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fwiw… there’s an analytical side to ‘business’ that can be just as ‘scientific’ as any hard science and a ‘mathematical’ side to business that can be just as ‘mathematical’ as any type of engineering…
At the end of the day… you want both sets of numbers — the descriptive and the predictive… to use in your decision making processes.
PA44 has done a good job of pointing the inherent bias in the media’s expectations of performance after a coaching change. The ‘give the guy time to install his system and recruit his kids’ is a ‘global’ (bias) variable as it applies to every coaching change in every sport at every level and is the generally accepted and proven message used by ‘management’ in an attempt to manage public opinion among a highly diverse group of stakeholders. Keep expectations low and out perform them and your job, for the most part, is safe.
The are also local variables (bias) which are unique to one school and one job.
In the case of NCState, that engineering/science/farmboy school cuts both ways….
My Pop was a math/physics/engineer guy who always said — “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong” — pure engineering logic, imo… And that’s exactly the logic and discipline we want from the guys who design and build our roads and bridges.
That ‘logic’ is also deeply embedded in the cultural DNA of NCState and in the case of ‘expectations’ is also a ‘bias’.
Another thing we don’t talk about is that for generations NCState attracted smart kids from all 100 counties who for one reason or another could not or would not attend another Big Four School. Those kids brought a common perspective of ‘the way things are around here’.
That too is also deeply embedded in the cultural DNA of NCState and in the case of ‘expectations’ is also a ‘bias’.
Now if you don’t know what I’m talking about not talking about, then you either weren’t born in North Carolina or you were born after 1985.
The point here perhaps is simply that for the same reason we might not set expectations high enough; we also don’t allow ourselves to enjoy exceeding them. One mistake is just as bad as the other.
In the case of THIS basketball season, after the last couple of seasons, it’s time to enjoy some ‘good’ basketball without over-thinking it…
Finally… this season is no fluke… and RT those W&Ls are both descriptive and predictive numbers and when we look at the bench and see Keatts and three classes of ‘his kids’… Uncle Roy and Coach Rat will retire, if they hadn’t already done so, because they can’t live with NCSTate kicking their a##es every time we go at it on the hardcourt…
Think about it… the only reason The Nose led UN* into the ‘cheating abyss’ was because they couldn’t live with NCState kicking their a##es every time we went at it on the hardcourt… Coach Rat simply followed The Nose down the same road.
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Well…. I think it’s safe to say… “We all LIKE what we seeing with Coach Keatts and this Team”…
Yes, all expectations for this season have been exceeded, so yes, it’s time for setting new expectations. Nobody knows yet how this one turns out but it’s been a helluva ride so far and nothing’s gonna change ’bout that…
In the meantime, as if beating Dook and UN* in the same season wasn’t enough… add this to the landmarks of this season…
The Wolfpack hadn’t won next game after beating Duke since 2003.
The Wolfpack hadn’t won next game after beating UN* since 2002.It might be good to lose one they shouldn’t just so some old folks can keep their feet on the ground and heads out of the clouds…
Just kidding… we’re going 2-0 this coming week!!!
Good night…GO PACK!
POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!In the afternoon round of today’s ACC….
In a yawner… ‘hoos 59 – ‘Cuse 44 … that’s right forty four pts in 40 minutes…
Miami squeaks by VaTech on a career day by Anthony Lawrence with 25 points which ought to put the Hokies in a real good mood for our game Wednesday night…
Miami by 7 over Danny and the Deacs… both teams are either better or worse than their records indicate and nobody knows which way that goes…
and the NOLES take a close one in Kentucky over Da’Ville, despite last minute heroics by Quentin Snider… which puts the WOLFPACK in FOURTH place in FEBRUARY in the conference standings (tied with Miami and Louisville ) … Now if I or any else had called that in the preseason, we’d been verbally abused to put it politely….
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Cheaters play Pitt in the Nose Dome tonight… which guarantees somebody’s losing streak will be broken… the problem there is that nobody else cares but the HOLES and Pitt…
GO PACK!
You just got to believe…
POP!!!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!^BS on a split…
It’s ICE CREAM time…
Three out of Four at the minimum…You just got to believe….
GO PACK!
POP!!!#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!St. Johns up 10 over Dook with 8 to play…
and three tough ACC matchups later today that will muddle up the middle of league even more…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Ballgame…
Smoke if you Got ’em….
On the Big Board
Irish 58
PACK 76From the tipoff, Keatts made ‘Taking Care of Business’ look easy, except for the last four or five minutes…
and the PACK earns a hard fought, modest victory…Hokies on Wednesday and the HOLES in the PNC next Saturday…
Could be a good week!
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!If you take away their 3s – which we’ve done – we gonna give up some 2s…
Can’t do both…we might need to get used to it…
PACK scoreless over the last 3 minutes…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!St. John’s up 8 against Dook with 11 to play…
They’re f#cking up our RPI…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Looking for “things to work on”?
Even in this drubbing all of ND points seem to be uncontested layups…
What do you want? A shutout?
If you take away their 3s – which we’ve done – we gonna give up some 2s…
Can’t do both…I’d rather ‘discuss’ our 12 turnovers in 32 minutes…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 8 (7:14 ) in the second half…
Irish 1
PACK 5
with 2 to play…Stick a fork in the Irish… they’re done…
This one is All over but the crying…Keatts ain’t gonna let our kids f#ck this one up…
And forget the White Team getting lot’s of minutes…
He wants a 30pt win to balance last month’s game on our RPI…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!NOT trading baskets so far this half…
We’re getting two for their one…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 12 (11:31) in the second half…
Irish 1
PACK 4No NCSS TODAY!
Keatts is the exorist…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!With that last assist, MARKELL has made 10 or assists in the last four games…
That breaks Chris Corchiani’s 1991 record of 3 games in a row…WOW!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!freshmanin83
I don’t know botb if one team is shooting 50% and other 25% maybe more than just trading baskets.16 pt halftime lead MINUS the 9-0 start = 7 pts
7pts = ABU’s defense on a half a dozen plays…
nothing left to subtract so we must be trading baskets…
In roundball, as in life… math is your friend…
—————————————–Now that’s all moot, as the PACK repeats the strong opening 5 minutes…
So we’ll “probably’ be trading baskets the rest of the way home…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 16 (14:47) in the second half…
Irish 1
PACK 4Beverly scores 7 in 4 minutes…
Markell with 9 assists so far today…I guess the only big question left is…
“When do the Walkons get to play?”GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Keatts still talking to Teddy on the way to the bench…
Go Get’m! Coach!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Been a long time since State had a 16 point lead on a league team at halftime.
In a ACC game — It’s like it’s been ‘forever’…
But that 16 point lead ain’t as big as it looks…
The 9-0 start and ABUs Defense accounts for all of it…
The rest of the box score says, for all practical purposes, we’re trading baskets…We CAN play better that this!
GO PACK !!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Teddy V choked on that last shot by the Irish…
Keatts with the earfull on the way to the locker room…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Halftime…
Smoke if you Got ’em….
Irish 1
PACK 3On the Big Board
Irish – 21
PACK – 37Now it’s time to ponder the halftime adjustments…
:>}And we still got to play the second half…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!If I told you guys, DORN was a ‘Closer’…
I don’t think you’d disagree…GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!At the Under 4 in the first half…
Irish 0
PACK 2We need 4 more minutes of INTENSITY and focus to take this lead to the locker room…
The normally sure handed Irish with 8 or 9 turnovers…
GO PACK!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
