SFN highlighted the public voting on the topic of the best ACC National Basketball Champions in this entry earlier this morning. But, we thought that it was important to blog the piece from today’s newspaper that prompted the poll. Anytime that a member of the Green family ranks NC State ahead of Carolina in anything […]
Rankings & Lists
Dave Sez: Best NCAA Tournament Coaches
Great work by Dave Sez regarding the Best NCAA Tournament coaches of all-time. (Link) We are going to link entry this under “Basketball Resources” on the right hand side of the blog in the event that you ever need to refer to it. If you haven’t/don’t surf our resources on the right side of the […]
SFN Garners #2
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the […]
Two-Sport Standouts
This piece at ESPN snuck through during the holiday season and we wanted to make sure that it didn’t go totally ignored. ESPN’s Pat Forde used Jeff Sagarin’s ratings over a five-year period to come up with a ranking of the two-sport schools over the last five years. The results are interesting. NC State logged […]
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, […]
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 […]
06-07 Top Guards (Updated 5pm)
With basketball approaching before you know it, Gary Parrish ranks his top 20 point guards in America in this column. The ACC lands three of the top 10 playmakers, but none of the next ten. Obviously Dick Vitale wasn’t doing the list or you could automatically add a Duke player to the list to give […]
#1: 2002 (Ranking to OLines)
StateFansNation is proud to present the last installment in a special series focused on NC State offensive lines in the Chuck Amato era. One of our readers, “Mickey McCarthy” (gotta love that), has done some excellent work that we are going to share over the next few days. Thanks so much, Mickey! #6: 2004 #5: […]
All-Amato Era 50-Man Travel Squad
Have some fun with entertaining this….featuring 21 players who have either appeared on, or are on track to make an NFL opening day roster. QB: Philip Rivers, Marcus Stone TB: Toney Baker, Ray Robinson, Andre Brown, TA McLendon WR: Koren Robinson, Brian Clark, Darrell Blackmon FL: Jerricho Cotchery, Tramain Hall, Richard Washington TE: TJ Williams, […]
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 […]
