He had the best dunk of the night, but couldnt get past the first round.

#NCStateShit

2/19/2018 11:46:24 AM

The gift that keeps on giving.

2/23/2018 3:07:07 PM

2/23/2018 3:43:33 PM

^I'm a member of that facebook group. Sometimes there is good news to read, but most of the time it's mindless irrelevant crap and I've pretty much stopped bothering.

2/23/2018 3:46:59 PM

^yea it started out amazing, but as its gotten bigger it has begun to fill with useless people who mostly repost. But I stay cause sometimes there is gold in dem hills.

2/23/2018 3:53:59 PM

If an agent paid money to DSJ and the NC State staff was not aware of it/had no role in it, does it have any long term implications for the program. Obviously, he was ineligible so we would have to forfeit the games he played. But it doesn't seem like this should result in future sanctions for the program, right?

2/23/2018 11:55:57 PM

On the surface, it seems like any punishments would be for the 2016-2017 season only. But we'll see.

2/23/2018 11:57:19 PM

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"wait, is it acceptable to talk shit about Gottfried on TWW now?"

2/24/2018 1:39:47 AM

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2/24/2018 1:43:20 AM

Appreciate that winless season, bruh.

2/24/2018 9:53:26 AM

He was paid by an agent that NC State had previously sent a disassociation letter to years before who we could take legal action on if we wanted for this. We may have to forfeit wins in the 2016-2017 season...but that basically means this is a non-story for NC State.

2/24/2018 3:19:48 PM

Unless something comes out connecting Gott to this, yeah this ain’t a big deal in the grand scheme.

2/24/2018 5:01:00 PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/bobbykaralla/status/981360309788184577/photo/1

4/4/2018 12:45:43 AM

4/4/2018 1:33:09 AM

That shit cray cray

4/4/2018 11:16:50 AM

SELF PASS!!!!!!!

4/4/2018 12:19:21 PM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/in-timeline-released-tuesday-nc-state-details-its-response-to-federal-hoops-probe/17492644/

4/17/2018 2:16:01 PM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/what-do-the-latest-fbi-indictments-actually-mean-/17487588/

4/17/2018 4:16:16 PM

Sounds like we're screwed

4/17/2018 5:10:50 PM

sounds like we did all the i dotting and t crossing that we were supposed to do, and Early? is a "rogue coach"

4/17/2018 5:52:03 PM

Or that...yeah, let’s go with that.

4/17/2018 6:29:42 PM

Yeah doesn't sound like we're screwed at all. Sounds like a rogue coach, rogue parent and rogue shoe company executive.

4/17/2018 6:44:26 PM

We definitely could be screwed. But I don’t see anything so far that justifies jumping to that conclusion.

4/17/2018 8:01:14 PM

I think everyone is expecting the handful of wins from DSJ's season to be vacated

Other than that, according to that timeline, the university seemed to do their due diligence.

4/17/2018 8:12:59 PM

crazy how 2016-2017 is going down as easily the worst season in my lifetime

4/18/2018 3:32:49 AM

that was arguably the case before any of the FBI shit anyways

4/18/2018 6:19:28 AM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/sports-agent-impressions-of-college-basketball-landscape-led-me-to-contact-ncsu-about-smith/17492987/

4/18/2018 9:15:56 AM

"Screwed" may be too harsh a term, but rogue coach or not, the fact remains that we had a coach hand deliver money to facilitate the continued commitment of a player to the team. If this was UNC, everyone here would be calling for heads to roll but since it's us many are just like, "eh, no big deal."

I'm glad it appears that the school did their due diligence on this but I'm still pissed about it. I'm certainly not going to take the UNC defense and play the "it's not so bad, everybody does this" card. Good riddance to the previous coaching staff.

Honest question, how different is this than what John Blake did at UNC? Obviously, the scale was larger there and touched more players but it seems similar enough to me. And what was their punishment? Vacated wins, post season ban, and ... did they lose any scholarships? I can't recall.

4/18/2018 9:54:24 AM

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"If this was UNC, everyone here would be calling for heads to roll but since it's us many are just like, "eh, no big deal." "

to be fair, that's how these things always work. shoe is on the other foot for UNC fans who spent like 10 years defending their academic fraud and now get to hope the NCAA punishes us harshly.

