A Nice Mention

Roy Williams is a great guy. Carolina athletics has always been a class act. With Roy on one bench and Sidney on the other - I'm looking forward to an intense, friendly rivalry with our friends over in Chapel Thrill for years to come.

Bobby Lee Swagger runs a UNC blog with commentary on just about anything and everything. It helps to be from the south to 'get' some of his humour. To everyone else, it's probably a bit cryptic.

This is an excerpt from Bobby Lee's entry after the ACC Tournament.

Thanks Bobby, for the nice mention.


FIRST …. For any/all UNCers feelin’ kinda narly today because The Unthinkable almost happened ergo it might be seen as a hollow victory. Trust Ol’ Bob on this … a hollow victory ALWAYS trumps a moral victory. Just ask any Wuff fan today. And congrats to The Blue Messiah who now only lacks an Olympic Gold Medal and a Hoop-It-Up 3 On 3 Title to have done it all in his Head Coach career.

SECOND …. Absolute unqualified KUDOS, CONGRATS and HUZZAS to El Sid and his staff and team for a GREAT FOUR GAMES. Hold your heads up high and make those little wuffie hand puppet thingies ….. the future is now for Wolfpack basketball and the alumni office at St Paul’s could not be prouder of their favorite son … and ya gotta think Jimmy V is mighty proud too. Sidney Lowe is FOR REAL. That cagey Ol’ Jed Fowler lucked out, huh. Wonder if at least one State fan has said thanks to Ol’ Jed ??? …. Nahhhh.

OK, so now we’re just going to run thru the sidebars …..

Yesterday at 1:00 PM EDT, everyone in the St Pete Times Forum stood up to ask “Jose” if he could see. The Raycom camera panned the team benches …. Uh oh …

well, uh oh for Carolina because The Wolfpack clearly won the National Anthem.

El Sid, Monte, assorted assistants, managers, trainers and players were all standing in a straight line looking up at the flag with their right hands over their hearts.

NASCAR pit crews do not do it any better.

It looked terrific and obviously is not by accident or optional for anyone on the NC State bench. Whether it’s simply a team solidarity/disciple thing or patriotic … it merits a BobLee AttaBoy.

…. Then the camera panned the Carolina bench … uh oh.

No one was purposefully disrespectful but there were about 20 different poses, looking arounds, shufflin’, checkin’ out cheerleaders, smilin’, frownin’, Now I saw no John Carlos black glove protests, nose-pickin, or genital scratchin nor any overt disrespect to the flag, country, et al. I’m sure a faction of UNC’s infamous atheistic anarchists Islamo-faculty squirrels would prefer a much more overt embarrassment to the University. Anyway …. NC State clearly won the National Anthem.