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Larry Brown can f-cking coach. See SMU, as Exhibit A.
Not only can Brown coach, he cannot stop coaching. He could’ve retired, but he won’t. The man needs to be on the sidelines.
Too bad for us UNC-Cheat is coached by an old-timer, who was around for those 9 losses in a row and remembers NCSU-UNC being THE RIVALRY in the the state. Roy would rather walk over broken glass and have his players run wind sprints over broken glass than lose to NCSU.
Too bad for UNC-Cheat fans as well, because they’ve moved on from the 1970’s and only care about beating Duke. They look at NCSU as a poor suffering little brother, who they will regularly root for against other opponents, because it’s better a UNC System school win than someone from out of state.
I’m glad, in retrospect, the national media did not jump on this earlier. I think there is so much tangible evidence now implicating the MBB program that Cheater Hill will be under the cross hairs for a long time.
The original scandal was Marvin Austin hanging out with agents in Miami.
The basketball program was officially not involved.
Now that Prof Nyang’oro has been indicted for fraud and will be giving testimony under oath, there will more and more coming out about the basketball program.
The football program was already hit with a post-season ban and reduced scholarships for all the stuff with agents and impermissible benefits, which it turns out has been just the tip of the iceberg, with regards to the corruption on Orange County.
I do not think the national media would have been comfortable questioning the MBB program before Nyang’oro’s indictment because it was supposed to be the one program that had been doing things “the right way” for over 50 years, on the heels of the Dixie Classic point shaving scandal, Frank McGuire being forced out and Dean Smith being promoted supposedly with the mandate to run a clean program and win if you can.
Knocking down the facade of the “the Carolina Way” that has been built up over more than half a century will not happen overnight, but it is happening.
Every story, every article and the eventual trial of Nyang’oro is going to knock more and more bricks out of the “the Carolina Way” facade, until it can no longer stand up to scrutiny, whether or not the NCAA gets off its ass and does anything.
UNC is one of the few national collegiate brands in this country. People far and wide, who have only a passing interest in college basketball will root for UNC for whatever reason. Many even buy UNC swag.
Hopefully this will at least take a bite of their national appeal and cause a drop in their sale of shirts, caps, etc.
I think that’s about the only thing that is going to come out of these scandals.
In good news Friday, I’ve seen the CNN article linked a non-sports blogs as a topic of discussion.
The message is getting heard about the corruption in Chapel Hill (and college athletics in general) and pressure will mount on the GA and BOG to do something.
As far as why the national media is just noticing this now, I think it has to do with Nyang’oro’s indictment by a grand jury for criminal fraud because now there is something that has been proven to be more concrete, with regards to the scandal at Chapel Hill, than the shoddy internal investigations done by UNC and the NCAA investigation.
In short, after the indictment, “there is a there there” to follow up on.
“But I really believe the “one and done” rule has done colleges and college basketball a disservice on many levels. If kids don’t want to go to college then don’t make them. ”
RedReid, I think you miss the point of the “Carolina Way”. They had a 100% graduation rate in men’s college basketball.
All the players, who left early for the NBA draft, came back and finished up their degrees.
It doesn’t matter if it was as far back as Jordan or as recently as McCants or anyone else from any era in between. They all came back and finished their degrees, so the university could say they had a 100% graduation rate in men’s college basketball.
The one-and-done rule didn’t impact this much. The “Carolina Way” still got players back
“life sucks the year after losing something like 80% of your scoring…what else could you expect?”
At some point, the replacements you recruit should be able to give you some sort of scoring options for the players you lost. Maybe not as good, but at least a bit better than Warren or bust.
Also, good point Choppack1.
Food for thought: I did not become an NCSU fan until my freshman year, in the fall of 1992 (moved around a good bit as a kid).
The latter Herb Sendek era is the high point of my life as an NCSU fan.
The last two years were nice, but we underachieved last year and this year’s team stinks.
We don’t even look to go into the low-post anymore for offense. No touches for Anya, Washington and Vandy with their backs to the basket.
Just wing players going out of control to the basket or jump shots.
I’d like to think this is “just one game” but I do not see us being anything more than an NIT bubble team this year, at best.
Watching other schools play in March, even in the NIT, is going to suck.
I don’t think we have the ability to come back.
10/12 shooting this half by Pitt…the reason we are down.
http://www.feed2all.eu/watch/230790/1/watch-pittsburgh-vs-north-carolina-state.html
Feed, if anyone else is in black out zone
Anyone know if this game is being streamed live anywhere?
ESPN 3 (I guess thanks to ACC expansion) has expanded the black out area to include the greater Philadelphia area, where no ACC teams play and ACC games do not get regional coverage.
