-5 for not having any magic dust

7/19/2011 1:30:39 PM

love what I'm hearing

7/19/2011 1:31:22 PM

lol

"HUH?" ... and video feed ends

7/19/2011 1:32:26 PM

what was the tutor comment/joke from one of the reporters? I missed it, it was right after he talked about his kids being at Broughton

[Edited on July 19, 2011 at 1:38 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2011 1:36:05 PM

I hope that "huh" doesn't become a 99.9 meme

7/19/2011 1:39:51 PM

it sounded like JPG made what sounded like the tutor comment. if so, that was ballsy

^ was hoping that as well

[Edited on July 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM. Reason : ]

7/19/2011 1:55:13 PM

So I just finished watching the press conference. I have to admit, I was not paying that much attention during the Lowe Era.

The biggest impression I got from the answers Coach Gottfried gave was how the program seemed to be in "coast" mode. That is, there was no intentional pride, discipline, or tradition garnered during the Lowe Era. It sounded like Gottfried saw the players with no desire to win.

Was that true? Was Lowe one of those coaches who didn't realize the history and weight of his position (even though he was an '83'er)? Was he of the mindset that, "I'm here, let's party!" Like he reached the pinnacle of this career and didn't know what to do with it. Wanted to be more of a buddy than a leader?

(Honestly, and I apologize for bringing politics into this, but this press conference sounds like the press conference of whoever is going to be President after Obama.)

7/19/2011 7:03:19 PM

^ are you retarded?

7/19/2011 7:23:12 PM

(yes)

7/19/2011 7:24:50 PM

Quote :

"(Honestly, and I apologize for bringing politics into this, but this press conference sounds like the press conference of whoever is going to be President after Obama.) "

Terminate

7/19/2011 7:25:51 PM

Quote :

"(Honestly, and I apologize for bringing politics into this, but this press conference sounds like the press conference of whoever is going to be President after Obama.) "

wow.

7/19/2011 7:26:01 PM

did we force Sidney to resign because he wasn't doing a good job? it just seems like Gottfried knows what he's talking about and i'm starting to think we might have hired him because he is an improvement

7/19/2011 7:27:21 PM

^^^^We were bad under Lowe, but not that bad.

[Edited on July 19, 2011 at 7:28 PM. Reason : ^]

7/19/2011 7:28:02 PM

Quote :

"did we force Sidney to resign because he wasn't doing a good job? "

no, we forced him to resign because he was black, duh.

7/19/2011 7:29:57 PM

Quote :

"(Honestly, and I apologize for bringing politics into this, but this press conference sounds like the press conference of whoever is going to be President after Obama.)"

I don't think another Democrat would badmouth Obama.

7/19/2011 9:18:10 PM

My point, dweedle. Lowe was hired because we needed a coach. We knew he wasn't a coach, and je wasn't expected to coach well, so he had no standards set for himself by the AD or anyone.

7/19/2011 9:31:06 PM

lowe was hired because fowler was retarded, no other explanation necessary

7/19/2011 9:31:45 PM

^^i don't necesarily agree that he he wasn't expected to coach well

7/19/2011 9:33:07 PM

Ok, "kdogg", up until "wasn't expected to coach well" I let you go with your own opinion... but do you really think they expected him to be bad?

7/19/2011 9:33:23 PM

Sorry, no. Percocet.

He was analagous to the rebound boyfriend a girl goes out with after dumped.

7/19/2011 9:37:52 PM

so what you are saying is sidney lowe = kdogg(c)?

7/19/2011 9:59:58 PM

You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.

But it seems that LF wasn't a good ACC AD. SL didn't grow into a good ACC HC. So far, (before any games have been played) MG seems like he might be an improvement.

Was the SL Credibility Thread locked?

7/19/2011 10:16:11 PM

Quote :

"Gottfried putting his touches on NC State program By AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer RALEIGH, N.C. — Mark Gottfried wants his North Carolina State players to believe they can win after five straight years of struggle. He's unafraid of going head-to-head against the national powers from just down the road for recruits. And the coach isn't shy about changing the mentality and habits within a program that hasn't been to the NCAA tournament in five years. Hired in April to replace Sidney Lowe, Gottfried's efforts to reverse the program's sagging fortunes have touched on the conditioning of players, the scheduling philosophy, even the way he wants the players to carry themselves in class and on campus. "I'm talking about a mindset that they begin to understand day in and day out what it takes to be successful," Gottfried said Tuesday during a news conference. "You've got to learn how to be on time. You've got to learn how to have a great attitude in class. I tell them: 'Look nice, dress nice, speak nice, be nice — be a professional.' "We're getting there. Not that these guys are bad guys. They're not. But what's going to happen is you're going to get in a game for the first time and it's those periods where the rubber meets the road — and how are we going to respond? We don't know yet. And these guys haven't been there, to be quite frank, where they can turn that into a win and turn that into success." Few of the Wolfpack's frustrated fans are going to question Gottfried's moves right now. As he said, "The bottom line in winning fans over is winning games," and N.C. State hasn't done much of that in the Atlantic Coast Conference lately. Lowe, the point guard on the "Cardiac Pack" team that won the 1983 NCAA championship, was a beloved figure at the school who could never build any sustained on-court success. He went 25-55 in ACC regular-season play, never finished higher than ninth in the league and went a combined 3-16 against nearby rivals Duke and North Carolina before resigning after five seasons. Gottfried and his staff managed to avoid mass defections after taking over — freshman point guard Ryan Harrow transferred to Kentucky — and has spent the three months since trying to forge relationships with those players even though they were limited to only a handful of workouts due to NCAA rules. In the case of rising junior Richard Howell, Gottfried pushed the 6-foot-8 forward to get in better shape. He said Howell weighed 271 pounds in the spring, but is now down to around 250 and carrying himself with more confidence. "Everybody was a little bit different," said Gottfried, who had worked as a college basketball analyst for ESPN since leaving Alabama in 2009. "Guys want to know what their role is. Some of that is hard because I've watched them on television, but until you coach somebody, you don't really know their game sometimes. ... Guys want to know how they're going to fit in. They want to believe we can win, so that was our job with these guys." With the learning process ongoing, Gottfried said it's hard to predict exactly how his first team will stack up with the rest of the ACC. While he talked about his players embracing the early changes and the program having some early momentum, he also cautioned Wolfpack fans not to expect too much, too fast. "I've got no magic dust that we can just sprinkle over our guys," he said. "There are habits that have to be built. We're trying to get those built right now, and I think we're making steps.""

