awesome article, I was wondering about that earlier today

3/19/2012 9:41:36 PM

I'm not buying that State fans were particularly classless about the way Lowe's tenure ended.

3/19/2012 9:43:00 PM

State fans were/are just hungry!

[Edited on March 19, 2012 at 9:45 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2012 9:44:51 PM

it's not like they started a Post-It Note campaign

3/19/2012 9:46:51 PM

read some alabama threads on gottfried, they all overwhelmingly wish him the worst

[Edited on March 19, 2012 at 9:53 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2012 9:53:35 PM

hahaha

[Edited on March 19, 2012 at 10:09 PM. Reason : gottfried will be our belichick.]

3/19/2012 10:08:42 PM

they're still dwelling on him over two years later? let it go alabama fans, move on. hey, you made it to the tournament this year!

3/19/2012 11:06:04 PM

I really hope Lowe comes back some day.

Didn't an assistant coach ad get posted recently? Looked a few pages back but didn't see anything

[Edited on March 19, 2012 at 11:20 PM. Reason : searched nc state's job listings but got nothing...maybe im imagining things]

3/19/2012 11:18:10 PM

think we got a wide receivers coaching spot open on the football team

3/20/2012 12:01:06 AM

watching the nit... i'm so happy to be apart of the big boy tournament instead.

and playing on the second weekend no less jesus christ.

3/20/2012 2:01:12 AM

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"they're still dwelling on him over two years later?"

they seriously are, checked three or four bama forums earlier and all of them have threads hoping that nc state loses and wishing ill will for gott

3/20/2012 2:02:58 AM

dude whatever, i still go to arizona state's scout.com board to read about how miserable they are. fuck herb.

3/20/2012 2:59:29 AM

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"I really hope Lowe comes back some day."

wut

Lowe is great to the university, but I think we can all agree that in no way, shape, or form does he belong on a college coaching staff

3/20/2012 9:38:56 AM

eh, he'd probably make a good assistant. if anything, the guy can recruit.

3/20/2012 9:42:35 AM

There was nothing 'wrong' with the article, im surprised we were ranked higher thank some of the other teams, but why they only gotta write about "why theyre happy to be here". I will say tho, the commentators complete lack of confidence in nc state sports is one reason I love watching us play. Football is priceless

3/20/2012 12:23:51 PM

^^ that's just not going to happen, ever.

3/20/2012 12:29:52 PM

if Lutz gets a head coaching offer in a year or two, we'd have to bring in somebody

how about Herb? his coaching methods could singlehandedly boost out team FT% by 1-2%

3/20/2012 12:32:47 PM

^^oh, i know. i was just saying that i disagree with the assertion that he wouldn't make a decent assistant college coach.

[Edited on March 20, 2012 at 12:38 PM. Reason : ]

3/20/2012 12:36:24 PM

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"let it go alabama fans, move on."

that's gold, coming from a State fan

3/20/2012 12:39:46 PM

so you got the joke? good job.

3/20/2012 12:47:10 PM

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"if Lutz gets a head coaching offer in a year or two, we'd have to bring in somebody"

i'm sure there's a short list... rick barnes.. billy donovan.. you know, the usual suspects.

3/20/2012 1:31:43 PM

http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/early-2012-13-ranking-a-look-ahead-170050

early ranking for 2013

3/20/2012 6:16:12 PM

^

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"1 Duke"

stopped reading.

3/20/2012 6:21:33 PM

duke at #1 is beyond laughable

3/20/2012 6:23:19 PM

We are above Kentucky?

3/20/2012 6:26:09 PM

I have no idea why people would have high expectations for us next year if CJL leaves. I just really don't understand that.

[Edited on March 20, 2012 at 6:36 PM. Reason : Dizzerp]

3/20/2012 6:34:03 PM

^ the Amile commit is implied, just not explicit yet

3/20/2012 6:57:44 PM

Am I out of the loop? Is this some new signal I don't know of?



http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/03/21/1948716/nc-state-brightens-tough-spring.html

