Why would we be interested in a car customizer that has worked on cars for local athletes, including several former NC State football players? Let’s have the host of Pimp My Ride, Mr. X […]
The Call, The Review, The Shaft
ACC officiating coordinator Doug Rhoads said today that Ron Cherry’s officiating crew handled the spot of the ball correctly on a key fourth-down play during the final minute of Maryland’s 38-31 defeat of N.C. State on Saturday. The officials gave Adams what appeared to be a generous spot of the ball, and coach Tom O’Brien […]
How NC State’s Sports Information Department Really Works
One of things you hear Wolfpack fans howling about the most is the way that NC State and its teams are covered in the media.  They say that NC State never gets a break in the local paper, the Charlotte paper, the television media or many of the online columnists that help shape the country’s […]
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