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I would, however, as a State fan, be remiss in not mentioning the two missed balk calls on that lefty in the mid-innings when Deatherage was on first. Blatant. Way past 45 degrees towards home plate when throwing to first. I saw Steve Carlton get rung up on that once and this was much worse.
Making the trip to Durham tomorrow. If the brooms could come out this would be HUGE (of course not until Sunday).
This team makes Avent look much more like Earl Weaver. Which I like very much. I’m actually disappointed when they score less than 8 or 9 a game.
Freaking Murderer’s Row.
Told ya it was gonna be a cool game.
Yes it was. Great night to sit out and watch a baseball game with that kind of hatred.
love the idiot hole out at second trying to stretch a single into a double while down 5…
Pretty much the paraphrase of what I said after he did so with the right fielder holding the ball. Except I think I used “moron”.
All of us (well, most of us) have spoken in the past of NC State S***.
As bad as it got, I’m not sure it was ever as bad as Cincinnati S***.
That’s some serious S***.
If there’s a legitimate bracket that has a chance left…
I want to know HOW? that sob did it???Vodka.
I thought Louisville was more deserving than Syracuse
100%. And Notre Dame deserved more consideration than Syracuse as well.
Amazing how driven it all is by TV revenue. Should know this by now but I never cease to be amazed by it.
I think I may have mentioned this at some point, maybe not.
But, I have no shame in admitting I may have, and most probably have, egg on my face. And, possibly, it’s time to eat crow.
I started this thread in all sincerity. I didn’t like what I saw from UNCW at Elon. But, I’m not an expert.
Nor should I ever claim to be.
I am firmly on the Kevin Keatts train and hope we will stick with this guy. He does look like a winner.
Crow is actually pretty good when gutted and defeathered properly and baked in butter.
Channeling some CC Harrison today. Earned his scholarship, a year’s use of a rental Escolade, a .45 and some blow. Wait. Wrong team.
Blew it out my nose on that one.
Mea culpa coming on another thread.
It was a technical foul to reach out of bounds and touch the ball while the inbounder had it back when I played
This is what I was thinking of. Thanks Texpack.
I asked earlier, but isn’t it a violation for the D to be on or over the line on an inbounds? On both those plays they were.
I may be wrong, but it seems that long ago it used to be a technical foul.
I would like to think these guys have been talking amongst themselves and are on the same page. Who knows?
Speedy’s is really good. Failed to mention Barbecue Center earlier, with mountain-sized banana splits.
ATL: Watershed. Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls owns part of it. I ate there several years ago when it was still in a converted gas station in Decatur. Now it’s in Brookwood Hills on Peachtree. They had then, and still have now, Fried Chicken Wednesdays (not typically on the menu), and assuming they haven’t changed the recipe, it is sublime. In my mind, the only superior chicken I’ve sampled is Austin Leslie’s fried chicken served up in N’awlins at Chez Helene (which is not there anymore and Austin’s gone on to the Great Beyond; died of a heart attack in Atlanta after being forced to leave due to Katrina).
Couple of other Charleston places:
Poogan’s Porch (very nice Shrimp and Grits)
Carolina’sAuthentic New Mexican:
Sadie’s, AlbuquerqueAuthentic New Mexican and Breakfast:
The Frontier, Albuquerque, across from UNM – it’s a bit of a frantic scramble but worth it.Authentic New Mexican Breakfast:
Loyola’s, Albuquerque – they filmed some of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul here but the burritos are terrific.Their Pork Tenderloin biscuits are fantastic – and the line routinely goes out the door as locals wait for it.
I do NOT recommend the Lexington BBQ festival. I thought I was going to some kind of BBQ Mecca. It was not. It was just another fall fest. Arts and crafts, a beer garden and like 2 tents serving BBQ. Boo….
Double score.
I used to work on that end of town (hell I lived a mile from Country Barbecue…the neighborhood wasn’t bad yet but we got out in time about 12 years ago…actually got completely out of Greensboro). The barbecue was great and the pork tenderloin biscuit was out of this world, especially with their Lexington barbecue sauce.
I love all the Lexington barbecue places, but the festival is ridiculous. The one time that we went was Fedora’s first year when we lost to them and I wondered how there could be anybody at the game because everyone in North Carolina was at that frigging festival. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that many people in one place in my life, and that includes the State Fair. Found a tent to buy barbecue, which was great, but gee whiz.
Soccer sucks.