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"ST. LOUIS -- When the ACC ended up getting five teams into the NCAA tournament, three of them top-four seeds, it was shaping up to be a solid postseason for the conference. A week into the tournament, it hasn’t exactly worked out that way. So far, N.C. State’s run has been really good news for a conference that hasn’t had much in March. Duke went out at the first hurdle, at the hands of a Patriot League team, in Greensboro, of all places. Ouch. Once a top-25 team, Virginia’s late-season woes extended into the tournament as the Cavaliers slinked out at the hands of Florida in a 26-point opening defeat. Florida State, the league champion and a team many saw as a Final Four contender, didn’t make it through the first weekend, ousted by Cincinnati. Meanwhile, the league’s top national-title contender, North Carolina, is still alive, but lost its point guard and most irreplaceable player, Kendall Marshall, to a broken bone in his wrist. His status for Friday’s game against Ohio and beyond remains very much in doubt. Fortunately for the ACC, the Wolfpack, which went into the conference tournament with an NCAA bid in doubt, has made the most of its windfall. With wins over San Diego State and Georgetown, N.C. State has helped salvage the spring for the ACC. The conference has been waiting for a while for N.C. State to come around, and between this year’s postseason success and next year’s recruiting class, that moment may finally have arrived. “This team is wonderful for our area,” said Bucky Waters, the former N.C. State player and Duke coach. “It has really instilled that adrenaline back, that we are the basketball culture. There’s no telling where it can end. … It’s good for the league, it’s wonderful for the Triangle. I see it as a very healthy sign.” No matter how many national championships North Carolina and Duke win, the real strength of the conference has always come from its depth. Programs like N.C. State, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and Maryland won ACC titles, national championships and went to Final Fours for decades. Just not lately. In the past 25 years, those five programs have generated only five ACC tournament titles, one national title and four Final Four appearances. (Duke and North Carolina have combined for seven national titles and 19 Final Fours over that span.) Florida State has become a beacon of hope under Leonard Hamilton, breaking the blue monopoly on the tournament for the first time since 2004 after making it to the round of 16 last year, but for all that growth, Florida State is still 3-4 in NCAA games under Hamilton. There’s a long way to go yet. Among the traditional-but-dormant powers, N.C. State’s revival is the conference’s best hope at the moment. Even the Wolfpack’s biggest rival can appreciate that. “It’s good to see N.C. State doing well,” North Carolina forward John Henson said. “As part of the ACC, we’ve got to band together in the postseason, flex our muscles, ACC-wise, and show what we’ve got.” In Columbus, Ohio, where N.C. State navigated the first weekend of the tournament, ACC associate commissioner Michael Kelly wore a red N.C. State pin on his lapel, a show of support for the conference member he was there to observe and support. The N.C. State fans who think the league office has it out for them might be surprised to find no one will be rooting harder for the Wolfpack against Kansas on Friday than the ACC itself."

The more I read the last few paragraphs, the more condescending it sounds.

[Edited on March 21, 2012 at 3:26 PM. Reason : ]

3/21/2012 3:25:21 PM

I hope its not a Z for Lorenzo, that'd be kinda gay

3/21/2012 3:26:39 PM

fuck that.
fuck swofford.

3/21/2012 3:32:34 PM

^^ what's gay about a bunch of bros loving a 20 year old so much that they come up w/ a hand sign for his name that they do in bars when he does good things on television??

3/21/2012 3:34:08 PM

The concept isn't gay, just the execution. Looks like a Mong trying to do the cats cradle.

3/21/2012 3:37:10 PM

ZOLTAN!

3/21/2012 3:43:49 PM

[Edited on March 21, 2012 at 3:57 PM. Reason : lol]

3/21/2012 3:57:03 PM

Anyone else see unc trolling Joe Ovies' tweet yesterday about Hodge saying Marshall wouldn't play in another ncaa game this season because of pain issues, since he had a similar injury when playing in Australia???

Leave it to unc fans to know more about basketball injuries than basketball players who've experienced those injuries....

3/21/2012 8:27:19 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/KButters5Wrist

i guess they were jealous of Rich Howell's Beard https://twitter.com/#!/RichHowellBeard

3/21/2012 8:37:19 PM

nothing wrong with calling out the paranoid state fans that think the acc is out to get them, think it's pretty obvious the acc wants us and other teams to be better to put a better product on the floor

logic!

3/21/2012 9:05:23 PM

Yea I've never understood the whole thing about people thinking the ACC is out to get NCSU. That would simply be horrible business on their part. The ACC cares about money, like any business. It is in the best interest of the ACC to have many good teams.

3/21/2012 9:25:45 PM

the ACC wants us to do well, but not better than Duke or Carolina...

3/21/2012 9:41:02 PM

yup, thats why they kept some nobody like Florida state from winning the tournament

3/21/2012 9:44:28 PM

^so you agreed with the last 15 seconds of officiating in the NC State-UNC ACC tournament game?

3/21/2012 9:47:39 PM

nope, I'd call that stupid officiating. not swofford calling in on some bat phone to tell the official to not let us win

3/21/2012 9:55:10 PM

i would say the ACC definitely tries to keep UNC/Duke at the top each year and I'm surprised everyone here doesn't agree. Too much evidence to really dispute it.

3/21/2012 10:13:12 PM

[Edited on March 22, 2012 at 9:32 AM. Reason : ]

3/22/2012 9:30:01 AM

^ Excited orange shirt guy in the last picture is my boss

3/22/2012 9:37:21 AM

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"^^ what's gay about a bunch of bros loving a 20 year old so much that they come up w/ a hand sign for his name that they do in bars when he does good things on television??"

I lol'd

3/22/2012 9:46:30 AM

I know the guys with the stupid hand gestures.

3/22/2012 9:51:24 AM

Dude's got a Brackman/Batman shirt that he clearly made himself. These guys are obviously superfans.

3/22/2012 9:53:26 AM

They sold those Brackman shirts in the brickyard

So unless he was the dude selling them

3/22/2012 10:23:52 AM

I had one of those Brackman shirts, but some asshole threw up all over it so I had to trash it. That asshole was me.

3/22/2012 10:25:24 AM