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Link to full schedule with times and announcers.
* How can one argue that we WEREN’T robbed of at least a couple of games this year? Particularly the @ Wake game where
* Doyel has come a LONG way. A LONG WAY.
* Goodman is so blinded by bias regarding NC State that he is actually hurting his credibility and doing his job poorly. Not that anyone in today’s media cares about credibility.
* We certainly didn’t let Goodman off the hook in our NCAA Tournament entry.
EVERYBODY has Michigan State advancing. I wanted to do something different…but, once you get into their projected draw it is hard not to have them advancing.
A lot of love for Wisconsin and Louisville from the analysts.
Seems to be a lot of inconsistency for Kansas.
General like for Iowa State.
Watch “Requiem for the Big East” if you didn’t see it. I obviously don’t think the ACC Tournament should have a permanent home in NYC, but I hope that some of you guys can ultimately recognize how good this can be (and how much fun it will be if you can figure out how to take the trip).
Yes. Middle of the ACC was undeniably weaker than the middle of the ACC in past years.
I do not think if the middle of the ACC was weaker than any of the other conferences against which we are competing THIS YEAR. Miami beat Arizona State. FSU beat VCU and UMass. Duke & UNC were #3 and #4 in our league and they beat the likes of Louisville; Michigan; Michigan State; UCLA and others. Maryland beat Providence and lost to UConn by one point. We tied in the Big 10 Challenge.
We seemed to do well against these other conferences. Yet, teams who did not perform well against other conferences (ASU, St Joe’s, Dayton, others) appear to be getting rewarded.
There ‘bad teams’ in every league. That’s why it makes sense to use numbers instead of subjectivity. Also, we don’t all get to play those bad teams multiple times like the teams in other conferences due to the imbalanced schedule.
At the end of the day, many of these teams – St Joe’s, Colorado, Stanford, Az State, others – have done nothing or next to nothing outside of their league and are easily in with a similar number of wins vs the middle of their league as we have.
Unlike many of the NCAA Tournament projections, I’m not sure that this guy has much of a clue. How would Clemson be a “near miss” when they finished 10-8 in the ACC?
If he would stay one more year I think the conversation would be a home run. But, the accomplishments of folks who stayed longer are hard to overcome. Hodge has four years. Corch finished his career as the all time leading assist man in NCAA Basketball history. Rodney Monroe also one player of the year and finished his career as the 2nd leading scorer in the program’s history.
Lutz definitely wants to be a Head Coach again. But, I agree with you guys that I would hope that it would take a better job than ASU to lure him away.
WOW!!! We’re finally catching some breaks!! This will be HUGE for our program for next year. (pun intended)
Tony Bennett, Leonard Hamilton and Jim Laranaga are amongst the three best DEFENSIVE coaches in the country. I conclude that if you play good defense consistently then every now and then everyone else will be bad enough for you to hit a little peak while other programs struggle.
Rachel Maddow hosting?
Now that is hilarious.
I didn’t watch a single minute of it…but, even random comments on my Twitter timeline indicated that it sucked
I so want to subscribe to this kind of thinking. But, until I see more consistent defensive effort and better fundamentals in our program I will remain ‘hopeful’ but not ‘convinced’.
Those are excellent points. I do not disagree at all with your points regarding the level of our weaknesses on basic basketball fundamentals. Last year these deficiencies were chalked up to laziness from some questionable character guys. This year it is going to be youth. I certainly hope that we SOON get to a point where we have fundamentally sound players and this isn’t an issue. (I feel like recruiting guys like Abu & the Martin twins is a step forward on that front).
I think what you are saying is that relative to last year’s team it appears these guys are trying harder.
But, at the end of the day, it is hard to say that a team that has been beaten by more than 30 points on multiple occasions but can take some of the best teams in the country to the final second is consistently playing hard.
It’s hard to say they are really playing hard when defense is nothing more than effort and hustle and focus.
Vibrant center city
Manage transportation
improve development around and increase the ‘relevance’ of NC State
Another question — will this facility replace the existing practice fields out at Carter-Finley and therefore ultimately open up new parking where those fields are today?
Isn’t it funny how at a time that we’re all arguing about bad officiating we are heading into a game vs Miami. Anyone remember the last time they visited?
I’m so tired of people who are embarrassments to our fan base talking about other people being embarrassments to our fan base!! 🙂
Are you on crack MARinRVA?
It is bad form for us to rip a single future alumnus while that alumnus rips tens of thousands of current alumni and even more in the NC State community?
Any people wonder why we are so mismanaged and screwed up with logic like that?
The Atlantic — Sports Scandal Reports: Not that independent, not that investigative
Although the word “independent” is used frequently throughout the reports to emphasize the impartial nature of the investigators, the reports are quasi-independent at best. The investigators, after all, are paid by the leagues they’re investigating. The frequent use of “independent” in these reports is the kind of calculation Patrick Hruby described in detail at Sports on Earth when he spotlighted sports leagues’ now-unremarkable habit of borrowing communications strategies from the political sphere.
The PR language generally works as intended. For example, in virtually every media report about the Wells Report, “independent” was used in its noun, adjective, and adverb forms. The usage started early. When the NFL announced the retention of Ted Wells in November, their short press release was on message, and the Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross repeated the term in his statement last Friday.
Another shared feature of these scandal reports: The investigators hired to inquire about the various past scandals all were also hamstrung in three distinct ways, differentiating them from governmental law enforcement. First, subjects who voluntarily submitted to questioning as part of the investigation were neither under oath nor strapped to a polygraph machine. There was no perjury charge looming overhead if false or incomplete testimony was proffered. Second, the investigators lacked subpoena power. They were unable to compel anyone to speak or turn over documents, emails, texts, or any other tangible or electronic evidence. Third, the investigators did not have the authority to organically search for certain evidence given laws restricting such activities by private investigators. As a result, the inquiries were handicapped in ways government-authorized investigations are not.
