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Some idiot “down east” will put cotton in the ground before April 15th and win the prize in more ways than one.
Two points of emphasis when the size of the operation increases by multiples:
1) mental agility/fighting tunnel vision
2) financial acumenThose are by far the two biggest road blocks to year in year out success for any operation I have encountered.
McCallum
I forget what year it was but Bob Black (one of the first guys to go to work for Lowes, ended as VP of sales) was playing golf in Myrtle Beach with Todd Turner. Cell phones were a novelty but Turner had one and was getting calls from Ray Tanner about up grades to the baseball facility.
Tanner wanted lights and an extra $5,000/year.
Turner nixed it there on the phone in front of Bob Black (who retired at 42).
Tanner left shortly there after.
McCallum
This has been great reading so far. The best two lines came from the article about the Indiana-NC State coaching carousels (Debbie You is a divisive AD) and from McCallum, about Mickey McCarthy of the N&O.
Calling You “divisive” was sugar-coating it. McCarthy was far worse (based on personal inside information) than anything I read on here from McCallum or anyone else, but it was a good start nevertheless. As for the N&O, it is far worse now than it ever was under Claude Sitton. A good “for example” is in today’s edition, which gives the bulk of its Daytona 500 coverage to Mexican-born Daniel Suarez, who is “finding his place in racing and President Trump’s America”.
Can’t agree on the N&O being worse. They once gave unc ultimate punt coverage, nothing was reported or even mentioned. The bastard Sitton had a stated goal of running Valvano out of Raleigh.
Sitton fit nice nicely with the unc narrative and his disposition toward State was colored by his intense dislike of the agrarian South. In context, Sitton was a voice of progress through his direction of the paper where the focus on Democratic New Deal-Great Society politics served as cornerstones along with civil rights legislation as a guide toward what an enlightened North Carolina should become (personified by Erksome Bowles). We see his vision now in the lifeless/soulless cul de sacs of Wake, Durham and Orange Counties where community life is essentially one of flux and alienation. We see his vision in the hypocrisy of the academic situation that started at unc in 1989, where his beloved tar heals twisted the system in their effort to negate the inherent differences between groups.
As for the Mexican in Trump’s America; he will be fine with a case of Budweiser, a fat blonde and a truck with fins.
McCallum
Ain’t but one.
Sitton was the real snake. The epitome of progressive white southern Democrat who, at his core, was an elitist and relied on the avant garde to provide him a moral high ground.
McCallum
McCarthy picked against State in every game during football season year in and year out.
He had an ax to grind against Sheridan that was hard to grasp. I recall a quote, “I’ll find the dirt on Sheridan one day”.
For people that did not behold the tremendous anti-State bias at the N&O, they simply can not believe a paper would write such things and push such an agenda.
State had just thumped unc 48-3 and I saw him in the causeway, “how’d you like that you son of a bitch?”.
McCallum
Claude Sitton, a real piece of work there for sure.
He had a lap dog that graduated from UGA. Mickey was hs first name, can’t recall the last.
McCallum
If State hires Archie will there be extra cash to pay for the phone books he’ll need to put in his chair to see over the desk?
McCallum
Earl Wernsman had it right when someone made mention of the demand for organic tobacco, “that’s for people that don’t want any nasty carcinogens in their nasty carcinogens.”
Damn funny.
McCallum
Rapidly advancing, I like that.
Has a humanist ring to it.
I’ll hang with the 5th edition. I’m rather old fashion so much so that I piss in the men’s shi.tter.
McCallum
*beware of snake oil. Just the facts please
Soil fertility and fertilizers by Nelson and Tisdale, 5th edition.
Excellent bedtime reading.
McCallum
Archie’s wife graduated from State, her dad Steve graduated from State.
I think you folks are WAYYYY over stressing the mystical urge to “come back”.
It is a business and emotional appeals are worthless unless you have a structure in place which allow the guy in charge to implement his plan. The emotional appeal is simply icing on the cake and should be tasteful and subtle, so subtle in fact that it only HINTS at emotional connections. Think of it like a light smell in a kitchen that causes you to think and taste, it encourages you to look forward to the meal.
State doesn’t do subtly or taste, it is always about cheap, tasteless and blunt force trauma.
I’m not sure he is dying to get back to the Char-Grill and I doubt he wants the baggage of the fan base heaping all of their hopes and desires upon him.
In Raleigh it is always 1974-1983/Les-Herb.
McCallum
Guys like Bilas and the Cheats sympathizers are scared to death of what’s gonna happen when their golden-boy HOF coaches retire. We’ve already seen a glimpse of it with Matt D in Cheat-land, and they’re damn lucky that ole Roy bailed them out. Then there are the times at Dookie-ville when Coach K’s back went out, and his fill-ins were less than stellar, and I’m being kind with that assessment. So of course they’re gonna trash us at every turn in hopes of keeping us down and less relevant than them. I have a feeling their days are numbered, and they know it.
I think there is a point in the D’oh! situation that reveals more than you would think about the goings on at unc.
Please recall D’oh! was their 5-6 th pick. At carolinasucks.com we printed Just Say No shirts that had a list of the people that turned down the job. They were rejected by several coaches that probably had a good understanding of the academic situation and what you would be governing over. They also realized what would happen if you slipped. Roy simply kicked the cheating into high gear, makes life easier.
Respect comes with performance and winning, both of those items earn you a reputation. When you walk on the field, court or in a meeting with a reputation it is worth “two divisions’ in the words of Napoleon.
Problem for State is their reputation is in line with a town drunk caught screwing goats behind the old elementary school.
McCallum
Major differences between soil and dirt.
Understanding the difference is a primary step in understanding the nature of soil physical properties and how those properties relate to all aspects of production and maintenance.
McCallum
“warm dirt”-bill.onthebeach
Soil bill, it is called soil.
wirogers may kill you but I’m here to save you.
McCallum
He should concern himself with another crop of one and done.
When the WOP at Kentucky opens a spot on staff for lover boy then we will see.
Just beating his gums, it’s not like lover boy has a wife, 3 kids, a mortgage and just lost his job at the Foundry in Biscoe.
McCallum
Debbie the Daring working last Saturday night…..oh my!
She is on it, taking care of business you see. Even missed a women’s game which she never does.
Wow.
See here lads. She HAD the VCU coach BUT his wife yanked his balls, VCU put together more money than State (snort!) and that is how State ended up with cheerleader banging lover boy.
But she WILL get it done.
She might even be working right now.
I think I’ll email and ask her about potpouri.
McCallum
Wanna little perspective?
I had breakfast this morning with a recently inducted NC State HoF basketball coach.He finally gets around to asking me what I know/expect for this year’s club. I told him that I was gonna ask him the same thing.
We kinda’ looked at each other, stupid-like, and grinned.
Okay Robert Frost, which path?
McCallum
If that tree was all that and a bag of (wood) chips then it would have told you about lover boy.
Old habits are hard to break and lover boy has his.
As for me, when I lived in Owen dorm, I didn’t want to walk all the way down the hall to piss out all of the Milwaukee’s Best Light from earlier in the night so I developed a bad habit of pissing in sinks.
McCallum
Kill it in the non revenue sports.
Get killed in revenue sports.
Same pattern up north.
I’m not sure how or if she was involved in that bad spending at merryland but what is the current financial state of Screw Up U?
McCallum
