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I don’t buy comparisons to C.J. Leslie, because T.J. has shown he is willing to do the work he needs to do to improve his game. He lost weight, he worked and improved on his outside jumper and he started showing a mid-ranger that wasn’t as effective as last year. C.J. was always the sort of guy who was going to rely on his athleticism and never someone who was going to be a gym rat until he added new tools to his belt.
Millions in athletics versus billions in academics. You have to seriously wonder why UNC’s leadership are undermining their professors — the bulk of whom are honest, hard working people — and putting their academic reputation at risk for eight wins in football and championships in basketball.
Overall, it indicates to me that their values are skewed and that boosters’ egos are more important than the core mission of the university. Holden Thorp was unable to effect change, and ended up leaving because he was turned into the bag man. Now they have Carol Folt, who is going along with all of this and using her unique skills at crisis management (the Scorched Earth Plan) to guide them back into what they think will be business as usual.
And meanwhile, the state government, who ostensibly represents the taxpayers who have to pony up every year for this scam, are whistling by the graveyard.
Some of you want banners to come down and that’s fine, but quite frankly, I think long prison sentences should be handed out to the true ringleaders. That will never happen, of course, because in NC, the tail wags the dog and the university runs the government, not the other way around as it should be.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/21/3721266/group-unc-broke-state-law-by-harassing.html
I hope that Willingham employs attorney Michael Byrne of Raleigh. This is right up his alley — Byrne represents state employees who have been mistreated by the system and he is perhaps one of the best at what he does.
The discovery would be epic. And by epic, I mean 70mm 3-D Panavision Charlton Heston Academy Award winning *epic.*
Me, I am glad to see Wichita State gone. I got tired of hearing how great they are…far as I am concerned, they were a 3rd or 4th place ACC quality team playing in a weak conference. Southern Illinois and Missouri State? Yeah, that’s some top flight conference competition.
The schitzo analysis of Gott is crazy. Plenty of voices on here when we made the tourney were praising him. Now, there is again talk of firing him, buying him out, etc. I realize these are different voices on each side, but come on.
Agreed. Maybe it is the excruciating way that the team lost on Thursday, but the reality is that Gottfried took a team that lost almost all of its scoring, all of its upperclassmen save Vandenberg and managed to exceed what many people said was their ceiling.
Next year, most everyone from this team is returning. Losing TJ Warren is of course a concern, but with Washington/Freeman, we should be okay, especially as they will be a year older, stronger and smarter.
That’s not going to get any coach bought out. Getting fired is crazy talk.
Hiring Gott is a sunk cost. It should not be factored in when determining our future. If Archie isn’t hire away, give Gott one more year to lessen financial cost of firing him and hire Archie.
It’s highly unlikely Gottfried will be fired next season, unless the team has less than ten wins overall…and with the players he has, even minus T.J. Warren, coupled with the players coming in or losing redshirts, that’s simply not going to happen.
Yeah, if we had gotten a competent AD instead of Lee Fowler, life could have been very good for Wolfpack hoops fans right now.
At the same time, we shouldn’t take things for granted with the coaches and team we have now. Yes, Gottfried has his faults, but he has gotten the talent to come and this year’s team did exceed expectations in a big way.
My theory is that Smart to WF is another negotiating tactic with VCU. Keep in mind VCU is for all intents and purposes the size of NC State and they really want to keep their guy. Wake will offer, VCU will counter and Smart will be in Richmond next year.
Howland, on the other hand, is a great coach if you love games in the 50’s. Me, I would rather have my teeth pulled with no novacaine.
I won’t fully repeat my comments from the Xavier preview here, but they still apply. In brief:
Chemistry
Team play
Improved defense
TJ WarrenWolfpack by five.
That Lunardi, Goodman, and Seth Davis circlejerk will be a mighty sad one tonight.
Goodman seems to be saying nice things:
Jeff Goodman ?@GoodmanESPN 3h
One thing I really like about TJ Warren is his demeanor. Seems to have really matured. Heck of a player.Jeff Goodman ?@GoodmanESPN 3h
Could wind up as lottery pick. @derrick_goins: @GoodmanESPN Warren has to be a serious nba prospect, that guy can scoreJeff Goodman ?@GoodmanESPN 3h
Really impressive performance thus far by N.C. State. Wolfpack in control against Xavier.This applies tonight:
“When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment… or the moment defines you.” —Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy
Analytically, The X by 5 makes perfect sense.
On the other hand, there are intangibles in play, and I think that’s where the difference will come from, and that’s where I like the Wolfpack (without knowing two things about Xavier.)
Why? Simple. The team learned a valuable lesson on Friday: that it can beat a top team, but that it has to be on board for the whole game. That lesson was reinforced Saturday in the first half against Duke, and in the second half, it was painfully reinforced when Raulston “Shoot First, Think Later” Turner couldn’t find the nets.