It’s a nice game for kids to get to learn team skills with other kids (maybe) but from a bystander’s standpoint, the scoring is ridiculously low (we all love to see a score), and, truthfully, the game is molasses slow.
If we have to go international, give me rugby versus soccer.
Ice took soccer to a much higher viability.
Bridge Tender is still outstanding.
Seafood Hut in Calabash has fallen off considerably. Management changed and the service has gotten molasses slow and the food is just average now. Hate that. That had become our goto in the Brunswick Isles.
Muffaleta from Central grocery
Score.
Pronounced “muffalotta” of course.
Alabama Jack’s on Card Sound Road on the way to Key Largo. As much for the local experience as the food.
Better Than Sex, which is a great place to get desserts in Key West with decidedly racy themes. Really good place to take your open-minded lady.
Island Grill, Islamorada, FL. Breakfast. Kill for it. But they took a huge hit with Irma and the original locations are going to take some time to be restored.
How coincidental.
My wife and I, earlier in the year, planned a trip in mid-October to Albuquerque for the annual balloon fiesta and a very much recommended Breaking Bad RV tour. The airfare for flights in and out of ABQ were ridiculous (presumably due to the Fiesta) and so we settled on flying in and out of El Paso and driving up. It worked out wonderfully, as the three-hour 85 MPH drive went swimmingly, and ABQ is a great city to get around in. We took in White Sands and Alamogordo on the way back.
The airfares are equally as ridiculous into El Paso around the bowl dates. So I looked at a reverse sort of itinerary. Didn’t help. ABQ is still ridiculously expensive.
So, it looks like we’re going to pass on this one and leave it to the moneybag people. Hate it.
If anyone has the bitcoin to finance this trip, by all means, do it. El Paso gets a bad rap. We thoroughly enjoyed our overnight stay there and I was impressed with the area around the stadium and the city itself. The stadium reminds me a lot of Tempe Stadium, oddly enough.
Which probably doesn’t bode well for us.
This was and is a great, great story. Thanks Cowdog.
Yesterday was one of those games you have people sitting behind you that only stir up angst. And they are, for lack of a better word, the very epitome of the “Walmart Kerliner Fan”.
A half-dozen or more. I could have made a doc off of these guys. They were hooting and hollering and invoking Ric Flair.
After Hyem’s second TD, they left. Hated that.
Thanks NCAA for doing what was right. But only after you pushed an innocent kid to lawyer up.
In fairness, I will accept the explanation of the NCAA that “additional information” only now discovered led to this reversal.
In closing: Scott Tompsett is the man.
* I just listened to the presser. He most certainly did say that the LBs were NOT in the proper alignment (Mac?). Note: He did not throw them under a bus, either.
Hey Dawg,
Do you think that’s a dig at Hux? Sorry if I’m being Captain Obvious.
I don’t think it’s gimmicky. It’s good, solid, hard-nosed hustle.
What does concern me is the lack of defensive effectiveness at times. This is what concerned me when I saw UNC-W play last season. Big guys driving to the basket undefended. Saw it a few times tonight.
I still feel better about Keatts then when I posted that he wasn’t the coach for us a few months ago. But tonight I had flashbacks to that Elon game I attended last year, and in a lot of ways it looked similar.
Still like Keatts. I think he can be as effective a recruiter as Gott, and I feel he is a better coach. But I’d really like to stop seeing this pattern of lousy defense against big guys on the perimeter; guys that your personnel ought to be able to stop from driving to the basket.
Any way this goes, the NCAA has to be lawyered up to the hilt. Because they are getting sued.
If they drop the hammer on unx, they are getting sued. By unx.
If they let them off with anything remotely close to what most of us think they are going to get (read: wrist slap), they are getting sued. By numerous member institutions, some within the ACC and a lot within the SEC and elsewhere within the member conferences.
unx has created a huge amount of trouble for the NCAA and it likely represents a breaking point, and a major reorganization of college sports.
I think, either way this goes, the NCAA will not exist in its present form going forward.
This brings to mind the old “fill it up with water joke” with the genie. I’m sure everybody’s heard it.
I think when I entered State it was still 2:1 guys.
But it still was fun, even if the unknown of HIV slowed things up a bit. Stories of catching it from toilet seats, messages written on mirrors the morning after in lipstick from girls saying, “welcome to the world of AIDS.” It made one wary.
Still fun, and plenty of girls around, even if we had to go to Meredith/St. Mary’s/Peace.