7/19/2011 11:22:34 PM

Good to hear about Howell. He was slow as shit last season.

7/19/2011 11:49:13 PM

DAYUM he was 270! Holy shit. 270?!

Why didn't people start comparing him to Big Baby, were they afraid that his draft stock would get too high?

7/20/2011 12:21:30 AM

http://twitter.com/#!/Mark_Gottfried/following/people

Why is Coach one of only 36 people following this girl? I can dismiss following the storm squad girl, but this one seems sketchy...

http://twitter.com/#!/kkhoyle

7/20/2011 4:47:05 AM

looks like her myspace page from 4 years ago
http://www.myspace.com/kkhoyle

7/20/2011 5:49:02 AM

7/20/2011 8:01:51 AM

Quote :

"what was the tutor comment/joke from one of the reporters? I missed it, it was right after he talked about his kids being at Broughton"

I think it was about being neighbors with Caulton Tudor, the N&O staff writer. I guess he lives in the Broughton district too.

7/20/2011 8:40:53 AM

ohhh, that makes more sense, thanks

7/20/2011 9:01:10 AM

Is Gottfried subtly calling out Seth Greenberg on the RPI of OOC opponents with his comments?

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 1:23 PM. Reason : ]

7/20/2011 1:21:57 PM

^That was my thought...but I don't think he's just calling out VT though. We always had a pretty weak schedule under Lowe. Clemson too. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure of other teams with weaker OOC schedules.

7/20/2011 1:35:34 PM

He flat out said everyone but Duke and UNC. No mystery at all to his comments.

7/20/2011 1:42:12 PM

Quote :

"@Mark_Gottfried Mark Gottfried Taping a segment for ESPN with my good friend and former colleague Andy Katz. Will air august 15... "

+10

7/25/2011 3:31:50 PM

old news, but i was unaware of some of this

Quote :

"Gottfried attended Oral Roberts on a basketball scholarship. After playing there for one season, where he was a Freshman All-American, he transferred to Alabama. There, he started 98 consecutive games, and Alabama advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in all three seasons he played. He holds the school records for most 3-point shots made in a single game with eight in a 1987 game against Vanderbilt, and for career 3-point field goal percentage (.485, 81–167).[1] Gottfried graduated with a Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Communications from the University of Alabama in 1987, after winning both the school's Hayden Riley Top Scholar Award and the Bryant Award as the school's top scholar-athlete during his senior year.[4] He was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the seventh round of the 1987 NBA Draft,[5] though he never played professionally. Instead, he spent three years touring with Athletes in Action, then attended UCLA graduate school for two years.[1]"

- wiki

7/29/2011 12:10:24 AM

thanks, nobody had thought of reading his wiki page

7/29/2011 12:12:38 AM

playing a weak schedule is a lose lose. I don't understand why everyteam doesn't try to play a tough schedule. Even if you lose, people will respect you and say "they are good but have all of those losses because their schedule is impossible" You have a better chance making it with a losing tough schedule than an undefeated cupcake schedule.

Think about our games last year. A lot of people thought we were decent when we lost to gtown and syracuse.

7/29/2011 12:14:39 AM

in an interview on Charlotte sports radio he said he could outscore Dell Curry, but only if it was a half-court game

+5 for 3 point shooting prowess

7/29/2011 12:15:03 AM

Quote :

"career 3-point field goal percentage (.485, 81–167)"

that shit is no joke right there, wonder how that stacks up against all college players of all time

of all time

7/29/2011 12:15:16 AM

percentage wise, it's amazing

but as far as 3's made, not so much

i know Stephen Curry had 400 something made during college

7/29/2011 12:24:57 AM

losing by 40 to wisconsin sure was a good loss.

7/29/2011 5:53:16 PM

How am I just now finding out that Gottfried's daughter is hot?

9/8/2011 1:57:38 PM

^Pics?

9/8/2011 2:17:32 PM

his wife's a milf

9/8/2011 2:18:39 PM

pixpixpixpix

9/8/2011 2:19:52 PM

wife





[Edited on September 8, 2011 at 2:24 PM. Reason : his daughter looks like the joker in the pic i can find, and she also looks 12]

9/8/2011 2:22:32 PM

9/8/2011 2:54:29 PM

wife has a Tami Taylor thing goin on

9/8/2011 2:58:09 PM

for God and Country

9/8/2011 3:02:07 PM

Clear Eyes....Full Heart..........CAN'T LOSE!!!!

9/8/2011 4:43:41 PM