This is personal for me. According to my folks, the roots of me becoming a loyal State fan (to a fault) stemmed from my fascination as a toddler with the Strutting Wolf. The Tuffy of my childhood was rugged and vicious, leading us to a national title and two ACC titles. In the mid-90s, they […]
Tradition
WRAL: Small town Raleigh marveled at 74 Wolfpack
A great retrospective done by Dane Huffman at WRAL.com. Click here. Then came in 1974 – and Raleigh became the epicenter of a story that would change college basketball. Duke was amazing in 1992, and North Carolina was phenomenal in ’82. But State was unique, in its talent and its time. The fading films and […]
Newsflash – Paying Customers Don’t Like Being Treated Like Naughty 8-Year Olds
We saw this nugget from The Technician a few weeks ago, but didn’t have the time to express our thoughts at the time. In a finding which no doubt caused Bob Kennel to close his eyes and shake his head disapprovingly: The WITH program has not received as much positive feedback as Student Government would […]
Bo Rein – Promising Start Ended Tragically
NC State’s Football program has been re-energized with Coach Tom O’Brien’s injection of hope for a nice steady climb back to respectability. The dream of this kind of future can’t help but harken names of Wolfpack-past like Edwards, Holtz, Sheridan and Rein. I don’t hesitate to say that there are multiple generations of NC State […]
Where Amazing Happens…Happened
Tip of the hat to the Pack Pride message boards for highlighting this fantastic YouTube Video titled, “Where Amazing Happens – NC State”. Without explicitly stating it, this video provides a damning commentary of the current nature of the NC State athletics program as the bulk of the actual achievements in the video all took […]
25th Anniversary – April 4, 1983; SFN Blogs the ‘Celebration’
Today’s entry is a two-parter. One part good. One part disgusting. 1983 Anniversary Many on the faculty hate it. I’m sure most of the adminstrators are oblivious to it. The folks who don’t follow sports don’t understand it. Our rivals used to shake their head at it. But, today’s date is perhaps the most important […]
A Little Nostalgia
ESPN Classic will air the 1983 national championship game between North Carolina State and Houston from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET on Friday, April 4. At 8 p.m., ESPN Classic will present a half hour original documentary “ESPN Classic Remembers: NC State Upsets Houston”, which will chronicle the 1983 Wolfpack season. The documentary will […]
DT Lifted ACC Sky High
What else did you think that NC State fans had to discuss the week of the 2008 ACC Tournament? The early 1970s, of course! All sarcasm aside, the Charlotte Observer‘s Ron Green ran a great piece today calling David Thompson “The Best Ever” in the best basketball league in America. Green’s piece can be read […]
“Now I know why Tigers eat their Young”
There could, and maybe should have been an open thread just on fond rememberances of the ’83 Championship team running non-stop all night. 25 years, could it really have happened that long ago? RR was in office and I was six years old and occasionally glancing the rim with my jump shot. In short, it […]
Campout Fiasco (Updated)
‘Crisis’ averted. Friday morning update – “After much consideration and work by student leaders, specifically Jay Dawkins, an agreement was reached with Dr. Tom Stafford. The agreement was reached that all 2,847 tickets will be allotted to Campout.” The following was our original entry on the topic as of Thursday night: For the years that […]
