Oct
30
2022
This year’s Notre Dame football team is, to put things lightly, an enigma. The Irish opened the season by keeping things very close against Ohio State. Notre Dame played far better against the Buckeyes than any team other than Penn State. The Irish also have some solid wins on the year. Then again, they also …
Sep
01
2022
Author @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . This is the biggest, most important season in the entire history of North Carolina State football. “Geez, Matt, why are you bombarding us with hot takes right out of the gate? Recency bias, much? Come on. This is so unprofesional. Why do you have to make an extreme, far-reaching statement with zero nuance? Sigh.” …
Oct
12
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. The North Carolina State Wolfpack, after a much-needed week of rest, return to the gridiron this week to face Boston College in Chestnut Hill. This game begins a journey which is obviously important because the Wolfpack have a legitimate shot …
Sep
24
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” That familiar pair of questions sums up the moment facing North Carolina State football and its head coach, Dave Doeren. North Carolina State should have beaten Clemson in 2016, and to be …
Sep
12
2021
Author : college football/basketball writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. This was painfully familiar to North Carolina State fans. They have lived through this broken record, this old and sad movie, this Groundhog Day nightmare, far too many times. It isn’t getting old. It got old a long time ago. …
Nov
25
2020
#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. The ACC Question of the week is back with our esteemed friend and college football writer @MattZemek, Editor at @TrojansWire . Do yourself a favor and give him a follow on twitter. Answers to questions can simultaneously be simple and layered. They can be clear yet require explanation. Such is the case with this question about …
Mar
09
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Which ACC basketball teams enter the 2020 ACC Tournament with the most to prove? Which teams — with a bad showing in Greensboro, N.C. — will have the greatest reason to doubt themselves heading into the NCAA Tournament? The answer from this …
Aug
19
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. A baseball team is “strong up the middle” when its catcher, second baseman, shortstop, and center fielder are all formidable. The catcher’s pitch selection is connected to scouting reports on hitters and an awareness of where defensive players are positioned on the field. …
Mar
15
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. If you recall the 2014 NCAA Tournament, you will remember that North Carolina State was the last at-large team in the field. The first team left out of that tournament was SMU. The Mustangs were the team — there is usually one every …
Mar
08
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. After North Carolina State lost to Georgia Tech on Wednesday night to throw itself squarely on the bubble, I wrote about the ACC Tournament situation facing the Wolfpack and fellow bubble-hugger Clemson. The Wolfpack and the Tigers live in a climate of constraints. …
Mar
07
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The North Carolina State Wolfpack made March more interesting in the ACC… but not in a remotely good way. The first rule of Fight Club for college basketball bubble teams is to not do anything really stupid. Losing at home to Georgia Tech …