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"Not good news for a program whose rabid fanbase assumingly persuaded former head coach Herb Sendek to split for un-basketball giant Arizona State, even after five straight NCAA Tournament appearances with the Wolfpack. Having whiffed at their top choices, and encouraged its fairly successful ten-year coach to leave, many would assume that this could be worst-case scenario in Raleigh, N.C. for the once proud-program that won national championships in 1974 and 1983. However, it's not worst-case scenario. With my "two cents", I always try to look on the bright side of things. THIS would be worst-case scenario for N.C. State basketball after Sendek split ... # Big names like Rick Barnes and John Calipari turn NC State down. # Other major conference candidates, like LSU's John Brady or Kentucky's Tubby Smith (aka: the Bluegrass State's Herb Sendek right now), also turn them down. # Then, N.C. State offers the job to some of the hottest mid-major coaching prospects. Guys like Wichita State's Mark Turgeon, South Alabama's John Pelphrey, and Winthrop's Gregg Marshall all wind up turning NC State down. # The head coach of the 2-28 Savannah State team turns them down. # Going back to the initial plan of throwing money at big names, newly-hired Kansas State head coach Bob Huggins comes to Raleigh, N.C. to interview with the AD, and check out facilities. # Huggins turns them down, but commits three minor NCAA violations during the interview, and graduates no players. N.C. State receives NCAA reprimand. # N.C. State calls Jerry Tarkanian, and receives full NCAA probation for it. They still get turned down. # Herb Sendek agrees to come back to his old job. But, he comes back to sign the contract while wearing hidden-camera glasses, and rides to his press conference in a van with Ashton Kutcher, and his camera crew. # N.C. State thinks that getting Punk'd was funny, so they offer the job to Ashton Kutcher. Demi Moore matches the offer, so Kutcher turns them down. # Offended that even someone from the Entertainment industry turned them down, N.C. State offers the job to Raleigh native (and hometown hero) recording star Clay Aiken. He graciously accepts. # In his first season with Sendek's recruits, which includes former McDonald's All-American forward Brandon Costner returning from injury, Clay Aiken's 2006-07 N.C. State team finishes 18-14, good for seventh in the ACC. # Everybody transfers after the season, including Costner, who Aiken promised would average "like a jillion points a game" if he stayed. Unfamiliar with college recruiting, Aiken holds American Idol-like tryouts amongst the student body to fill out the NC State roster. # Next season, the singing coach's Wolfpack walk-ons finish 0-27. However, the inspiring story of the 2007-08 N.C. State team is bought by Disney and made into a major motion picture. # Aiken signs on the project to play himself, and the movie is turned into an old-timey musical. It is originally scheduled to open Thanksgiving 2009, but Disney sells the rights, and the movie gets shot on a rushed schedule, for airing on the Oxygen Network three months later. # A day after the movie airs, Bill Cowher denies that he ever graduated from N.C. State. # Torry Holt does, too. # Herb Sendek's Arizona State Sun Devils win the 2009 NCAA Championship. Going against tradition, CBS replaces David Barrett' One Shining Moment with a tournament wrap-up montage set to 1980s hair metal band Cinderella's Don't Know Whatcha Got (‘Till It's Gone), with no other apparent reason than rubbing it in the face of NC State fans. # NC State basketball program disbands. # Large dragons overrun the campus. See? Now THAT's worst-case scenario. So relax, N.C. State will find its coach. If they do, the fans might want to be a little nicer to the next one. Not every basketball season can end with an awesome, buzzer-beating alley-oop right in Akeem Olajuwon's face to win the national championship. "

4/12/2006 11:19:25 AM

"Large dragons overrun the campus."

4/12/2006 11:19:56 AM

figured this may put things into perspective

and give a baseline for worse case situation for all the herbie sympathists out there

4/12/2006 11:21:55 AM

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"Large dragons overrun the campus"

may have been my favorite part

4/12/2006 11:22:19 AM

funny shit right there!

4/12/2006 11:23:03 AM

ok this situation was NOT something i can laugh about...


until i read that, gg

4/12/2006 11:23:36 AM

That was really good

Thanks for the post

4/12/2006 11:25:04 AM

Made me laugh...nice to have something do that considering the way we've been used in the past two weeks.

It's true though...we will get a good coach to come here, and who knows maybe he will be that 'diamond in the rough' that would lead us to competitive nature. It wouldn't be next year but it could be sometime soon.

4/12/2006 11:25:30 AM

figured everyone needed to laugh, especially with the constant prodding from herb lovers around here that we are all going down into flames, and wolfpack basketball will enter hades six sided ring of fire for what we did to our old coach!

4/12/2006 11:26:27 AM

that is like 24 on the chart of terror

4/12/2006 11:27:07 AM

FIRE LEE

4/12/2006 11:27:22 AM

that was pretty funny

4/12/2006 11:28:54 AM

Hilarity

4/12/2006 11:39:55 AM

hahaha

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"like a jillion points a game"

This made me lol lots.

4/12/2006 11:58:10 AM

linky winky?

4/12/2006 12:04:49 PM

hahaha good stuff

4/12/2006 12:04:58 PM

hahahahah like a jillion points ahahahhahaha

4/12/2006 12:13:55 PM

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"Huggins turns them down, but commits three minor NCAA violations during the interview, and graduates no players. N.C. State receives NCAA reprimand."

thought this was funny too!

4/12/2006 12:17:28 PM

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"Everybody transfers after the season, including Costner, who Aiken promised would average "like a jillion points a game" if he stayed. Unfamiliar with college recruiting, Aiken holds American Idol-like tryouts amongst the student body to fill out the NC State roster."

4/12/2006 12:20:41 PM

bahaha, good read

4/12/2006 12:25:10 PM

i liked the idea of us getting punk'd by herb but stopped reading when i saw ashton kutcher

then i went back and read it to find the dragon part

4/12/2006 12:34:13 PM

it's a worst-case scenario thing. ashton kutcher HAS to be included

4/12/2006 12:35:21 PM

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"# Herb Sendek agrees to come back to his old job. But, he comes back to sign the contract while wearing hidden-camera glasses, and rides to his press conference in a van with Ashton Kutcher, and his camera crew. # N.C. State thinks that getting Punk'd was funny, so they offer the job to Ashton Kutcher. Demi Moore matches the offer, so Kutcher turns them down. # Offended that even someone from the Entertainment industry turned them down, N.C. State offers the job to Raleigh native (and hometown hero) recording star Clay Aiken. He graciously accepts."

4/12/2006 12:36:05 PM

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"it's a worst-case scenario thing. ashton kutcher HAS to be included "

yeah

but dragons are cooler than ashton kutcher

the punk'd thing should have been very last

4/12/2006 12:38:47 PM

where did this come from?

4/12/2006 12:41:51 PM

^

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5492880

4/12/2006 1:14:16 PM

lol this is great

4/12/2006 1:34:47 PM

Actually very very funny


III

4/12/2006 1:36:27 PM

bump

because the board still needs to chill out a bit more!

4/12/2006 2:34:22 PM

good stuff.

4/12/2006 5:52:17 PM

one more bump

4/12/2006 11:14:21 PM