“With the right person, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that NC State can be at a level where its fans every October 15th can dream of a lengthy run in the NCAA Tournament. I don’t see any reason why the program is not like that. It should be like that every year. […]
SFN Stuff
DeCourcy’s Good Piece – State Not Doing it Right
Mike DeCourcy of the The Sporting News helped the national media save a little face on Tuesday when he ran a piece called N.C. State isn’t doing this hiring thing right. So much that has been written recently from survey-course-journalists who were educated on MTV and Nintendo has been so far beyond the realm of […]
Suiter: Not Fair to Bash Pack Fans
Tom Suiter reminds us why he is a local institution. We’ll chime in with follow-up on this later: N.C. State fans have been bashed by the national media in the midst of the coaching search drama, and I don’t think that’s quite fair. Now, Pack fans have always felt like the media is against them. […]
Lavin Turns Down NC State (Update 4:50 pm)
Headline on ESPN.com “Lavin will stay in broadcasting; turns down NC State” StateFansNation comments on Monday: If NC State really did offer the job to Lavin, then the offer should have been pulled the moment The Sporting News reported it on Friday night. Everyone knows that the leak came from Lavin’s side. Why are we […]
Beilein Emerging?
To be clear, we are hearing nothing concrete from our sources at this point. However, this morning’s media reports indicate that West Virginia’s John Beilein has emerged as NC State’s top coaching candidate. This article sets the stage for where the search currently stands. The article also references Jay Bilas, who was interviewed on 610 […]
OTR – Mario Williams
In our “On the Record” entries we ask that you go “on the record” regarding certain topics and questions. We haven’t had time to give the NFL draft much coverage in the last couple of weeks. In this time period, Mario Williams’ stock has shot through the roof as evidenced by the fact that the […]
Whitt: ‘Play us any time, any day’
While everyone is focused (but fading) on the Wolfpack’s coaching search, the free time has created opportunities for some people to research specific potential candidates for the job. We haven’t talked very much about Dereck Whittenburg, but we will spending a little more time on him soon. While you wait on us, we thought that […]
SFN Highlighted in Bruin Nation
A couple of weeks ago, we discussed some of the (much appreciated) recent attention that StateFansNation has been receiving from various media sources. (We forgot to mention how this entry had previously been linked as a “Blog to Read” from the front page of SI On Campus about a six weeks ago.) As we were […]
WVa: Is this really a newspaper?
This link will take you to an ‘article’ written by the Charleston (WVa) Daily Mail. Is that really a newspaper or did the author cut and paste from an internet message board. Nothing earth shattering is in the piece. Additionally, this link will take you to West Virginia Message Boards if you would like to […]
Quote: We Compete with Carolina & Duke Every Day
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, the Fayetteville Oberver ran a story that inlcuded the following quote that we failed to highlight at the time. It deserves attention and we wanted to chronicle the quote: “Everybody comes out and says, ‘You’re Carolina’s and Duke’s little brother and you can’t compete with those guys.’ Ya know what? […]