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"Honest question, how different is this than what John Blake did at UNC? Obviously, the scale was larger there and touched more players but it seems similar enough to me. And what was their punishment? Vacated wins, post season ban, and ... did they lose any scholarships? I can't recall."

honestly the UNC stuff was so long ago, i don't remember what all Blake was found to be doing. but i think the main difference that we are pointing to is that the staff and player associated with what happened at State are gone. the other point is that the FBI sees the schools as victims in this situation...obviously it remains to be seen how the NCAA will handle it.

4/18/2018 10:18:52 AM

Yeah, the unnamed coach *cough* early *cough* definitely lied to his bosses about this payment, as they have written statements from the coaching staff denying any knowledge.

UNC went in on defending their coaches. We fired ours. Also John Blake was essentially employed by an agent at the same time he was a coach at UNC.

4/18/2018 11:13:41 AM

He seems getting better this season.

10/1/2018 1:57:45 PM

https://www.newsobserver.com/article219373245.html

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"Attorney says adidas executive admits $40,000 payment to deliver Dennis Smith Jr. to NC State BY STEVE WISEMAN swiseman@newsobserver.com LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY October 02, 2018 03:30 PM Updated October 02, 2018 09:04 PM The attorney for adidas executive Jim Gatto told a federal court in New York Tuesday morning that her client paid the family of Dennis Smith Jr. $40,000 to secure his commitment to play basketball at N.C. State, Yahoo Sports reported. Defense attorney Casey Donnelly made the comment during opening statements of Gatto’s fraud trial, where the federal government has charged him in connection with payments to numerous college basketball players in violation of NCAA rules."

10/3/2018 9:39:19 AM

Fuck him and any coach that was in on this shit

10/3/2018 6:03:09 PM

Can we get our money back?

10/3/2018 6:12:53 PM

Only $40k for adidas to deliver Dennis Smith Jr. to NC State is so cheap.

[Edited on October 3, 2018 at 6:17 PM. Reason : He's an amazing dunker at least. ]

10/3/2018 6:16:49 PM

he can dunk very efficiently

10/3/2018 6:41:46 PM

Early was the coach.

I don’t think “fuck dsj”. Getcha money, man. But fuck getting caught.

10/3/2018 7:34:36 PM

^^ Yes, his second dunk in the dunk contest is crazy.

10/3/2018 8:22:19 PM

^^ It's very obvious people will have the doubt---why he chose NCSU?

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"Smith was rated as five-star recruit and was considered one of the top players and point guards in the 2016 high school class. He was ranked No. 7 overall recruit by 247sports, while Scout.com ranked him No. 10 in the Class of 2016.[5][6] On September 10, 2015, Smith committed to NC State University, picking NC State over Duke, Wake Forest, UNC and Kentucky to play college basketball.[7][8]"

10/4/2018 9:33:29 AM

Kid is still doing well, scoring 20 pts vs 76ers in China.

[Edited on October 5, 2018 at 1:54 PM. Reason : A young Steve Francis.]

10/5/2018 1:54:27 PM

^^ yes but he grew up in the area and as a State fan. Nothing odd about it.

10/5/2018 6:16:19 PM

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"picking NC State over Duke, Wake Forest, UNC and Kentucky"

I'm sure UNC fans think if he had chosen UNC, he would've been like "no thanks, I don't need the $40k, UNC is just that awesome"

10/5/2018 9:06:29 PM

https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/article219849390.html

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"Former Adidas consultant testifies he gave $40,000 to former NC State coach Orlando Early"

10/12/2018 4:33:34 PM

Down a tooth.

12/3/2018 9:40:03 AM

In the dunk contest

1/28/2019 11:09:59 AM

Dunking tonight with David Thompson judging. Wonder if he'll rock a 44 red jersey, that would be awesome.

2/16/2019 3:59:52 PM

Didn’t realize DT was a judge. That’s pretty awesome.

2/16/2019 4:05:15 PM

Dude had the best dunk in last year's contest. Hopefully the judges don't get seated by stupid bullshit like wearing a Vince Carter jersey, knee high socks or jumping over a crouching midget.

2/16/2019 4:41:32 PM

pretty sure DT has been a dunk contest judge many times previously, fyi, though can't recall him being a judge with a State player in the contest. Maybe when Webb was in it?

2/16/2019 4:46:13 PM

^ ahh yeah now that you say that I kinda remember him judging before. I don’t usually watch the dunk contest, I guess. #itsjust2points #strongfundamentallayup

2/16/2019 5:07:16 PM