J.J. Redick 3P%

Fr.: 39.9
So.: 39.5

Scott Wood 3P%

Fr.: 37.3
So.: 41.9

4/6/2011 5:02:33 PM

But I hear Wood is an abysmal poet

4/6/2011 5:04:08 PM

Don't know shit about soaring like a condor

4/6/2011 5:04:57 PM

Wow I cannot believe some ass clown is actually complaining about Wood's 3 pt shooting and his hustle. Are you fucking kidding me? Wood hustled as much as anyone on the team and his 3pt shooting has already been discussed in above posts. Go fuck yourself if you cannot appreciate what Wood brings to the team.




[Edited on April 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM. Reason : sd]

4/6/2011 5:19:24 PM

White guy always hustle. Except Adam Morrison.

4/6/2011 5:21:19 PM

^^I don't think it's worth all that. Just chalk uNC SUcks as someone to ignore and move on. They clearly didn't watch this season if they think Wood isn't a good 3 point shooter.

4/6/2011 5:23:53 PM

If we start winning, me and Slave Famous are going to have to create a bunch of bullshit threads in ST just so the mods will have work

4/6/2011 5:24:30 PM

Kinda like how Jaybee drinks gravy just so his Lipitor will have something to do?

4/6/2011 5:28:30 PM

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"J.J. Redick 3P% Fr.: 39.9 So.: 39.5 Scott Wood 3P% Fr.: 37.3 So.: 41.9"

Ernie just won the fuck out of that argument

4/7/2011 4:12:15 PM

If Gottfried can convince this fine MILF to marry him, then he obviously has the ability to convince good prospects to come here, plus he is able to spot talent that can develop as the years go on.

4/7/2011 5:39:08 PM

more like if he can convince that fine MILF to stay married to him after he allegedly had a fling w/ a 20 year old version of her...

4/7/2011 5:44:21 PM

Why is she sitting next to Gary Busey?

4/7/2011 5:49:31 PM

OLD

4/7/2011 5:52:16 PM

whoa the guy next to his wife looks like the dude from that predator movie

4/7/2011 5:54:15 PM

Quote :

"Why is she sitting next to Gary Busey?"

FTW

4/8/2011 11:04:57 AM

4/8/2011 11:08:14 AM

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"Sleeper Teams for Next Year? Teams that give freshman a lot of minutes tend to improve significantly the next season. The biggest jump is usually from freshman to sophomore year. Here are the top-10 teams that gave the most possessions to freshmen this year: Playing Time for Freshman Team Percentage of Possessions Percentage of Minutes Kentucky 59.2% 47.6% Ohio St. 46.0% 40.3% Wake Forest 44.9% 40.9% NC State 44.7% 37.1% Michigan 42.5% 38.8% Louisiana St. 42.5% 38.9% South Carolina 41.2% 43.0% Connecticut 40.8% 46.8% DePaul 40.4% 32.5% Stanford 36.8% 40.2% Kentucky gave over half their possessions to their younger players. That’s usually a strong indicator that the team will play better next year. Of course it only works if those players come back. NC State, Michigan, and Stanford could all be real sleepers. "

4/8/2011 11:13:42 AM

is that leather?

4/8/2011 11:13:43 AM

taffeta darling

4/8/2011 11:24:55 AM

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"But I hear Wood is an abysmal poet"

well, he's no CJ Leslie.

4/8/2011 11:25:26 AM

who is the guy on the left? he looks like

4/8/2011 11:41:12 AM

jesus christ stop w/ that joke already.

4/8/2011 11:49:30 AM

Guy on the left kinda looks like that bad guy from Black Sheep

Can't remember his name tho

4/8/2011 11:52:52 AM

Sgt. Drake Savage is real to me

he pees on his couch

4/8/2011 12:23:50 PM

He is Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director (official title) David Horning

4/8/2011 12:29:54 PM

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""But I hear Wood is an abysmal poet""

Quote :

"well, he's no CJ Leslie."

hahaha, you can't teach talen't like that.

4/8/2011 12:43:56 PM

whats the source on that "Sleeper Teams" article?

