RALEIGH – It began, Lee Fowler said, with a cell-phone call from Chuck Neinas a week ago today and then quickly escalated.Fowler, N.C. State’s athletics director, was looking to hire a football coach and was in Nashville, Tenn., interviewing Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow. Nienas, paid $35,000 to be NCSU’s headhunter, had some news […]
Coaches
Tarheel Football Search Very Relevant to State
The UNC-Chapel Hill coaching search has the potential to be very interesting. It also has the potential to be very boring. Regardless of the amount of public fireworks that the search creates, NC State fans need to be very clear on the fact that Carolina’s search for a football coach is extremely relevant to Chuck […]
Spurrier’s Standards: Don’t Clap After Losses
While the Wolfpack is off this weekend we will have a time to look around at some other items of interest. Since NC State will be battling the USC Gamecocks in a coulple of years we thought that it would be relevant to focus on something that came out of Columbia this weekend. As a […]
(Insert School Here) Dreams Only One Hire Away
I ran across this piece tonight on CBS Sportsline and just had to highlight it. (Don’t worry…it isn’t a Greg Doyel article). (Link) OK, Nebraska. No excuses. Just go make the hire. Don’t assume Kansas and Texas are too far ahead to catch in the Big 12. They’re not. Don’t assume a football school can’t […]
Who Didn’t See This Coming?
Over the years, many different debates on NC State Message boards have traveled so many tangents that it became hard to remember the original premise & topic. In light of NC State’s historical propensity to hire coaches that seem to struggle to deliver success on par with our peers, and desire to retain these coaches […]
Why Sidney Lowe Should be Sendek’s Choice
On Saturday, The News & Observer‘s Caulton Tudor authored a really good look at the currently vacant assistant coaching position within NC State’s basketball program created by the departure of Larry Hunter. Tudor’s article flows nicely from (a) discussing Hunter to (b)providing historical perspective on his arrival at State to (c) highlighting his impact on […]
Vitale: Standard for Coaches is 3 Years
“…not only (does Tom Butters deserve credit for) hiring him (Coach K) but what about keeping him after three years when he was under .500? In today’s mentality that exists when you have 3 years in a visible program like Duke, you’re getting the ziggy man. You’re gone. So, one of the most valuable players […]
