If you’re a passionate fan as I am, who believes as Vince Lombardi does that “Show me a ‘good loser’ and I’ll show you a loser,” it’s good to keep this Valvano advice in mind: Jimmy V says he’ll allow his players 24 hours to feel sorry for themselves and curse the basketball gods. Then, […]
NC State Basketball
Forbes: The Most Valuable College Basketball Teams (Updated 4pm)
Note: Introductory Message for our new visitors – SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature Forbes has come out with a great piece that effectively ranks college basktball programs by “value” that is primarily derived from operating financials from last year. You need to realize that a major component of ‘value’ is the […]
Tudor: Bigger & Better Things Ahead
We will keep our game entry untouched and wanted to highlight Caulton Tudor’s piece in its own entry this morning. The Wolfpack, 16-14 overall, has done more than enough to turn Sidney Lowe’s first season as men’s basketball coach into a ringing success. Although former coach Herb Sendek’s teams won 105 games from 2002 through […]
Green, Jr: NC State 1974 = The Best
SFN highlighted the public voting on the topic of the best ACC National Basketball Champions in this entry earlier this morning. But, we thought that it was important to blog the piece from today’s newspaper that prompted the poll. Anytime that a member of the Green family ranks NC State ahead of Carolina in anything […]
Tudor Nails a Piece of the Success Blueprint
In addition to this piece, another of SFN’s more respected local writers penned some greath thoughts regarding Sidney Lowe today that merits some attention and discussion. The News & Observer’s Caulton Tudor compared the big gamble on Coach Lowe to the role of underdog that the 1983 National Champion Wolfpack. Tudor goes on to say: […]
Chronicling the Criticism
We need your help! As you are well aware, a significant number of national and local media members have been openly critical of Sidney Lowe’s hire as Head Basketball Coach at NC State. Although this criticism is very relevant, we have chosen not to dwell and focus on it. But, we don’t want to ignore […]
Fowler & Hire Inevitably Linked
Caulton Tudor weighed-in with more of his astute commentary related to the Wolfpack’s search for a basketball coach this moring. Link here. Additionally, I shared some comments that dovetail with the focus of Tudor’s comments earlier today. Selected excerpts from Tudor’s, “Hire will reflect on Fowler” are included below: Since landing the job in September […]
Regression to the Mean
The more I think about the last five years of the Sendek era, the more a pattern seems to develop. No matter how the season starts, you can expect things to ultimately level out at a “B minus” overall. Decent regular season? You get the respectable NCAA run (including heartbreaking loss to a power like […]
Wolfpack Dominates Comeback List
I’ve got tons of old entries that I began during the past 9 months but never posted. As we work our way up to the start of football season, I will work to just “dump” them onto the site for future use. We will start with this article from the Las Vegas Sun that took […]
April 4, 1983 – Happy Anniversary of the NOT Upset
April 4, 1983 You really shouldn’t need anything else. Each year, Final Four weekend provides the entire country the opportunity to remember and reminisce NC State’s 54-52 victory over the Phi Slamma Jamma and the Houston Cougars. And, each year various members of the media throughout the country find some reason or connection to talk […]