4/8/2011 1:50:31 PM

http://basketball.realgm.com/article/212838/On_To_The_Next_Season_Of_College_Basketball

4/8/2011 1:57:08 PM

I like how he predicts we could be a real sleeper team and then predicts us to come in 9th

4/8/2011 2:04:40 PM

Haith just walked out on Miami and he puts them 3rd haha

4/8/2011 2:06:19 PM

Its mainly an NBA site so I take most of their college articles with a grain of salt

4/8/2011 2:07:01 PM

Here's my predictions for how the ACC will end next season:

North Carolina
Duke
Clemson
NC State
Virginia Tech
Maryland
Miami
Florida St.
Virginia
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
Boston College

4/10/2011 6:34:45 PM

thought i clicked on a football thread; had no idea what was going on.

and no way we finish 4th. i'm never believing that again.

[Edited on April 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM. Reason : .]

4/10/2011 6:37:38 PM

State @ 4? Not likely.
Wake higher than 12th? Unless Bz can completely turn it around, there is no chance.

4/10/2011 6:59:57 PM

well, i went ahead and went on record sayin it

4/10/2011 7:43:18 PM

i remember predicting us to finish like 7th or 8th and everyone getting on my case

turns out I was too optimistic

4/10/2011 9:44:58 PM

Without seeing the schedules here's how I think the ACC shapes up next season.

1) UNC (unfortunately Roy somehow recruits sure fire lottery picks that love the pussy cock in Chapel Hill)
2) Duke
3) FSU
4) VT
5) CU
6) NCSU (I'm putting us here b/c we have decent talent and often times team's overachieve in the first year of a new coach; obviously not the case for WF last year though)
7) UMD
8) UVA
9) BC
10) UM
11) GT
12) WF

4/10/2011 9:54:37 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/10/1118787/hes-back-in-the-game.html

