NC State’s loss to East Carolina was the Wolfpack’s seventh in a row. That’s a level of awfulness that hasn’t happened in Raleigh since 1959. There’s only one way to mark this momentous occasion, folks. We gotta do it in song form. Hit it, Coach! (Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s) 1959By Chucked Amato I […]
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State Achieves Highest RPI in Recent Memory
Before we even submit this entry you need to know that we KNOW that any reference to the RPI (or any ranking system) at this point of the season is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. BUT…in the last 15 years the date of November 24th has turned on the calendar 15 times. And, on those 15 November 24ths, […]
Wilmington Star News Takes Shot at NC State Media Relations
Chuck Amato’s weekly Monday press conference created a lot of controversy. A reporter kindly sent SFN comments shortly after the PC was over to post on the web. In fact it was one of the main reasons the SFN server blew up. If you click on the link above you will see that NC State […]
Ratcliffe: Wise AD’s Have Short Lists
This entry originally ran on SFN on April 11, 2006 at 10:23pm Jerry Ratcliffe, Sports Editor, The Daily Progress. “A wise, old AD once told me, any athletic director worth his salt always carries around a short list of coaching candidates (for football and basketball), just in case something happens.”
The Onslaught Has Begun (Updated 5:30pm)
The local media started the ball rolling on Sunday and the student media chimed in with an emphatic, “Amato Must Go”. It is just beginning. Today, another local media member sees the writing on the wall while the national media is revving their engines about the mess in Raleigh. We start national, where an ESPN […]
Week 12 TV Schedule
It would be easy to say only one game matters this weekend, but that would be oversimplifying things. This week’s schedule has a number of quality games. The obvious: The winner of the OSU/Michigan game will play for the national title. Both teams have done what it takes. They’ve rumbled through their conferences, and they […]
Thank You, Clemson
What was it about NC State’s game with Clemson last week that was so eye-opening to Wolfpackers? First, Brett Jensen went from being a below-average hack to a superstar in this awesome piece about NC State’s Athletics Administration. (SFN feels like that piece got lost in the shuffle over the weekend so we encourage you […]
BCS Playoffs: Where you Lose Me EVERY time
It is that time of year again!! Time to whine about college football’s bowl system and lack of playoffs! I have engaged in dozens of fantastic conversations with friends in recent years regarding the topic of a hypothetical playoff system in college football. You may be surprised to learn that in the past I have […]
CNNSI’s Peter King on Philip Rivers
I think — no, I know — the two most impressive people I watched Sunday were Philip Rivers, in a win, and Drew Brees, in a loss. I remember talking to Phil Simms before the ’04 draft, when I’d come back from doing a story in Raleigh on the North Carolina State quarterback, Rivers, who […]
Barnett: Four Seasons Ago
“But none of that explains how State came so close to a great season and finished so far from one. The fault ultimately must lie not on the field but off it. This was a season that slipped away on the sidelines.” Ned Barnett of the News & Observer Late November, 2003 Some interesting comments […]