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  • Naaaah. If you haven’t heard (and I hadn’t until a minute or two ago), evidently there has been some buzz on Maryland boards that Gary Williams has been flirting with the Charlotte Bobcats about becoming their coach. Thanks to Floyd Stuart’s blog, I found two threads about it – here and here. Interesting? Sure. Juicy?…

  • McBack

    In a mildly surprising announcement (I figured he’d leave), not-close-to-ready Josh McRoberts has announced that he’ll return to Duke for his sophomore season. As the DBR said, it’s a welcome bit of good news for a university that’s been taking an absolute beating lately. McRoberts’ decision is the last one that I know of for…

  • Mario Williams was an excellent player at NC State. A big, gifted defensive lineman who was among the best players in the league at his position. But was he this good? A better athlete than Vince Young? A better prospect than Julius Peppers was? A talent not seen “in years?” Wow. I guess that explains…

  • Well, well. It seems that our old friend Matt Doherty is on the move again, this time to SMU. You may recall that just one year ago, Doherty was hired off the scrap heap to try to revive the program at Florida Atlantic. I’m sure they knew he was not going to be a long-term…

  • Draft Punks

    I’m pretty sure I’m not alone when I say that I never expected to read the headline, “Terps’ Ibekwe, Strawberry May File for Draft.” Huh? Yeah, I’m sure the NBA is just drooling over a couple of guys who scored 10 and 11 points per game for a team that missed the NCAA Tournamant. Now,…

  • Bad To Worse

    NC State won’t have Rick Barnes or John Calipari next year, they won’t have their (likely) top-ten recruit the next year and they may not have Cedric Simmons next season. Simmons is going to go through the NBA draft process, but says he won’t hire an agent. Given how weak this draft will be, his…

  • Cal Gone

    Oof. Talk about your gut punches. It was a done deal, wasn’t it? Calipari was coming to NC State and he would (by any means necessary) build the program back up so that it was once again challenging Duke and Carolina for conference supremecy. Coach Cal would fit right in and maybe he’d even get…

  • You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t yet written one word on the Duke Lacrosse team rape story. There’s a good reason for that. The story is so big, so controversial, so important, so complicated and so sensitive that I just haven’t felt like I could devote the time it would take to craft something that…

  • I like Gregg Doyel. I do. He digs up a lot of good information that no one else finds and better, he’s one of the few national sportswriters who’s willing to go after a big name or big program if he thinks it’s warranted. In this case, he’s off base though. Doyel savaged NC State…

  • Assisted Losing

    Ken Pomeroy has a new post up where he talks about a new statistic on his site – Assist Rate. Like his other statistics, it takes a common stat and adjusts based on a team’s tempo so that you can more accurately compare a team like UNC to a team like Princeton. The top 100…