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Remember this is just phase two of the Defense….
1. Denial
2. Didn’t Know what we were doing was wrong cause everybody’s doing.Then the Big Flip… probably end of next week…
3. Perhaps these things are wrong (which is not the same as “we were wrong” )
4. The NCAA investigated us for years and said nothing about this.
5. We have stopped doing what we were doing that we didn’t know at the time was wrong.
6. We are going to Lead the Nation in effecting major NCAA reform.
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While on the western front out in San Diego…. the NCAA is fighting for its life…
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10311275/majority-delegates-ncaa-convention-wants-power-conference-autonomy
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Anybody else NOTICE…. that there was a timed release ( around 4:00pm ) of an news article at WRAL (ABC affifiate) EVERY DAY THIS WEEK which was picked up by the AP and ESPN (ABC).As Mr. Dog suggested a couple of weeks ago… this Show has a whole different beat and is NOT being run by the *NC PR machine.
It’s just a matter of time before the Smart People in Chapel Hill give the Invisible People in Pennsylvania and California and elsewhere what they really want — the NCAA head on the proverbial plate.
*NC is the trojan horse that brings the NCAA down.
It’s just a matter of time. No way out.#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Back in the day…. Bell Labs and the Carolina Missile Plant were full of EEs & MEs from NC State….
Can you copy that list of labs at MII and paste here….
All I’ve seen is that most of the money is coming from the Dept of Energy… and that there’s some emphasis on ‘electronics’….
Thanks.#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!While there are substantive differences between property tax rates between the States…. at a more fundamental level, the whole concept of “property taxes” dates to Jefferson and his ideals of the Republic governed solely by free landowners.
Without any revision, except in property valuations and the rates charged thereto, governments have clung dearly to that revenue source due their abject inability, both politically and philosophically, to do the necessary thing which would be to replace a two hundred year old broken system with something viable that matches the modern world and it’s economy.
Quite the opposite often occurs, as government extoll the virtues of such a time proven system while the hidden costs of the economic stagnation that occurs while under the property tax burden are fuzzy numbers known only to economists with letters after their names and rarely published in ways that make sense to the common man, who sadly but not unexpectedly, is quite happy having someone else pay his taxes.
POP!
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!OK… try this…
1. “Talent” and athleticism are NOT synonyms.
2. “Talent” is doing more with less…. NOT doing less with more.And then there are the two dimensions….
1. The Individual
2. The TeamSo may we say that Individual “Talent” does not directly translate into Team “Talent” ??
Basketball is a team sport.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!^well put BJ… especially the last sentence….
Perhaps as, if not more important, and perhaps why, votes like these should be Player and Coach only — not fans, is Russell Wilson is a LEADER….period.
But all of us here at SFN… already knew that… first hand, but it still needed to be said.
Just imagine a bunch of thirty-something men, busting their butts to do the impossible, because a kid in his early twenties TOLD THEM to…
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!RE: post editing… cannot edit a post after there are comments…. otherwise I’ve had no problem editing posts where I was the author.
… AND can we add back the private message/email functionality between SFN members ???
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!“Swoff’s alma mater will go down in history as the greatest cheater and destroy the only governing body in college sports.”
Works like a charm for me !!!
And it’s the only way out.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!“Willingham filed a seven-page “declaration” of support for the athletes in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., this week…” (in the O’Bannon Case against the NCAA)
Ya’ll may remember it was first suggested here on SFN — weeks ago — that the national attention now being shown *NC had nothing to do with *NC and everything to do with the NCAA.
Watch what happens next…. *NC will confess its sins, find new faith and cross the street and become a passionate leader for TOTAL NCAA REFORM with DOOK following closely behind.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Consider that the “rules” have changed…. Things ain’t necessarily what they appear to be.
Today’s manufacturing in the United States in capital intensive not labor intensive — for example, let’s consider… a $300 million dollar facility that creates 88 jobs… as opposed those old textile, furniture or tobacco mills where 1000s of people worked.
That said… the reason that governments are pushing manufacturing is…
1. Under archaic property tax laws, that capital investment generates significant tax revenues for local government.
2. Smart businesses have transferred most all of their job training and pre-employment screening costs to community colleges, which are government agencies funded in large part by tax revenues.
3. The optics with “economic development” are strongly positive for government leaders. “Economic development” creates tons of good press.However, when that plant closes 3, 5, or 7 years later as a significant percentage of those brought to North Carolina in the last twenty years have– the governor and his entourage don’t hold a press conference or a ribbon “tying”.