“Is the same New York Times that recently confirmed that Benghazi was the result of a video?”
The NYT Benghazi article was good old fashioned journalism, where they tracked down witnesses and put together a story. That sort of reporting takes time to make sure you get it right. I wish there was more in-depth reporting like that.
The national media must be having a slow news day to finally notice the cesspool that is UNC-Cheat.
The attention from the NYT is nice, but what really matters is if it makes it onto ESPN.
In the sports world, ESPN is where the people, who care about sports go for general information and the people who care about sports would react and demand accountability, because they feel their schools have been screwed in the past for less.
Whether the NCAA would care is a different story, but it might put a dent into the national UNC-Cheat brand; and yes UNC-Cheat is one of the few colleges with a national brand, where you can see people all across the country wearing and stores selling UNC-Cheat swag, who have nothing to do with the university.
I await a professor to write a case study of how to use what UNC-Cheat has done to break rules and get away with it for so long, because many entities across the globe would love to emulate the folks at Cheater Hill. I really think a professor could be to PR, what Michael Porter is for analyzing competition, if they study how UNC-Cheat got away with it and show it as a repeatable method.
Tau,
Nick Foles played in 7 games his rookie year, when the Eagle’s finished 4-12, i.e. on a bad team like Glennon is on this year.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/14877/nick-foles
He rushed 11 times for 42 yards. He had six TD’s to 5 Int’s with a 60.8% completion percentage, and averaged 6.41 yards per attempt.
My point is the Eagles cleaned house of bad players. Had two good drafts in 2012 and 2013 and got a new infusion of life with a new coaching staff that has turned out to be pretty good.
Glennon is not good enough to excel with a bad team around him. In a good situation, with a good coaching staff and good talent around him, I think he could one of the better QB’s in the NFL.
He seems very similar to Nick Foles, who is a product of the system he is in at this point in his career.
I see not reason, why Glennon cannot be that good in the right situation.
Not as scientific as some of the metrics you guys use, but Seattle had the 4th best rushing attack this season. Tampa Bay had the 22nd best.
The offensive load was not as dependent on Wilson, as the load was at Tampa.
Plus Seattle has a very good defense, which can take the pressure off the offense to always have to make plays.
Wilson is doing very well in Seattle, I’ll take nothing away from him.
I just think if you took Glennon and plugged into Philadelphia, in place of Nick Foles, Glennon could put up Foles type numbers. The two are fairly similar in size, (lack) of athleticism and having strong arms that can make all the throws needed from an NFL QB.
The new coaching staff in Philadelphia has turned out to be really good and Foles is playing at a high level, for the most part, since he became the starter.
This may be the rebuilding year we managed to put off with Howell, Brown, Leslie and Wood plus help from transfers in Gott’s first year and Painter.
We did not do the little things, like keep Mizzou off the offensive glass in the second half that really hurt us down the stretch.
Anya and Vandy are not guys, who will do well against smaller line-ups. They are not quick enough. Vandy will never be. Anya maybe, if he can get his weight down.
I do not think we will make the NCAA Tournament this year, unless we pull of some huge upsets against the top 1/3rd of the ACC.
We are rebuilding.
Johnson & Johnson’s response to the Tylenol tampering of the early 1980’s has been a well studied case for how to properly do “damage control”.
I think the UNC-Cheat’s athletic departments handling of the recent spate of scandals should also be studied as a case of well handled “damage control”, because these fuckers get to keep screwing around and get away with it, while the fans and media fall over themselves to pretend their shit doesn’t stink. The evil genius required to pull this off really is impressive, in a perverse way.
Write the league office:
Atlantic Coast Conference
4512 Weybridge Lane
Greensboro, NC 27407We are the consumers/end-users of their product. Let them know their product sucks and needs to change.
Other than an Occupy the ACC League office sort of sit-in, which many won’t have time for, I think this is about the best we can do.
There are 10,000’s of Wolfpack fans in the Wolfpack nation. If each one writes one letter a week and mails it to the league office, they should get the hint we’re not happy with their product.
“What I saw from Glennon was a QB with a strong, accurate arm who needs to become accustomed to game speed. I’m not down on Glennon at all. Quite the opposite actually. I’m excited we will have him as our QB the next two years, and look forward to many great games from him as the season progresses.’
Pretty much my thoughts on Glennon. He threw a lot of balls behind receivers, but he has the arm to be very good, if he can mentally play faster and get his timing down.
I agree with what one of the commentators said, he throws a pretty ball.
Hopefully it will translate to something positive this year.
