If you have premium access at ESPN, you can see Bruce Feldman’s Blog entry for May 31st that ranks the Top 10 “Football States” by clicking here. Feldman (includes commentary on each state and) ranks the Top 10 “Football States” as follows: (1) Texas (2) Florida (3) California (4) Ohio (5) Pennsylvania (6) Louisiana (7) […]
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Bonner: Blue Chip Recruiting
“When you are a school like NC State, maybe you can’t recruit all the blue chip guys in the United States. Maybe those guys are going to places like Duke or North Carolina or Connecticut or UCLA or Kentucky. And so the foreign soil is a good place to go to get some guys to […]
Dick Doyel’s Days Numbered?
We make no secret of our distaste for the malcontent known as Gregg Doyel. (Link) We often even go so far as to beg Wolfpackers not to feed the troll. But, the following was recently brought to our attention and we couldn’t ignore it. From Doyel’s May 3rd Mailbag comments : From: Mike Sims I […]
Pack Baseball in N&O, not CHLT
Seven ACC baseball teams made the 64-team NCAA tournament field announced Monday, with North Carolina one of four regional hosts from the league and N.C. State the No. 2 seed at the Austin, Texas, regional. Special thanks to News & Observer for sharing with the world that both Carolina and State made the NCAA Baseball […]
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 Shuffles College Football on-air talent
Lots of changes to ABC & ESPN’s on air annoucers for this season. You will enjoy this link discussing some of this in much more detail.
Intersting Tidbits From the ACC Sports Blogosphere
First, the always informative Dave Glenn continues his “information dump” regarding the NC State coaching search. Kudos to him for acknowledging the “lunatic fringe” capabilities of some pro-Sendek coaching colleagues. Second, Dave Sez (always very solid, especially with respect to ACC basketball) makes a compelling argument about not fixing something that isn’t broken (i.e., the […]
Kudos for ACC Football
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The ACC had its best overall television numbers ever in 2005. According to a summary released by the league, it was the top-rated conference on ESPN. The ACC, in fact, had three of ESPN’s top five regular-season games. The Florida State-Miami game on Labor Day night was ABC’s highest-rated regular-season game […]
Gregg Doyel’s Complaint
(With apologies to Philip Roth) Norman, Oklahoma, 1970 Greggy, age 6, is walking down the street with Daddy. Daddy is a ‘fessor of the laws, which Greggy doesn’t know about except that the janitor where Daddy works takes off his cap and says, “Morning, Sir.” All Greggy knows is that he has his new ball […]
Tuesday Open Thread
* We are hearing that Lowe’s final staff will indeed be Larry Harris, Monte Towe, and Pete Strickland. You might remember that you read all three names on SFN on the same day the Lowe news broke (Thursday, May 4). All in all, we think this a very solid staff. * You won’t see this […]
Chronicling the Criticism
We need your help! As you are well aware, a significant number of national and local media members have been openly critical of Sidney Lowe’s hire as Head Basketball Coach at NC State. Although this criticism is very relevant, we have chosen not to dwell and focus on it. But, we don’t want to ignore […]