Just as, if not more so, important…. property taxes on a closed plant are exactly equal to those paid when that plant was fully operational.
And in many cases, the front end costs absorbed by governments for job training, road improvements, turning lanes and stop lights are not fully recovered.
The industrial general contractors and their prime sub-contractors and their suppliers who build the large manufacturing plants are almost always from out-of-state so less than one fifth of the construction costs stays in North Carolina.
Consider also that in most all cases, most of the middle and top management people transfer in from elsewhere when that plant opens so less than one half of it’s operational payroll goes to local people who got those new jobs. Finally, the job skills required at the lower levels are so specialized in today’s manufacturing plants that they do not easily transfer to another employer.
The bottom line here is that “Economic Development” the way the game is played ( North Carolina wrote the book starting back in the early 1980’s which most other states read and copied) makes a whole lot of political noise and moves tons of money around but
In the end the numbers don’t really turn out that good and relatively few North Carolina people benefit long term.
From the other side of the street…. having grown up in the former “Sock capital of the world”…. I remember when the Haw River foamed and changed colors — purple, orange, red — every time the big denim mill changed their dye vats. There’s a reason that women wore breathing masks in the weave rooms of the cotton mills. Point is — we really are very happy that some Chinese people see all that now instead of us and we really don’t want those manufacturing jobs back in North Carolina.
So that’s the challenge…. find / create some kind of “manufacturing plant” that…
1. Is clean and safe, because without the approval of the environment crowd — nothing else happens,
2. Plays a living wage, teaches / trains it’s workers transferable job skills, and provides promotional opportunities,
3. Makes products or provides services where the market is broad based and value of those products or services is profitable to the business that operates the new plant
4. Pays its own training cost and its share of taxes
And
5. Has a reasonably predictable life cycle of twenty to thirty years…instead of five.There are ninety out of one hundred counties (the other North Carolina) that “need” that plant….
As for NCS-MII…. just take the money, do the research and sell the results….
It’s somebody else’s job to worry about all of the above._________
FWIW… I was a member of the EDC in one of those counties in The Other North Carolina for a few years.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Don’t think Tyler would have made much of a difference tonight….
He can’t solve our problems in the Paint by himself.And FWIW…. there were reasons Mr. Barbour didn’t get more offers from the top tier bball schools.
Athleticism was not one of them.#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Tyler’s been sick with the flu since Monday and did not practice this week.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Did somebody say…
“GOTT needs to put our kids in a ZONE and tell them not to foul.” ??
Wake’s man dribbles the length of floor to the basket for a layup and a foul…
How the F does that happen ????#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!GOTT needs to put our kids in a ZONE and tell them not to foul.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Ya’ll know… with our kids…
calling that TO to setup an offensive play to win might not have been the best idea.The kids might do better running with the Deacs in disarray.
We shall see.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Somebody has GOTT to get it thru their head…
ANTHONY one on 3, one on 4 and one on 5 is NOT an offensive option nor a game plan.Listening to Tony and Gary tell me how good we are playing is getting rather tiresome…
And I like listening to Tony and Gary.Nevertheless… radio is a wholehellalotbetter than the TV.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!@Rick — It’s not Lucky….doing us in….
As I predicted with 19:35 left in the second half,
It’s Coach Bzzz’s 2/3 Zone that is wrecking havoc….Don’t worry about it….
we GOTT THREE things in our favor going down to the wire…..ANTHONY on THREE
our THREE Point shooting (2-10)
and THREE guys with 4 fouls…Time for Coach to throw that CHAIR if he’s GOTT it in him.
This game is over.#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!WE need to put the UCLA high post against the Zone on the back burner and run something that works with our guys.
I’ve seen nine graders run better Zone offense than we do.
Absolutely no movement by our Bigs in the paint rotating inside the Zone.Our bigs couldn’t get in shooting position on the f’ingBlock if it had a sixpack sitting on it.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Four trips down the floor against that 2/3 zone and we take 3 three pointers….
with a SEVEN FOOT center playing against a 6’6″ defender.We have NO f’ing offense against the Zone.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!Coach Bzzzz switches to the Zone to open the second half…
He must have been reading SFN…
I wonder how our Coaches will ADJUST to this…. or not ?#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!@Texpack — yep…
I thought #DoobieBros were sitting on our bench against the ‘Hoos.
#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