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"Mark Gottfried: He's back in the game BY ROBBI PICKERAL - Staff Writer RALEIGH -- Sitting in his yet-to-be-decorated office Thursday morning and talking about his goals for N.C. State basketball, new Wolfpack coach Mark Gottfried could not resist fiddling with his constantly vibrating cellphone. "I was talking with my mom last night, and I told her I didn't know my phone could register that much [information] - I had 198 text messages and 175 phone calls," Gottfried said as he glanced at the screen, again. "She laughed, because she said, 'You left Alabama, you had no calls.' " It was 27 months ago that Gottfried appeared to be on college hoops' fast track. He had served as an assistant on the UCLA staff that won a national championship in 1995, became Murray State's head coach at age 31 and then led Alabama to five straight NCAA tournaments in an 11-season span. Then he found himself erased from the coaching fraternity's speed dial after he was forced to resign from his alma mater in January 2009. Gottfried called the decision "tough" but insisted it made him hungrier to coach better, to win more, to show that he's used his time away from the bench to better the skills that made him so successful, so early, in the first place. Now 47, he's a coach who's been at the top, fallen and is now determined to climb his way back up. "It's a great life lesson for me," Gottfried said of his two years off, which he spent with his family and in ESPN's broadcast booth. "What it also does for me, it makes me cherish and appreciate the opportunity I have even more. Because [Wolfpack athletic director] Debbie Yow has given me a chance, and the president here has given me a chance. And they stepped out on a limb here for me, and I understand that. "I'm very well aware that I'm not the flavor of the month, I'm not the most popular hire, I'm not the guy that just took a team to the NCAA Final Four. I'm not that guy right now. I appreciate it, and what we have to do is work as hard as we can and prove to everybody that they did make a good decision." A coaching family It wasn't that long ago that Gottfried seemed to have little to prove. One could even say he was born to coach. The son of former South Alabama athletic director Joe Gottfried - who coached basketball at Southern Illinois - and the nephew of Mike Gottfried, the former Pitt football coach, he was exposed early to the craft. "I was the kid who was bouncing the ball at the other end of the gym while my dad's teams practiced, and he'd have to holler and tell me to hold the ball whenever he was talking," Gottfried said. As a high school freshman, Gottfried tagged a note to his headboard that read, "I want to earn a Division I scholarship one day." Gottfried worked daily, basketball in hand, to achieve that goal, his father said. It paid off with Gottfried earning freshman All-America honors in 1983-84 at Oral Roberts. While there he met Yow, who was coaching the women's basketball team at the time. After a coaching switch in the men's program, however, Gottfried transferred to Alabama, where he started 98 straight games at guard, helped lead the Crimson Tide to three consecutive round of 16s and met his future wife Elizabeth. Joe Gottfried said it wasn't clear back then, however, that his son would follow him into coaching. "He was majoring in communications, so we weren't sure that he was going to coach," Joe Gottfried said. "But then he came to us and said that's what he wanted to do. ... He went back to where his roots were at. He had seen all the negatives and positives ... and he knew he had to put in the work." Mark Gottfried was playing with the Detroit Pistons in the 1987 NBA Summer League in Los Angeles when he interviewed with new UCLA coach Jim Harrick for a graduate assistant job. A month later, he and Elizabeth sold his car for $1,500, packed up her MGB convertible and made the three-day move from Alabama to California. Once there, Gottfried - who was drafted in the seventh round but never played in the NBA - got his graduate school tuition paid, earned a $382-a-month stipend and started learning the coaching business. Perhaps the biggest perk to coaching at UCLA was Gottfried's meeting and visiting with legendary Bruins coach John Wooden, whose system Gottfried would embrace as he was promoted from graduate assistant to Harrick's right-hand man. Wooden was long retired, but he often met casually with the Bruins coaches for breakfast, or at his home. Gottfried used to talk to Wooden about his system, how he used to coach, how he got through to players. "It was as if I wanted to have a catcher's mitt, and I could catch every pearl of wisdom that he [Wooden] said," Gottfried said. "... If you asked him a question, he many times answered it in a story. And he would try to teach you something through one of his experiences. He told me, 'It's amazing how a young person's hearing improves when he hears praise.' ... Those kinds of things stuck with you forever." Gottfried took those lessons with him to Kentucky when he was hired by Murray State in April 1995, just after UCLA beat Arkansas in the national title game. At the time, Harrick said Gottfried was "probably the best assistant coach I've ever been around. I think Mark was born to coach. He grew up in it; he's been around it all his life. There is no doubt in my mind he will be a highly successful head coach." And for a time, he was. A wrong turn When Yow introduced Gottfried as N.C. State's new coach on Tuesday, she lauded his accomplishments: two trips to the NCAA tournament in three seasons with Murray State, followed by a jump to Alabama and a No. 1 ranking during the 2002-03 season and five straight trips to the NCAA tournament, including a run to the regional finals of the 2004 tournament. Harder to explain, though, is the turn of events that had Crimson Tide athletic director Mal Moore asking for Gottfried's resignation five years later amid a cloud of controversy after a 12-7 start to the 2008-09 season. After Alabama's fifth straight trip to the NCAA tournament in 2005, Gottfried's staff experienced some turnover. That included the departure of Tom Asbury, the defensive specialist among his assistant coaches who left in 2007 because of Asbury's wife's health problems. The team's depth of talent took a hit when star forward Richard Hendrix left early to enter the 2008 NBA Draft. Former point guard Rico Pickett also left the program after two suspensions during the 2007-08 season. Things deteriorated quickly for Gottfried the following season. On Jan. 20, 2009, star point guard Ronald Steele, once considered a likely NBA Draft pick before a string of injuries, abruptly left the program. Gottfried cited Steele's injuries when announcing Steele's departure, but the following day, Steele released a statement to The Tuscaloosa News indicating that injuries were "definitely not the reason I am leaving the team," without further elaboration. Steele could not be reached for comment on this story. Five days later, Gottfried was asked to resign. Asbury, reached this week, said Gottfried probably missed out on some recruits over his last couple of seasons, too - although, he added, "if you can go into the SEC, and you can hang onto a job for 101/2 years, you've done a heck of a job." Gottfried, who received a $2.2 million buyout from Alabama to be spread over 29 months, does not necessarily see it that way. Asked what went awry at Alabama, he would not offer specifics but said: "I made a lot of mistakes. ... When you evaluate yourself, you have to be honest and say, 'Where did I go wrong?' And there were a number of them: Certain decisions with who you're recruiting, your staff. Those were big things for me. I did all kinds of things I think I did a poor job of my last couple of years. "I think I took my foot off the gas pedal. We were winning, we went to five straight [NCAA] tournaments, we got ranked No. 1 in the country, and maybe we got complacent, I think. Those are all things, when you're in that situation, you can either dismiss it or act like it was everyone else's fault, or you can accept the responsibility and say, 'OK, where can I get better?' And that's what I've tried to do the last couple of years." "

