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The News & Observer has a nice article today about Julius Hodge and his return to New York City. Tonight, the Wolfpack plays Columbia in Madison Square Garden, Hodge’s first game in the hoops mecca. Although the N&O’s story was good, I liked it better when the Winston-Salem Journal wrote the same one yesterday.
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I was out of town for Christmas, but got back yesterday to see a slew of letters to the editor of the N&O lambasting Caulton Tudor for an article he wrote about Duke’s Shavlik Randolph. Naturally, I looked it up. Tudor wrote that Randolph was a bust, his decision to go to Duke was a…
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This is one of the most surprising sentences you’ll ever read, “Vince Oghobaase, a 6-foot-6, 310-pound defensive tackle, committed to play football for the Blue Devils, choosing Duke over national powers Miami and Oklahoma.” In addition, “Scout.com ranks Oghobaase as the third-best player in the football-rich state of Texas.” I’m aghast. What happened? Maybe he…
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Back at the beginning of the football season, instead of predicting the order of finish of the teams, I ranked the coaches. My reasoning was that predicting final outcomes was damn near impossible, but I could weigh the relative strengths of the coaches. It turns out that my coach ranking came closer to predicting the…
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This story just boils my blood. Students of Texas A&M (the one in College Station, not the basketball powerhouse in Corpus Christi) were camped out in line for tickets to the Cotton Bowl. Some students had been in line for days. In the middle of the night, while most in line were sleeping, a woman…
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It was an interesting weekend in the ACC, with the first two conference games, two teams heading out west to play tough opponents and two games against tough Big 12 opponents. The two farthest travelers, Georgia Tech and NC State each lost to Gonzaga and Washington, respectively. Neither loss was terribly surprising as both of…
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TheSabre.com has a very interesting interview up with former coach George Welsh. The article asks a series of questions about football strategy (about spread offenses, pulling guards and special play calls for a talent like Herman Moore) and the legendary coach gave some long, detailed answers. It’s good reading.
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Chuck Amato’s football staff took yet another serious blow yesterday when associate head coach John “Doc” Holliday left to join Urban Meyer’s staff at Florida. It’s bad enough to lose a good coach, but the real damage could be in recruiting where Holliday was known as State’s chief Florida recruiting. As you know, the Wolfpack…
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I always liked the way Dean Smith’s teams ran the secondary break. That may be because I had a coach once who was a big Dean fan and made that a big part of our offense. Somehow it didn’t work quite as well when we ran it… Anyway, over the years, as the Heels changed…
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Each week “a panel of ESPN experts” picks their top 16 college basketball teams. This week, four of the five guys picked Illinois as their number one team, just like the regular polls did. The one dissenting voice? None other than Dick Vitale. But, at least he has some solid reasoning: The Jayhawks were impressive…