I think it will be State by 5. Hell, why not, we’ve been living on a prayer for so long I may as well start being optimistic about this thing.
The fact that SMU was ranked not only meant nil to the committee, it also shows that writers and team trainers know eff-all about how to effectively rank the teams.
There will ALWAYS be a B1G bias, as the midwestern sportswriters apparently only fap to their own teams while they are writing their stories and making their votes. Yes, Michigan, Mich State and Wiscy are very good. A lot of those other teams in the B1G are not quite as impressive as they are made out to be IMO.
Same for the SEC in football. Reall, the dominance of the SEC’s middle tier in the top 20 would not be quite as impressive if they played meaningful OOC schedules.
The basketball selection committee, however, uses a much more analytical and objective approach and it leads to this, albeit with the addition of people who have learned about 97.5% of how things are done by inference. Lunardi, Pomeroy and others think their formula is foolproof, and when they are made to look like fools, they act like children.
Goodman is a special case of overall dumbassery and willful ignorance that makes me wonder how anyone takes him seriously. Somehow he has ingratiated himself into a media cicle-jerk where he appears to be an expert but is in fact only a provocateur…at best.
Also, I should add that I hope Wellman remembers how his Demon Deacons won in W/S against us and how that victory may mean the difference.
Let’s hope Wellman represents well then.
Really, the ACC deserves six. I’d love for it to be us, obviously.
“Ron Wellman knows this. He’s voting us in…how much sway does he have with other selection members.”
Question – do committee members have to recuse themselves when it comes to their conference or just their own team? Curse his name, I think I remember Fowler saying that from his days on the NCAA TSC.
I still say that if the Selection Committee has a sense of humor (and you know they do) we’ll play the Desert Fox in Dayton.
No matter what, either way we’ll be mentioned one way or the other on the talking head shows. We’ll have some making our case and others denigrating us as much as they can.
Either way, Seth “Uncle Fester” Greenberg will have nothing good to say about us. I barely found him tolerable during the season this year, but after his stream of insults towards us an TJ Warren the past couple of days, he’s become a channel-changer whenever I see his smug face on the television.
Less than nothing.
I know it is an unpopular idea around here, but I think Debbie Yow’s legacy will be a negative one because we sold the equivalent of “lifetime rights” to the conference by signing off the grants of rights and they know now that no matter how unbalanced their treatment of us and other mid-tier schools is, we have no recourse whatsoever.
Along with LTRs ruining the basketball atmosphere, that was one of the worst things State has ever done to itself. We’ve gone quite far to doom ourselves, and in inimitable NC State fashion, we did it to ourselves.
Will today be the return of “King Karl” Hess to calling NC State games?
Will the ACC have the sack to do that on the day of a game with as much importance as this one?
The funny thing about the Big East’s agreement with the Garden is that the Garden will be torn down and rebuilt someplace else in the 6-10 year range. The city of New York only gave the Garden a ten year license renewal to continue operations last year with the understanding that would be the last of it because there are plans to rebuild and expand Penn Station, which the current Garden sits on top of.
The interesting question for New Yorkers is where the new Garden will be. There’s mention of the Chelsea Piers area or possibly up to the north of Manhattan where the Jets once talked of building a new stadium in recent years before MetLife.
The ACC would prefer to set their own standard of whether and how to feed a football championship game.
No surprise there considering that the ACC has chosen to concentrate all of its consistent football powers in one division. The Coastal is a bit of a joke save for VT, and they’ve fallen on hard times from a national standpoint of late. It will be interesting to see if they can reclaim their former regular top-10 membership status after Beamer retires. Seems like his style of football has fallen by the wayside in this era of hurry-up spread offenses.
Miami’s guards are quicker than ours…
Which is why Cat Barber is the key to victory.
When we played Miami at home, it was no coincidence that we went on a run to grab a one-point lead when he was in the game. That’s when Gottfried put Lewis back in, and Miami’s guards we able to run wild because Lewis can’t keep up with them.
Cat needs to play as well as he has lately – only two TO’s in the past three games – and he needs to play the bulk of this game.
This is one helluva knowledge drop and I read and then re-read this post to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Great work, VaWolf, and the kind of factual dissection that I really enjoy.
I hate to say this, but poor officiating might cost us a bid. Put Warren on the line at Syracuse for an and-one, and give UNC the foul against Warren in Raleigh, we’re probably dancing.
Yes, we could conceivably have pulled out both of those games, but damn, it’s been heartbreaking to see a team with lesser talent play its heart out against heavily favored opponents and be in a position to win only to have the curse that is ACC officiating cost the team chances to close out those wins.
The worst part of it is that the conference will never, ever admit they’ve got a problem. People say that expansion hurt the conference, but I think that in reality, the blatant favoritism hurts even more. Gone is the ACC identity of “anyone can beat anyone” — it’s nigh on impossible to pull out close wins when the officials are favoring the top teams when it matters the most.
