There is an awful lot of interesting stuff for a Daily Update for it be a random Friday afternoon in late April. SFN will definitely have a lot more on the topics included in this entry in the coming days, but we wanted to get this out there for your comments as soon as possible. […]
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ACC Championship Weekend yields no titles for Pack
The Atlantic Coast Conference hosted a series of Championships this weekend that provided 33% of Atlantic Coast Conference members an ACC Championship when: * Florida State won its FIRST men’s golf championship * Virginia won men’s tennis * Clemson won the women’s tennis championship * Duke won women’s golf Additionally, we haven’t yet taken the […]
ACC Track: Men meet Lee’s original benchmark with 3rd place showing; Women meet new benchmark with 11th place finish
Congratulations to the Men’s track team for posting a 3rd place finish at this year’s ACC Track Championship. This is the highest performance of the winter/spring sports schedule among NC State athletics. At the end of Friday, NC State’s men stood atop the ACC Track and Field Championship standings behind solid scoring performances in the […]
N&O: The College Inn – An Address of Choice
We will have more about this later…but wanted to post the link so everyone could comment on the article. since this is a potential NCAA compliance issue. Just another example of what absentee management will do for you when you have someone unwilling to LEAD and unable to manage ALL of the moving pieces of […]
Where Amazing Happens…Happened
Tip of the hat to the Pack Pride message boards for highlighting this fantastic YouTube Video titled, “Where Amazing Happens – NC State”. Without explicitly stating it, this video provides a damning commentary of the current nature of the NC State athletics program as the bulk of the actual achievements in the video all took […]
More “Coach Fowler” Wisdom
Fowler’s talking to Tim Peeler on gopack.com, so you knew that some unintended hilarity would ensue. Although there are actually some good points in the article (SFN heartily welcomes the promised changes in the basketball office), we can’t resist commenting on this nugget: “Regarding basketball, when I was an assistant coach at the University of […]
Why would LSU choose Joe Alleva over Lee Fowler?
Lee Fowler‘s interest in other Athletics Director jobs have not been a secret since his arrival in Raleigh in September of 2000. In the seven-plus years of Fowler’s tenure, the man that likes to be referred to as “Coach” has expressed interest and interviewed for multiple jobs of all shapes and sizes. As anyone who […]
Congratulations Eagles! Ouch Wolfpack!
StateFansNation would like to shout out a congratulations to our conference bretheren in Chestnut Hill as the Boston College Eagles have advanced to their third consecutive Frozen Four, hockey’s version of Final Four’. Although many in the north – including a lot of the BC students – are more interested in hockey than basketball, I […]
YOU Write the Story – How did UCLA and UNC-CH do it?
As many of you already experience and recognize, we feel this blog has some of the most insightful readers and commentors of any fan blog on the internet. It is a regular experience to read an entry on our blog and learn a lot more from the resulting conversation in the comments section than you […]
Saturday Bytes – Tarheels defeat Wolfpack (sound familiar?) OR State’s/Davidson irony (Updated 2pm)
……crunch….. Carolina’s third ranked baseball team beat the Wolfpack 5-2 yesterday (I thought we had some new authors who were excited about covering baseball on SFN? hello? anyone out there?). The Tar heels are 21-4 overall and 8-2 in the ACC. After a one-hit loss to Marshall, the Wolfpack are tracking just perfectly to an […]
