NCSU round ball dissed by the N&O

I wish I could say I was shocked, but there was only a single mention of NC State’s first (and open) basketball practice this weekend in the Raleigh News & Observer’s Sports section—at the bottom of another story about Duke’s first basketball practice, we got an aside mentioning these pictures (buy now!). Either our Atheletics Department has zero relations with the press, or the press doesn’t care. I realize there are a lot of sports to cover in Raleigh, and the N&O desk is now apparently in Charlotte, and there were out-of-state football games to cover, and … oh hell, like I shivagit, as my friend Marvin likes to say. NC State’s basketball program does not get the same treatment in the local press, and we are supposed to suck on it while Duke and Carolina fans and the sports media tell us to learn our place.

Not gonna do it, N&O. This is amateur basketball, and everybody starts at zero the first day of practice. The name on the paper is Raleigh. This seems like a simple fix. No one wants to do the hard thing, and write articles that require, um, thinking. It’s far easier to recycle talk about Carolina ranked #1 again (didn’t help them last year, did it?) and Coach K’s quest for a gold medal.

These kinds of things make you weary, but it’s really just another reason why we are not renewing our subscription to this rag. If they want to ignore one of the most dedicated, passionate fan bases in the country, I feel justified in ignoring them right back.

Comments

[Jon]

Strange. very strange. Maybe all those years my dad bitched about UNC getting the favorite treatment were well spent. Maybe, just maybe, he was 100% right. Anyway, the silver lining is that it does help feed the Pack-against-the-world mindset, which can be a good thing.