4/11/2011 9:47:35 AM

^continued

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"Ready for a comeback Elizabeth Gottfried said the abrupt departure from Alabama was "painful and traumatic" for her husband, but he made the most of it. He golfed more with his dad. He spent more time with his five kids. Last year, he hosted a charity golf event to raise money after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. And as a broadcaster for ESPN, mostly working SEC games as an analyst for ESPNU, he got to watch practices that he would never have been able to see as a rival head coach. "He worked hard on the broadcasting, and he enjoyed it," Elizabeth Gottfried said. "There's no losing - but there's no winning, either. He spent a lot of time breaking down teams ... but in the end, it wasn't the same as having his own team, of coaching." Gottfried wanted a second chance. He pursued but didn't get the Utah job, which went to Larry Krystkowiak last Monday. A day later, though, after N.C. State had considered Arizona coach Sean Miller, Virginia Commonwealth coach Shaka Smart and at least two others, Gottfried was introduced as the Wolfpack's new coach. His former boss at UCLA said it could not have worked out better for N.C. State. "Let me say this. I believe in my heart that Debbie Yow is very fortunate that she got a coach better than anyone she was looking at before," Harrick said Thursday. "If you look at his résumé, you will see seven NCAA tournaments attended, one Elite Eight, beat the No. 1 team in the country, Stanford, to get there. ... He's been coach of the year in two different leagues. Mark's done it at different schools in different places. He's in his late 40s. He's a prime candidate." Asked if she had to do any research, or make any extra inquiries, about the way Gottfried left Alabama before she could hire him, Yow said no. "You trust. When you've known somebody 29 years, then you trust. Trust the situation. You don't need to talk to anybody else. I've had people over the years tell me what they thought about that, not because he was going to be at State - I wasn't at State then. So I did have some other information that corroborated what he said, but just by coincidence." She added that what happened with the Crimson Tide "is one of his strengths, not one of his weaknesses. Everything we've experienced we bring into our job, and he comes fully prepared for everything and every issue that we might have here." Prepared, perhaps, except for all the phone calls and text messages he's been receiving since he was hired. Gottfried said he's almost choked up at the number of people who have called to welcome him back to the coaching ranks. "I think, when I was coaching [before], I got going so fast ... I'm not sure my family I appreciated as much; I'm not sure I appreciated my job as much," he said. "My team, my players: I think I've learned to appreciate those more. ... And again, that's the thing when you're out of coaching, you miss it - just getting back to having that kind of relationship with everybody." Staff writer Ken Tysiac and staff researcher Peggy Neal contributed to this report. robbi.pickeral@newsobserver.com or 919-829-8944 Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/10/1118787/hes-back-in-the-game.html##ixzz1JDpPcy00"

4/11/2011 9:48:14 AM

Good article.

4/11/2011 10:30:33 AM

i hope he does well.

4/11/2011 10:33:28 AM

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2011/04/pack-gottfried-getting-new-floor.html

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"N.C. State hoops fans hope that new coach Mark Gottfried will be enough to change the fortunes of the men’s basketball team. But if not, maybe a little feng shui will do the trick. The Centennial Authority has agreed to pay $105,000 to purchase a new floor for the Wolfpack to play on in the RBC Center next year. The authority is the landlord for the building. The floor will come from Dollar Bay, Mich.-based Horner Sports Flooring, which submitted a winning bid of $97,000. The rest of the budget will pay for shipping, says Michael Weeks, who heads up the authority’s construction committee. The padded floor will be similar in design to one used at the Greensboro Coliseum, and should be quicker to assemble and disassemble than the existing one. Despite the timing, the change isn’t due to NCSU hiring a new coach – but rather the current floor’s age. “It’s 12 years old, and it’s starting to show its age,” Weeks says. Horner is willing to give the authority a credit for the old floor if the company can resell it. However, Weeks hopes to be able to keep a piece of it -- specifically the block letter “S” at center court -- to display somewhere in the building."

didn't see this anywhere...in addition to new seats, they get a new floor! maybe the ball will begin to bounce in our favor

4/11/2011 10:56:55 PM

i wonder if the court design will change? that being said i liked the lowe era floor better than the sendek one.

4/11/2011 11:04:00 PM

just curious, what is the market for re-selling a 12 year old court? like would they sell it to a DII/DIII school? high school? middle school? collector?

sell it panel by panel? this is a new concept to me, selling a used basketball court

4/11/2011 11:12:28 PM

I would imagine UNC and Duke would buy pieces of the floor. They played really well on it over the last 12 years.

4/11/2011 11:35:09 PM

I hope they finally get rid of the women's 3 point line.

4/12/2011 12:16:16 AM

^

4/12/2011 12:28:11 AM

I assumed the reason they kept the women's 3 point line was so that they could host the women's tourney...

4/12/2011 12:35:41 AM

make the new one all red

4/12/2011 1:35:35 AM

I really liked the paint scheme on the court for the past couple of years.

4/12/2011 7:39:35 AM