“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 […]
Quotes of Note
SFN Impact Update
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that […]
Coker & Amato: Quotes of Note
“The Fire Coker movement never has been stronger in South Florida, yet the man at the storm’s epicenter insists he’s not bothered.” Despite the seemingly obvious fact that Miami’s Larry Coker has taken the lead chair in the Atlantic Coast Conference’s line-up of hot seats , Coker has shared some quotes in the last couple […]
Best Statement Ever – Nebraska AD
As you remember, the University of Nebraska was recently forced to hire a new basketball coach when Barry Collier chose to return to his alma mater as Athletics Director. Steve Pederson, Nebraska AD, issued a statement that can be found at this link in its entirety at the beginning of the process that we think […]
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
Suiter: State Fans Care More About Football Than Tarheels
Tom Suiter threw up a summertime blog entry at WRAL.com this afternoon. (Link) There is nothing in it of much note, but we liked this (obvious) comment very much: Is it me or does State care more about football than Carolina?
Jacobs on Sidney, Sendek
The strategy of pacing ourselves and holding off on blitzing the site in May with all of the Sidney-Lowe articles has worked out well for us. Our discussion on “Lowe is Ready For This” went very nicely. Today we have another article to quickly re-address as we go back to a piece written by Barry […]
Quote: Sidney’s Been There
“Sidney’s been there. He remembers the glory. He knows we hate Carolina. We hate Duke. Back then it was a rivalry. It wasn’t a nice friendly game. If we came back to campus and we had lost to North Carolina, man, it was dark on campus. And if we beat them, it was like a […]
Lowe: On Recruiting
“My feeling is that it’s an even playing field. You watch and take the good and utilize it yourself. But, if you want a kid, you have to get in there and battle. You have to work harder than they work. My thing is I’m going to do what I have to do to get […]
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 […]
