Carolina is BACK…and I don’t mean in the sense of the overall strength of their program. I think that goes without saying. In today’s battle with Duke, you would have thought Coach K was in his second year of coaching in the conference against Dean Smith. It is pretty safe to say that the officiating […]
Hook ‘Em
Couldn’t go to bed without issuing a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Rick Barnes and the Texas Longhorns basketball team for a monster win at Oklahoma State. The win gives the Longhorns a sweep of the Top 5 ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys and gave Rick Barnes his 6th consecutive 20-win season at Texas. Before Texas’ win tonight, […]
Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part I
This is about the Wolfpack sports fan, rabidus waitilnextyearis. Despite the fact that there are countless thousands of these creatures in North Carolina alone, experts working at media sports desks still know surprisingly little about them. Wolfpack fans can be found in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturdays, are known to frequent Bojangles restaurants, seem to prefer […]
Defining SFN’s Bubbleology
With NC State’s Basketball season teetering “on the NCAA Tournament Bubble” (again), I decided that I would attempt to QUANTIFY how the bubble really looks. (It’s worth a try, right?) I get so frustrated (and confused) when talking heads on television (and fans on internet message boards) just blanketly say, “Team A is in. Team […]
Maryland’s Loss Hurts Wolfpack
Georgia Tech all but insured itself a berth in the NCAA Tournament today with a win against a Clemson team that is playing some great basketball as of late. The Yellow Jackets pulled away at the end of a tight ball game to win by 8. In Blacksburg, Maryland lost a key match-up to Virginia […]
State graded a C
The Charlotte Observer graded all of the Atlantic Coast Conference teams today. The Observer handed the Wolfpack a grade of C, with only Virginia and Florida State graded worse. The Wolfpack is a collective 1-2 against the Cavs and Noles this season. In fact, Florida State has not won a basketball game since their January […]
Top 10 Questions for Lee Fowler
On PackPride.com’s premium message boards, there is a thread that was posted on February 28th that states that “next week” their magazine will be conducting a Q&A with Athletics Director, Lee Fowler for the April issue of the website’s magazine. They asked if the readers had any serious questions for Fowler. Today is March 3rd […]
Barnes to UVA Rumor Surfaces Publicly
Thank You, Lord Jesus. I can finally talk about it!! It has been driving me nuts for weeks. After NC State’s 10 point win at Virginia last night, Jerry Ratcliffe of The Daily Progress wrote an article about the Pete Gillen coaching situation titled, “With Gillen likely out, is Barnes next.”? Barnes. That is…Rick Barnes […]
Everything on the Line Sunday Night
Julius Hodge put on a passing clinic, Jordan Collins did his best Josh Powell impersonation, and freshmen Gavin Grant and Andrew Brackman played aggressive offense in the second half of last night’s pivotal win in Charlottesville. Whether your opinion of Coach Sendek is positive or negative (like me, in case you hadn’t noticed), you have […]
Scandal & Bubbleology
Scandal Sports Illustrated‘s Stewart Mandel re-visits a host of scandal-ridden programs who are trying to put their programs back together two years after some serious problems. It is an interesting read that I thought that I would share. Two Years Later: Four Schools Struggle to Rebuild After Scandal Part One, Part Two Bubbleology In more […]
