On the weekend that Johnny Frasier is in town — please click here for a great recruiting update — I thought it would be an appropriate time to link this interview with Dave Doeren from WRAL. It is a fantastic watch. This isn’t one of those interviews with 2 or 3 fluff questions and boring […]
Yet another scandal It has been several months since the last University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sports scandal (of course, school was out for the summer). But the school is making up for lost time with a doozy. At first we heard a walk-on football player was given a concussion in some type […]
Don’t want you to miss this from US News and World Reports, by way of Triangle Business Journal… N.C. State named top STEM university (BizJournals.com) U.S. News & World Report ranked N.C. State University as a top STEM educator. STEM, which stands for classes in science, technology, engineering and math, are seen by some as […]
It is the day before the State-Carolina game…and, we’ll be having a lot more hit the blog regarding the game in the coming hours. In the meantime, we’ve got non-stop conversation going on over on our message forums – linked here – for anyone searching for more. On the ‘heels’ of this great entry from […]
The N&O’s Dan Kane is at it again this evening, this time highlighting the fact that athletes not only made up a disproportionate number of enrollments, but that there was a systematic and accepted practice of steering athletes to no-show classes. So important was this mission that it took 115 employees and a cushy multi-million […]
August 26, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 8 DAYS!!! Chip Alexander (N&O) Pack’s Overgaard leads team in GPA N.C. State’s Mikel Overgaard doesn’t have the fastest 40-yard dash time on the Wolfpack football team. He doesn’t lead the Pack in the bench press or any other weight-room category. What Overgaard does have is […]
If you missed it this weekend, the News & Observer/Charlotte Observer took a deeper dive into the type of ‘student’ athletes being admitted – and curiously remaining eligible – within the John Bunting & Butch Davis football programs at UNC-Chapel Hill. The article is available here and a discussion had already been launched here on […]
Have you been wondering why the cheating scandal at FSU was handled so much differently than the one at UNC is being handled? Why was the NCAA involved in establishing penalties for one school and not the other? Well I have been wondering about this and nothing that I read made any sense. But the […]
If you’ve read SFN for any length of time, you’ve noticed that we are sticklers for the real truth, the whole truth, and an accurate and educated view of the truth. With this said, I’m sure that you can recognize why the UNC athletics scandal and academic fraud cases are so fascinating to us. Today, […]
“NC State’s incoming freshman class had a weighted high school grade point average of 4.23 and an average SAT score of 1,746. Nearly 75% of the 4,550 students were in the top 20% of their high school class, and the group has students from 97 North Carolina counties, 42 states and 23 countries.†– NC […]
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