Sendek gone?

you're on the wrong board again.....

 

i bet that's some poker jibberish.

 

He'll go out there and whip ass and Wolfpack Nation will wonder why he was so 'mediocre' at State. It will never end.

 

http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/2/515672.html

 

no, that was for the Herb haters that reside here.

 

now if we can just get rid of amato

 

No question, most of NC States fans have no clue about anything, especially the meaning of the word "class". There are good NC State fans out there, but the shitty ones are how the entire fanbase is viewed.

I would have continued to pull for NC State's basketball team with Hereb at the controls, but no more. NC State will get exactly what they have wanted. A loudmouth asswipe of a coach that will probably land them in NCAA hot water.

Good for you guys.

 

Pretty much sums it up....




Sendek's a good coach in an impossible situation

Herb Sendek was a good man and a good coach in an impossible situation at N.C. State.

Sendek, who is expected to be introduced as the Arizona State head coach on Monday, leaves Raleigh with five consecutive NCAA tournament appearances and a legion of Wolfpack fans happy to help him load the moving truck to be rid of him.

There is plenty of blame to go around.

Many N.C. State fans probably have their sights set too high, believing the Wolfpack can compete with Duke and North Carolina when few schools will as long as Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams are in the Research Triangle area.Those fans were downright rude many times, to the point where Sendek had an angry confrontation with one “supporter” at this year’s ACC tournament in Greensboro.

But Sendek also bears some responsibility for the fans’ unrest. It was bad enough that the Wolfpack had lost six in a row against North Carolina and was 3-21 against Duke during Sendek’s tenure.

Sendek compounded that problem by failing to acknowledge that defeating North Carolina and Duke was as important to him as winning in the ACC against Clemson and Florida State. Fans wanted to know he was on the same page with them.

He didn’t tell them he was.
So they resented his reserved personality and presumed that he thought he was smarter than they were because of the 3.9 grade-point average he achieved as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon.

Those same fans might have also cost themselves a shot at a top-caliber coach with their treatment of Sendek. The N.C. State job is difficult enough because of the 900-pound gorillas in the school’s backyard at Duke and North Carolina.

It’s more challenging because fans don’t recognize that many high school players today aren’t aware of N.C. State’s NCAA championship tradition. The Wolfpack won its national titles in 1983 and 1974, long before today’s high school seniors were born. Those top recruits remember Duke and North Carolina being on top of the college basketball world, and that’s usually where they decide to attend school.

N.C. State has a decent facility in the RBC Center (though it’s off campus and a better hockey arena than a basketball arena). It has a quality athletics director in Lee Fowler whose basketball background makes him well qualified to hire and manage basketball coaches. It will have some money to spend because it won’t have to pay Sendek a buyout.

That might be enough to attract a top-level Division I coach, mostly because top coaches tend to have enough ego to think they can win in any situation. But the Wolfpack also might have to settle for a second-tier coach – a young coach on the rise at a mid-major school.

At the very least, that coach can count on a few years of good vibes from fans who had grown tired of Sendek and will welcome a change no matter who is hired. But five years from now, those same fans might rue the day they bade goodbye to a coach who took them to five straight NCAA tournaments.

 

I don't think its wrong for NCSU fans to want to be title contenders, but crying out for the days of NCSU glory means you have to go back to 1974 when they were dominant. 1983 title winner were a cinderella (though still very good).

The game and league have changed so much that they gotta quit polishing the shrine to Everett Case. That was so long ago, and the landscape is vastly different.

The Wolfpack want an A-list coach, but what A-list guy will come in to work with a program whose fans have shown their true colors like some of them have?

I know if I were an A-list coach, I would have to think long and hard before taking a job there--no matter how much money they threw my way.